I thought Shekarau was the best thing to have happened to Kano, until Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso’s second coming. To bring us up to speed, he established over 21 capacity-building institutions to create employment and source of living for the people of Kano. Over 1,200 have benefitted from his scholarship schemes. The physical infrastructure going on in Kano is unprecedented. The article’s writer, Malam Sule Ya’u Sule, I’m sure, lives in Kano and the reality should be glaring to him. Today, the Kwankwaso model is being adopted by some states namely Katsina and Jigawa, among others.
If Shekarau is desirous of CHANGE, he should have moved somewhere else and not to the PDP. The PDP in over 14 years has not exhibited the capacity to provide leadership nationally. We cannot continue to question the ability of an alternative we have not tried. Nigerian politics as I see it is just “politics of development” – not beyond food, clothing, shelter, health, road, power, etc. It is all about who is delivering and this is the same principle that applies to all parties, and not ideologically based. In the development of Kano through good governance, while Kwankwaso can be said to have succeeded, the reverse is the case and thus the fate of Shekarau.
What should bother Shekarau and others like him is to ponder on what motivated the people of Kano to abandon him after giving him their support for 8 years. If he had not questioned the people for giving him their mandate for 8 years, he should respect their decision for endorsing Kwnakwaso again.
The best way to lead a righteous life is to live it. Sule and his principal are fond of quoting copiously from the Qur’an and hadith; but their actions are far from what they preach. Can Sule remember who won the APP primaries before it was “snatched” and given to Shekarau? Does he recall one Al-Amin Little? This is an era of openness where, the likelihood of information manipulation or monopoly is limited. History has richly documented the passage of Shekarau and Kwankwaso in the sands of Kano and both will be judged by the legacies they left there, not through frantic finger-pointing.
Mohammed Naseer Ibraheem (MNI), Kurami Village, Bakori, Katsina State
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