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The circumstances surrounding the
people of southern Kaduna is a clear definition of injustice. Injustice being
defined as a quality or situation associated to unfairness or underserved
outcomes is at great play against my people being meted to us by my state. How
well would one explain that even when it is known that the people of our region
has single handedly sustained the party's leadership in the state, yet they
have been treated as aliens in the seat of government by this same party. Would
it be right to say that the people of Southern Kaduna are not indigenous enough
to hold leadership positions? Must they be regarded are second class citizens?
These and many more are the issues
that will have to be brought to the table and discussed clearly so as not to
find the need to search for the black sheep in the dark hours. Even if we may
not have cause to relate to history, but would it be regarded as coincidence
that since the advent of democracy in this republic, that No southern
Kaduna indigene has been found fit enough to be selected and voted into power
except for a advantageous situation that elevated a northern governor to the
office of the Vice President in 2010, thereby allowing a second fiddled deputy
governor to be accepted as Governor. Even before he was accepted to fly the
flag of the party in the 2011 elections when short cuts and gimmicks could not
be sustained, there were great debates on his eligibility and acceptance by the
North. Did he last in government? No he did not, as an alleged act of God could
not allow him successfully spend 2 years in power. And then the owners of the
party got back their grove to our detriment. We were advised by our leaders to
accept the act of God and move on. Could it be a coincidence that leadership
has always found its way back to those that are supposedly seen as those that
has been divinely born, only as rulers over my people.
In as much as we are made to believe
in coincidence, how do we justify the fact that after Governor Ahmed Muhammad
Markafi from the northern senatorial zone of the Kaduna, completed an eight (8)
year term in 2007, went back on his promise, and invited the Zaria born
Architect consultant of his government from his senatorial zone, and presented
him as a sole candidate for the party that was expected to be voted in by my
own people of the southern Kaduna. How do you explain the fact that even when
there was no viable politician in the north as at the time, an unprepared civil
contractor was best as governor from the north, rather than Ibrahim Yakowa the
sitting deputy governor from southern Kaduna who was already a rugged
politician after holding several offices including the office of the SSG in the
state before his appointment as deputy governor after the unfortunate death of
Stephen Shekari, the deputy governor in July 10, 2005.
Are we different from other states
in the Nigerian Federation that we do not have the zoning system in place so as
not to have two Governors simultaneously originating from the same zone in two
different dispensations of leadership? How do you justify the fact that
Governor Ahmed Markafi was from the Northern zone (Zone 1) and was succeeded by
Governor Namadi Sambo also from Zaria also in the same zone? How do you justify
that. And even when the Late Patrick Yakowa was grudgingly allowed to represent
the party in the 2011 elections, there was no peace in my dear state till the
man died. He was then replaced by the same zone in person of the present
governor, Alhaji Mukhtar Yero. Would it be justifiable if Yero is forced on the
people of Kaduna when he is also from the same zone of the last 2 Governors? On
what justification? His performance or his relationship with the people of
Kaduna? Alhaji Yero has been openly rejected by the people of not only Kaduna
but by even his people. He has no political value to the party as he could not
even avail the party with a councilor from his ward, not to mention other
elective positions in his State and Federal constituencies. How can such a
governor deserve the votes of my people?
I am using this medium to express
the feelings of not only my people but the people of the entire Kaduna that
have placed their loyalty with the People's Democratic Party. The party
supporters in the state have no business voting in an incompetent governor just
because he is from the zone of the born to rule. We cannot support mediocrity
in the name of religion. If our party, the PDP is being sustained by those that
have availed the party with counselors, State house of Assembly members,
Federal House of Representatives and a Senator, why would it be a herculean
task to allow these same people avail the party with a state governor?
Would it be fair then for my people
to give full support to the party if the state party insist that my people our
only good is to remain the goose that lays the golden egg to be eaten by the
born to rule? A closer look at the present cabinet explains further to show the
disregard on our people. Apart from the infrastructures put in place by our son
the late Governor Yakowa in his short stay in office, what other benefits or
infrastructure has been accorded my people that will justify our siddon-look
attitude of allowing the wind blow by default.
Now is the time for our dear state
to accord my people the deserved respect as we have presented three (3) of our
sons to be availed the right to be presented as the party flag bearers. it
won't be proper for the party to still deem it fit to return another candidate
from zone one at the detriment of those that has sustained the party in all
these years. it won't be right to give the impression that only the Northern
Zone has the monopoly to lead Kaduna state. It won't be right to sustain the
impression that southern Kaduna indigenes are not good enough, NO, it won't be
fair to our people. It may amount to the need of having a self-rule since we
are not perceived as being qualified enough. It will be an injustice against a
people, and it should be frowned at and rejected.
Ibrahim Bunu writes in from Kaduna
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