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Nigerian Air Force officers saluted Vice President Kashim Shettima, who was riding in a vehicle at the parade ground in Kaduna, as part of activities marking the Nigerian Air Force's 60th anniversary. The Vice President is representing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the event.

naptu2:
I've found the video.


First a short recap of my old posts.

Aminu Kano was a legend in Kano and the people loved him because he fought for the Talakawas, that is, the poor illiterate people of Kano. His party in the First Republic was called the Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU) and his party in the Second Republic was called the People's Redemption Party (PRP).

Abubakar Rimi won the 1979 Kano governorship election on the platform of the PRP. The people expected that he would form a government of the Talakawas, but instead, he formed a government that was completely filled with university graduates. They expected that he would launch poverty alleviation projects, but instead he set up a state radio station and newspaper.

Expectedly, he soon fell out with his godfather, Aminu Kano, because he was not following Aminu Kano's philosophy of taking care of the Talakawa.

However, in order to show that he was not one of the elites, that is, the technocrats and aristocrats, Abubakar Rimi launched an attack on the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Addo Bayero. He suspended the emir in 1981. This led to massive riots in Kano and the radio station and newspaper were attacked and burnt.

In this video, Governor Rimi was talking about the Emir of Kano. He was speaking to an NTA Ibadan correspondent during a state visit to Oyo State.

(Note, Governor Rimi decamped from the PRP to Nnamdi Azikiwe's NPP ahead of the 1983 election. However, Kano belonged to Aminu Kano and the PRP candidate, Alhaji Bakin Zuwo, who was a real Talakawa, won the election).

Let me tell you this, my friend. I will advise you to stop talking about this Emir of Kano. The way you press people and the way our political opponents want to regard the Emir, that is not the way we regard the Emir.

As far as we are concerned, we the elected government of Kano State, as far as we are concerned, as far as I, the governor of Kano State is concerned, the Emir of Kano is nothing, nothing, nothing but a public officer.

I read in the papers that somebody said I said he is a civil servant. I never said so. I never said he is a civil servant. He is not a civil servant. He is a public officer, who is holding a public office and who is being paid from public funds and whose appointment is at the pleasure of the governor of the state and who can be dismissed, removed, interdicted, suspended if he commits an offence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T81ZCXz76jU