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DSP Barau and APC Unity in Kano : An Appraisal

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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;"DSFrtZNB" 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;"PBJshhhW" 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>CONCERNED with the internal rivalry among leaders and members of the All Progressives Congress &lpar;APC&rpar; in Kano state&comma; the Deputy Senate President&comma; Distinguished Senator Barau I Jibrin&comma; met with party juggernauts from Kano&comma; in his office&comma; at the National Assembly&comma; yesterday Tuesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This&comma; is just a fraction of his efforts towards mending fences among party leaders and members in recent time&period; I learned that&comma; his covert efforts across the state have started yielding fruits&comma; as some volunteer groups started going round in search of the soul of the party&comma; not only in Kano&comma; but across North West region&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I know of some professional platforms who&comma; for the past few months&comma; have been going round touching their other professional colleagues&comma; searching for saner and healthier corridor for the victory of the party&comma; APC&comma; in Kano and at national level&period; All courtesy Senator Barau&period; In all the 44 local governments in Kano and across all the 7 states of the North West&period; We all know that he does not limit himself to North West alone&period; He also touches other communities across Nigeria&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"BwX3YXFl" 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>Meaning&comma; the Distinguished Senator is more concerned with the victory of the party&comma; across the country&comma; than his political future&period; Leadership by example&period; An embodiment of courage&comma; commitment&comma; honesty&comma; genuine engagement&comma; faith&comma; political maturity&comma; noiselessness and humility&period;<&sol;p>&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;&NewLine;<p>DSP&&num;8217&semi;s faith&comma; loyalty and commitment towards President Bola Ahmed Tinubu&&num;8217&semi;s Renewed Hope Agenda and performance across all facets of his administration&comma; are some of the reasons behind his &lpar;Barau&rpar; unwavering engagement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On his official Facebook page&comma; yesterday&comma; Tuesday&comma; Senator Barau disclosed that&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Earlier today&comma; I received stalwarts of our great party&comma; the All Progressives Congress &lpar;APC&rpar;&comma; from Kano State&comma; led by Malam Hamza Darma&comma; in my office at the National Assembly in Abuja&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Looking at the composition of those who participated in the meeting&comma; as stakeholders&comma; we can understand that&comma; DSP&&num;8217&semi;s commitment is unwavering&comma; genuine&comma; honest and with full force&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Amongst them were serving and former lawmakers&comma; former local government chairmen&comma; and party executives and many others&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Among the stakeholders were serving and former lawmakers&comma; former local government chairmen&comma; and party executives&comma; among others&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Genuine and open discussions centred around how to refocus&comma; re-engineer and redefine faithful loyalty&comma; patriotic commitment and energetic solidarity&comma; for unity and survival of the party&comma; as 2027 elections are inching closer&period; While his focus is beyond Kano&comma; he still believes that&comma; Kano&&num;8217&semi;s unity within the party&comma; is tantamount to unity of the party across other North West states&period; His intent is the overall strength and survival of the party in Kano&comma; North West and the nation in general&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He noted on his page that&comma; &&num;8220&semi;The unity and success of our party took centre stage during the fruitful meeting&comma; which lasted over an hour&period; We unanimously agreed that with unity&comma; our party will continue to grow stronger and victorious in all elections&period; At all times&comma; the success of our party and the welfare of our people are top on our agenda&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For proper understanding of the move&comma; that the meeting is part of the many plans and strategies designed to aid the survival of the party&comma; not for his individual interest&comma; he made it categorically clear to all the participants that&comma; they were all on board to bring the flesh and the blood of the party together&period; Infusing new life of hope&comma; hardwork&comma; commitment&comma; endearing foresight and united front&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He attests to this in his posting as he urged&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Join us on this train to move our state and country forward for the benefit of all&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What is more fascinating and encouraging is the kind of comments&comma; likes and shares he got few minutes after his post&period; At the time I examined that&comma; he got Likes of over One Thousand Five Hundred &lpar;over1&period;5k&rpar;&comma; Comments of multitude of dozens and Shares of over One Hundred and Sixty &lpar;over 160&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The engagement alone gives a clue that many people within the rank and file of the party&comma; are not happy with the unnecessary discord among leadership and among followership&period; The kind of praises Senator Barau gets from those who visited his page speaks volumes about how people are eager to see his political progress and development&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>Some of the comments are quoted below&period; And all are free to go and visit his page and see how genuine are the quotations&period; We are in an advance stage of human development&comma; where information is always confirmed to be accepted&comma; for its truthfulness or rejected for its baselessness&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One Haroun Ukashatu says&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;It was an immense pleasure to receive the esteemed APC stalwarts from Kano State&comma; led by the dedicated Malam Hamza Darma&period; The diversity of the delegation&comma; from lawmakers to grassroots executives&comma; was a powerful testament to our party&&num;8217&semi;s strength&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The wisdom of the late Speaker Tip O&&num;8217&semi;Neill that &&num;8220&semi;all politics is local&&num;8221&semi; was vividly embodied in this meeting&period; Malam Darma and his team represent that crucial grassroots foundation&comma; reminding us that true and lasting victory is built from the ground up&comma; in our local communities&period; This is the unity that will propel our party and our people forward&period; I remain one of your foundational ambassadors in the movement&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For Abdurrahman Aminu&comma; he accepts that&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Actually this is what I have been harboring since before now&period; There should be unity and concerns for party members who sacrifice their energies for the party to grow&period; But unfortunately a lot of us were sidelined due to the fact that we don&&num;8217&semi;t have Godfathers who can cater for our interest&period; I do hope the meeting will reshape the mindset and also send a signal to anyone who foresees politics as a one man show&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another commentator called Eedrith Basheer&comma; praises&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Thank you so much sir for your courage and dedication&comma;&&num;8221&semi; while<br &sol;>&NewLine;Dan Amanar Baffah Alasan&comma; adds up &&num;8220&semi;Maliya ba&&num;8217&semi;a ganin karshen ki Allah Ya kara lafiya da Nisan kwana&comma;&&num;8221&semi; meaning &&num;8220&semi;Maliya with no limit&comma; no end&period; Wishing you more health and prosperity&period;&&num;8221&semi; Maliya means Sea&comma; is the political nickname of the Senator in Kano&comma; that his generosity is limitless&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ya&&num;8217&semi;u Hassan Gambo&comma; noted and prayed that&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Good evening Sir&period; How is the work Sir&period; Then my next GOVERNOR in kano In Sha Allahu 2027&comma;&&num;8221&semi; As Aminu Lawal prayed&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Allah Ya Yi maka gwamnan Kano daga masoyinka aminu Aminu Lawal daga Malumfashi Katsina state&period; &lpar;meaning may Allah make you the Governor of Kano state&period; From your ardent well wisher Aminu Lawal from Malumfashi&comma; Katsina state&rpar;&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An association called Officers Maliya Karari&comma; simple put it this way&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Masha Allah DSP&comma;&&num;8221&semi; meaning&comma; we thank God&comma; for our Deputy Senate President&period;&&num;8221&semi; Another platform called Hasken Kano Ta Arewa&comma; said &&num;8220&semi;Good job Sir&comma;&&num;8221&semi; While Akilu Ishaq Abbas&comma; submissively said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Barau I&period; Jibrin Barau I&period; Jibrin the bulldozer&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Danlami Shu&&num;8217&semi;aibu describes the commitment as&comma; &&num;8221&semi; A remarkable effort&comma;&&num;8221&semi; as Abubakar Badamasi Karofee&comma; said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;The Best senator&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Justice Rabilu Haruna prays&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Allah Ya Yi maka gwamnan Kano&comma; &lpar;meaning may Allah make you the Governor of Kano state&comma;&&num;8221&semi; and Al&&num;8217&semi;Ameen Amjeed Bebeji described him as &&num;8220&semi;Alhamdulillahi Sanatan Sanatocin Arewa&comma; &lpar;meaning&comma; All Praises be to Allah&comma; the Senator of all Northern Senators&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For IBB Ibrahim&comma; who acknowledged that&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Kowa ya bi ka bai bi kaho ba Maliya&comma; &lpar;meaning you are reliable to be followed Maliya&rpar;&comma;&&num;8221&semi; as Abdullahi Malam Kunya said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Masha Allah always we are together Sir Barau Maliya for Governor Kano 2027 In Sha Allah&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Abdulladif Yakasai happily said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Barakallah APC one family&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One called Man Sani Bichious&comma; from Bichi described the Senator with the following expression&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Ga dodon yan wawa nan👆kuma ga sabon ango nan🖕wannan Sanatan nan👆a kori karya kenan🖕inda Sanata ya fito shikenan🙏duk wata karya bata nan😋mun bi gaskiya ga doki nan🏇Maliya linzami ta👂<br &sol;>&NewLine;Ga kuma Jagora nan&excl; Abdullahi Salisu Maisudan na matasa&excl; Gwarzon Jagora ne&comma; Kuma mai Kishi&comma; mai son ayi alkhairi ne&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sai Maliya alkhairi ne&excl; Abi Maliya alkhairi ne&period; Kanawa Maliya Jagora ne&period; Mai girma Sanata Barau I&period; Jibrin Maliya Allah ya fishsheki fari yabanya🤲🤲&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;meaning&comma; Alas here comes a warner against corruption&comma; a new groom&period; Lie banishes when he shows up&period; We are solely behind truth with Maliya as our guide&period; Abdullahi Salisu Maisudan&comma; our leader is also around live and direct&comma; generous and good at all time&period; We all belive in Maliya&comma; who can deliver and get us to the promised land&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another well wisher called Solomon Istifanus&comma; prayed for the DSP&comma; &&num;8220&semi;God protect you from your enemies and give you success amen&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>My last example here&comma; which I took from hundreds of comments is that of Hamisu Usman Ahmad&comma; who comfortably said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Our Coming Governor Insha Allah ✊💯&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another good thing about the DSP&&num;8217&semi;s yesterday&&num;8217&semi;s meeting with those attendees is how spread the composition was the political spectrum they represent&period; I spotted legislators current and former&comma; former local government chairmen&comma; elders&comma; technocrats and youth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What was discussed in the meeting gave us a clear testimony that&comma; Barau&&num;8217&semi;s style isn&&num;8217&semi;t a jamboree &&num;8211&semi; looking political gathering&period; As against what we saw in recent times in some quarters within the APC&period; Though there were few meetings recently and some going on currently as others are in the pipeline&comma; that are not&comma; in any way&comma; fake&period; But this type of meeting is very rare&comma; at all levels of the party&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>JUST TO CALL A SPADE A SPADE&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Anwar writes from Kano<br &sol;>&NewLine;Wednesday&comma; 22nd October&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; 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