2027: Kano people waiting to re-elect Tinubu – Barau

By Bashir Bello

The Deputy President of the Senate and subordinate representing Kano North Senatorial District, Senator Barau Jibrin, has stated that the radical of Kano State are eagerly awaiting the accidental to reciprocate the benignant motion of President Bola Tinubu by re-electing him successful 2027.

This was, arsenic helium said, due to the fact that President Tinubu had ne'er turned down immoderate petition coming from the state.

The Senator stated this portion announcing automatic assistance to undergraduate students from his Kano North Senatorial territory astatine the Yusuf Maitama Sule University of Education successful Kano.

Barau recalled however helium singlehandedly spearheaded the petition for conversion of the instauration from the Federal College of Education into a full-fledged assemblage and aboriginal immortalization of the assemblage aft the precocious elder statesman, Yusuf Maitama Sule, pursuing an earlier determination by the authorities authorities to region the sanction of the elder statesman from the state-owned university, North West University.

He went up to narrate however the President had besides granted support for the upgrading of Kabo Polytechnic into a university, among different galore requests taken to the President.

According to him, “I spearheaded the petition to upgrade this instauration to a full-fledged university. I’ve been warring for 10 years to actualize my imagination of ensuring that this instauration becomes a full-fledged university. He (Tinubu) said, Is that what you’re asking for? He said, ‘That’s a done deal; I’m giving it to you.’ He said, It’s a done deal.

“So I’m present contiguous to, connected behalf of this large institution, connected behalf of the full pupil assemblage of this institution, so the full pupil assemblage of Kano State and the parents, fathers and mothers of the students of Kano State, convey you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. President, for your heavy and immense happiness and joyousness successful accepting the petition to upgrade the College of Education to a full-fledged university.

“We person ne'er asked Mr. President to bash thing for america successful Kano, and helium has said no. Why shouldn’t we emotion Mr. President? Why shouldn’t we emotion Bola Ahmed? Why? Why? We person ne'er gone to him and said, ‘Mr. President, we privation this,’ and helium said, ‘no.’ Whatever we asked him to do, helium said, I’ll bash it for you. When helium gave his support for the university’s upgrade, we thanked him.

“Then later, aft immoderate days, I went backmost again with a petition successful my pocket. Because we had 1 of the elder statesman from Kano State, precocious Yusuf Maitama Sule, who died immoderate years ago. Everybody knew what helium has done for our state and for our state. He was an assembly member. He was a commissioner. He was a curate of petroleum. He did everything. But yet, helium had thing erstwhile helium died. And what could you bash to that benignant of idiosyncratic is to immortalize him. The erstwhile medication of Kano State, decided to sanction the Northwest university, aft him, to immortalize him. But erstwhile the contiguous authorities came to power, that was annulled. It was a achy happening done to that elder statesman who spent his beingness serving our nation, serving our people. So I was successful pain. And I wrote a petition that this assemblage should beryllium named aft him, the precocious Yusuf Maitama Sule. I took the insubstantial to the president. And I requested verbally. Before I could decorativeness telling him my request. He said, I’m going to bash it. Bring it, I volition bash it. I said, sir, I’m present with the request. And helium minuted. So Mr. President, we besides convey you for this. We can’t convey you enough. You’ve been doing everything for us. And we’re waiting for the clip that we volition reciprocate your gesture, your kindness to us,” the Deputy President of the Senate, Barau, said.

He, however, assured the Vice Chancellor of his readiness to enactment the instauration astatine immoderate clip the request arises.

On his part, the Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development, Abdullahi Atta, said the national authorities had earmarked the sum of N200 cardinal for the operation of airy obstruction from Kaduna to Kano, arsenic enactment would soon commence.

He besides hinted that determination are galore projects successful the pipeline wrong his ministry, for which the President gave Kano peculiar information and advantage.

Earlier, the vice chancellor, Prof. Abdullahi Tukur Kadage, portion expressing gratit...