Three Years After, Niger Lawmaker Hasn’t Fulfilled Promise to Constituency.  He Is Seeking Reelection

Abdullahi Usman Gbatamangi, a federal lawmaker representing Lavun, Edati, and Mokwa Constituencies, has failed to fulfil his promise to complete a township hall in Doko community of Lavun area council, Niger State.

Mohammed Idris Kolo, a source in the community who spoke to WikkiTimes said the lawmaker promised to complete Doko township hall in 2019 but has yet to fulfil his promise. However, locals told WikkiTimes he still wants to be reelected.

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“The town hall was built by the previous council chairman, Majin in 2019,” Kolo told WikkiTimes, adding that the roofing was later blown off. “In November 2019, Gbatamangi came to inspect the hall. When he came, his media aide said he would do his best very soon.”

According to him, one year after, the town hall is still standing in shambles as the federal lawmaker looks away. Although there was a time when the lawmaker’s errand boys “came” to erect pillars in the hall, but they were stopped because they had no job certification.

“We (community) told them that if they didn’t have a job certificate, they should leave it. But they started putting pillars inside the hall,” said Kolo. “I had to meet and query them because I have not seen where a hall is built and has pillars inside. I had to tell them that if it is not going to be a good job, we don’t want it.”

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A meeting would later be held where it was conveyed that the lawmaker would renovate another school in the community, according to Kolo.

“They said the engineer would come from Abuja and he would also complete the town hall,” he recalled. “When the engineers later came, they only renovated classrooms, and hostels of Government Girls Secondary in Doko.”

According to him, the community took it up again and began to ask when the town hall would be considered.

When WikkiTimes contacted Rugga Abdullahi, Personal Assistant (PA) to the lawmaker he claimed his principal had started the project.

“Though, the project was started by some of his boys in that community. But I don’t know what stops the project,” Abdullahi said, adding that he would get confirmation from his boss and revert to WikkiTimes.