2027: Let Tinubu’s Stewardship Account Work for Him- Reps Speaker, Abbas

 

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajudeen is set to, within two weeks, present to the media, the achievements of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, especially in the northern region.

 

Under a proposed PBAT Stewardship Account, Speaker Abbas notes that it is a compendium of the Tinubu administration’s projects, programmes and policies and how they have impacted Nigerians.

 

This is just as the Speaker urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to adopt the template as part of the electioneering ahead of the 2027 presidential election.

 

“Mr. President, I respectfully ask that you adopt the PBAT Stewardship Account as the standard for everyone who serves under you. 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 said.

 

Speaker Abbas made the proposal at the City Boy Movement’s meeting with the President on Monday evening, at the Banquet Hall, State House, Abuja.

 

He said, “As Speaker, I preside over a House that sees every corner of this federation at once: three hundred and sixty constituencies, every language, every grievance. No institution hears the nation earlier, or more honestly. That is the value of a strong Legislature to any President: it tells him the truth before the truth becomes a crisis.

 

“It is in that spirit that I announce today the PBAT Stewardship Account. Within the next 14 days, I will convene a media briefing to set out, in verifiable detail, what President Tinubu has done for the people of Zaria Federal Constituency, for Kaduna State, for the North-West, and for Nigeria through the office I hold.

 

“And the account will not stop at buildings. At the same briefing, I will present the scorecard of the 10th House of Representatives: the bills passed, the reforms enacted, and the oversight conducted in partnership with your administration so that Nigerians can see what this Legislature and this Presidency have achieved together for them.”

 

The Speaker added, “It will not be a celebration. It will be an audit. Every intervention will carry a location, a value, and a status. And where something remains undone, I will say so, because an account that hides its gaps is merely an advertisement.”

 

Speaker Abbas cited an example, saying in May this year, a 100-bed Renewed Hope Specialist Hospital opened its doors in Zaria, delivered through the administration’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and handed to Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH) to run.

 

He noted that the facility came with operating theatres, a laboratory, ultrasound, and emergency care.

 

“What does that mean under the trees where our politics is decided? It means a mother facing a difficult delivery or a young man injured on the road home is now treated in Zaria by Zaria’s own doctors, instead of being referred far away at a cost the family cannot bear.

 

“That is not a slogan, Mr. President. It is a hospital that carries the name of your agenda. And it will be the first page of our account,” Speaker Abbas stated, stressing that “I place myself first under examination so that I may, in good conscience, invite others.”

 

The Speaker therefore calls “on every political officeholder serving under this administration, elected and appointed alike, to render the same account to the people in whose name they serve.”

 

He said, “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.”