BORNO IN OUR GENERATION II

By

Bashir Maidugu

Some of our people are so easily forgetful that it was the courage, bravery and sacrifice at the risk of the lives of our Governor and many top Government, Party and Non-Government officials, Gallant Volunteers and village informants that enabled the of Borno to be able to achieve the relative peace that we witness today. We cannot accept the disruption of our hard earned stability by some selfish, fraudulent individuals who would want us back to the reign of darkness and terror, which could be worse than the GEJ regime.... shutting down our telephone network, our airport, looted our resources and restricted commerce and businesses in our cities for years making our citizens live from hand to mouth..... for the first time rendering our dignified people once existed as farmers and traders in their villages as beggars all over Nigeria. 

We must not forget the stigma created against us by this tragedy in other communities in this county. Many of our guests who lived here for generations have left.. We are a proud but not hostile people. Before the tragedy, our people hosted strangers in their homes and ate with them freely. Where are these virtues now? 

Meanwhile, Atiku Abubakar, who as Vice President, before our very eyes, diverted many Zonal offices meant for Maiduguri, the natural capital of the North East, away from the city because of nothing but hatred for our communities. The lists are endless. He will do worse if he ever gets the chance. We will never allow him.

A supposed leader of the North East, having occupied the highest position from the region for Eight uninterrupted years, he has refused to visit Borno to commiserate with our people in all these years of our tragedy. He has not mentored any citizen of Borno. He only visited Maiduguri for one day-wedding events of his bourgeoisie politicians. And yet a few hungry people have the audacity to welcome such a saboteur into our midst? His party stakeholders even engaged in physical combats without decorum among themselves on logistics funds thrown to them by their troubled candidate. He will be a miserable loser, In Shaa Allah in 2023.

Let me say a few things here: there will be no vacancy in Borno Government House and the Aso Rock Villa in Shaa Allah. PDP will be reduced to a very small political party after 2023. Atiku will be retired permanently back to Dubai. And in Shaa Allah, we will witness a period of unprecedented economic growth, prosperity and development. BORNO WILL BE HOME OF PEACE forever again.

MAIDUGURI

11th November, 2022