From Tom Garba, Yola
A group under the umbrella of “APC National Youth Vanguard Adamawa Northern Senatorial District” has called for the resignation of Sen. Binta Masi Garba, after a closed-door meeting held in Mubi, Adamawa State.
The group said its “attention has been drawn to comments and interviews made by the Youth Leader of Centre for Peace and Positive Leadership Adamawa State, Comrade Kabiru Duhu in which he laments the way and manner the Senator is representing the people below expectation and they decided to call for a closed-door meeting after their consultations in the Constituency.
It added that the meeting was successful but inconclusive as consultations were still going on. The group said it would finalise the meeting next week and inform the public on its resolution.
Meanwhile a source at the meeting who pleaded anonymity disclosed that the meeting lasted two hours discussed on many issues affecting the zone, including Senator Binta Masi Garba.
He alleged that the senator “doesn’t even have a Constituency Office that complaints can be submitted to. Even her so-called close associates she doesn’t pick their calls or contact them to know what is happening in her constituency. All she has been doing is to travel around the globe without properly representation of the people in the National Assembly. In one of her trips, the Senate caucus met and decide to remove her from Senate Chairman Committee on TET-Fund. She came to her Constituency only a few times since her assumption of office. She visited Maiha twice and Madagali only once.
The source lamented that “the district is unfortunate to have Binta as a senator. Binta gave her younger brother a contract to construct desks for few schools and renovate some which she is now parading as the achievement she recorded.”
“She is the only politician in that zone that does not have a functional structure because she has abandoned them. We see people around Mubi discussing her everywhere. They said they will only collect her money and not vote for her in 2019. This is exactly what Michika did to her in 2007; they collected her money and voted for Hon. Ganama.
“We want to tell her that the job she thinks she give her constituents, those people bringing the list of job seekers to her are actually collecting money from the constituents. The materials she brought for empowerment last year was diverted and sold out. One of her aide in Mubi stocked the mattress and he was busy sharing it to his girlfriends and some youths broke into the store and stole the mattresses.”
He further said: We want to tell her without fear or favour that she has lost all support she had before now. She is the only politician whose close allies have nothing to show for their work for her. She should learn from Senator Azeez and former Senator Grace Bent.
“Senator Binta has no regards four our elders. She doesn’t listen to anybody. She has never held any meeting with her constituents to know their plights. We are yet to see any visible project from her in our domain. I also want to tell all the Senate hopeful in our zone to try their chances because Binta has no more grassroots support.
“We, therefore, wish to assert without equivocation that in terms of performance and achievement she has failed the people and unbiased citizens of the district will definitely attest to this fact as evidence stair all of them.
“To us that, we will no longer support her until she ceases the belligerent attitude towards her Constituency and by next week we shall finalise the meeting and inform the general public on the outcome of our resolution.
All efforts to speak to Senator Binta Masi proved abortive as all calls put to her lines were not picked. Also messages sent to her numbers were not replied.
Please some one help me