…It’s not true – Gov’s aide
Her travails started with the ringing of her handset from an
unregistered number, where she received a call from an unidentified person informing her of what awaits her at home. The voice continued to threaten her that she should desist from being antagonistic of the state Governor, Muhammad Abdullahi Abubakar. The unknown caller further cited her negative utterances against the governor and the government which, according to him, earned her the name Jar Wuya.
On arriving home and, to her total dismay, as she narrated her unexpected encounter to members of her family, Hajiya Maryam Begel said she received an envelope that contained some thick documents and, when she opened it, she stared in horrific surprise at the contents, which fell off her hands to the ground and, according to her, the envelope spilled some well cropped pictures of her in the nude, which was presented in a pornographic manner.
Hajiya Begel, a female serving member of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, said these elements threatened to make the pictures public, if she does not desist from her ‘antagonistic’ stance towards the government of Governor Abubakar. And this was the beginning of her nightmare, as the pictures started wreaking havoc, even in her once happy matrimonial home.
On their part, the Bauchi State Government described the allegations as fantastic, amusing and a mere hallucination emanating from the shattered dreams of her senatorial ambition, when she claimed in a press conference last week that the state Governor, Barr. Muhammad Abdullahi Abubakar, was behind her recent travails, by sponsoring some elements to present her in immoral photo-finish pornographic pictures and delivered same to her with a threat.
A statement from the Senior Special Adviser on Media to the governor, Ali M. Ali, countered the allegation , saying, ‘’We found this amusing. At no point did Begel constitute a ‘threat’ or even a ‘nuisance’ to the government of Governor Abubakar, to the extent that they will resort to this reprehensible measure. The governor has a cast iron reputation of moral uprightness. His morals are beyond reproach.”
According to Ali, “It is, therefore, inconceivable that he will encourage, let alone sponsor, such desperate measure. He has repeatedly and publicly stated that he bears no ill will or malice against anyone, especially antagonistic elements.’’
Upliftment and progress of Bauchi State, according to the statement, is the main objective and focus of the governor, stressing that the frolics of a desperate attention seeker will not detract him from his set determination to change the depressing narrative of our state.
It further said that ‘’the governor is currently on hajj and is praying for the development of the state and nation in general.’’
Maryam Begel had, last week, stated that it was the work of some political faceless associates of the state governor, who were not only intent on ‘humiliating’ her but planning to do so by portraying her as an ‘immoral’ person via the pictures copied from her Facebook account.
The government, according to the SSA Media, strongly suspected that Begel resorted to this ‘hallucinatory’ measure to shake-off her electoral humiliation in the recent Senatorial bye-election in Bauchi South district.
“She is looking for a fall guy. The media should be wary of sensational claims of desperate politicians as we approach elections time,” he said.
Begel was a member of the All Progressives Congress when she won the election into the Bauchi State House of Assembly seat from her constituency of Dass Local Government in 2015. She indicated interest to run for the Bauchi South Senatorial District, after the death, a few months ago, of Senator Ali Wakil, who represented the zone.
Begel defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) after the APC’s primary election that saw Lawal Yahaya Gumau, a House of Representatives member, winning the election. Begel consequently became the SDP’s flag bearer.
She secured 3,636 votes, as against the APC’s candidate who got, 119,780, and APP 11,729, while PDP got 49,487 in the Senatorial bye-election.
