By Yusuf Idris Gusau
Although I didn’t want to join issues with the political scavenger, insignificant charlatan and blind follower in the person of Mansur Khalifa Kaura who only rode on the good fortunes of his late father Sheik Khalifa Sani Na Malam Babba of blessed memory and gained recognition only in 2003 owing the respect Senator Ahmed Sani Yarima had to the late Sheik and made him commissioner that he never worked for nor earned nor deserved, but he seems to be going way out of line disrespecting our political leaders and elders who even his (Khalifa’s) pay master, Hon Aminu Sani Jaji still treats with respect.
Mansur should know that he’s still a political toddler and a minute tool made to hound where he cannot endure just because he is currently enjoying the paltry he is receiving to insult others while the love lasts before he is disgracefully thrown away like the detritus that he is.
As the Zamfara State chapter APC duly elected spokesman, the ignoramus Mansur must be informed that it is part of my responsibility and mandate to publicize, defend and create awareness on happenings of the party to the general public which I have always discharged with responsibility and respect to all leaders and members as against what he has been doing with his loud mouth which he even opened to speak on Zamfara political history and growth without substance.
Let me give him some lecture on this about me, because he was nowhere neither was he known in 1998 when we started the movement that saw the emergence of the first executive civilian governor of Zamfara State, Senator Ahmed Sani Yariman Bakura while I was one of the active selected youths that went to Sokoto to attend the first meeting that gave birth to the All People’s Party (APP) on which platform Senator Yarima and by Allah’s special grace became the first civilian governor of Zamfara State also thanks for our collective contributions and efforts until we attained victory.
I was among the people that conducted the first registration of APP membership in Zamfara State while Alhaji Ibrahim Ruwan Doruwa was the Acting Chairman of the party with late Alh Dakin Gari as his Deputy I played a role during the opening of the APP State Secretariat at A.A Ladan House, Samaru where were you then in the political arena of the state
Khalifa has no information on what and how the first four years of civilian administration under Yarima were like because he couldn’t come near government and governance thus, he still does not know what it takes to be politically responsible let alone respect his leaders which is why his uncontrollable loud mouth.
Even while talking about the former governor and Hon. Minister of State for Defence, Dr. Bello Mohammed Matawalle, Mansur was quick to expose his ignorance again because he never knew that Matawalle was first elected member of the nation’s House of Representatives in 1993 under the UNCP when the likes of Mansur and his pay master could only come out by the roadside to hail and cheer politicians among other children of their peers.
Similarly, Matawalle was the only member that returned to the National Assembly in 2011 out of the seven members representing the state’s Federal Constituencies having won his reelection bid under the PDP and owing to his political strength as against the challenges he faced.
So insulting leaders like Yari and Matawalle whose influence and political destinies have gone far and wide by Mansur, his pay master or any irresponsible person following will only always embarrass such persons because Yari, Matawalle, Jaji and all of us are only following Allah’s design in life and as Muslims, we see any attempt to attack such design as attacking Allah, Un-Islamic and moving one to being regarded as Kufr.
Fortunately, Mansur and his co-travellers have come out in the open to vindicate our suspicion that they are out to destroy the APC while on their way to forming what they call a ‘mega’ party by biting the hands that fed, clothed and brought them to political limelight.
The National Secretariat of the APC, the presidency under our amiable President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the APC in Zamfara as well as all our members and well wishers are aware of the evil machinization and are ready for them at any point ahead of the 2027 general election or any election that will come up.
As party leaders we are going to resist any move or plans to destroy the party using all necessary mechanisms at our disposal. And we are not going to be deterred by your media campaigns and abuses.
Know that the contract you collected this time around has failed on arrival because all well-meaning Zamfara APC members know your direction.
Let me advise you, don’t always bite the fingers that feed you if you want to succeed.
One word is enough for the chicken to roast.
Yusuf Idris Gusau
APC Publicity Secretary
Zamfara State.
