Zamfara APC still reeling from post-election trauma

Things are not looking up for the former All Progressives Congress (APC) in power in Zamfara State. It is evident that ever since His Excellency, Dauda Lawal Dare was sworn in as Governor, the state's APC seems to be displaying an overdose of post-election trauma.

The agony of defeat follows the poor performance of Dr. Bello Matagall, which has had a negative impact on APC. Not a day goes by that the party does not issue a press release, through which it tells one nonsensical story or another against the new governor and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

This leads to the conclusion that APC is indeed living in pure delirium. Perhaps they are acting because they realize and seem in disbelief that the power is no longer with them and a new sheriff has taken over the affairs of the Zamfara State.

It will seem that Zamfara APC is just re-enacting all the ramifications of its monumental defeat in the last election. Although the party has lived in denial ever since, the veil has somehow been lifted and they realize how miserably they have failed the people of Zamfara.

In their distorted sense of guilt, the party believes the best way to hide this failure is to form a nuisance squad against the new Dare administration. They attempt to be a cog in the wheel of the ongoing economic, social and security emancipation of the state. It's quite unfortunate. Isn't it funny that the APC, whose candidate led Zamfara for four years, while spending just under two years in his party, but failed to tame insecurity, is now accusing a two-month-old government for not having done what Matawalle could not do in four years? We are talking about Matawall, who has publicly stated that he swore loud and clear that he would never leave the PDP, the party over which the Supreme Court declared him governor. But later he dishonorably decamped to the APC, believing that the APC, as a club of former state governors such as Senator Ahmad Sani Yarima, Mahmud Shinkafi and Senator Abdulaziz Yari, among other political bigwigs in the state, would save him from the verdict. people. Matawall forgot that the same God who mysteriously and miraculously appointed him governor in 2019 gives and takes power at will.

No matter the gang, since it was predestined by God that Dare's time is now, nothing can stop the incumbent from eventually saving the state, which had suffered greatly from the misadministration of ex-governors.

It is obvious that Dare defeated not only Matawall and APC, but also the sanctuary of all the former governors of Zamfara State. They were shamed and dishonored, having been collectively and roundly beaten at the polls by the same PDP whom he had individually rejected as not having the means to win the elections.

Recently, in one of their bizarre press releases, the APC claimed that Dare's asset declaration form was riddled with lies, adding that the governor could not be worth the assets associated with him.

They hinted that Dare may be laying claim to prodigious wealth in anticipation of ransacking the Zamfara state dry as a former governor, Matawall, whose entire fortune can be attributed to politics. Governor Dare, having nothing to hide, may have given his consent to have his wealth declaration form made public and no entry in the form was vague or unverifiable. APC can go check it out!

At the rate the APC is going, they may soon start prowling the Governor's bathroom to get a feel for his business to use to write another of their tired press releases. It's truly embarrassing that in the space of two months, Zamfara's APC have become so unemployed that the only job they can carve out is unhealthy ramblings on issues that continue to reflect the failure of former Governor Matawall.

It is established that the opposition has a role of watchdog in a democracy, but it must be seen that this role is deployed for the general good of the people and not in the advancement of the campaign after the elections. This reduces the seriousness of governance to a petty boondoggle that targets the pre-election progress of individual political actors. To be fair to the APC in Zamfara, this is the first time they can be said to be truly out of the government house in Gusau, as the Matawalle Supreme Court statement does not count. Therefore, they can really get rusty from progressive opposition, so we have to give them some slack.

However, however rusty they may be, they should be reminded that the election has since been won and lost. Matawalle, despite all his failures, engaged in an ugly fight and confrontation against the government that was rightfully elected to power by the good and hitherto beleaguered people of Zamfara State.

Besides the contrived media war against the current government, he went to court to waste time and distract the new government from...