….. Warns City Boy Movement in opposition to fan-club politics
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, has known as on political workplace holders serving below President Bola Tinubu, together with elected officers and appointees, to render account of their efficiency and show what they’ve delivered to Nigerians.
Abbas additionally introduced plans to unveil a public accountability initiative, the PBAT Stewardship Account, via which he mentioned 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 mentioned 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 mentioned 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 manager.
Abbas mentioned the initiative was supposed to make sure that Nigerians might assess the efficiency of public officers based mostly on verifiable outcomes fairly than political loyalty or public declarations of assist.
He challenged political workplace holders to show how they’d 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 mentioned.
The Speaker, who counseled the City Boy Movement for taking the administration’s message to streets, campuses and markets, warned in opposition to a political tradition that rewards declarations of loyalty with out corresponding proof of supply.
He argued that political supporters and public officers needs to be judged by their contributions to governance and the affect of presidency insurance policies on peculiar 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 mentioned.
“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 typical framework for assessing public officers’ efficiency, with an outlined timeline and mechanisms for unbiased verification.
He proposed a 90-day interval for workplace holders to account for his or her efficiency, arguing that commitments with out deadlines usually amounted to mere expressions of intention.
Abbas additionally steered 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, fairly than limiting their engagement to media appearances in Abuja.
The Speaker mentioned suggestions from residents also needs to be transmitted to the President to assist the administration establish gaps in service supply and enhance policymaking.
He urged Tinubu to undertake the proposed PBAT Stewardship Account as a normal for all these serving below 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 mentioned.
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 mentioned 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 mentioned the ability was outfitted with working theatres, a laboratory, ultrasound companies and emergency care.
Abbas mentioned the hospital would kind the primary entry in his stewardship account, explaining that the initiative would join authorities spending and initiatives to their sensible affect on residents.
He mentioned the hospital would assist sufferers obtain remedy nearer to residence, lowering the necessity for referrals to distant services and the related monetary burden on households.
The Speaker mentioned 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 mentioned.
Abbas urged the City Boy Movement to keep away from changing 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 advised the motion.
He mentioned the organisation might strengthen governance by speaking the administration’s report to Nigerians whereas additionally relaying residents’ considerations and assessments again to the President.
The Speaker maintained that political mobilisation needs to be accompanied by accountability, transparency and proof of efficiency.
He mentioned 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 mentioned.
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