No, this may not happen for some years to come. Northern Nigeria has been nursing Nigeria’s oneness over the years. This was demonstrated during the mass murder of our political giants of the North. It is rather regrettable at this time to bring about such past matter to the fore. It is high time we forgave but not entirely forgot, because it is a consuming historical momentum. Now that highly placed individuals who perhaps did not bother to read the draft of the 1999 constitution, as amended, prefer to suggest that no one has the right to air his opinion about other sections of the country: if you are a regular reader of dailies from the South, they are naturally concerned most about the things that happen in the North.
Governor extraordinary of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai, is the lover of the press from the time he was Secretary to the Privatisation of Nigerian assets. He helped in ruining the Nigerian economic livewire because of the huge Nigerian assets which went into private firms that had the greater chunk; a handful of people became overnight millionaires. El-Rufai was the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory who did what many cried about until he became Kaduna state governor even when those that knew his behavioural pattern did complain of his becoming the governor of a volatile state like Kaduna.
Actually, when somebody from, say Kano, pokes his nose deep into Kaduna political saga nobody would accuse him of being too forward, rather such admirers of what he is still doing believe it is the best option he has while the greater Kaduna State people remain in anguish! Kaduna state is in the North-west, Kano and Jigawa, Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi and Katsina states could be one country if Nigeria disintegrates; God forbid. So, if Kano indigene pokes his nose at what is happening in Kaduna it is no longer a “peep agent”, what do you call it in your modern English, dear friend? They say anguish of brother human being is the anguish of another. So, to ask why I should concentrate on the affairs of my state is not the issue, thus gentleman El-Rufa’i is a constant fire eater on national issues. Why then worry about someone trying to put a right on the uproar in Kaduna state?
More so, Kaduna was built with the sweat of Kanawa, Hadejawa, Kazaurawa, so nobody would chant the course of being proud of saying somebody from Kano should not sympathise with the horrible actions meted to Kaduna people. If the Kano state governor should do the same, I am ready to put my pen straight to his door. The complaint against Kano state governor Umar Ganduje are all political since there is no single house being demolished because of political difference like being done to someone called Kunkumi, Daula, Triumph and Shahuci premises were all belong to the government and to any individual; believe me, we only wish El-Rufai acts accordingly and respects the sanctity of man, not to send packing thousands of people and expect happiness from sane individuals. No one needs to be a local champion but a man that advises the people on the throne to remember that they would leave such paradise. You can do your best in ruining people and the same ruined people will sympathise with you when getting old, this is how we seem to be by now. May God bless Nigeria.
Comrade Ibrahim Abdu Zango,
Chairman, Kano Unity Forum,
Kano – Nigeria, 08175472298
