by Babangida Yunusa
- DR. MUSA BABAYO
Dr Musa Babayo took up the gubernatorial race at early days of 2019. Then he abruptly decided to put it back down again.
Babayo is a reliable leader. He made good political policies with his former Boss Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. He is such of a kind that could do everything to safeguard the interest of his boss. This makes him a reliable person.
Despite spending about four years in office, TETFUND under his watch pursued ambitious projects and programmes, many of which have been completed in the country.
Behold, he is coming with clouds and every eye in Katagum zone will see him as a politician that has many political enemies. When this man sees youths, he sees them with political benefit not with their potentialities.
Despite Babayo’s perceived popularity, political fear shaped the face of his gubernatorial ambition. Other reasons had more to do with Babayo’s weaknesses – such as being tainted as Goodluck man and his failure to secure employment for the youths precisely his hometown. Elites also detested him with passion, which could be seen when he failed to use his office in order to upgrade their financial stability.
- Alhaji Mahmud Yayale Ahmed
Mahmud was born a civil servant throughout his life and committed himself to security, educational empowerment and the rule of law. He was committed to ensuring respect for all people irrespective of their region and improving human security. Both were considered important in improving the quality of living of people of Katagum zone.
He is a giant charismatic, respectable figure in the whole of Nigeria. Because of his dedication in serving the country.
People’s blame on Yayale rises from his failure to enhance power supply in Katagum zone hitherto his total failure in promoting youth while he was in power. In some points, society sees his human relationship as very poor and at the same length, society’s failure to accept him as a political material.
- Hon Farouk Mustapha
Farouk had worked so hard over the past years to build a very good political career because of what he want to achieve for his people.
To many indigenous people of Katagum, Farouk is the man who would be a Governor from our zone if properly utilised. Farouk is described by people as: Intelligent, good politician, a leader, charismatic and good role model.
He is also the personification of the struggle against our disunited people who inspired many of us to take up his people’s cause as their own, the man of his society, a national icon, a conscience for the state, a legend in his own lifetime and the many other things that have been justly recognized. But first and foremost, and without which he could not have been any of the other superlatives, the most revered man of our zone is a brilliant young politician. At a time when this pursuit is held in such disdain and disnunited region – in his own zone, in our own zone – it seems to many important to register that his life is a shining lesson that politics can be a tremendous force for good.
Despite claims of his popularity in the state, Farouk was viewed with widespread suspicion of political party disadvantages in which he belongs to a less popular party of NNPP.
Guddirawa have a pretty astute sense of how to interpret the politics —or they did when it was clear who was in here to destroy our unity and who wasn’t. Things are more complicated today with the populists, who see themselves as part of a post-ideological landscape in which they have no use for the mainstream politics. They prefer to use other option to vote , so the only way to get access as a “mainstream” politician is to basically embed within the parties and drink the Kool-Aid, or as much of it as you can bear. Which isn’t great for our democracy.
It is now for the people of the Katagum zone to see through all these and exercise their power of support, wishes and prayers with wisdom and judgement. Our right to vote is the most basic democratic right, it is the duty of every citizen to use it, and use it purposefully and with discrimination. Let us unite for the betterment of our people and the state.
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