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    The document summarizes an article criticizing the governor of Katsina State, John Madaki, for his verbal attack on former military head of state General Muhammadu Buhari. The governor had apparently requested 20 million naira from a development fund chaired by Buhari, but Buhari refused to release the money without committee approval. In response, Madaki threatened to sack Buhari as chairman. The document argues that Buhari acted properly by calling a committee meeting according to procedure, and that Madaki was wrong to make unfounded accusations against Buhari's character.

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    The document summarizes an article criticizing the governor of Katsina State, John Madaki, for his verbal attack on former military head of state General Muhammadu Buhari. The governor had apparently requested 20 million naira from a development fund chaired by Buhari, but Buhari refused to release the money without committee approval. In response, Madaki threatened to sack Buhari as chairman. The document argues that Buhari acted properly by calling a committee meeting according to procedure, and that Madaki was wrong to make unfounded accusations against Buhari's character.

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    Attack on Buhari: Haba Governor Madaki!

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    Temper in men occupying esteemed powerful positions makes such leaders misuse
    their public responsibilities and to wallow in an orgy of frustration by castigating
    their subjects recklessly or those they see as threats to the whimsical ambitions. The
    men in power view such actions atimes as blatant exhibition of some kind of ideology.

    One writer rightly said that good professional soldier-officers are brought to assume
    sensitive political offices ill-prepared which they are mostly temperamentally
    unsuited for..
    This brought me to a recent news story in the Tribune newspaper entitled “Madaki
    Raps Buhari,” of October 31, 1991 on a front page and reported by Etosa Iroh that
    Governor John Madaki of Katsina State was said to be rapping former Head of State,
    General Muhammad Buhari with an unsavoury languages on an allegation that he
    (Madaki) requested for N20 million from the General who is the chairman of Katsina
    Development Fund, but that the former head of state refused to release the money on
    the grounds that the fund was not scheduled for the project Madaki had eyed.
    For this, the governor went to the extent of threatening to sack the chairman if he
    failed to grant him the fund. The accusation as explained by the governor put people
    in doubt if the state chief executive could indiscriminately utter such disheartening
    statements against the personality of the former head of state, General Mohammed
    Buhari.

    We are all living witnesses that Buhari and his lieutenant, Tunde Idiagbon were never
    at any time accused of corrupt enrichment from public funds during their regime. As
    such General Buhari could not have gone so low to start stealing now. How can he be
    accused of attempting to mismanage the fund of a state which was just a local
    government when he ruled several states as the commander in chief? This brief
    explanation is to assure the people of Katsina State that General Buhari means no
    harm to the public treasury/endowment entrusted in his safeguard.
    It is also clear that the governor was irked and saw no reason for Buhari’s intention to
    call for the committee meeting over the release of the fund. He expected that as a
    military governor all his requests must be approved and granted without recourse to
    laid down rules and procedures.
    If Buhari, a chairman of a very sensitive committee could not summon a meeting to
    dole out such huge sums of money to the governor, how would he account for it once
    the people ask him? Indeed, Buhari did the right thing by calling for the committee to
    deliberate on it before any disbursement. Nothing is more becoming of a great man
    than courtesy of forbearance said in a politeness which has to do with saying the
    kindest utterance in the kindest manner.

    This rejoinder by Yushau A. Shuaib was originally published in The


    Triumph November 13, 1991

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    yashuaib

    Yushau A. Shuaib is an award winning public relation professional. He is popularly


    called Idiagbon during his university days, He has distinguished himself with several
    credible awards in the field of public relations. Notable amongst them are Campus
    Writer of the year, Alhaji Sabo Mohammed Best Student in Public Relations, Delta
    State NYSC Merit Award, Automatic Scholarship for the Best Corps Writer, Head of
    State National NYSC Honours Award, NIPR Public Relations Person of the year in
    Kano/Jigawa State and the Young Achiever of the year from a Business, among
    others

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