By Sule Aliyu Bauchi
For Insulting the State Governor, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Muhammad who is equarly the traditional title holder Kauran Bauchi, Senator Shehu Buba Umar has been found guilty and stripped of his traditional title of Majidadin Bauchi by the Bauchi Emirate Council.
Senator Buba lost his chieftaincy title barely one week after he publicly challenged Governor Bala Muhammad over his criticism of President Bola Ahmad Tinubu and his policies.
Senator Shehu Buba Umar (Bauchi South) is of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the opposition party in the State.
In terse letter to that effect by the Bauchi Emirate Council released late Wednesday evening, the Senator was advised to henceforth stop using the title as it has been withdrawn from him.
The letter dated August 14, 2024 and written in Hausa and addressed to Senator Shehu Umar signed by one Nasiru Musa on behalf of the Emirate Council Secretary, formally conveyed the withdrawal of the traditional title from the Senator.
The letter stated that the withdrawal followed a meeting of the Council held on Wednesday August 14 chaired by the Emir of Bauchi, Dr Rilwanu Suleiman Adamu which deliberated on the Senator’s alleged misdemeanours and consequently resolved to derobe him as a traditional title holder of the Emirate.
The Council specifically accused Senator Shehu Umar of “disrespecting and humiliating the Bauchi State Governor,” actions it said were at “variance with the teachings and culture of Bauchi Emirate.”
It could be recalled that Senator Buba had in a recent chat with journalists accused Governor Bala Muhammad, who equally holds the traditional title of Kauran Bauchi, of short-changing the people of Bauchi State with regards to some palliative items sent to the state by the APC-led federal government.
Senator Buba warned Governor Muhammad that President Tinubu was not his mate in politics.
He said Governor Muhammad was his political mate because they joined politics the same day through their leader former Bauchi State Governor Mallam Isa Yuguda.
He accused Governor Muhammad of being responsible for poverty, hunger and anger in the state for thereby changing the people of the state for not releasing the 70 trucks of guinea corn, 70 trucks of fertilizer, 20 trucks of rice donated to the people of the state by the Federal Government.
He added that the governor received N144bn in 2023 and N147bn from January to date from the federation account and he collected N300bn loan and awarded major contracts to himself.
The senator disclosed that the governor built the best house for himself with over 70 rooms which led to abject poverty in the state as people were being impoverished by PDP policies in Bauchi
This will be the fourth time such action will be taken by the Emirate Council, it started with the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Barr Yakubu Dogara who was stripped of his traditional title of Jakadan Bauchi as well as Elder Stateman, Muhammad Bello Kirfi who was removed as Wazirin Bauchi and former member of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Shehu Abdullahi who was removed as Wakilin Birnin Bauchi.
All the actions were taken by the Emirate Council after the former titleholders must have had public confrontation with the Governor, Senator Bala Muhammad