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Kano APC Youth Coalition, Nasir Ja’o’ji and Party Survival

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"RJNeiN5A" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>By Abba Anwar<&sol;p><div class&equals;"xcJvcoSH" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>At cursory look of the title of this piece&comma; what readily comes to mind&comma; is the existing relationship between Kano APC Youth Coalition and Nasir Bala Ja&&num;8217&semi;o&&num;8217&semi;ji&comma; in APC realignment process or procedure&period; This really captures the picture clearly from the surface&period; But there is more to it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kano APC Youth Coalition came into being more as a one-man-show&comma; probably self-styled and crafty moved&period; But subsequent engagements of the Coalition&comma; proves otherwise&period; Some people thought&comma; the Coalition came handy canvassing for primary support for some quasi &&num;8211&semi; politicians&comma; unproductive as they appear&comma; who always hide behind the scene and make a cover under good image of the party leadership at all levels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many people&comma; including me&comma; thought this Coalition under Adamu Unguwar Gini&comma; would operate in desperation&comma; under the guise of recuperating party youth into one basket for misleading purpose&period; As some elders&comma; would-be-elders and self &&num;8211&semi; acclaimed elders operate from clandestine position&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"sVy3pbAQ" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>For sure the Coalition&comma; prepared before its debut&period; Party elders&comma; leaders and other stakeholders were contacted for direction and guide&period; This&comma; I was not told&comma; but I observed&period; I understand this by looking at its growing process&period; I equally understood that&comma; the leadership of the Coalition was one time tilted towards particular side of the prism&period; But experience and good intention&comma; in my view&comma; necessitated for spreading the leadership into all sections of the state&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>It is this strategy&comma; among others&comma; that gave individuals like Hon Nasir Bala Ja&&num;8217&semi;o&&num;8217&semi;ji&comma; to see reason in aiding the movement&period; Though he is the Zonal Leader of the movement&comma; from Kano Central&period; But his contribution towards having effective and efficient implementation of the core central objectives of the group&comma; that is making the party stronger and domineering at all levels&comma; gives him the courage to be one of the principal stakeholders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The recently announced donation of Eighty Eight Million Naira &lpar;N88m&rpar; to the Coalition for the 44 local governments tour and empowerment of 100 people from each local government&comma; says a lot in his enduring commitment to the expansion and making the party strong enough to compete comfortably come 2027&comma; at both state and national elections&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The proposed local governments tour and empowerment programme scheduled for time to come&comma; is an important pointer to the fact that&comma; this Coalition has very strong and fearless individuals that are ready to sacrifice their time&comma; energy and resources towards political alignment and realignment within the party structure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>People like Musaddique Wada Waziri&comma; Malam Abdussalam Ishaq &lpar;Kumbotso&rpar;&comma; Umar Maiwayo Rimingado&comma; my younger brother Inyass Habibu&comma; Ibrahim Danyaro&comma; Jijitar&comma; Abubakar Indabawa&comma; former Vice Chairman&comma; Warawa&comma; Dini Manchester Kankarofi&comma; Abubakar Aminu&comma; Hon Barwa&comma; Sani Gilashi&comma; Danfillo&comma; Idris Zango&comma; among many others&comma; are playing very critical role in strengthening the grip of the party across the state and the nation at large&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One interesting thing about this combination is&comma; here are important actors&comma; who&comma; for strategic reason&comma; come from all &&num;8220&semi;sides&&num;8221&semi; of the party stalwarts&period; Party stalwarts because they are the shining stars of the party in the state&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Stars like Deputy Senate President&comma; Barau Jibrin&comma; former Deputy Governor and Gubernatorial Candidate for 2023 election&comma; HE Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna&comma; former Commissioner for Local Governments and Chieftaincy Affairs and Deputy Gubernatorial Candidate for 2023 election&comma; HE Murtala Sule Garo&comma; Hon Abubakar Kabir Bichi&comma; among others&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But all the Stars above lineup behind our Flagship&comma; the National Chairman of the Party&comma; Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje&comma; CON&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After critical review of the intention of the Coalition&comma; Nasir Ja&&num;8217&semi;o&&num;8217&semi;ji comes to believe that&comma; this Coalition means well for the party&period; And should therefore be facelifted&comma; encouraged&comma; guided and supported&period; After believing that&comma; the Unguwar Gini led group&comma; &&num;8220&semi;&&num;8230&semi; belongs to everybody and does not belong to anybody&&num;8230&semi;&&num;8221&semi;&comma; Ja&&num;8217&semi;o&&num;8217&semi;ji made it compulsory to always give a helping hand to the group&period; More importantly&comma; since the Coalition means genuine support for the party at all levels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Let me still insist that&comma; if Ja&&num;8217&semi;o&&num;8217&semi;ji a political appointee under President Tinubu&comma; as a member Governing Council&comma; of the Federal College of Education &lpar;Technical&rpar;&comma; Potiskum&comma; Yobe State&comma; can do this&comma; contributing N88m&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m sure other political appointees under the same administration can also replicate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Because supporting Coalition in the same pace and manner&comma; equals to supporting the party&comma; the National Chairman&comma; and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the same time&period; In my view therefore&comma; Ja&&num;8217&semi;o&&num;8217&semi;ji apart from being a pacesetter among all political appointees from Kano&comma; he is genuinely a firm believer of APC programmes and policies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>My appeal is for the National Chairman of the party&comma; Baba Ganduje&comma; and the Tinubu led administration&comma; to kindly see reason for continued support for the Coalition and similar ones across all the 36 states of the federation&comma; including the Federal Capital Territory&comma; Abuja&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As Unguwar Gini model shows in Kano&comma; Coalition of this nature is not taking away any responsibility of party leadership&period; We can see how harmonious is the relationship between APC Youth Coalition and state leadership of the party&comma; under Prince Abdullahi Abbas&period; Another pillar of great substance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Neutrality of this Coalition&comma; in my own understanding&comma; is clearly manifested in how our shining stars give helping hands to the movement&period; They are eager to give resources and moral support&period; It is indeed the neutral posture that gives Ja&&num;8217&semi;o&&num;8217&semi;ji the strength to be of that magnitude&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Anwar&comma; was Chief Press Secretary to the former Governor of Kano State&comma; Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and can be reached at fatimanbaba1&commat;gmail&period;com<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad5" id&equals;"quads-ad5" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"autorelaxed" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; 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