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Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, October 27th, 2025
By Khalil Kashere
In a uncommon media appearance, erstwhile politician of Gombe State and legislator representing Gombe central, Danjuma Goje was successful the quality past weekend. It frankincense appears the legislator has for a portion been consigned into obscurity successful the authorities of Gombe, a authorities helium erstwhile bestrode and held sway similar a colossus.
It was an sentiment nonfiction titled “Senator Goje: The Mistake APC Must Avoid” written by 1 Louis Achi. The nonfiction bemoans the diminishing enactment presumption of legislator Goje, the erstwhile strongman of Gombe authorities casting him arsenic a unfortunate of governmental subterfuge and betrayal.
The nonfiction presented a pitiable scenario, yet, describing him arsenic “a winning campaigner (sic) Danjuma Goje, becoming a pariah successful his ain enactment simply due to the fact that helium commands the loyalty of the electorate.” A paradox of immoderate benignant that exemplifies the illusion of powerfulness and overrated power of a yesterday man. How tin a antheral that commands the loyalty of the electorate go a pariah successful enactment politics. In the American phantasy play tv series, Game of Thrones, created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, powerfulness is aptly described arsenic an illusion, a shadiness connected the wall. It resides wherever radical judge it resides, not needfully successful the hands of the powerful. The crippled of power, similar successful different climes, is ever dynamic. This is the existent world of Gombe authorities wherever powerfulness has since changed hands.
For the avoidance of doubt, it is apt to authorities the information successful bid to close the misinformation and disinformation successful the said article. Curiously, the nonfiction concocted immoderate half-truths, half-falsehood narratives successful a futile effort to formal Senator Danjuma Goje successful a borrowed robe arsenic the main origin successful Gombe politics. Here is simply a authorities wherever determination is simply a sitting 2nd word APC governor, who has not lone performed excellently good crossed indices to the admiration of each and sundry but has demonstrated enactment and unwavering loyalty to the enactment arsenic being led by President Bola Tinubu.
In 2023, astatine a clip erstwhile the question of absorption was blowing crossed the north, particularly the northbound eastbound states, Senator Goje was aloof, lone acrophobic astir his ain senatorial seat. He lifted nary digit successful enactment of the party.
Unashamedly, the revisionist nonfiction coroborrated the information of Goje’s lack successful APC triumph successful Gombe erstwhile it wrote: “While the APC suffered humiliating defeats successful Gombe, losing each 2 different Senate seats and 5 retired of six House of Representatives seats to the PDP, Goje unsocial stood tall. Without stepping retired for a azygous run rally, his constituents overwhelmingly re-elected him.” Yet, with this evident fact, the writer inactive naively ascribed to the aforesaid man, a messianic relation which Providence has since taken distant from him. He wrote: “Despite his loyalty and proven electoral value, the APC and the Presidency look reluntant to pat into Goje’s governmental superior to fortify the enactment successful Gombe state.”
Even aft the emergence of President Tinubu and successful furtherance of his disdain for the president and the party, Goje chosed to enactment against the party’s presumption successful the prime of the enactment of 10th legislature by siding with the opponent. Where helium could not visibly beryllium absent, helium arrogantly support aloofness. Only recently, APC stakeholders successful the northbound eastbound gathered connected sel...
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