….. Warns City Boy Movement towards fan-club politics
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, has known as on political workplace holders serving underneath President Bola Tinubu, together with elected officers and appointees, to render account of their efficiency and display what they’ve delivered to Nigerians.
Abbas additionally introduced plans to unveil a public accountability initiative, the PBAT Stewardship Account, via which he stated he would current a verifiable report of Tinubu’s achievements in Zaria Federal Constituency, Kaduna State, the North-West and Nigeria.
The Speaker made the announcement on Monday on the City Boy Movement’s assembly with Tinubu on the Banquet Hall of the State House, Abuja.
He stated the initiative would transcend celebrating the President’s achievements to documenting authorities interventions, their worth, areas and implementation standing, together with initiatives that remained incomplete.
“It will not be a celebration. It will be an audit,” Abbas declared.
He stated he would convene a media briefing inside 14 days to current an account of what the Tinubu administration had delivered via his workplace, alongside a scorecard of the tenth House of Representatives detailing payments handed, reforms enacted, and oversight performed in partnership with the chief.
Abbas stated the initiative was meant to make sure that Nigerians might assess the efficiency of public officers primarily based on verifiable outcomes quite than political loyalty or public declarations of assist.
He challenged political workplace holders to display how that they had used the duties entrusted to them to enhance residents’ lives.
“The query earlier than us is not going to be, ‘Whose side are you on?’
“It will be: ‘What did you do with what you were given?’” he stated.
The Speaker, who counseled the City Boy Movement for taking the administration’s message to streets, campuses and markets, warned towards a political tradition that rewards declarations of loyalty with out corresponding proof of supply.
He argued that political supporters and public officers ought to be judged by their contributions to governance and the impression of presidency insurance policies on bizarre Nigerians.
According to him, each workplace holder carries a share of the President’s mandate and owes each the President and the general public an account of what that duty has produced.
“I therefore call on every political office holder serving under this administration, elected and appointed alike, to render the same account to the people in whose name they serve,” Abbas stated.
“If you hold a share of the President’s mandate, you owe him, and you owe the public, a statement of what that share has produced.”
Abbas proposes 90-day accountability framework
The Speaker urged the City Boy Movement to develop a standard framework for assessing public officers’ efficiency, with an outlined timeline and mechanisms for impartial verification.
He proposed a 90-day interval for workplace holders to account for his or her efficiency, arguing that commitments with out deadlines typically amounted to mere expressions of intention.
Abbas additionally urged that native volunteers ought to {photograph} public initiatives, doc their situation and make their findings obtainable to residents.
He known as for city corridor conferences the place workplace holders would reply questions from their constituents, quite than limiting their engagement to media appearances in Abuja.
The Speaker stated suggestions from residents also needs to be transmitted to the President to assist the administration determine gaps in service supply and enhance policymaking.
He urged Tinubu to undertake the proposed PBAT Stewardship Account as a typical for all these serving underneath his administration.
“Your reforms asked Nigerians to accept hard truths. Let those of us who serve you now show Nigerians the truth of what we have done,” he stated.
As an instance of the kind of intervention the initiative would doc, Abbas cited a 100-bed Renewed Hope Specialist Hospital in Zaria, Kaduna State, which he stated opened in May 2026.
According to the Speaker, the hospital was delivered via the Tinubu administration’s Sustainable Development Goals programme and handed over to Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital for administration.
He stated the power was geared up with working theatres, a laboratory, ultrasound providers and emergency care.
Abbas stated the hospital would kind the primary entry in his stewardship account, explaining that the initiative would join authorities spending and initiatives to their sensible impression on residents.
He stated the hospital would assist sufferers obtain remedy nearer to dwelling, lowering the necessity for referrals to distant amenities and the related monetary burden on households.
The Speaker stated the report would doc initiatives by location, worth and standing, including that incomplete interventions would even be disclosed.
“An account that hides its gaps is merely an advertisement,” he stated.
Abbas urged the City Boy Movement to keep away from turning into a platform for uncritical reward of the President, difficult its members to function a hyperlink between the federal government and the communities they interact.
“Do not become a fan club. A leader learns nothing from applause,” he informed the motion.
He stated the organisation might strengthen governance by speaking the administration’s report to Nigerians whereas additionally relaying residents’ issues and assessments again to the President.
The Speaker maintained that political mobilisation ought to be accompanied by accountability, transparency and proof of efficiency.
He stated he would start the method with Zaria Federal Constituency and urged different workplace holders to comply with swimsuit by publishing verifiable accounts of their stewardship.
“Let every holder of your mandate open theirs, and let Nigerians judge us not by how loudly we praise you, but by how faithfully we have served the people you entrusted to us,” Abbas stated.
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