*urges Adamawa constituents to give him second mandate
*says he remains the best candidate to bring more development to the constituency
By; JACOB ONJEWU DICKSON
Competence, experience, and ability are some of the key requisite knowledge a lawmaker of the Federal Republic of Nigeria should garner to represent well in the National Assembly.
An ex lawmaker who represented the people of Yola North, Yola South, and Girei Federal Constituency of Adamawa State, Honourable Lawal Garba, expressed this while making a passionate call to his constituents to consider a candidate with the needed experience to represent them in 2023.
Lawal who is a lawyer by profession, from 2015 to 2019, was said to have given an excellent representation to the people of Adamawa under the All Progressives Congress (APC) and urged them not to collect money in exchange for better representation as the result has far-reaching devastating effect.
Lawal is currently the flagbearer of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), hoping to go back to the National Assembly as the ranking member said, continuity in legislative duties is the key in stabilizing democracy and bringing development and growth to constituents.
He enjoined them not to allow themselves to be fooled by money bag politicians, who will silence their destinies, but that they should interrogate and do a background check on them to ascertain their credibility to represent them.
While giving a scorecard of his last four years of stewardship, Garba said he has a verifiable record of the people he facilitated jobs in FIRS, CBN, Customs, Immigration, Printing and Minting, Police, Military, and many ministries, boards, and parastatals of the federal government.
He however, said that his bills, laws, and resolutions in the National Assembly stand out as one of the joys and peace he has, whenever he remembers.
According to him, one of the bills he revived on the establishment of police trust fund that was laying fallow for years.
He explained that as the Chairman House Committee on Police Affairs, he made sure that the bill was passed to law and signed by Mr. President.
“I feel happy today that the bill will enable them to save money for intervention, for security purposes that will make them buy a lot of equipment, to rehabilitate their barracks and build more. It is something that is making me happy, because I did that in good faith.
” In my constituency, I was able to build about six health clinics and three computer centers, one of which will soon be commissioned at Army Barracks in Yola, despite being out of the House. My ability and competence are giving me the credibility to still work for my people.
“Sir, I have done projects that touched the lives of many people, and I lobbied for employment for them. This gives me peace, at least I have done that to the best of my ability and if given the chance I can do more than that,” Garba said.
Barrister Garba who granted an interview to our correspondent in his Abuja residence, emphasized that the foundation of lawmaking is on three things, which are the ability to sponsor bills, to sponsor motions (the process of lawmaking), representation, and do a lot of oversight functions check mating the executive.
And all these according to him, connote a lawmaker having one-on-one with his constituents, sitting down with them to hear, know and listen to their needs, and conveying them to the National Assembly for debate.
He stressed that the entire work of legislation is huge and needs someone with vast experience to go there and defend his people.
He called on the people of Girei, Yola North, and Yola South to see him as the best for the job because as a one-time representative, and a lawyer by training, who bagged a Master’s degree in law with his Ph.D. in view that will soon be ready, he assured them of an excellent job if they give him their mandate again in 2023.
“With my experience and my background, I stand as the best, I leave it for our constituents to put the imaginary scale to get the best amongst us, which I hope I should be favoured above all the contestants,” he said
He revealed that the 2023 general elections will be based and centered on who is in which party, not about the party, but the candidate.
He called on his constituents to consider NNPP and vote for him because he has a record and a deal of good representation in the past with them.
He said his record in the past is what will make him win the election, not because he is in NNPP, but because the people know that he represented well.
