From: Samuel Luka, Bauchi
A Die-hard Supporter of the 8th National Assembly Speaker, Rt. Honourable Yakubu Dogara, Comrade John Rica Emmanuel has tackled a group known as Tafawa-Balewa and Bogoro Youth Vanguard for dishing out to press, defamatory comments against the person of the former speaker.
Comrade Rica stated this in a press statement titled, "Re: Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro Youth Vanguard on Tuesday.
He accused the leader of the group who he identified as one of the major beneficiaries of the former speaker's empowerment gesture, of telling lies to please his new masters.
"It becomes inexorable for me to counter the defamatory statements meted against the highly respected personality of Rt Hon. Yakubu Dogara, the Speaker, 8th National Assembly, by the spotlight hog, disguised as ‘Tafawa-Balewa and Bogoro Youth Vanguard", he said.
Comrade who regretted that the defamatory comments were published in some online newspapers, said, "it is callous to see subversive beings in their inanity trying to milk the magnanimity of Rt Hon. Yakubu Dogara, as a result of their personality disorder".
He stressed that all the conjectural allegations they fabricated against Rt Hon. Dogara are perjury, defamatory, and fatuous, as such, they are unacceptable.
Comrade Rica who argued that there is no such group as 'Tafawa-Balewa and Bogoro Youth Vanguard', pointed out that the persons disguising under such names are hired tools who are familiar extortionists.
"They do blackmail, thuggery, perjury, and hassle for a living. They are so unfortunate, incendiary and capricious, and as such, the general public should be watchful against such fickle individuals", he said.
He said Habila Daniel who disguised as the Chairman of the group is a hassle and a civil servant who has defiled the civil service rules by not maintaining political neutrality.
"He has been participating in partisan politics, appearing in PDP rallies, adorning PDP T-shirts as a political foot soldier of the party", Comrade Rica disclosed.
He described as unfortunate, that the Leader of the group is also an official of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), posing as CAN’s financial secretary.
Comrade Rica who regretted that CAN hasn't called Habila to order despite all his mischievous acts, recalled that he accused Dogara of being disloyal to Professor Suleiman Bogoro, who is responsible for his political rising.
Rica described as an insult, assertions by the group that former Tetfund Executive Secretary, Prof Sulaiman Bogoro played key role in the emergence of Dogara as member representing Bogoro Dass and Tafawa Balewa federal Constituency.
According to Comrade Rica, Prof Bogoro was nobody in 2007 and had nothing to show as a lecturer.
"He had no political powers to make anyone anything; so how did he make Dogara a member of the House of Representatives? Comrade Rica questioned.
Comrade Rica who question the rationale behind bringing the name of Professor Suleiman Bogoro into the matter between Yakubu Dogara and Governor Bala Muhammad, wondered whether he was paid to attack the personality of Yakubu Dogara.
Comrade Rica who described claims by Habila Daniel that the Former Speaker steered violence in Tafawa-Balewa in 2007 as the biggest lie, reminded that there was no unrest in Tafawa-Balewa in 2007.
"Rt Hon. Yakubu Dogara was elected for the first time into the House of Representatives in 2007; how then could Habila state that Dogara was a nobody then, and in the same vein accuse the same nobody for stirring a crisis?, he asked.
Comrade Rica described the group as a fake one, accused its chairman of peddling lies that houses of Williams Wadni, Peter Roko, Mamaki Ishaya and others were burnt in 2007.
"Their houses were burnt in 2021 during the program of his paymaster, Professor Suleiman Bogoro. Therefore, Professor Suleiman Bogoro remains accountable for whatsoever must have happened in 2021 because he was the convener of the event that led to serious crises", he said.
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