The New Federal Minister Of Defence, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar though not a retired Military personnel, has been described as a round peg in a round hole considering his track record in public service.
The description was made by Hon. Habibu Bulama Bizi, Convener General, Badaru Support Group while interacting with Journalists in Bauchi on Friday.
According to him, “The former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar has, prior to his latest appointment as the Defence Minister distinguished himself in many fronts in the service to the nation.”
He stressed that, “The 60-year-old Minister has come to deploy his people-oriented wealth of experience to bear in the service to humanity and nation building. The belief by some disgruntled elements in the political system that a Defence Minister ought to have received requisite military or paramilitary training is coming from those who did not understand the role of a Federal Minister.”
Habibu Bulama said that, “The insinuations that, Alhaji Badaru Abubakar did not have indepth military or para-military background is just a way of trying to discredit the holistic efforts of Mr. President in assembling a team of tested and trusted Nigerians as Ministers.
Badaru, having excelled as a former Governor in terms of good leadership and good governance, led Jigawa State as an 8-year Governor. His regime greeted adequate security of lives and properties of the good people of Jigawa State. There are lots of testimonies to that,” he added.
According to him,”Today, as he ascends to the Office of the Federal Minister of Defence, he will replicate such feat as witnessed in his regime as the then Executive Governor of Jigawa State.”
The Convener of the group added that the former Governor of Jigawa state having served Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fertilizer and former Presidential Committee on Non-oil Revenue has garnered wealth of experience to properly executive his tasking duties in the Defence Ministry as the helmsman.
He further said that as an alumnus of ABU, Zaria and NIPSS, Kuru, Jos, he has the requisite knowledge to re-engineer the security architecture of the nation with his qualitative managerial acumen.
He expressed optimism that the killings witnessed during the PDP regime in Jigawa State subsidized when Alhaji Badaru held sway as the Governor of the State saying, “the leadership prowess of the former Governor would be brought to bear in transforming the Ministry of Defence to an enviable height.”
According to him, “All the doubting Thomases would live to witness adequate security in the nation under the leadership of Alhaji Abubakar Badaru. With the forthrightness and fore-sightedness of the business tycoon cum politician, Nigeria would soon record massive improvement in area of security of lives and properties.Badaru,a tested and trusted leader,will ignite the nation with unprecedented development in Defence Ministry.”
