NAJA’ATU: The empty vessel

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By Yakubu Ahmed Bk

She went out of the APC with a bang, so to say. She made noise about it, purposely to attract nationwide attention.

Her garrulity and shamelessness became handy. She has always been the boastful type. Since her husband died in a fire incident in Kano in the early 80’s, she seemed to have taken over from him (her husband the late Dr Muhammad was Political Adviser to late Governor Rimi).

Hajiya Najaatu Mohammed

She just like came out of the blues, enjoying the sympathy that trailed her husband’s suspicious death, capitalized on her loudmouth and dazzled the people of Kano whose love for radical politics knew no bounds.

But that was where her nuisance ends. She has never had any political worth in the real sense of it. She can talk alright but she lacked any political base.

The only thing she adds to a national political struggle such as a presidential campaign is her capacity to add that valueless color of garrulity. She does not have any following either in Kano or anywhere else.

All her decades of political activism, she has never tried her hands on any political office. If she had dared done that, the rejection she would have suffered will have brought her back to the reality that she holds no political value at all.

Her sudden departure from the side of Tinubu and her sudden appearance on the side of Atiku at the eleventh hour, was simply to scavenge for additional relevance and making a financial kill from the man she thought was heading for victory.

The results of the election released so far have shown that Atiku Abubakar has also gotten it wrong this time too. He is on his way to finally retiring and there seems to be no any chance for him to give it a trial again.

The thuggish attitude of the Melayes and Naja’atus appeared to have been more of a liability to him. Just look at the way Dino Melaye conducted himself at the National Collation Centre in Abuja.

He was simply a hooligan whose thuggish carriage only helped to diminish Atiku. In the end, Naja’atu meant nothing and added no value to a campaign that was entirely handed over to very talkative but politically useless interlopers.

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