By Muhammad A. Haidar, Dutse
The Minister of power Engr. Sale Mamman was on Friday brushed off when the Jigawa governor Alhaji Muhammed Badaru Abubakar snubbed to honor the proposed commissioning ceremony of a transmission substation at Gagarawa local government area of Jigawa state.
Hotpen reports that the project commissioning of a new 2 x 60 MVA, 132/33KV was slated to hold by 10am of Friday at the Gagarawa local government area could not hold even as many invited dignitaries were kept waiting for several hours at the venue inspite of cold harmattan weather.
It was after the emir of Gumel, Alhaji Ahmed Muhammed Sani outwardly tired of waiting furiously left the venue which also made other local government chairmen waiting to receive the governor also left the place without uttering a word to the waiting crowd.
Findings by our reporter revealed that the governor was not contacted by either the minister or his protocol team over the commissioning programme until Thursday night, the development according to a competent source at the government house frustrated the governor who had earlier vowed not to grace the occasion to ‘teach’ the minister a lesson.
The minister who was spotted at the government house later was said to have personally turned away from the event and sped to about 100 kilometres to the state capital Dutse to plead with the governor.The governor was said to have refused to budge despite pleadings by the minister which made the event to be postponed to a later date.
This ego fight may not be unconnected with the politics of 2023 as state governors, especially Badaru have gained so much power control in their political party.Invited guests including the media were shocked when they were asked to live the venue as the event would no longer hold.