Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator Lawal Adamu Usman, on Wednesday, lashed out at a group, Kaduna Peace and Tranquility Forum (KPTF), over a threat to mobilise for his recall from the National Assembly for alleged non-performance.
Senator Usman, fondly called Senator LA by his constituents and teeming supporters in Kaduna Central Senatorial District, also deplored the purported 14-day ultimatum issued to him by the amorphous group to account for his stewardship since his election.
The lawmaker in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Segun Olatunji, described the outbursts of the KPTF as the ranting of a discomfited group of meddlesome interlopers seeking to misinform unsuspecting members of the public for the selfish political gains of their masterminds and sponsors.
He enjoined the good people of Kaduna Central Senatorial District and the general public in Kaduna State not to be deceived by the gibberish being churned out by the KPTF as it lacked any iota of truth.
Senator LA also stated that the threat by the group to mobilise for his recall from the National Assembly does not cut any ice with him, urging the good people of Kaduna Central Senatorial District to remain calm, disregard the threat and treat the KPTF’s ranting with the disdain it deserves.
The lawmaker noted that it is needless reminding the amorphous group as the KPTF and their ilk that being the
Senate Committee Chairman on Education (Basic and Secondary) and Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Financial Matters is no child’s play, as such Committees of national importance are not for the lazy and weak-minded politicians like the sponsors of their group.
The statement partly read, “No one should be surprised by the outbursts of this group. They are not to be taken seriously as far as we’re concerned. When people wake up from the wrong side of their bed, they’re bound to still be groggy and not know when they talk bunkum and misfire.
“The puerile threat by KPTF during their recent press conference to mobilise for the recall of the Distinguished Senator for alleged “failure to stand up and speak on development issues,” if he fails after a 14-day ultimatum to give account of his stewardship, smacks of a dress rehearsal for a light-hearted comedy of errors show.
“The unconscionable and uninformed outbursts of the KPTF are a good testament to their crass ignorance about Senator LA’s germaine contributions at the National Assembly. KPTF needs some good tutoring and education to be purged of its unabashed ignorance.
“Many people know their warped story isn’t unusual. Their latest outburst is a diseased symptom of the bad and rotten politicking of their sponsors.
“For the information of the KPTF and their sponsors, Senator LA has, from Day One, made a ‘down payment’ on change with the good people of Kaduna Central Senatorial District through his campaign manifesto, which convinced the electorate to freely and magnanimously give him their mandate at the polls in the 2023 general elections.
“For the avoidance of doubt, Senator LA believes in serious change rather than a hopeless gimmick. He believes in grip and not drift.
“Right from the run-up to the 2023 elections, he had rolled up his sleeves for the big task ahead. And since his election into the National Assembly, he has continuously been doing the hard graft, working his fingers to the bones, so to say, all in the corporate interests of the good people of Kaduna Central Senatorial District.
“Only the blind will deny the obvious and concrete fact that Senator LA’s tenure, in the past one year, has been defined by a strong and unprecedented commitment to Education, infrastructural development, economic empowerment and delivery of sundry dividends of democracy to his constituents and others. His comprehensive approach to addressing the needs of the good people of Kaduna Central Senatorial District and even beyond is nonpareil and unprecedented.”
The statement added that to puncture some of the lies being peddled by the KPTF and to address their spurious “charges” of non-performance against the conscientious lawmaker, immediately after the inauguration of the current National Assembly, while many of Senator LA’s colleagues had yet to find their voice in the upper Legislative chamber, the Kaduna Central lawmaker moved a motion on the “urgent need to expeditiously complete the ongoing reconstruction of the 160km Kaduna-Abuja highway and to increase the presence of security surveillance through the deployment of more personnel and use of unmanned aerial vehicles such as drones, radars and scanners on and around the highway,” which runs through the Abuja-Kaduna-Birnin Gwari-Chikun axis to address the perennial problem of insecurity. This happened to be one of the first motions moved on the floor of the 10th Senate, as it was thoroughly debated with valuable contributions made by even ranking Senators.
The statement listed other achievements of Senator LA to include his whopping N150million empowerment of no fewer than 300 youths in his constituency in February this year alone. Each of the beneficiaries selected across the seven local government areas constituting Kaduna Central Senatorial District, the statement recalled, got N500,000 as start-up capital.
A month earlier, precisely in January 2024, the statement added, Senator LA sponsored the first set of 20 people to perform the lesser Hajj in Saudi Arabia to offer prayers for the peace, progress and unity of Nigeria.
The lawmaker has also since fulfilled his earlier promise to pay tuition fees of indigent students across the state by giving the sum of between N100,000 and N150,000 to over 200 students in the Humanities and Sciences, respectively, having announced the setting aside of additional N250million for settling tuition fees of hundreds of students of tertiary institutions in his constituency.
The statement further noted that Senator LA’s exploits in securing the release of the recent Kuriga kidnap victims and his efforts in interfacing with President Bola Tinubu on the matter, are well noted and regularly draw thunderous applause for the lawmaker whenever he appears in public.
The statement however noted that the KPTF, from its ranting, has left no one in doubt that it lacks the requisite mental capacity to assess the Distinguished Senator Lawal Adamu Usman’s performance in the National Assembly in the past one year.
It stated, “It is laughable that such a group with very shallow knowledge and abysmally low information about the activities of the Distinguished Senator could insult the public space with their crass ignorance about issues regarding the performance of the most popular National Assembly member from Kaduna State.
“The KPTF’s gibberish submission on the performance of the Distinguished Senator LA exposes its purveyors as people lacking the least cognitive capacity to make any assessment of the lawmaker being constantly applauded beyond the confines of his senatorial district.”
The statement concluded, “We know those beating the drums producing this incoherent and shameful rhythm being shamelessly danced to in the public by these meddlesome interlopers, KPTF, are hiding behind a veil. They shall soon be exposed and disgraced, Insha Allah!”
Below is the full text of the Senator’s statement:
Kaduna Peace and Tranquility Forum’s (KPTF) ranting: Our response
The attention of the Dist. Senator Lawal Adamu Usman, fondly called Senator LA by his constituents and teeming supporters, has once again been drawn to the ranting of another mischievous amorphous group, which has styled itself “Kaduna Peace and Tranquility Forum (KPTF)” led by one Alh Inuwa Bala Giwa, at a recent press conference in Kaduna.
Ordinarily, the Dist. Senator would not have dignified the ranting by such a discomfited group of meddlesome interlopers with any response but for the sake of the unsuspecting members of the public who are likely to assume that the gibberish by the amorphous group is the truth.
No one should be surprised by the outbursts of this group. They are not to be taken seriously, as far as we’re concerned. When people wake up on the wrong side of their bed, they’re bound to still be groggy and not know when they talk bunkum and misfire.
The puerile threat by KPTF during their press conference to mobilize for the recall of the Dist. Senator for alleged “failure to stand up and speak on development issues,” if he fails after a 14-day ultimatum to give an account of his stewardship, smacks of a dress rehearsal for a light-hearted comedy of errors show.
The unconscionable and uninformed outbursts of KPTF are a good testament to their crass ignorance about Senator LA’s Germane contributions at the National Assembly. KPTF needs some good tutoring and education to be purged of its unabashed ignorance.
Many people know their warped story isn’t unusual. Their latest outburst is a diseased symptom of the bad and rotten politicking of their sponsors.
For the information of the KPTF, Senator LA has, from Day One, made a ‘down payment’ on change with the good people of Kaduna Central Senatorial District through his campaign manifesto, which convinced the electorate to freely and magnanimously give him their mandate at the polls in 2023.
For the avoidance of doubt, Senator LA believes in serious change rather than a hopeless gimmick. He believes in grip and not drift.
Right from the run-up to the 2023 elections, he had rolled up his sleeves for the big task ahead. And since his election into the National Assembly, he has continuously been doing the hard graft, working his fingers to the bones, so to say, all in the corporate interests of the good people of Kaduna Central Senatorial District.
Only the blind will deny the obvious and concrete fact that Senator LA’s tenure, in the past year, has been defined by a strong and unprecedented commitment to Education, infrastructural development, economic empowerment, and delivery of sundry dividends of democracy to his constituents and others. His comprehensive approach to addressing the needs of the good people of Kaduna Central Senatorial District and even beyond is nonpareil and unprecedented.
At this juncture and for the sake of educating the mischief makers and doubting Thomases, it won’t be wrong if Senator LA blows his own trumpet a little, just to showcase a bit of his myriad of achievements in the past one year that the good people of Kaduna Central Senatorial District had entrusted him with their mandate, as their representative in the nation’s upper legislature.
To puncture the lies by this group of meddlesome interlopers that the KPTF represents, and to fully answer their spurious “charges” of non-performance against this conscientious lawmaker, we’ll crave the indulgence of the discerning public to reproduce an earlier assessment of the performance of the Dist. Senator Lawal Adamu Usman as at May 29, 2024, one year after he assumed office.
This assessment entitled, “Senator LA, touching lives, transforming society: A first-anniversary scorecard,” was published by more than 10 online and print news media from May 28, 2024. Perhaps in their desperation to go on a fault-finding mission, they missed this important segment of the story.
