By Haruna Usman, Birnin Kebbi
Abdulllahi Idris Zuru, the special adviser on Communication and Strategy to Kebbi State governor, Dr. Nasir Idris, has chided former minister of justice and attorney general of federation, Abubakar Malami for alleging that the Kebbi governor hired thugs from neighboring states.
Zuru, who described Malami as a confused new breed politician posited that his fear for Idris gave birth to his political desperation to stop the reelection of President Bola Tinubu and Governor Nasir Idris who he said are already enjoying unprecedented support well-meaning Nigerians.
According to him, though the nation’s nascent democracy is gradually developing, the beauty of it as globally acknowledged is that it gives the people the absolute right to decide who governs them through an election process at all levels.
Adding that it’s common knowledge that under the present political dispensation in the country, some ambitious, selfish and greedy politicians are relentlessly attempting to adulterate the system in many states including Kebbi where desperate politicians engaged in deceitful political tactics and hooliganism, but the apparent increasing awareness among Nigerians on the need to elect people with credibility and track-record of selfless services is making it difficult for some political merchants.
He explained that before Idris ventured into full-fledged partisan politics in 2023, the philanthropic gestures and humanitarian services being offered by him in different parts of the state over the years have already transformed him to an active unionist that served the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) as national president and thereafter became the deputy national president of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC).
He posited that Governor Nasir Idris’ two years stewardship of Kebbi State has witnessed unprecedented infrastructural development and economic growth that changed the narrative of the state’s development.
“He had not only executed valuable infrastructure but implemented results oriented economic empowerment programmes for different segments of the society in the state”.
He stated that in what seems to be surprised, but impressive to the people was the governor’s foresight of including in his urban renewal programme, the completion of the numerous uncompleted developmental projects inherited from his predecessors since 1999.
Obviously overwhelmed by the unprecedented support he enjoys from the people of the state the stakeholders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) unanimously passed a vote of absolute confidence on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and endorsed their candidature for a second term tenure in the forthcoming 2027 general elections
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However, according to Zuru the unanimous resolution of the major stakeholders in the Kebbi project didn’t go down well with Abubakar Malami.