Don slams Gov. Bindow’s leadership style

A lecturer at the Department of Information and Management Technology of the Moddibo Adama University of Technology (MAUTECH) Yola, Malam Musa Jalo, has said that Governor Muhammadu Umaru Jibrilla Bindow of Adamawa State was preforming below expectations in meeting the immediate needs of the peoples of the state.

He said that the ongoing rapid development of roads in some parts of the state was nothing than a mere “misplaced priorities”.

“For you to enjoy a good road, you have to have something in your tummy and you have to be healthy. You can’t be starving or on a sick bed and honour a new road.

“The point I want to make here is, there are basic important factors to be considered before dwelling to road constructions or rehabilitation.

“The welfare of your people should be paramount. Pay them their salaries and entitlements. Give special attention to the health sector. I was at the Adamawa Specialist Hospital last week. The hospital is at its comatose state. Dilapidated structures, no drugs, health workers just lolling around, and there was a heavy traffic of patients. With this condition, you’re working on roads, who are the people going to enjoy the roads? Dead people?

“With regards to the so-called road construction, Bindow is only focusing on three local governments, which are Yola North, Yola South and Mubi South. What the citizens should put into consideration is if the government will take nearly two years to complete the roads in just three LGAs, what will happen to the 18 LGAs? Will he fix them in two years? No! So also if you analyse how he does, there’s a misplaced priority. How can you ignore Yolde Pate road which is completely not motorable and dwell on roads that are manageable; some without even a pothole? How can you ignore places like Saminaka, whose houses are submerged in floods whenever it rains? Look at Lelewalji, and others. There about 1001 roads in Yola North and South that need more attention. So the government has a misplaced priority”, he said

According to him he had the feelings that Bindow was not touching every life in the state.

Jalo said advised that focus should be on places like Saminaka in Yola North, where in a little pour down of rain the waters will submerge the area. “As I said, sick people in hospital beds cannot work on the roads being constructed, people with empty stomach will not be happy walking on beautiful roads. I still maintain that most needed needs of the people is in the health sector”.

He concluded Bindow had no excuse to fail the people of the state for they voted him in confidence; that was going to work for them. “As there are still other states that are relatively doing well he may wish to take a lesson from them”.

A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mallam Mohammed Mayas, said that road construction was okay. It’s what the Governor considers as the need of every LG.

“During Bindow’s campaign, he entered into social agreements to work for the people and he knows exactly what they want. So, nobody can tell Bindow what to do. Besides, the people are not complaining, rather they are praising the Governor for doing an eight-year project of some past administrations.