Barrister Nasiru Aliyu Dan Tsoho, Sokoto State Commissioner for Lands, Housing, Survey, and Town Planning has decried poor performance of immediate past administration of former Governor Aminu Tambuwal, saying that the government took the state backwards.
Dan Tsoho said this in interview with journalists on Tuesday.
He said the eight years of Tambuwal did not deliver democratic gains to the people of the state, lamenting that the administration took the state backwards.
He said: “Aminu Waziri Tambuwal shouldn’t have been a local government chairman let alone governors talk less of being the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“He was unfair to the people of Sokoto state saying that he ought to have left records which would guide the new government.”
According to him, the Ahmad Aliyu-led administration lost valuable time trying to make sense of activities of the immediate past administration, given the absence of documentation.
According to him, Tambuwal’ s absence and negligence because of his presidential ambition resulted in challenges for the state, saying that Sokoto State was a stepping stone but he woefully failed to perform.
“Those who want to see the true picture of Aminu Waziri Tambuwal should come to Sokoto state; we will take him or her round and also show them facts and figures, site and even sounds from the public of his disastrous eight years as governor.
“Whosoever wants to see the footprint of the real Aminu Waziri Tambuwal should come to Sokoto State.
“We will take him round, even to his own hometown of Tambuwal that he failed to keep his promise to dualize the roads within the town.
“He demolished houses without paying compensation and started the roads like he truly was serious but as usual he abandoned the construction.
“This impression of Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, former Speaker House of Representatives, two term governor of Sokoto state and a serving senator that you have painted is different from what Nigerians see and think about somebody who wants to be President.
“So if I say that Aminu Tambuwal took the state backwards by twenty years it’s not an understatement.
“Every blessed day my office is like a court room due to the mess he left behind.
“Go to the State High Court and see the number of cases as a result of his multiple allocations. Where we can we have settled some cases especially when they are amenable to reconciliation.
“Aminu Tambuwal was unfair to the people of Sokoto State. He ought to have left records which would guide the new government.
“Another scandalous case is the allocation of the houses in Gidan Salanke Housing Estate, which he met at 70 per cent to 80 per cent completion.
“But he went ahead to allocate the houses three months before he left the office.
“So we are sorting out the mess and once we are done, we intend to refund those who cannot be accommodated.”
He however said his absence and negligence because of his presidential ambition caused the problems. “Sokoto State was his stepping stone but he woefully failed to perform,” he said.
