Dr. Musa Illiyasu Kwankwaso, the Executive Director of Finance at the Hadejia Jama’are River Basin Development Authority (HJRBAD), has strongly criticised political figures Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed and Engr. Buba Galadima, dismissing them as unfit to speak for the North regarding the 2027 presidential election.
In a personally signed statement released in Kano on Tuesday, Dr. Kwankwaso declared that neither Baba-Ahmed nor Galadima had the moral standing or popular mandate to dictate the political direction of the region.
“two personalities lack moral courage to talk about President Bola Tinubu’s administration because they are among the causes of the problems the country is facing”.
His remarks come in response to recent comments by Baba-Ahmed, a former aide to Vice President Kashim Shettima, who warned that any manipulation of the 2027 elections would be met with resistance. Kwankwaso described such warnings as alarmist and misleading.
He labelled both men as “expired politicians” and accused them of failing to make any meaningful contributions to the development of the North during their years in government.
However, Kwankwaso hinted that “The Northerners can not be blindfolded by the utterances of the above personalities, because, they know them as cash-carrying and food-is-ready politicians.”
He, therefore, lamented that Baba-Ahmed was among those who cheated North by their long services in governments but have nothing to show as their contributions to the region they are today called defending.
While commenting on Buba Galadima, Kwankwaso described him as the worst “Northern politician who cannot even show the location of his ballot box, but rather he continues to be a parasite who always leaned on personalities to fail them”.
He queried “All his years with Buhari what did he contribute to him, instead he was so parasitic to the extent that Buhari only won his elections when the likes of Galadima departed him adding that he did the same to Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau and now he is with Kwankwaso, therefore Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso should be wary of him if he wants to make it in life”.
According to him, the present government were not disturbed by their utterance because “in less than two years of this administration, President Tinubu has brought serious development to the North, look at the completion efforts of Kano to Abuja road, look at Badagary to Kebbi Road network a job that has since gone far”.
He said even on agriculture, President Tinubu has ensured that farmers are getting enough implements while ensuring Food Security, “just recently he approved over N60 Billion for the expansion of some Dams in Kano for irrigation farming”.
“There is no gainsaying that food and other essential commodities prices are crippling down and Nigerians are having the affordability to buy, but did you hear Buba Galadima or Hakeem Baba-Ahmed commenting on these, no they are just blind critics who have nothing to offer”.
“And in the North CNG Stations are almost all over the region with the Government putting it in Borno, Kaduna, Kwara and Kano would also soon have their own”.
Therefore, Northerners would never listen to Baba-Ahmed and Buba Galadima or Former Attorney General, Abubakar Malami because they knows who they are and what they want, while the reality remains that they have contributed nothing to the region, he noted.
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