I read with utter dismay an article titled, “Acting the Dankwambo, Nafada Script in Gombe’ by one Ibrahim Sani on an online news medium, and I can’t help but feel bad about the lack of insight and the perspicacity of the piece.

The writer, like many other enemies of Gombe State, is only concerned with condemning Gombe State governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, Senator Usman Bayero Nafada, and the most credible, free and fair primaries of the PDP in the state. From the first paragraph to the last, there was nothing in the piece but falsehood and deceit.

It may interest Sani to know that, it is the same Reggae legend, Bob Marley, who once said, “Don’t trust people whose feelings change with time. Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes.” Nothing explains Jamila Isyaku Gwamna’s misdemeanors like the above saying.

He is a man whose feelings change with time for just no cause. How will the good people of Gombe State trust such a man, when they have a man in Gombe State Governor Dankwambo, whose feelings remain the same even when time changes? A man who has done so much for the state to make it a better place for all, and a man who allowed a free and fair choice of succession.

Before I proceed, I will want to ask the writer of that mischievous piece a few questions because he is clearly doing more harm with that piece than good to Jamilu Gwamna, JIG, as he called him. How many followers did JIG decamp with to the All Progressives Congress (APC) and how many of such followers are prominent politicians in the political arena of Gombe State? Does JIG have any state or grassroots political structure? Was there any party chieftain or stakeholder he consulted with before defecting to the APC, less than six hours after losing the governorship primaries? Since his defection, how many of his PDP loyalists have joined him in the APC, as a conviction that what he did was right and he has the backing of his followers?

As far as Gombe State’s political arena is concerned, JIG is nothing but an opportunist and a power-monger, who wants to get there at all costs. JIG is a political novice and it is an established fact that Talban Gombe and distinguished Senator Nafada are not his mates in politics, and if the PDP primaries is not enough proof for that, the general elections will prove that, come 2019, Insha-Allah.

It is baffling that anyone will even condemn Talban Gombe with all the good things he has done for the state. When his contemporaries are battling to pay salaries, Dankwambo has constructed over 1,782kms of road networks, hospitals, schools and empowerment of thousands of women and youths.