By Babatunde Lawal
The N70,000 minimum wage bill recently passed by the National Assembly has again exposed the ignorance and ignoramus in Pastor Bukola Saraki’s camp. As they embarked on a self-afflicting sojourn when the Supreme Court gave its verdict on the financial autonomy of the 774 local government areas across the country, these deluded guys have been doling out gibberish against the person of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq since the new minimum wage bill was passed.
These Pastor Saraki unintelligent minions in their unintelligent pieces wanted Governor Abdulrazaq to implement the N70,000 almost immediately without putting any structure in place as if they were the ones who taught him how he went about paying the current N30,000 minimum wage which their party couldn’t pay while in power. One of them in his warped piece accused the governor of parading the federal government initiative as his. I ask, when and how?
Governor Abdulrazaq unlike Pastor Bukola Saraki and his handpicked successor Abdulfatah Ahmed, has always differentiated his initiatives from the federal government’s. And the reason he’s continued to receive commendations from well-meaning Kwarans for both is because he has been the one facilitating most of the FG projects. When Saraki held the two positions Abdulrazaq holds today, he allowed his selfish interest to enter his head and turned himself into a low-budget Anthony Joshua at a point.
Since Sarakites have made it a habit to bring their leader’s dirty past to the media for cleansing, I would like to peruse how Saraki reacted to the N18,000 minimum wage bill passed by the NASS while he was the Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum. On March 1, 2011, the Vanguard newspaper quoted Saraki to have said: “Govs can’t pay minimum wage”. Saraki who said this months into the expiration of his tenure didn’t pay minimum wage and also ensured that his boy Ahmed didn’t, too. I ask, where were these uncouth Saraki boys then?
Has Abdulrazaq come out like Saraki to say his colleagues can’t pay the new minimum? NO! But today, they all want the governor to do what Saraki and Ahmed joined together and failed to do in governance because of their greed. Abdulrazaq unlike Saraki is a compassionate, pragmatic and progressive leader. He’s demonstrated that over and over again. He doesn’t need to be called out by the uncouth elements in the Saraki camp before he will take decisive action.
Here’s my free advice for Bukola Saraki and his minions who have continued to hit the hornet’s nest with their little sense of history and unfruitful dirty politics. The Kwarans you led yesterday are not the Kwarans of today. The latter are more informed and could voracious researchers. You can’t tell them you did A in the past whereas you did B. It’s for this reason more of your lies and propaganda against the administration of Governor Abdulrazaq has not yielded fruits.
Governor Abdulrazaq Abdulrahman isn’t Saraki or Ahmed who were notorious for disappointing and afflicting Kwara civil servants while they held sway. Abdulrazaq has continued to prove this distinction with his timely response to the welfare of the civil servants in the state. But wait, isn’t it funny that the people from a party that owed salaries and halted the promotions of civil servants and didn’t pay the 18,000 minimum wage are the ones accusing the man who has been cleaning their mess of not wanting to pay the N70,000 minimum wage bill passed few days ago? 😆
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