By Amos Sardauna, Karu

The recent attempt to repackage Rt. Hon. Dr. Musa Ahmed Muhammed, Baraden Nasarawa, as the saviour of Nasarawa State is not only laughable but a brazen insult to the collective memory of our people. The same man whose hands were once deep in the murky waters of political betrayal now seeks to wear the garment of reform and continuity? Let us be clear: the people of Nasarawa are not suffering from amnesia.

Before anyone rushes to paint Baraden Nasarawa as a symbol of fiscal discipline and visionary leadership, history must be revisited. In 2013, as Speaker of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Musa Ahmed Muhammed led the infamous impeachment plot against then-Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, a move that nearly plunged the state into political chaos.

Let’s not forget: Al-Makura was the man who broke the shackles of one-party domination and opened Nasarawa to real democratic competition. He stood firm for the people when the system sought to suppress their will. And yet, Baraden Nasarawa, intoxicated by power and self-interest, championed a desperate attempt to remove that same governor through backdoor politics and legislative manipulation.

Had that coup succeeded, Nasarawa’s political history would have been rewritten in shame. The progressive chain that brought about Engr. Abdullahi Sule, the very administration Barade now pretends to champion would have been broken forever. In essence, if Barade had his way in 2013, Governor Sule would never have had the platform to build today’s Nasarawa.

So, what moral ground does he now stand to preach in Nasarawa today, about democracy? The democracy he wanted to truncate in 2013.

Baraden Nasarawa’s political history reads like that of a man who drifts wherever the wind of opportunity blows. Today he sings praises of fiscal prudence; yesterday he was the poster child of political recklessness. This is not the mark of a visionary, it’s the hallmark of opportunism.

He parades himself as the “perfect bridge,” yet bridges are meant to connect, not to collapse under betrayal. The truth is, Baraden Nasarawa was part of the political establishment that sought to disconnect Nasarawa from progress. His sudden reinvention as a loyal technocrat is nothing but political ploy designed to fool those who do not know his history.

For a man who once tried to undo the very foundation upon which the current government rests, it takes a special kind of audacity or lack of shame to now seek the governorship under the guise of consolidation. Baraden Nasarawa no get shame for face. He expects the same people of Nasarawa state he once betrayed to hand him the highest office in the land, as if the memories of 2013 can be erased with sweet words and doctored essays.

Leadership is about trust, and trust cannot be rebuilt on the ruins of betrayal. Nasarawa deserves a leader with clean hands and an unblemished conscience, not a man whose legacy is stained with political sabotage.

Dr. Musa Ahmed Muhammed may have reinvented himself as an accountant and bureaucrat, but the ledger of his political past still shows a deficit in integrity. And until he publicly accounts for his role in the Al-Makura impeachment saga, he has no moral right to seek the people’s mandate in 2027.

Let the truth be known: Nasarawa’s progress must never again be entrusted to those who once tried to burn it down.