The Learner

Muhammad Muhsin Ibrahim @muhsin234 The political atmosphere in Nigeria, particularly in my state, Kano, is, with each passing second, becoming more tense and intense. Although I presently reside outside the state, one cannot help but see and hear this and that on air and online. I am not a politician, nor into politics; I had thought I was a very passive partisan, but even that was a long time ago. I am thankful to Allah that I have successfully quit, and wish to reserve any serious public commentary. Nonetheless, given things as they are, I couldn’t resist the temptation to break my earlier ‘promise’ not to comment. I believe my motive was well-generated. For, we need relative sanity in the polity, peace in our state and mutual respect among the populace, which are all that the current state of affairs sets out to disperse and replace with impurity, impudicity and perfidy. The incumbent governor of Kano state, Engr. Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso and his predecessor, Malam Ibrahim ...