Top 5 Worst Governor’s in Nigeria – Check if your Governor is included

1.Bala Mohammed —-Bauchi

The Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, makes the Ripples Nigeria Governors Ranking for the first time however from the bottom 5 for allegedly awarding contracts for the purchase of vehicles to a company in which he is a director.

We are disturbed that despite extant laws forbidding it, Governor Mohammed awarded a N3.6 billion vehicles purchase contract to Adda Nigeria Linited, where he is listed as a and his shut ally, Abdulahi Yari, is in control.

2. Godwin Obaseki —Edo State

Governor Godwin Obaseki makes the bottom five for the month of February, 2020, the second time in a row, for his inability to incorporate the gradual descent to anarchy in the State

It is disturbing that these acts, especially after the experience in January, continue to indicate high level of intolerance and lack of accommodation for dissenting views.

We condemn the recent shaming of former Governor Adams Oshiomhole in Benin City and the blockade of the entrance to his residence with a refuse collection truck by elements suspected to be loyalists of Obaseki.

We welcome the Governor’s swift suspension of a local authorities chairman in the state after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)arrested him for financial infractions.

3. Darius Ishaku —Taraba

The Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, gets a minus in the Ripples Nigeria Governors Ranking for the month of February 2020 on account of his largely indefensible absence from the State

We reflect onconsideration on laughable his excuse for staying in Abuja on medical grounds because of an alleged domestic accident sustained in Jalingo. It is curious that a domestic accident that was never disclosed to citizens could keep the governor away from the state for almost three months.

We encourage Ishaku to come clean and face squarely the challenge of governance in a state desiring urgent political leadership.

4. Abubakar Atiku Bagudu —Kebbi State

The Governor of Kebbi State, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, makes the February 2020 bottom five on account of his involvement in the now infamous Abacha loot scandal.

The deal, if consummated, is a crude way of rubbing mud in our faces, even after the Federal Government had reportedly signed off its rights to prosecute the sitting governor.

Bagudu had allegedly woven a legal deal from which he also expecting to be paid a whopping $100 million.

5. Yahaya Bello —Kogi State

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State gets a mention again in the bottom five because of the pointless judgment debt his orchestrated impeachment of his former deputy, Simon Achuba, has plunged the state into.

The Bello-sponsored democratic coup, leading to a debt of N305 million, being an aggregate of the relieves sought by Achuba, has aptly been described via John Olorunfemi of the state High Court, as “legislative rascality devoid of reasoning.

We reason that in a state as Kogi, adjudged as one of the poorest in the country, N305 million is a princely sum that could be channelled to meaningful development.

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