So, it is not Kaduna governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai that emerged the new chairman of the Governor’s Forum (NGF)? That piece of news should serve as salutary lesson for those who fly in the face of facts or who drop names to massage their ego or who arrogate to themselves the power that resides only in God through their principal.
Yari of Zamfara was the chairman of the forum before Wednesday’s election, and it would have made nonsense of the North/South arrangement of fairness and justice, made in the sound judgement of its authors to give every segment of the nation a good sense of belonging.
A wrong signal would have been sent to the nation that the country belongs only to the North in perpetuity if El-Rufai had succeeded Yari as chairman of the NGF, besides the fact also that, warts and all, some of the elected representatives of our people know what is bad from good.
El-Rufai has not advertised himself well in the eyes and minds of the general populace and to have elected such a man as first among equals within the governors’ rank at this time would have made his colleagues’ esteem sink to a low ebb.
The second strong message his rejection by his colleagues sends out is a vote for discipline and discretion, which they too must emulate in their conduct while their tenures last.
It is hoped that El-Rufai will learn a lesson from this development to always put his mouth in check, learn to be respectful of party leaders and elders, and get conscious of the fact that access to the Presidential Villa is not a licence to be cheeky and excessive.
Governor Kayode Fayemi is welcome to that hot seat. How workers’ welfare and the amelioration of the nation’s poor are handled during his tenure will speak for him – for ill or for good! I wish him every success.
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