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Constitution Review : Assessing DSP Barau’s Facebook Page for Northwest Public Hearing

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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;"jwKp432q" 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>From Abba Anwar<&sol;p><div class&equals;"dOuz8JM3" 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>Few hours after the Deputy Senate President and Senate Chairman&comma; Constitution Review Committee&comma; Barau I Jibrin&comma; CFR&comma; posted his opening remarks on his Facebook page&comma; as the Chairman of Committee&&num;8217&semi;s Public Hearing for North West Zone&comma; among others&comma; today Saturday&comma; July 26th&comma; 2025&comma; many engagements took place&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The engagements explain how significant his style of honest role in the Nigerian project&comma; trickles down to patriotic hearts of our people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>From the engagements or traffic if you like&comma; within few hours of his posting&comma; there are over Two Thousand people who thumb up for him&comma; signifying their satisfaction for his unmatched effort in the entire exercise&period; Over Two Thousand likes&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"RS1Xp3vL" 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>As there are over Three Hundred comments from the public&period; Among the comments over 98&percnt; of all the comments&comma; are praising and praying for the Deputy Senate President for good health and prosperity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>For shares&comma; there are about Three Hundred of them&period; Meaning&comma; people close to Three Hundred shared his post to others&comma; who would automatically share&comma; share and re-share&period; Only God knows how many people shared the post by now&period; Onward&comma; onward and onward&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Let me&comma; for clarity and authenticity purposes&comma; share with my readers some of the comments I was able to quote from his page&period; They are all there on his Facebook page for all to see&comma; verify and understand how cheerful and accepted is the DSP among his people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One Abdullahi Bala Dawakin Tofa said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Masha Allah &lpar;praising Allah&rpar;&period; May Allah see you through and protect you&period;&&num;8221&semi; Abubakar Sani&comma; Abubakar Da Dogo Dogo&comma; Usman Yareema&comma; Salim Sabo Shekarau&comma; Usman Shehu Madaki&comma; Mujahid Haladu Aliyu&comma; among many others&comma; all commented with &&num;8220&semi;Masha Allah&comma;&&num;8221&semi; praising Almighty Allah for supporting the Senator&period; It was Yareema among them who added with &&num;8220&semi;My boss&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While Lawan Gali&comma; Salisu M&period; Inuwa Tsamawa and Queen Abubakar defined him as &&num;8220&semi;Good leader&period;&&num;8221&semi; As Safwan Ishaq described DSP Barau as being &&num;8220&semi;Not only Kano North Senator&comma; you are the Senator for all Nigeria&period;&&num;8221&semi; Telling us how satisfied this person is with DSP&&num;8217&semi;s good work and representation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bala Rabo Muhammad commented with &&num;8220&semi;Continue to rise to stardom by the Grace of Allah&period;&&num;8221&semi; As Musa Malam Madori praised the Senator with very sound and patriotic emotion that&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Masha Allah&period; Leader by example&period;&&num;8221&semi; Clarified further by Mustapha Shehu Muhammad&comma; who added &&num;8220&semi;A leader who leads by example&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Jagora &lpar;meaning flagship or mentor or well deserved leader&rpar;&comma;&&num;8221&semi; expressed by Engineer Muhammad Khalid&period; While Abdullahi Ahmed Jemomi&comma; in his comment prayed that&comma; &&num;8220&semi;May Allah continue to give you more health and prominence&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&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>For Hon Haruna Garba&comma; there is none but Barau&comma; when he said &&num;8220&semi;We talk of Barau only&period; He is like no other&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Barau Foreign Scholars&comma; expressed their happiness for their mentor&comma; when they put it this way&comma; that&comma; &&num;8220&semi;My leader and Our leader&period;&&num;8221&semi; For Yaron Dan Kuda Madu&comma; he believes &&num;8220&semi;Barau has long become our mentor and flagship in this country&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Friday Eche said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;May God Bless you Sir&period; And long live&period;&&num;8221&semi; As one Aseeyah Bint Bashir wishes him good ending in life&comma; as she said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Wish you a blessed life and prosperity&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Comrade Abdulmalik Lawan Malumfashi&&num;8217&semi;s comment encourages that&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Weldone my mentor&period; Barau the supportive leader for our youth&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A lady called Aisha Idris&comma; expressed her feeling happily&comma; with &&num;8220&semi;Maliya &lpar;his political nickname&rpar; clear&period;&&num;8221&semi; Meaning the road is cleared for him&period; With all these praises and prayers about the DSP&comma; I did not even quote a single comment praying for higher positions for him come 2027&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ultimately the issue is not only that of making good comments&comma; liking and sharing his post on North West Public Hearing of Constitution Review&comma; but the crux of the matter is this&comma; that electorate in this part of the country believe that Senator Jibrin is someone they can rely on in any matter concerning their life and livelihood&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His presence during the public hearing followed by his Facebook page post and the kind of comments&comma; likes and shares he got are enough reason to tell whoever cares to listen that&comma; the Deputy Senate President can be a turning point and a melting pot in the next general election come 2027<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In other words&comma; his patriotic involvement as the Chairman of the Committee and his presence in Kano today&comma; among many other outings&comma; coupled with the kind of comments I examined on his Facebook account today&comma; give people more hope and certainty about the entire process&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I believe DSP&&num;8217&semi;s honest engagement in whatever legislative or government affairs&comma; creates special acceptance and interest&comma; to our people&comma; up North&period; It is now that I begin to clearly understand what this gentleman is to the stability of Northern democratic engagement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I therefore suggest&comma; that for the Nigerian Senate to fully integrate&comma; North&comma; in whatever process&comma; procedures and commitment&comma; DSP&&num;8217&semi;s presence&comma; visibility and unwavering inclusion&comma; create the needed corridor for the acceptance of whatever they push for the public in the North&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I think the same suggestion should be understood by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu&comma; if at all he needs system overhaul and clearer political direction for national cohesion and development&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Deputy Senate President&&num;8217&semi;s explanation on how the public hearings took place across other five geo-political zones and how and why North West&&num;8217&semi;s public hearing is taking place now&comma; adds flavor to Senate commitment to the exercise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That is where he said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;On behalf of the Senate Committee tasked with reviewing the 1999 Constitution&comma; I am honoured to welcome you to the Zonal Public Hearing focused on the bills and issues related to amendments of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria&comma; 1999&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This important event was held simultaneously across five of our nation’s geopolitical zones specifically in Enugu in South East&comma; Jos in North Central&comma; Lagos&comma; in South West&comma; Ikot Ekpene in South South and Maiduguri in North East between the 4th and 5th July&comma; 2025&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is worthy to note that the session scheduled for Kano on the 4th and 5th July&comma; and later on the 18th and 19th July were respectfully postponed in honour of the passing of two distinguished Nigerians – first&comma; the late business icon&comma; Alhaji Aminu Dantata and second&comma; the former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria&comma; Muhammadu Buhari&comma; GCFR&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Anwar writes from Kano<br &sol;>&NewLine;Saturday&comma; July 26th&comma; 2025<&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-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" 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; data-ad-slot&equals;"1004305389"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; 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