Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Muhammed has debunked claims by the All Progressive Congress (APC) that a cabal exist outside his government are remote controlling his government.
The state opposition party had alleged at a press conference last Friday during assessment of the Governor’s achievement in the first year that his Government is being remote- controlled by ‘three’ defacto governors from the comfort of their living rooms.
But the Governor countered at the weekend he was still in charge of the state.
” I don’t think anybody is a cabal in my administration as I remain the Governor of the state who was duly elected,” he stressed.
Muhammed added that since he fall out with a former governor of the state, Isa Yuguda, he has no godfather and has not been forced to take any partisan consideration while discharging his duties as a governor.
He, however, said he had battled a gang-up by people he had worked with before clinching the governorship position, stressing that he has no liability to service anybody.
“I’m the most investigated politician but the people have faith in me. I’ve faced opposition; there was a gang-up by even people I have worked with to get to this level.
“We shall keep doing our best not to be praised as we continue to deliver on our campaign promises,” he added.
Governor Mohammed went further to say his emergence as governor was as a result of his competence and vision for the state saying though he inherited a failed state , his government has being working assiduously towards reviving it.
Speaking of his achievement within 365 days at the media chat, he stated that though tremendous success has being recorded so far but more work still needed to be done in the aspect of infrastructural development.
According to him, his administration has taken strategic steps to boost the Internal Generated Revenue from (IGR) N200m to N1billion.
The governor said the new revenue target will help augment what amount the administration is collecting from the federation account for development.
