The colloquium and politics by barter

The recent 12th colloquium held in Kano in honour of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu for turning 69 years in life, has been viewed from many perspectives, that the birthday is an early build-up for the 2023 general elections.

The event sponsored and hosted by the Kano State Government has come and gone, but left the discerning minds with forecasts, lessons and bolded question marks, which time would only tell the right answers.

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Undoubtedly, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu was regarded by many or to some, as an uncanny, grand power-broker, with a bundle of promising, political potentialities in today’s Nigeria.

The colloquium in honour of the  politician who sometimes in the past said he doesn’t believe in one Nigeria was titled “Our Common bond, Our Common Wealth”.

The event is stirring waters of heated debate, some people are still ruminating over what’s the actual motive of hosting the gathering in the pyramid city. Some are of the view that the event was a mere political bartering between the celebrant and his host, Governor Ganduje.

I do have a point which may not corroborate this discourse, which is what the calibre Tinubu possesses that warranted his being honoured for the first time in Kano, when no such post-mortem colloquium was ever held in honour of the past Kano political and institutional godfathers, such as late Mallam Aminu Kano, Abubakar Rimi, Emir of Kano, Alh. Ado Bayero and others.

The befitting colloquium for the Jagaba of Borgu was seen by political observers as a preliminary move in his ambition to succeed the gap-tooth president.

In the light of this, Jagaba of Borgu should be reminded that one good turn deserves another, given the huge encomiums and citations he enjoyed during the 12th colloquium to celebrates his 69th birthday anniversary in Kano.

Adamu Aminu Fagge, Kano.

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