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23/07/2025

Now That Maigaskiya Has Gone, What Next For Tinubu?

By Abdu Labaran Malumfashi.
23-7-2025.

The Hausa people have a saying that ‘Ruwa ya qarema dan kada’, roughly translated, as water (river’s) has finished for a small crocodile. The death of Muhammadu Buhari (named Maigaskiya because of his impeccable abhorrence to corruption, and other misdemeanours everywhere), the immediate past president of Nigeria, has no doubt NEGATIVELY affected the 2027 chances of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Although, he and the motley of people around him would not publicly admit it.

Nevertheless, the president would have to choose the next ‘saleable’ action to employ to ‘win’ the Northerners, who he has alienated in his appointments, dominated by his tribespeople.

The recent appointments, where Northerners are mostly on the list suggests a kind of panic, subtly designed to address the DELIBERATE imbalance in the appointments that the president HAD made before Buhari’s death. Some people (Southerners for that matter) derisively call the government as, ‘the government of Yoruba, for Yoruba and made up of Yoruba’. In fact, about 90% of the President Tinubu’s appointees are all Yoruba people, mostly made up of members of his former cabinet when he was the Governor of Lagos State.

What is more, some of them are clearly unqualified for the positions they were given, others have overstayed in the Federal service, and all the appointees are placed in ministries considered as the Commanding Height of the economy.

In any case, the appointments are made to appease certain powerful interest, not to represent Northern interest. It is therefore a move that is done in panic and bad faith. It was not done for the advancement of the Northern region, but the massaging of certain egos in the region.

The hasty but thoughtless renaming of the nearly fifty-year-old University of Maiduguri, to ‘Muhammadu Buhari University’ is also a panic move to ‘appease’ the Northerners. A similar move made by an earlier administration to rename the University of Lagos was roundly REJECTED by Southerners, many of whom mounted the rostrum to voice their rejection. The then government was FORCED to ABANDON the unpopular and unacceptable decision. But not so the present dictatorial Tinubu regime.

If the’elected’ president could be so vain and vindictive in his first term, only God can imagine the DAMAGE he would cause to the Northern part of the country if he is UNFORTUNATELY allowed to be ‘reelected’ for a second term. He has already unilaterally renamed some federal institutions, eg, the Abuja Conference Centre, a Military Barack, and an airport, to name a few, after himself. He has moved some key federal agencies, such as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from the Federal Capital, Abuja, to his state of birth, Lagos.

The president has also single handedly (while the Rubber Stamp National Assembly (NASS) watched) awarded contracts in his native southern region worth trillions of Naira, and has single handedly ‘bought’ (converted) some assets belonging to the federal government, eg the Transcorp Hilton Hotel. He has unilaterally bought for himself three unnecessary, but expensive items of comfort in the form of a brand new aircraft, a brand new yacht, and a brand new car to add to the burgeoning presidential fleet.

The Northerners have not forgotten how the entirety of the region, minus the FCT, is REGULARLY allocated by the TCN an insignificant 160MW of electricity, while the Southern part of the country is REGULARLY allocated a humongous 3,200MW. There are also the many ‘collapses’ of the National Grid, and the weekly ‘falling of the line’. All these happen only in the North. The result of the DELIBERATE denial of electricity to the North is the COLLAPSE of VIRTUALLY all manufacturing industries in the region. Only a few operate epileptically .

The Northern region has also not forgotten the unilateral relocation of the Nigerian Military School from its founding location of Zaria, to Ogbomosho in the Southern part of the country. This came not long after the Zaria-based School of Aviation was scattered one each to the six geo political zones in the country.

Northerners have neither forgotten how attempts are being made to divide into pieces Emirate Councils in the Northern part of Nigeria, while nothing of the kind is being contemplated for their counterparts in the Southern region, even as some traditional rulers in the South dare those that are supposed to be very POWERFUL in the country to do ‘their worst’. The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi (Ojaja 11), not long ago urged ‘universities in the country to study how’ Nyson Wike of the FCT, became a cabinet minister in the Tinubu cabinet, in the first place.

I have said in my tribute to Muhammadu Buhari titled ‘Au Revoir Maigaskia’, written on 16-7-25,
that the “death of Buhari has obviously sounded the death knell for the APC, and the Tinubu contraption of a regime. The ‘tears’ that President Tinubu shed when he heard of the death of his immediate predecessor, were just CROCODILE TEARS’. Even in death, Buhari has continued to work for his ‘FRIENDS’, the poor people. As one of his presidential spokesmen, Garba Shehu, would say, ACCORDING TO THE PRESIDENT’, “the poor people from every part of the country would remain his concern”.

Since Tinubu’s imaginary millions of votes ‘helped’ Muhammadu Buhari win the 2015 Presidential election, he should now be able to cost to victory without problems in 2027, without the confirmed 12 million votes of his immediate past predecessor.

Northerners should be wise to Tinubu’s shenanigans. A leopard cannot change its spots, and expects to be believed by its prey as a changed animal that only wants to play with, not kill those animals for a meal, be them on land or in the water.

In politics, as in a game of chess, one cannot afford to make a mistake twice and expect to succeed, especially if the writing is on the wall what the second time may portend for the opponent.

May God give Nigeria another president like Muhammadu Buhari, who never wanted to enrich himself, while most of the citizens of his country live in pervasive hunger, poverty and unbearable hardship.

Malumfashi wrote from Katsina.

23/07/2025

The First Son Should Know The Real Reason Why Democracy Was R***d In Rivers State.

By Abdu Labaran Malumfashi.
23-7-2025.

It is well for the First Son (Sheyin Tinubu) to know that even by the standard of the big boys in the South South (of doing things in a very big way), N74 billion is too humongous an amount to be spent on just three items (N24 billion for Close Circuit Cameras, N30 billion for gunboats, and N23 for contingency reserves) by the Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Retired Vice Admiral Mr Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, a former Chief of Naval Staff.

The retired Chief of Naval Staff was appointed by the democratically elected President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on March 19, 2025, after the unconstitutional sacking of the democratically elected Governor of the State, Siminalayi Fabura of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

But Retired Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas is not there for being the best there is around, but for being the best to do the filthy work of TAKING to those in Abuja most of the money budgeted for improving the lives of Rivers State people.

According to Retired Commodore Promise Dappa (one time Marine Commander of NIMASA), the former Naval Chief made name for himself as a very corrupt person who was only popular for oil theft and budget padding.

He claimed that, “serving as Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Ibas budgeted N30 billion for gunboats, N23 billion for contingency reserves, and N24 billion for CCTV in a Government House that already has working cameras.

“Ibas couldn’t buy proper gunboats when he was Chief of Naval Staff, and now he’s budgeting billions for the same boats as an administrator? Rivers State is just his new playground. Only God can save the treasury now.”

But recently Sheyin Tinubu, the unconstitutionally recognised First Son, was all fired up claiming that, “they keep coming for the family. They keep coming for Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is the greatest president in the history of Nigeria”.

Sheyin’s childish turn-trumps are obviously a function of unearned privileges, otherwise he should tell the world why his father, the president, declared a state of emergency in Rivers State, or what bad things Senator Tinubu used to say about previous civilian governments that preceded the Buhari administration. The senior Tinubu was all over the place mounting every available podium, condemning all those governments for “doing everything wrong”. He appeared to be the only one who knew all the answers.

However, now that the ‘know it all’ Tinubu is in charge, the only people who see any progress in the country are the likes of Sheyin, who are on the gulping table where the National Cake is shared. But for most of the citizens, they face only HOPELESSNESS, poverty and extreme hunger, the kind of which was never experienced in Nigeria. So Sheyin should shut up, the country is retrogressing, not progressing.

If Sheyin and his father have chosen to forget the past, the INTERNET (Social Media) has not, the spaces are filled with the statements and promises made by Senator Tinubu in his NADECO days. The young Sheyin should ask those who were grown up enough to remember.

Majority of the citizens cannot be in hunger, poverty and hardship, and still hail the leader as “the greatest president in the history of the country”, as Sheyin claimed of his overwhelmingly underperforming father, the president of Nigeria.

Even Tinubu’s biological daughter has not found the situation under her father any progressive, and she did not waste time to say so in as many words. She displayed the three sacks (portable effortlessly) of hot pepper she bought from the local market In Lagos at the cost of N77,000 (N77K), wondering “how many people have that amount to spend on just one item which would not last for more than one month?”

And a couple of months ago, the National Security Adviser (NSA), Malam Nuhu Ribadu was beating his chest proclaiming that security has returned to Nigeria, that people could sleep with their two eyes closed. That claim is totally false, because banditry and other forms of insecurity have since been on the rise, despite the ‘EFFORTS’ of the security agencies to convert them.

But despite the shameful and abysmal performance of the Tinubu regime, NOBODY, whether a minister, a special adviser, a managing director of a federal government agency or parastatal, or a high up in the ruling party hierarchy, has ever voluntarily resigned from their position, because their appointee and themselves are BIRDS OF THE SAME FEATHER plucked TOGETHER. All of them live for money, not minding how it comes about.

Some of them assumed their offices, including the president himself, making high sounding promises that they soon forgot about when the attraction of the office captured them. The president, basking in the euphoria of his election victory, had urged Nigerians NOT to REELECT him for a second term, if “I do not supply electricity for Nigeria in my first term”. A minister had vowed that he would not “ALLOW MYSELF TO BE USED TO LIE TO THE PEOPLE”. Well, Nigeria has never had it so bad in terms of electricity supply, and propaganda. Corruption and cluelessness have made a job of governance an impossible task, under the regime of President Tinubu.

Even the many fire brigade approaches employed by President Tinubu to ‘address’ some of the ‘mistakes’ made by his regime, are ONLY meant to make more money from the Commonwealth for some very high ups. Otherwise, why ‘remove’ subsidies on petroleum and electricity, only to borrow money from within the country and outside to cushion the severe impacts of the removals? Or why declare a state of emergency in Rivers State only to appoint an undeserving person as sole administrator? Still, someone wants the word to believe that, in Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria “has the greatest president in the history of the country”?

May God NOT allow Nigerians make the MONUMENTAL mistake that they made in 2023. May He rid the country of all underperforming ‘elected’ (IMPOSED) officials in the country.

Malumfashi wrote from Katsina.

18/07/2025

Dr. Ahmad Filin Samji: The Kind Of People Nigerians Crave As Political Leaders.

By Abdu Labaran Malumfashi.
18-7-2025.

Dr. Ahmad Filin Samji, a God fearing Islamic scholar and lecturer at Hassan Usman Katsina, in Katsina metropolis is a well known, respected and regarded person for his piety. Which makes him piously competent to fit the bill of the kind of people to lead Nigeria to the next level. He is many people’s favourite to be the political leader the country NEEDS.

He is currently the in Katsina State service, in what is said to be an open invitation extended to him by the Governor, Dr. Dikko Umar Radda, PhD, who, allegedly, insisted that he would not accept NO from the pious Islamic scholar.

In this age of when some people would literally kill (Yahoo boys), or STEAL, to make money, Dr. Ahmed Filin Samji is said to have returned a whopping N150 million to the state government as remnants of the HADYA money spent during the last (2025) Holy pilgrimage to Mecca. Not a few people would have easily pocketed the remaining money, without anyone, including the governor, knowing about it.

But that is not Dr. Ahmad Filin Samji’s style. He would rather prefer to remain a very poor man, than take what does not legally belong to him. He is that sort of a person, whose adult life is noted for such pious purity, and services.

His famous piety and other qualities make him the very person the society requires in partisan politics at this material moment, when Nigeria is drifting towards the abyss, as a result of the runaway CORRUPTION that is the order of the day in the country.

To be sure, there are some CORRUPT-FREE people in the system, but they are few to make any meaningful difference. But with people like Filin Samji getting into the mix with other uncorrupt people, the positive difference the country needs will be enormously advanced.

Nigeria NEEDS people like him, like Major Hamza Al Mustafa from Yobe State, like Senator Ali Ndume from Borno State, like Governor Umar Babagana Zulum of Borno State, like Qadee Malam Sani Abu Yar’adua from Katsina State, Ustaz Imam Musa, also from Katsina State, and many more of their kind, who think of the next GENERATION, not the next ELECTION.

They would rather that the hungry person eats, than mount the podium under the Klieg Lights announcing ‘DONATIONS’ to the people, whose Commonwealth was stolen in the first place by the ‘DONORS’. These are not the type of people who place their NARROW interest over and above the interests of the country, which is the practice among most of the present crop of the country’s so called leaders.

By the way, many of the Qadees these days are also lawyers, who read the Western law, went to the Law School, and qualified as Lawyers, in addition to their vast Islamic knowledge. They can be as comfortable in the Western courts, as they can be in the Shari’a courts.

The aforementioned people are needed in Nigeria’s partisan politics, and their participation is not an option, but a necessity, if we are serious about the positive change we want in our country.

The type of Dr. Ahmed Filin Samji MUST be encouraged, or even dragged, to join the crusade for a better country, for us and the unborn generations yet to come, otherwise, Nigeria would be running on a reverse gear, without making any forward progress.

The decision of France to ‘assist’ Nigeria with €100 million to establish’ more manufacturing places, is therefore, very questionable, and deserving of deep reflection by all Katsina State people of conscience like Dr. Filin Samji. The haste with which Katsina state is to be among the three places to first benefit from the European country’s money, is questionable as well.

If France, which NEEDS the money more than those she ‘assisted’, is the magnanimous type, why was she BOOTED out from some of her former African colonies? France was ignominiously BOOTED OUT from most of her former African colonies because the ABJECTLY POOR European country was stealing from them mercilessly. Killing the people, and the leaders who dare to stand in her BRUTAL way is a child’s play, as long as the goal is achieved. Machiavellian ‘end justifying the means’.

The ‘assistance’ is reported to have come through the Nigeria’s Minister of Arts, Culture and Tourism, London-based Barrister Hannatu Musa Musawa. Barrister Hannatu is the daughter of Second Republic Treasurer of the People Redemption Party (PRP), Bourgeoisie Comrade, Alhaji Musa Musawa, and the ex wife of billionaire businessman, Alhaji AbdusSamadu Rabi’u, the President of BUA.

It is a well known fact that wherever France ‘assists’, or ‘donates’, the next thing that follows, is murder of the poor rural people living in the areas.

Instead of giving France the boot from their countries, the former colonies should have allowed her to remain so that she could continue to ‘assist’ them. But behind their intractable insecurity, is alleged to be their former colonial master.

France is ALSO most NOTORIOUS for its RABID anti ISLAM and anti MUSLIMS position under President Emmanuel Macron. The French parliament has allegedly enacted a law preventing Muslim women from wearing the Hijab in public, and any Muslim woman found to act in defiance of the law would be considered a TERRORIST. But the same parliament passed a law that allows NUNS to wear the Habit, saying doing so by the NUNS is a religious requirement.

The President of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan, a Muslim woman who ALWAYS wears her Hijab whether in her country or abroad, was ‘disgraced’ by French security officials at a the Paris Airport when they INSISTED that she must ‘REMOVE THAT THING’, despite the protest and her identification by the Tanzanian Ambassador and the officials who accompanied her to France. The airport security ignored the officials’s protestations and INSISTED that the woman must remove her HIJAB.

France is still unfortunately remembered for siding with, and assisting the rebels, financially and militarily, during Nigeria’s 30 months civil war. France supported the BIAFRAN secessionists, in the hope that the European country would take control of the OIL industry, in the event of the secessionists succeeding in dividing Nigeria into two countries.

It is therefore, important for the likes of Dr. Filin Samji to know that France NEVER ‘assists’ any Black Country without STEALING back her ‘assistance’ many times, oftentimes FATALLY. Moreover, given her infamous reputation for being anti Islamic, against the fact that Katsina is a Muslim majority state, it is very unlikely that the poor European country would part with her money just to be seen as being charitable.

A former French President, Jacques Chirac, once told a journalist that “but for her former colonies in Africa, France would have been one of the poorest countries in the world. She keeps $500 billions in her home banks, money she extorted from them every year. It is money she allegedly gave them as loan, when she was their colonial master”.

Before France was sent out parking by Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad, among some of her former African colonies, she HAD the SECOND (2nd) biggest GOLD reserve in the world, despite the fact that she HAS not a single (GOLD) mine on her soil. A few years after she left (IGNOMINIOUSLY) the former African colonies, her position on the list of countries with the highest GOLD reserves FELL down DRASTICALLY to the fourth (4th) place with (2,436.0 tons), after US (8,133.5 tons), Germany (3,355.1 tons), and Italy (2,458.1 tons).

President Tinubu and France appear to have one common burning desire, the apparent wish to see the downfall of Islam, and Muslims in the Muslim Majority North West. May that shared evil desire never see the light of day.

May God ease the affairs of Nigeria, and make people who would make the difference, to join hands, and move the country away from the abyss, where the present unpatriotic bunch is leading it towards.

Malumfashi wrote from Katsina.

15/07/2025

Au R***e, Maigaskiya.

By Abdu Labaran Malumfashi.
16-7-2025.

”When comets die, there are no stars seen in the sky, but heavens themselves blaze forth, the DEATH of PRINCES”, so went a line by William Shakespeare in his play ‘JULIUS CAESAR’. It was uttered by a close friend of the slain GENERAL and EMPEROR of the ROMAN REPUBLIC, who answered the same name as the play, ‘JULIUS CAESAR’. He was stabbed several times to death in 44 BC.

All roads and airspace’s will of course, lead to Katsina state, and the ancient town of Daura, the home town of the immediate past President, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, on Sunday, as anyone who is anybody in the country jostle to pay their last respect to the fallen former president, and condole with the governor, the two emirs of Katsina and Daura, as well as the immediate family he left behind for good.

The rumour mill had it that Malam Muhammadu Buhari was in the intensive care unit (ICU) at a clinic in the United Kingdom. But it was soon denied by some people, who claimed that the former leader was only having a routine medical check up in the UK. Ready to believe the later account, many people heaved a sigh of relief.

But just as the initial worry was turning into a relief, it was announced on Sunday that the former president has finally given up the ghost, returning to his maker in the far away land of the White man.

Late President Buhari was a man who came, saw and had all the opportunities to STEAL, but did not. He was a man who practically occupied all the offices that matter in Nigeria, but he left every single office without enriching himself from the public trust. He was a Military Commandant, he was a Military State Governor, he was a Petroleum Minister, he was a Head of State, he was the pioneer and only Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), and finally, a civilian President, after his third shot at the office.

It was a monumental loss for many Nigerians, especially those very close to him. And the Dallatu of Katsina is one of those. Their relationship almost transcended a mare political association. It was that close, and only those close enough knew about. I was NOT close enough to either of them, but close enough with someone who was close enough to both. It was through that person that I came to know how close Dallatun Katsina was to the former President.

Dallatu was the name that the former number one citizen used to refer to the immediate past Governor of Katsina State, and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Right Honourable Aminu Bello Masari.

A one time governor from the Southern part of the country, told of a day governors from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had assembled in the Villa to meet the president. According to him, as they waited for the arrival of the president to the venue of the meeting, all but one of the governors were boasting of how close they were to the number one citizen. But when the president eventually showed up, he called only ‘DALLATU’, and offered an apology to all of them for turning up a bit late for the meeting.

Their close association dated back to when the governor was the Speaker of Reps, and Muhammadu Buhari was the ‘defeated’ Presidential flag bearer of the opposition All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP). The ‘defeated’ candidate wanted to address the National Assembly (NASS), but the then president did not want that, so he ordered that the Police should not allow Muhammadu Buhari access to any of the two chambers (so called upper and lower). The Upper Chamber went along with the president, but not so the Lower Chamber.

The Speaker went and brought the ANPP candidate (daring the security officials to shoot him too) to his office. According to the former Speaker, as a former Head of State, the opposition ANPP candidate deserved the respect of his former office, arguing that it was totally wrong for anyone to deny the former Head of State the right to visit and address the country’s lawmakers. He let him address member of the House.

Another time, Buhari told some people that he and other people were in Benin city to campaign, where they were received at the Igbinedium Airport by mostly an elite crowd. On seeing the ‘welcome party’ at the airport, Buhari turned to ‘DALLATU’ and said these elites are at the airport because of you, not because of me. ‘If the reception party is the almajirai, or the beggars, or the poor man in general, then I would now believe they have come to the airport for me”.

Not long after, Right Honourable Aminu Bello Masari left the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and joined Muhammadu Buhari’s Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). The CPC merged with likeminded political parties to form the All Progressives Congress (APC), on which platform he contested for the presidency.

From then on, a strong political bond between the two individuals was formed, and when the APC was born in 2013, Masari, as he was then called, became the first Deputy National Chairman of the party, with former Governor Bisi Akande as its pioneer National Chairman. The former Speaker of the House of Representatives, resined voluntarily from that position, to go to his state of Katsina to contest for the Governorship under the platform of the APC.

Malam Muhammadu Buhari run for the presidency in 2003 and 2007 on the platform of the ANPP, in 2007 on the platform of CPC, before he hit the proverbial ‘eye bull’ in 2015 on the platform of APC, defeating an incumbent at the polls.

I knew this much as a result of my close relationship with someone who was called either ‘TAKWARA or ‘DANJARIDA’ by the late Nigerian number one citizen. Three INTERVIEWS were arranged for me with the former President by the aforementioned person.

In the three interviews I had with Malam Muhammadu Buhari, three questions (I do not know where or how I lost the Daily Trust editions where they were published) that I can remember asking him were, (1) ‘I understand that you joined partisan politics specifically to contest for the presidency. Of course he denied that, saying that he only joined to show how Democracy should be run, not the way the professional politicians were going about it.

Another question (2) was his next move if the politicians heeded his advice. He answered that he would remain in partisan politics since it was not reserved for only the professional politicians.

The next question (3) that will forever remain evergreen in my memory is about his relationship with the General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida who staged the proverbial palace coup that toppled his government, and placed him under house arrest for a couple of years. With a tone that appeared to suggest that he was tired of answering that particular question, he told me that he had forgiven his Military successor, which however, did not mean he had forgotten what had happened.

Buhari was made by the society, and he made many people, including an illiterate praise singer who had initially believed that the political party that would make him tick was not “going to win the 2015 Presidential election. But that was before his then master decamped to the APC. The party won the election convincingly, and the singer went to become one of the leading beneficiaries of that success, despite his lack of Islamic and Western educations.

The illiterate praise singer, who believed that his song ‘Masu gudu su gudu’ made APC popular should think again. Honourable (Engineer) Adamu Aliyu, knows who had initially sold, and popularised the APC. The Honourable Engineer was the sponsor of many of the pioneering APC songs, which were sung by ISYAKU FOREST (of blessed memory). Isyaku Forest was the UNSUNG HERO, who placed the APC in the consciousness of the Northern people. His ‘APC Maganin Ciwon Kai’ song was an INSTANT HIT. It was sponsored by Honourable Adamu Aliyu, a diehard Buhari SUPPORTER.

The death of Buhari has obviously sounded the death knell for the APC, and the Tinubu contraption of a regime. The ‘tears’ that President Tinubu shed when he heard of the death of his immediate predecessor, were just CROCODILE TEARS’. Even in death, Buhari has continued to work for his ‘FRIENDS’, the poor people. As one of his presidential spokesmen, Garba Shehu, would say, ACCORDING TO THE PRESIDENT’, ‘
“the poor people from every part of the country would remain his concern”.

In what appeared to me to be a sponsored interview, one well fed Northerner accused (at that time the former president was alive) Buhari of not taking extra concern for the people of the “region he came from”. He explicitly expressed SUPPORT for the lopsided appointments that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu made during his just two years in office.

In a response, I wrote an article on 29/3/1025, titled ‘Did Former President Buhari Disappoint The North?’ In the write up, I said that, “it is not in his character to be unfair and unjust, just because he had the opportunity to do and be as he wanted’, even though we live in a country, and operate a kind of democracy, where the winner ‘takes all.

“Tinubu and his evil supporters have been trying to smear Buhari for ages. Yes, as President, Buhari had (NOT deliberately) allowed some aides, associates and relatives to amass stupendous wealth for themselves. He did not enrich himself, has not enriched himself, and would not do so knowingly and deliberately, as IS the ‘rule’ in the Bola Ahmed Tinubu regime, at the moment.

“In any case, against what the no-sayers would NOT want the world to know, Buhari had in fact given some Northerners positions that could have positively impacted on the region, but (unknown to him) they abused the trust by embezzling the humongous money that was made available to the places. Agriculture and Water Resources, are among some of the places that were given to, but abused by, Northerners.

“He also appointed Northerners to the Ministries of Education and that of Justice, as well as some important security agencies, among others. Now, can the former president said to have shown no interest in the advancement and progress of the North?

“Despite many clandestine efforts to smear and tarnish his corrupt free image, but LAUNDER some irredeemable others, the attempts failed woefully. Locally, and in foreign lands, where the media is always on the lookout for anything that could tarnish the image of the Third World, especially Africa and her independent leaders, such as Muhammadu Buhari, billions of US dollars were planted on him, but the attempts at both places ended in abject failure.

“Not only was the effort in his Daura home a failure, it was also discovered that Buhari did not own other houses anywhere in the world. In both places, the man was found to be as clean as the proverbial whistle. Though a politician with a very strong military background, Buhari was, and is still, more democratic than many career politicians in the country.

“As a democratically elected President, he did not reverse the sacking of one of his senior security appointees by his Vice, Professor Oshinbajo, who took the action during the holiday of the then President. And during the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) National Convention that produced the current President of Nigeria, Buhari was said to have supported a different candidate, who eventually lost. But being the democrat and complete gentleman that he was, he allowed the result to stand.

“During the second coming of the former Military Head of State as a civilian president, the allegations of self enrichment by those close to him were based on rumours, not concrete evidence as is clearly evident now. The recent disclosure by the head of an anti corruption agency that some ministers serving in the present regime had given him the sum of N500 million to assist him to “bury my dead mother”, speaks of the runaway corruption that has become a necessary part of governance in the country.

“Again, the recent appointment of a new Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), proves the veracity of the allegations that ‘only the highest bidders, not the most qualified’ get appointed to ‘lucrative’ offices under the President Tinubu-led government. Still, the very recent announcement by the president that his regime “spends N100 billion every month to cushion the effect of the removal of subsidy on fuel”, questions the rationale of removing the subsidy in the first place.

“It would appear to the discerning minds that it is an opportunity for those ruling the country to ‘kill two birds with one stone’. Give the job of fuel importation to your company, and at the same time pocket most of what is said to be spent on cushioning the effect of the subsidy removal.

“By the way, although President Tinubu was supposed to be democratically ‘elected’, his actions, inactions and statements are more suited to a dictator, as he does things that are completely alien to democratic principles and practices.”

In what also appeared to me to be another sponsored statement, through a couple of trending video clips, and ‘an open letter to the president’, one KALTUME from Kano RAINED ABUSES on Fulani starting with SHIEKH USMAN DANFODI, down to his son, AbdulLahi, his younger brother. Muhammadu Bello, and everyone with a connection to FULANI, EXCEPT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, and the then National Chairman of the ruling APC, Dr. Umar Abdullahi Ganduje.

It was her ‘pagan’ view that the Fulani brought the ISLAMIC JIHAD to Northern Nigeria, eventually leading to the merging of the HAUSA people and the FULANI people into one ethnic group. She urged President Tinubu to get rid of all Fulani from Nigeria, accusing them of the banditry that has become a deadly problem in the Northern region. She also advised the Northern Muslim “to abandon saying ‘Assalamu alaikum’, and replace it with ‘Gafara dai’, as the pre-Islamic pagans in the North, used to say.

But KALTUME never made a couple of video clips raining abuses on the White men who came to the Southern part of Nigeria ONLY 600 or so years ago, and Baptised many of the people of the area into a certain faith other than Islamic. Neither did she write ‘an open letter to the President Tinubu’, urging him to get rid of all White peoples from Nigeria.

On a previous occasion, I had written an article in which I said that despite being a two-term President, the Pioneer Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), a former Military Head of State, a General Officer Commanding (GOC) the Jos based Third Armoured Division, and a Military State Governor, and many other things in the country, Muhammadu Buhari “is still not as rich as some of his many adversaries have always unsuccessfully tried to portray him, and pitch him against his cult-like supporters, who are in millions across the nation, in particular, and the world in general.

“However, he is known as someone who is not very free with his money, apparently because he neither has the money to give freely, nor does he believe in using public funds to be ‘generous’”. Besides, it is, unfortunately, the habit of many Fulani people not to be too generous with their money, anyway. To those who feel that Muhammadu Buhari wasted the opportunity the Northern Region had got through him to score an advantage (unfair, if you ask me), I want to tell them that he was the leader of the entire country (Nigeria), NOT the leader of the Northern Region.

“Justice and fairness are what God, the Creator demands and expects from all His creations. God says that the rule of a ‘JUST and FAIR’ leader would persevere, even if he is not a believer. But a BELIEVING ruler who is unjust and unfair, will never persevere on the throne.

“When Muhammadu Buhari was President of Nigeria, he appointed many non Northerners to the Commanding Heights (high profile) ministries as ministers. Chief Rotimi Ameachi was the Minister of the powerful and influential ministry of Transportation, Babatunde Fashola was the Minister of Works and Housing, and Kemi Adeosun was the influential Minister of Finance, among others.

“One of the most important appointments in a cabinet during a civilian rule or a Military dictatorship, at both the federal and state levels, is that of the Special Adviser on Media. The media can make or mar the principal. If handled properly, the public perception of the principal would be a mighty plus, while conversely, the perception would be very negative. Muhammadu Buhari gave the office to a Southerner, in the person of Mr. Femi Adesina.

“About the eight (8) members of his economic team, five (5) including the Chairman, went to people from the Southern Region, NOT to his Northern home Region. But President Tinubu however, gave almost all the Commanding Heights ministries, parastatals and agencies to his tribespeople. The very few not occupied by them, he gave to his cronies or business partners, so that every naira or dollar that goes there, would find their way into his deep pockets, illegally.

“If truth must be told, Malam Muhammadu Buhari did NOT serve only the Northern Region as the President of Nigeria. He did his very best fairly and justly to all the regions, without prejudice to a single part of the country.”

The death of Muhammadu Buhari, has exposed the DISDAIN to which the Nigerian president has for Northerners. Instead of ceasing the opportunity of the death and directed that the towns of Katsina (state capital), and that of Daura (home town of the late immediate past number one citizen), be served with electricity for some days nonstop, many places have remained in TOTAL DARKNESS for more than 11 days today (15th of Tuesday, 2024).

It was YALA from Hayin Banki quarters of Kaduna, the capital city of Kaduna State, who sung ‘Yau Nigeria riqo sai mai gaskiya, Baba Buhari zani zaba shugaban Nigeria’. The ‘runaway’ successful song was sung sometime in 2003 or thereabouts, and since then the sobriquet has remained Malam Buhari’s identification name for millions of his supporters nationwide.

May God make Aljannat Firdaus the former President Muhammadu Buhari (Maigaskiya’s) final abode, may He also give his immediate family, and the millions of his supporters and associates, the strength and fortitude to bear his final departure.

Malumfashi wrote from Katsina.

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