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The petitioners no get work. All the three PDP senators from Kaduna, including the Southern Kaduna senator, unanimously endorsed the man. Tell me something else.

Luvinghubby:
Those statements made by El Rufai in that viral video is enough to disqualify him from any political position.

This is not like the case of Pantami who claimed he was juvenile & naive

You better go hug a live transformer because by God's Grace Elrufai is already a super minister in this administration.

Opanka44:
I wish you would help me with 2k to buy some food. Thanks

Only if it is urgent.

Both the urgent 2k and the urgent 50k wig-wearing ladies are the same. Depending on the simp's financial capacity and mumuness.

The guy with the myopic view in the quote really doesn't know anything yet in life. Imagine someone thinking that taking care of the home and the kids is nothing important!

TemplarLandry:
Only archaic men with lowest of the lowest self-esteem imprison their wives under the guise of housewifehood.

Women are not dullards or nonentities. They have parts to play in every functional society. A real woman has to make some money for herself too.

Being a housewife means you're only useful to your husby as a copulation machine and a babies-producing device. Zero contribution to a functional society. That's bad bad.

Imagine this myopic view. Pls read the mature comment under your own.

jeromestarks:
See him standing and smiling with a clean christian girl.
Islam is a punishment to the poor.
And where is the stupid black dot those poor muslims use to have on their foreheads?

I can see surgery scar line in his head.
I could see his eyes looking unbalanced.
I could also see his mouth clearly out of place.

This guy has never been the same since the day he fell from power bike.

From the picture, you clearly know who begged to snap a selfie with the other. And you called her 'clean'? Most likely as far as she's concerned you are a bloody fool for calling yourself a Christian.
Greetings to Yusuf, a devout Muslim going about his affairs smilingly without hate or foolishness.

The guy can only see the presidency from afar. He doesn't need to condemn his people. They should go on terrorising their home while other parts laugh at them

They will pretend not to see this thread.
Meanwhile all IPOB supporters outside the East are enjoying their full freedom denied them by the very evil they cannot condemn.

Jennyclay:
Puke!!

Poorly grilled ram.

When will you people learn to take your personal hygiene serious

Bad belle spotted. Hug the nearest live transformer.

BeLookingIDIOT:
It's always obi people

Children of hate ba.

NastiLord:
Wetin carry aboki go water. Desert don finish?

Some ppl still live in the dark ages.

malali:
Everyday demolition news from Kano ?

We are busy advocating for Nation building.

Abba a rusa gida gida

Lallai kuwa!

malcom1X:
This is why I don't play with neighbors children, they don't greet me, me I no even want them to greet me.

I no send them.
Every guy wants to hit on the man's daughters, me I no get time.

I go work, I come back I enter my house sleep no one begs me for lighter or anything. Me I no beg them for anything.

Everybody dey their dey.


The only communication I have with the man is good morning while I'm leaving to work and good evening while I'm going inside the house.

Shikena. Them don call me names tire, call me cultist etc.
The day I was on leave the wife said I lost my job.

And then dey talk am make I hear.
While I'm leaving to work. Me I no send them.

It hurts to be them and not getting a reply from me.
I no reply I no send them.

May your days be long!

Tinubu really shamed them. Even with their hatred against the Muslim Muslim ticket, he still chose Gen. Chris Musa.

Too late
Sponsored cowards that cannot mention their specific target.

Simps everywhere.

Mjshexy:
You were getting married to a Pastor, you should have had this in mind that you're not getting married to the every day sex kind of man but a man of God who will most time want to separate himself from such distractions. As a woman, it's not just about bearing the name "Pastor Mrs" but your understanding and mindset must be in sync, young marriages frequently breaking up these days is a big worry
On a lighter note, like my kid sis will always say, whenever she's stepping into a new relationship she will first ask the guy hope he's not planning on becoming a Pastor bcoz she can't deal with that

No be only man of God.

inoki247:
Lol Chukkol which kain name be that na indegenous name or still Islamic....

Son of Emeratus Prof Kharisu Sufyan Chukkol, one of the best criminologists in the country. A Fulani from Adamawa.

Dpen11:
Hmmm how true

Yes. Well written as well.

THREE SLAPS IN ASO ROCK

BY MAHMUD JEGA
June 12, 2023

In his eight years as Governor of Kano State, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje was not known for making controversial, not to mention incendiary, remarks. That was understandable because he was a mainstream civil servant who rose to become a director in Federal service, before he ventured into politics. Imagine the surprise and uproar he caused last Friday when he said he would have slapped Engineer Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso if he had run into him at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa.

Slap somebody, within shouting distance of President Bola Tinubu’s office? That would have caused the biggest security scare since former First Lady Aisha Buhari’s security men chased her husband’s personal assistant within the Villa and even fired a shot at him, which fortunately missed its target. Kano’s native custom, carefully cultivated over 1,000 years, would have been turned on its head if Ganduje slaps Kwankwaso. This was a man who picked him as his running mate in 1999 and they governed the state together for four years. When they lost the 2003 election and President Obasanjo made Kwankwaso his Defence Minister, Ganduje went along with him as one of his Special Assistants. In 2011, after Malam Ibrahim Shekarau’s two terms, Kwankwaso again picked Ganduje as his running mate, they returned to power and ruled again for four years. In 2015, he picked him over many other aspirants as his anointed successor. You can’t do better than that to any man in Nigerian politics.

Okay, that is only one side of the story. Ganduje must have the patience of Job because even from afar, anyone can see that Kwankwaso is not a very easy person to serve as deputy governor, special assistant or as an ordinary follower, not to mention as a political adversary. At the start of their quarrel in late 2015, there was a picture of Governor Ganduje seeing his former boss off in a Government House car park. All their aides stood at some distance while the two men held what was thought to be a heart-to-heart talk. Ganduje’s aides later quoted him to have said that it wasn’t a pleasant tete-a-tete they were having; that the General Overseer [Daddy G.O] of the Kwankwasiyya movement actually rained abuses at him in that car park, out of other people’s ear shots.

Nor is Kwankwaso entirely innocent of incendiary talk. In April or May this year, before the inauguration of new governments, he made an unguarded remark in a television interview, that if he had granted permission to his boys, they would have apprehended Ganduje, then still a sitting governor, and “ate him like carrot.” When I quoted that remark in a previous article, a Kwankwaso follower sent me a message, that the leader of this country’s best organized political cult was only joking. I don’t think that was a good joke.

Still, slapping Kwankwaso, in or outside Aso Rock, would have been a risky undertaking. He is younger than Ganduje by many years, looks very agile with a brisk and sprightly walk in his immaculate white gowns, bright eyes, confident looks and not a little bit aggressive mien. A physical altercation between these two men could easily spiral into a civil war in Kano, the city’s first since the Yakin Basasa of 1894. For similar reasons, because the 19th century war was over traditional leadership while the impending one is about political leadership. Both Ganduje and Kwankwaso are rumoured to be on Tinubu’s cabinet list, Ganduje because he was a very early and intensely loyal Tinubu supporter, Kwankwaso because he took a million potential Kano votes away from Atiku Abubakar.

And what brought about this threat? Ganduje is angry, very angry, that his successor Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, alias Gida Gida, has been demolishing choice property which he said was built on illegally privatized public land. It is a complicated matter. While Gida Gida believes that Ganduje awarded those lands to himself and his cronies, there was semblance of procedure because the executive council approved the sales. Even worse, the people who have shops in the erected plazas merely rented them from the property owners, stocked them with goods, which were destroyed during the demolition while miscreants looted the goods and the building materials.

Kwankwaso told reporters that he spent two hours explaining to President Tinubu what Ganduje did and why Gida Gida is demolishing the properties. Several questions here. Why is it Kwankwaso, and not the governor himself, who must come and explain to the president? Is it true, as some people are alleging, that Gida Gida’s rule is actually a Kwankwaso Third Term in office? Is it true that President Tinubu sat for two hours and listened to a harangue justifying the demolitions in Kano? Two hours, when he had many matters of greater national and security importance on his plate? It is possible that Kwankwaso added the waiting period to see the president to his calculation of the length of their meeting. Why should the president spend two hours on this matter when, with a brief phone call to the Police IG and DG of DSS, he could halt the demolitions until matters are properly sorted out?

Ok, if Ganduje is ready to slap Kwankwaso for remotely master minding the demolition of plazas, imagine what former Zamfara State governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle could do to his successor, Dauda Lawal, for the huge security sweep of his houses in Gusau and Maradun. I saw viral pictures of Matawalle in Abuja last week, only a few paces away from the president at the Friday prayers. The way he sounded in a BBC Hausa interview, ten sharp slaps are not out of the question were he to run into his successor in Aso Rock. According to Matawalle, the cops that ransacked his houses made away with 40 vehicles, his wives’ clothes and hijabs, even utensils, and also the boxes slated for his daughter’s impending marriage. Governor Lawal had earlier given Matawalle five days to return 17 exotic vehicles that he went away with when his tenure ended. If the cops took 40 vehicles from his houses, then that was 23 vehicles more than they were told to bring.

Many Zamfara folks were asking, what were 40 vehicles doing in Matawalle’s house? Is it a motor park? The former governor offered two explanations, neither of them very convincing. He said he was into vehicle sale business before he became a governor. The question is, in four years as governor of a state, was he still bringing Tokunbo vehicles from Cotonou? Matawalle also said many of the vehicles were donated by supporters for the last, unsuccessful governorship campaign. This is the second time I heard a Nigerian politician listing donated campaign vehicles as his personal property. If you do that in the US, for example, you will probably go to jail.

Yet another slap may be afoot in Benue State, where Governor Hyacinth Alia delivered the most robust repudiation of the man he succeeded in office, former Governor Samuel Ortom. Alia began by nullifying all recent appointments into the State Civil Service made by Ortom’s administration; cancelled all extensions and contract appointments made in Ortom’s closing days; ordered all civil servants due for retirement who are yet to tender their letters of retirement to proceed on retirement immediately, and ordered all persons appointed as Permanent Secretaries from January 2023 to revert to their previous positions. Alia also nullified all postings and transfers made in the state civil service from October 2022.

When Ortom’s PDP protested, Alia said there was massive looting of the Government House in Makurdi by Ortom’s administration and that he was left with not a single official car. Alia further said he inherited an empty treasury and N187.56 billion debt and months of unpaid salaries and pensions. He said, “PDP, which is now crying wolf, left the Government House owing salaries of Benue civil servants from December 2022 to May 2023. The same PDP administration left salary arrears of five months for state government workers in 2017; 10 months for local government workers in 2017. Under this same PDP government, pensions were last paid in 2021.” He then added, “The level of decay caused by the immediate past administration stinks in the severely vandalized offices of state civil servants, such that the new government must have to start from scratch to acquire the necessary equipment for the system to start working again.” Start from scratch, in a 47-year-old state?

The impression we all had, carefully cultivated by former governor Ortom over eight years, was that Benue State was a land of milk and honey and it was Fulani herdsmen that poured sand into its gari. The anti-open grazing law which he got enacted in the state was supposed to have solved all those problems, so how come that his successor is alleging huge debts and looted vehicles? Was it herdsmen that drove jeeps away alongside cows and bulls? There was a viral picture last week of ex-governor Samuel Ortom paying a visit to Aso Rock alongside four other members of the PDP G-5. Governor Alia was lucky that he was nowhere in the vicinity. Otherwise, there could have been another dirty slap inside the Presidential Villa.

So naive or even stupid to have two grown ups in the same room and expect nothing to happen.

Did you say built by Ganduje Govt?
No Sir.

Ok

*Elrufai: A Reluctant Farewell*

By Mustafa Adamu

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night
God said 'Let Newton be!', and all was light.
- *Alexander Pope* (1688-1744)


From 2015 when Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai became the governor of Kaduna State, the above ageless couplet written by the poet Alexander Pope in praise of his contemporary and one of the best scientists and discoverers the world had ever seen, the description seems to me like that of Governor Elrufai. The way Sir Isaac Newton made some breathtaking scientific discoveries, the way Elrufai did administratively in Kaduna.
As the capital of the erstwhile North, Kaduna ought to have been ahead in many areas: infrastructure, education, public service, health and the rest. But unfortunately things were not so. In the build up to the 2015 elections, Elrufai's campaign slogan was: 'Let's make Kaduna State Great Again.'
By the time he gloriously exited the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House and handed over power to his lucky successor Senator Uba Sani this Monday, he had, by all objective parameters, achieved nearly all his set targets.
Kaduna has been consistently fourth in terms of IGR in the country, and first in the North, far above even Kano.
Public service and service delivery in the state has tremendously improved. Human capital development was given priority. Education, especially at the primary and secondary levels, are much better now. Primary and secondary health care had both received due attention throughout the state. Abandoned government offices and properties had been put to proper use. Private investors had been provided with both incentives and the enabling environment to thrive in the state. The examples of just Ollam Feeds and Sahad Stores will suffice. Under the urban renewal projects, Kaduna, Zaria and Kafanchan now bask in newly constructed roads, including tens of dual carriage roads, as well as an additional bridge across the River Kaduna linking Kabala Costain and Barnawa, thereby shortening distances.
When it comes to security, a lot of progress had been made, especially around Birnin Gwari and the perennially volatile southern Kaduna, especially Zangon Kataf, where he took some decisive actions in the last two weeks of his glorious administration.
Maraban Jos which was a great traffic inconvenience for highway users for decades is now free and safe for all. It took Elrufai a single warning to a killer community along Kaduna-Abuja highway to desist or face the wrath of the law. The rest, as they say, is history. For no one dared call his bluff.
Even critics cannot but secretly admire the man's enviable achievements made possible by his knowledge, experience and, yes, his sheer guts and fearlessness, no matter whose ox was gored. (I once told a university don how I would love to have even a percentage of Malam's guts, which borders on aggressiveness and even belligerence. He told me that you don't acquire it, it comes factory--fitted. I had to agree.) That fearlessness had given him an edge over almost all his political opponents, and he left them mute and totally subdued.
Elrufai is also thick-skinned. All the jibes and insults thrown at him all seemed to have no effect on him. In fact, they most likely spurred him to stick to what he believes was good for Kaduna State.
No mortal is perfect. Sacked workers and markets owners who lost their shops still bemoan their plights. This writer had some of his close relatives negatively affected by some of Elrufai's policies, but that cannot overshadow his good intentions and overall achievements.
While deeply appreciating His Excellency and his wonderful team, this is wishing him, nostalgically, all the best in his future endeavours. May the new Malam surpass the achievements of the outgoing one.
@mynd44

A.

YoungLionken:
My brothers from he north are usually the worst hit of pain and suffering, inflicted by our evil politicians, yet, less attentive to reality..

I personally thank God for my education and exposure, I would have probably been in the same shackles of reasoning...

A supporter of black-attired man spotted. No be only education

Penguin2:
Hmmmm!

We may not like him or like to admit it, but Buhari seems to be the most popular politician to ever come out of Nigeria. Man is worshipped like god in the north.

The only person that comes closely second to who Buhari is, is Peter Obi. But I would reckon Obi above Buhari because Obi’s supporters are informed and educated and they cut across the country from East to West, South to North while Buhari is restricted to the north.

The third person with this kind of followership is Kwankwaso. But Kwankwaso is just another Buhari with his supporters restricted to the north; some region of the north at that.

I’ve not seen a fourth or fifth person.

These three people are in a class of their own.

You are comparing Obi's Andrew liver salt euphoria with Buhari's genuine love? You can continue to daydream.