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Attack On Buhari: Haba Governor Madaki!: Written by Yashuaib

The document summarizes an article criticizing the governor of Katsina State, John Madaki, for his verbal attack on former military head of state General Muhammadu Buhari. The governor had apparently requested 20 million naira from a development fund chaired by Buhari, but Buhari refused to release the money without committee approval. In response, Madaki threatened to sack Buhari as chairman. The document argues that Buhari acted properly by calling a committee meeting according to procedure, and that Madaki was wrong to make unfounded accusations against Buhari's character.

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Attack On Buhari: Haba Governor Madaki!: Written by Yashuaib

The document summarizes an article criticizing the governor of Katsina State, John Madaki, for his verbal attack on former military head of state General Muhammadu Buhari. The governor had apparently requested 20 million naira from a development fund chaired by Buhari, but Buhari refused to release the money without committee approval. In response, Madaki threatened to sack Buhari as chairman. The document argues that Buhari acted properly by calling a committee meeting according to procedure, and that Madaki was wrong to make unfounded accusations against Buhari's character.

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Attack on Buhari: Haba Governor Madaki!

Written by yashuaib

Temper in men occupying esteemed powerful positions makes such leaders misuse
their public responsibilities and to wallow in an orgy of frustration by castigating
their subjects recklessly or those they see as threats to the whimsical ambitions. The
men in power view such actions atimes as blatant exhibition of some kind of ideology.

One writer rightly said that good professional soldier-officers are brought to assume
sensitive political offices ill-prepared which they are mostly temperamentally
unsuited for..
This brought me to a recent news story in the Tribune newspaper entitled “Madaki
Raps Buhari,” of October 31, 1991 on a front page and reported by Etosa Iroh that
Governor John Madaki of Katsina State was said to be rapping former Head of State,
General Muhammad Buhari with an unsavoury languages on an allegation that he
(Madaki) requested for N20 million from the General who is the chairman of Katsina
Development Fund, but that the former head of state refused to release the money on
the grounds that the fund was not scheduled for the project Madaki had eyed.
For this, the governor went to the extent of threatening to sack the chairman if he
failed to grant him the fund. The accusation as explained by the governor put people
in doubt if the state chief executive could indiscriminately utter such disheartening
statements against the personality of the former head of state, General Mohammed
Buhari.

We are all living witnesses that Buhari and his lieutenant, Tunde Idiagbon were never
at any time accused of corrupt enrichment from public funds during their regime. As
such General Buhari could not have gone so low to start stealing now. How can he be
accused of attempting to mismanage the fund of a state which was just a local
government when he ruled several states as the commander in chief? This brief
explanation is to assure the people of Katsina State that General Buhari means no
harm to the public treasury/endowment entrusted in his safeguard.
It is also clear that the governor was irked and saw no reason for Buhari’s intention to
call for the committee meeting over the release of the fund. He expected that as a
military governor all his requests must be approved and granted without recourse to
laid down rules and procedures.
If Buhari, a chairman of a very sensitive committee could not summon a meeting to
dole out such huge sums of money to the governor, how would he account for it once
the people ask him? Indeed, Buhari did the right thing by calling for the committee to
deliberate on it before any disbursement. Nothing is more becoming of a great man
than courtesy of forbearance said in a politeness which has to do with saying the
kindest utterance in the kindest manner.

This rejoinder by Yushau A. Shuaib was originally published in The


Triumph November 13, 1991

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About the author

yashuaib

Yushau A. Shuaib is an award winning public relation professional. He is popularly


called Idiagbon during his university days, He has distinguished himself with several
credible awards in the field of public relations. Notable amongst them are Campus
Writer of the year, Alhaji Sabo Mohammed Best Student in Public Relations, Delta
State NYSC Merit Award, Automatic Scholarship for the Best Corps Writer, Head of
State National NYSC Honours Award, NIPR Public Relations Person of the year in
Kano/Jigawa State and the Young Achiever of the year from a Business, among
others

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