SOUTHERN KADUNA AS HISTORY BECKONS 2023. Over the years since the first Republic we have been searching for relevance in politics. First, it was regional grouping and we went with the United Middle belt of J S Tarka. In the second Republic we were divided, some went NPP with Nnamdi Azikiwe of the Igbos others went UPN with Chief Obafemi Awolowo of the Yoruba. In this, we found psychological satisfaction because we tried to identify with those who valued us. This has been so because of the no love lost between us and our northern neighbours. Because of ethnicity, social and our religious background we found no common grounds to work together in politics. There has been no attempt to discuss our political situation at any reasonable level in the north. To shorten the narrative. In the 1990s the IBB military regime decreed 2 political party, Social Democratic party ( SDP) and National Republican Congress (NRC). This was the first time Southern Kaduna went into a national party and as was expected realignment of forces still threw us South to work with Southern candidate Chief MKO Abiola. Our decision to join SDP was spontaneous not planned. Infact, it was basically because the core north were in the other party and as usual we felt we would not get a fair deal there. By 1998 Southern Kaduna had found it bearings in politics. We joined the G18 at the national level to demand for the return to Democracy , a movement that gave birth to the People’s Democratic party (PDP) . The short of the story is that our son’s, Engr. Stephen Shekari, Dauda Tsoho, Col. Yohanna Madaki, Isaiah Balat, Garba Ali Madaki in alliance with notably Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi and few others in the north brought PDP to Kaduna state. PDP THEREFORE,IS A SOUTHERN KADUNA PROJECT!! Fortunately, the people of Southern Kaduna have received the PDP faithfully and as second in importance to their religion. Moreover, the PDP has not disappointed the Southern Kaduna people. The benefits are many. First, it is a national party. We are at home with our traditional friends in politics from the south and we have found forces within mainstream northern politics to work with. Physically, we experienced the greatest political uplift ever known. Road infrastructure, electric power, water supply and expansion in education. We have received a kind self-determination through the creation of chiefdoms. We experienced inclusiveness in governance for the first time. We had an elected governor, Sir Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, we had Ministers, Works and Housing, Finance, Solid Minerals, Aviation and Environment. In the nation’s only blue chip company NNPC , our son was made Group Managing Director. We had service chiefs in the military. Chief of defense Staff, chief of naval staff and Chief of army Staff. We shared party positions in the state and national levels at equity. We shared political appointments in the state at near parity. For this many benefits PDP has become entrenched in Southern Kaduna and this is not sophistry. PDP, the Southern Kaduna party has been in the opposition since 2015 but our people never weavered. We have withstood the worst of blackmail, we have been afflicted with death and destruction but we kept hope alive through the PDP and so today upon all ought we have senator PDP, House of Reps PDP, Houses of Assembly, PDP, Chairmen and Councilors PDP. Southern Kaduna mainstream elites are still intact in the PDP. Our yomen and our rich have found comfort and a home in the PDP. To alter the status quo requires a very clear and surer alternative, till date there is NONE. If Southern Kaduna makes a declaration to vote for Atiku Abubakar of their party, PDP, then they are in tandem with reality, anything to the contrary is flowing against the tide . By every indices, Atiku Abubakar shall win on 25 February 2023 and we cannot dare to forsake our own Victory. Olusegun Obasanjo, Umoru Musa Yaradua, Good luck Ebele Jonathan kept the PDP principle of inclusiveness, Atiku Abubakar cannot do otherwise, it is our ESSENCE as a party. SOKAPU BE GUIDED!! (aliwaziri4u@gm.com)
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