{"id":11110,"date":"2013-03-21T09:41:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T08:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=11110"},"modified":"2013-03-21T09:41:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T08:41:21","slug":"kwankwaso-a-governor-i-knew-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/kwankwaso-a-governor-i-knew-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwankwaso: A Governor I Knew Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Mohammed Dahiru Aminu<\/strong><\/p>\n

The decision to write this short piece only came to me as a shot from the hip. It was a couple of days ago that I visited a friend of mine\u2014Nafi\u2019u Ibrahim\u2014in Milton Keynes, who, like me, is a postgraduate student here in the United Kingdom. Somewhere between lunch and dinner, Nafi\u2019u and I parleyed about some key issues of leadership in Nigeria. Needless to say, Nafi\u2019u is an indigene of Kano, and he seems very interested in his state\u2019s partisan politics. He sees himself as a potential governor of Kano someday.<\/p>\n

But beyond that, Nafi\u2019u has got a very uncommon, but all the more non-dogmatic admiration for Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso\u2014the governor of his home state. When I tried to find out what really was the driving force for Nafi\u2019u\u2019s interest in politics, his take was that he wanted to continue the good works of leaders like Governor Kwankwaso.<\/p>\n

So, is Governor Kwankwaso a performing governor, I asked. Among the many impressive answers I got from Nafi\u2019u on the exceptional performance of the governor, what interests me the most was the fact of the governor\u2019s ability to establish another state university\u2014the Northwest University\u2014in addition to the existing Kano State University. The latter was equally established by Governor Kwankwaso in his first tenure as governor of the state between 1999 \u2013 2001.<\/p>\n

I asked Nafi\u2019u how Governor Kwankwaso was able to run two universities at the same time, and the answers I got were quite alluring. On my return from the visit to my friend, I did some follow up verifications on the state of things in Kano under Governor Kwankwaso, and for the life of me, I was impressed with his achievements. What follows were my thoughts aloud, written as a short note that I sent to my friend, Nafi\u2019u Ibrahim:<\/p>\n

I see the setting up of the new Northwest University, Kano, as an addition worthy of applause\u2014thanks to the progressive Governor Kwankwaso. The new university is an upgrowth for the state of Kano, and its success is a substantial vindicator for the governor and his administration.<\/p>\n

I am pleased to learn that Governor Kwankwaso is running a new Kano state; one that is opposed to the wasteful, if spendthrifty, erstwhile administration ran by former governor of the state, Ibrahim Shekarau. Governor Kwankwaso may not speak or command eloquent speech like former Governor Shekarau (I admire Shekarau\u2019s eloquence!), but he has got, perhaps an unrivalled expressivity in both human and infrastructural development.<\/p>\n

Governor Kwankwaso has demystified the conjecture; that postulation that there are certain citizens of the state that are untouchable, and that it is part of every incumbent governor\u2019s \u201cstake out\u201d to not only guard these \u201cuntouchables\u201d from harm, but to also attend to and tolerate their sickening, everyday misbehaviors.<\/p>\n

As part of a pecuniary plan to cut down expenses that were, before now, used for such monkey businesses that may come under irritating headlines as \u201cState Sponsorship to Hajj and Umrah\u201d as practiced under the erstwhile Shekarau administration, Governor Kwankwaso is using monies under his watch to run, with might and main, the two state universities in Kano.<\/p>\n

He has sponsored young men and women from Kano state to various universities abroad so they can acquire new knowledge and bring it back to the development of Nigeria. The infrastructural investment in Kano at the moment, as I would learn, is excellent, and equally commendable.<\/p>\n

Governor Kwankwaso is also in charge of an administration that upholds probity and accountability. No government official or politician in Kano would debit from the state\u2019s treasury without Governor Kwankwaso getting a debit alert in his personal mobile phone! He would subsequently make sure that every naira debited from the treasury is put to good use. Governor Kwankwaso is doing all these with no complain.<\/p>\n

He once said that the monies allocated to states from Abuja is enough for every non-thieving state governor to establish and run more than one state university; pay salaries, wages and pensions; sponsor indigenous students at home and abroad; invest in infrastructure; agriculture; health; commerce and industry; etc., and still save some money!<\/p>\n

With all he has done and is doing, Governor Kwankwaso said he has saved enough money to run Kano state effortlessly whether the \u201coil money\u201d from Abuja is remitted to Kano or not, for the rest of his tenure as governor.<\/p>\n

On a lighter note, Governor Kwankwaso is a humble, modest man, as attested by those who know him personally. I confess that people like Governor Kwankwaso are the type of leaders we should yearn for in Nigeria. He reminds one of late President Umaru Yar\u2019Adua, who, while as governor of Katsina state, developed the state bigheartedly, but still saved billions of naira in the state\u2019s treasury.<\/p>\n

As president, late Umaru Yar\u2019Adua had left so much money in what is called the Excess Crude Account. Now, I wouldn\u2019t want to delve into how President Goodluck Jonathan emptied that account as he sits clueless under that terrible rock called Aso.<\/p>\n

Lastly, as we bless Governor Kwankwaso for his eleemosynary virtues, we can only recline with the prayer of my good friend, Gimba Kakanda; a prayer that I consider very soothing in these depressing times: May God save us from us!<\/p>\n

Mohammed Dahiru Aminu wrote from London, United Kingdom. He can be reached at a.aminu@aol.com<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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