The Executive Governor of Bauchi State, Senator Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has promised to provide a sound leadership that will offer democratic dividends that will surpass his administration of the state.
Governor Bala made the pronouncement recently while declaring open a three-day retreat organised by the office of the Head of Service in collaboration with the office of the Secretary to the State Government at Sa’ad Abubakar Hajj Camp Bauchí.
The retreat, with the theme :”My Bauchi Project Successes and Lessons of the First Term and the Way Forward” , was organised for Commissioners, Permanent Secretaries and Caretaker Committee Chairmen of local government areas in the state.
“The conventional belief is that the second term is used by governors to prepare for retirement,” he stated.
“The story is told of a commentator who felt so disgusted by the performance or lack of it that he described it as the “curse of the second term”!
“As uncharitable as that may sound, my attitude is to see it as a challenge to the political elite to change the narrative, leaving legacy projects that command the respect and confidence of the people”
The governor said he is not bothered by critics and pessimists who judge him to be too slow in his second tenure but promised to be resolute in his dream to change the narratives.
He said he would use his second tenure to sustain those policies, programmes and projects that delivered unprecedented democracy dividends and set paradigm shifts in goal delivery.
Mohammed charged the participants at the retreat to key into the ‘My Bauchi Project’ with a view to providing the needed synergy and drive to bring it to actualisation.
He urged them to embrace the golden opportunity to carve out a road-map that leverages on strengths while addressing weaknesses.
“As we commit ourselves to diligent service, I am hopeful that with Allah’s guidance and our unified efforts, we will steer Bauchi State to heights unprecedented, etching a legacy of prosperity, harmony, and development for generations to come,” he said.
Governor Bala used the occasion to call on all sons and daughters of the state in different political parties, to in the best interest of the state, join hands with his people’s oriented policies, geared towards the development of Bauchi State, especially now that it is not time for politics but governance.
