DEMOCRACY has been largely defined as the government of the people, by the people and for the people . Globally, democracy is the most acceptable system of governance and any other system is detested across the world . In democracy , the mandate of leadership belongs only to the electorate and they only borrow or lend it to the elected leaders and by extension, to the appointed leaders, nay indirectly. The electorate entrust their mandate to the elected officials through the ballot boxes . Democracy is therefore indispensable to any society that yearns for even socioeconomic development, through the efficient and diligent delivery of dividends of democracy to the electorate who defy all odds to always cast their hard earned and invaluable votes to the leaders. Therefore, we cannot do a thriving democracy in the society . Currently , there are myriad of political parties in Nigeria, although there are only two most formidable and leading ones, that is the leading All Progressives Congress ( APC) and the main opposition party, the PDP. This is the nationwide scenario , just like it is in Sokoto State.
As a rider to the above, it is evidently clear and incontestable that, in the extant political landscape of Sokoto State, one dominant and indispensable personality is Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, representing Sokoto North Senatorial District and a former governor of the state. Wamakko is synonymous with the APC and no sane and discerning member of the party can dispute his position as the leader of the party. Indeed, the blue-blooded Senator Wamakko, Sarkin Yamma and Sarkin Yakin Sokoto was really cut out for leadership right from birth given his royal background. He is a consummate and prolific leader and an iconic technocrat. The chairman of the Senate Committee on Defence and Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on Anti Corruption was born on March 1, 1953 in Wamakko, Sokoto State. He spent five years (1968-1972) at the Sokoto Teachers’ College. After graduation, he worked as a teacher from 1973-1977 before being admitted to the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. He graduated with a B.Sc. in August 1980. Returning to Nigeria, he taught at Sokoto Teachers College.[1]
Wamakko took a job as Principal Assistant Secretary of Zurmi Local Government Area (LGA). He was later promoted to Acting Secretary. He worked at Kaura Namoda LGA, and was appointed Chairman of the Sokoto LGA from 1986-1987. He became General Manager, Hotel Management and Tourism Board, Sokoto. Wamakko also acted as the Sole Administrator of Kaura Namoda.
In March 1992, he was promoted to Director-General, Careers and Special Services, Governor’s Office, Sokoto in March 1992. He was elected Deputy Governor of Sokoto State to Governor Attahiru Bafarawa in 1999, on the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP). He was re-elected deputy governor for a second term in April 2003. He resigned as deputy governor of Sokoto State on March 15, 2006. This trajectory to the pinnacle of leadership was in fact unbroken and it was successful all through. He served as an achiever-governor, a trail blazer and a pacesetter from 2007 to 2015. Since then, he has been diligently representing the good people of his constituency, although it has now become glaring that he is a senator without borders. Wamakko is also one of the highly revered and primed national chieftains of the APC. The crux of all the submissions is to refute the resentful actions of some doubting Thomases and Judas Iscariots in Sokoto State who are claiming to be the members of the APC. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing. In essence, they no longer belong to the APC as their loyalty goes to another party.
These unpatriotic ingrates are just surreptiously clinging unto the party to cause disharmony and acrimony , although they have been ceaselessly ashamed severally . Always biting the fingers that fed them, these rascally ingrates have been exposed and there is just no way that they can succeed in unseating Wamakko as the natural and life leader of the APC. This is so as he was a founding member of the party , both at the Seat of the Caliphate in the north and Nigeria at large. The above submissions were corroborated by the recent ward and local governments congresses of the party in the state. At the end of the two successful exercises across the 23 local governments of the state, the members of the party had shown who the real leader of the party is and he is no other person than Senator Wamakko. This was attested to by all the stakeholders and leaders at all levels. The import of this is also the fact that, the party has waxed more stronger and united.
To further corroborate the above, the recent congresses in the state have further vindicated the loyal members of the APC and shamed the agents of doom, division and paid political merchants whose main agenda was to destabilise and factionalise APC, and consequently flee to their safe haven in the PDP. Alas, this nefarious and diabolical mission was aborted and nipped in the bud , just as the APC has blossomed and become more cemented as one and an indivisible party in Sokoto State. Indeed, the consensus approach and strategy unanimously agreed to by all the leaders, stakeholders and law abiding and patriotic members has paid off: APC has now become more solidified to the admiration of all discerning minds and not the few sycophantic individuals. Just as the party has become unshakeably united in Sokoto State, the members have also reiterated their loyalty to Wamakko as the leader of the party. The forthcoming state congresses of the party will also, in sha Allahu, be rancour-free and successful to the dismay of the political scavengers .
- Dan-Inna is a public affairs analyst based in Sokoto.
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