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Abubakar, Mohammed destroyed my legacy projects, says Yuguda

By Rauf Oyewole, Bauchi
06 March 2023   |   3:51 am
Former Governor of Bauchi State, Isa Yuguda, has accused the administrations of Mohammed Abubakar (2015-2019) and his successor, Bala Mohammed, of destroying the infrastructure he left behind in 2015 when he completed his eight years term.

Former Governor of Bauchi State, Isa Yuguda, has accused the administrations of Mohammed Abubakar (2015-2019) and his successor, Bala Mohammed, of destroying the infrastructure he left behind in 2015 when he completed his eight years term.

Chatting with select journalists at his Bauchi residence on Saturday night, Yuguda said successive administrations could not maintain and continue his projects. He said after serving for eight years, he knew who could fix the state.

He said: “I left behind 22 hospitals, fully operational and equipped, with both local and foreign doctors – about 31 Egyptian doctors. I trained over 150 medical students; they all returned, but I cannot see any today. I left about 72 Nigerian doctors, but today there are only 18 doctors. I left all the hospitals with 24-hour power supply.

“I left the best specialist hospital in Nigeria behind. The last time I visited, maybe because my days were not up, I would have had a heart attack. This is what Nigeria and Bauchi is all about. The government that took over from me should have maintained that hospital, instead of saying ‘I want to build this and that’.”

Lamenting the shortage of doctors in the state’s health sector, he said: “Only 18 doctors serving over seven million people; is this good for us?”

He added that the model school, Sa’adu Zungur, won the best-constructed primary school in West Africa when the Governors’ Forum Peer Group Review visited the state.

Yuguda said that he endorsed governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), former Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar (rtd.), because he believed he would revive all the moribund industries.

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