By Harun Muhammad
Expecting the good people of Kano to politically reject RMK over Atiku in this life is something that will never happen. Perhaps, in the next life.
From RMK’s wide range of projects in Kano, one could draw inferences and say: every family in the state directly or indirectly benefited from his visionary leadership. That’s the writing. No one can undo that. Therefore, our brothers from northeast should know this is just a fraction out of many reasons why our people voted for RMK.
Secondly, it may interest some of you to note that—if you’ve forgotten so easily—RMK as a Governor used our state resources and sponsored the children of the victims of Boko Haram back in 2014-15. Call it politics or whatsoever. It’s written that he generously pulled that kind gesture. Many governors couldn’t have done so, why? Again, our friends should know if the NE, as a region, has undefined number of enemies, I bet—with aforementioned reasons—RMK shouldn’t be one of them.
In politics, people are allowed to exercise their democratic rights without subjecting them to unconstitutional and weightless threats. If our brothers from NE believed that RMK worked against Atiku due to selfish circumstances, I implore them to be patient and wait for his next ambitious call to return the favour. That would definitely prove these unprocessed frustrations upon RMK.
By the way, may I at this juncture remind you that in the 2019 election you people casted him as unworthy political associate because of the 400K votes he delivered to PDP? What happened to that figures now? Last time I checked—it’s all gas—with PDP’s presidential result in Kano comfortably rain at less than 200k votes.
Though partly unrelated to this, our friends must not forget that RMK was technically forced out of PDP for some people, who pretty much know that cannot deliver the required votes to Atiku’s lifetime presidential ambition. The results have come out now and I guess it is time to make a raw call. And, it’d better to start from Kano, then Jigawa, and possibly Sokoto that narrowly escaped storm. You get?
You people considered RMK as underdog; a local champion. He escaped your numerous regional and religious attacks just because of his presidential ambition. Through out this campaign period, there have been serious campaigns to stop him—including the Arewa House charade. How so soon you have forgotten all these things.
To add to the above, Obi’s single emergence is alone a threat to Atiku’s presidency talk more of the Wike’s team and other internal party crisis. PDP leaders failed to competently manage party crisis and shamelessly ended burying their heads in the sand like the famous ostrich we joke about. They can only deliver press conferences not a decent election outing because talk is cheap.
You people consciously skipped all these obvious facts and settled for personal reasons against someone who spent a decade out of his active political career identifying with the common people. That’s pathetically unfair.
But I am convinced you really never liked RMK. And, this is why you resorted to playing ethnic cards. We know what some of you are doing and posterity will so kindly judge you.
Allah kam bamu rai da lafiya.
