NORTHERN Nigeria is now blest with some well-educated, patriotic, modernised and progressive-minded leaders like former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State, the Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kashim Shettima (who has borne the main brunt of the Boko Haram insurgency), the reformist Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi and renowned human rights activist, Senator Shehu Sani. These are some of the progressive Muslims and products of a Region which is ravenously in need of reform in order to be in tune with the rest of the country and the world at large.
With the alpha position of the North in the political affairs of Nigeria, every patriotic Nigerian should support efforts by the Region's progressive leaders to bring it from the darkness to the light. Emir Sanusi has positively shocked many of us who had felt that being crowned the King of Kano would muzzle a man who refused to keep quiet even as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Sanusi has refused to allow his royal turban to gag him. From that stool he dared the Boko Haram Islamist insurgents and spoke the unblemished truth to President Muhammadu Buhari, alerting him of failed expectations.
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