What Is My Fault in Kebbi?’ Senator Maidoki Speaks Out on Bandit Killings, Says He’s Only Crying for His People
Senator Garba Musa Maidoki has spoken out strongly over insecurity in Kebbi State, saying he has done nothing wrong by crying out over the killings being carried out by bandits.
“What is my fault in Kebbi? I stood up in the Senate and told Nigerians to assist us because bandits are killing us. Suddenly, the governor thought I was fighting him. I have never fought the governor and I have nothing against him. My people sent me here to cry for them, and I cried.”
The senator also took a swipe at the Federal Government, claiming that three years into President Tinubu’s administration, budget implementation remains a major problem.
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“Three years since Tinubu’s government — 2024, 2025 and now 2026. The budget has not been implemented. How does a country run without a budget? We have borrowed and borrowed and borrowed. Where is the money we are borrowing? All the revenue-generating agencies said they exceeded their targets. Where is the money going?”
Maidoki said he has utmost respect for President Tinubu as a nationalist and a gentleman, but warned that those telling the President that everything is fine are deceiving him.
“If anybody is telling President Tinubu all is well, it’s lies. The earlier he makes effort to correct these imbalances, particularly on budget implementation, the better for him. Otherwise, for life, he will live to regret this. Nigerians are suffering. Nigerians are complaining. As a father, we want him to listen and bring succor to Nigerians.”
The senator further lamented that despite efforts to strengthen Nigeria’s democracy through amendments to the Electoral Act, the “Nigerian factor” has made it almost ineffective.
According to him, democracy in Nigeria is being threatened as party primaries and consensus arrangements are increasingly being used by political kingmakers to impose their preferred candidates.
“It’s not limited to APC alone. In almost all political parties, kingmakers put their stooges to the detriment of ordinary Nigerians.”
Maidoki recalled that he won his Senate seat under the PDP and was comfortable being in the opposition, but said the crisis within the party left him and others with no clear direction, forcing them to seek alternatives.
He accused party leaders and governors of ensuring that only their loyalists were given tickets while genuine primaries became a mere charade.
“We felt betrayed. Despite our best efforts to make democracy work, the fate of democracy in Nigeria is at a very, very comatose stage.”
The senator announced that he has now joined the ADC, revealing that the party’s candidate voluntarily offered him the ticket after believing he would be denied one elsewhere.
“I am with my people. I am with the grassroots. I am not with the people that wear agbada and collect money in the course of politics.”
Citing a recent by-election in Kebbi State, Maidoki said low voter turnout reflected growing public disillusionment with the political system.
In a chilling warning, he said:
“If democracy continues this way, it is not the military that will truncate democracy, it is the ordinary people on the street.
(DEMOCRACY NEWSLINE NEWSPAPER, JUNE 25TH 2026)
