Video: Shekarau rests Atiku’s career, as ex-Kano Governor sets voting agenda for Nigerians
Shekarau said the choice is for Nigerians to pick who between Buhari who has been campaigning based on issues on ground and achievements of his government and Atiku who has been unable to tell Nigerians either what the government he and Obasanjo ran for eight years did or what the governments of his party, PDP, generally did in their 16 years of the Nigeria’s 19 and a half years of Fourth Republic democratic dispensation.
Former Governor of Kano State in a venue watched by The DEFENDER has set agenda for Nigerian voters as they go to polls on Saturday 23 February 2019 to pick their next President.
Shekarau, who was Minister of Education under the last Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, was speaking at a forum aired by NN24 TV where he asked Nigerians, considering the six standards of good governance set by the World Bank and the United Nations, vote for whoever it is they see meet the standards considering the past and antecedents of leading candidates contesting the 2019 presidential election.
Mallam Shekaru recently returned to his progressives base from he moved to PDP in show of displeasure over behaviour of Rabiu Kwankwaso when he decamped to from PDP to All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015.
He said: “It is believed that every Nigerian is aspiring to have good governance and there is a global standard, global characteristics of good governance by World Bank and the United Nations. Number one is voiced on accountability, number two political stability, number three effectiveness in governance, number regulatory control, number five rule of law and number six control of corruption.
“So if you want good governance, my advice to voters, let them look at these characteristics; who among the candidates considering his past and his antecedents can guarantee the satisfaction of these six standards of good governance. Whoever it is, between you and your Almighty God, vote for him.”
President Muhammadu Buhari, whose performance has been acknowledged as seeing Nigeria out of hitherto bad to now better state with his resoluteness on rule of law undistracted by sabotaging efforts of peoples he often describes as ‘irresponsible desperate politicians sponsoring violence, bloodshed to discredit his administration’, is candidate of APC in the Saturday’s presidential election, while Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who as vice president in the Olusegun Obasanjo administration during which NITEL was sold to no success and $16 billion was spent without electricity and who has vowed that life or death he will sell what is left of national assets particularly the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to enrich his friends, is candidate of PDP in the election.
Shekarau said the choice is for Nigerians to pick who between Buhari who has been campaigning based on issues on ground and achievements of his government and Atiku who has been unable to tell Nigerians either what the government he and Obasanjo ran for eight years did or what the governments of his party, PDP, generally did in their 16 years of the Nigeria’s 19 and a half years of Fourth Republic democratic dispensation.
Kwankwaso an absentee Senator
Recall that three days after the immediate past governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwanso reset permutations about the political proclivity of Kano State, the former governor’s most enduring sparring partner, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau had resurfaced to challenge Kwankwanso’s political capacity.
Speaking in an interview Wednesday 13 February 2019, Shekarau described Kwanwkanso as an absentee senator just as he again dismissed insinuations of bad blood between him and President Muhammadu Buhari. That bad blood has been insinuated since about 2010 when Buhari exited the former All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP to form the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).
“Kwankwaso is an absentee Senator for three and half years. There is no record of him visiting Kano in his three years of being a Senator”, Shekarau said.
He said that he wished Kwankwaso contested for the Senate seat again so that they could again thrash out their rivalry.
Explaining that there was nothing between himself and President Buhari as insinuated by the public, he said “I am not aware of any dispute with President Buhari. No one can quote any statement attributed to President Buhari saying he has problem with me and vice-versa.”
He added that the relationship between them is cordial and they shall work together when he gets to the Senate.
