Former Kano State Governor Ibrahim Shekarau has called on the country’s 36 states to come together and change the bad situation in the country.
He said this during an appearance on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily program on Monday.
He argued that states in Nigeria were too independent from each other.
The former governor decried the inability of states to work together for the betterment of the state.
Ibrahim said in part: “Each state is what I call independent of the other.
“As far as I know, there are no two states that are working together to do anything, but this is not enough, and these are some issues that we really want to raise with the board and bring to their attention. .
“If countries work together and cooperate, many things are likely to change for the better.”
He expressed this view amidst the devastating economic hardships currently facing the nation.
In 2003, I borrowed money to purchase a gubernatorial nomination form – Shekarau
Meanwhile, Shekarau revealed that in 2003 he had to borrow money to buy gubernatorial candidate forms for the party’s primaries.
He said his party had fixed £5m on the paper, but he didn’t even have £500,000.
He explained how his friends and political associates raised money for him. But even that was not enough, so he had to consult the late politician Malam Magaji Danbatta, then chairman of the Kano Forum, and obtain a loan of 1 million pounds from him.
Naija News reported that Shekarau made the revelation while speaking at the first memorial lecture in memory of the late Magaji Danbatta.
“In 2003, my party, APP, fixed the nomination form at 5 million Norwegians and I didn’t even have 500,000 Norwegians, but my co-contestant Ibrahim Little is a billionaire and , I found out that he had already bought the paper. We managed to raise 1.5 million naira and mysteriously 2.5 million naira as well, but the funds were still not completed.
“I approached the late Mr. Mallam Magaji Danbatta and explained my situation and hoped that he would support me with a loan to pay off the money. He asked me to write and then approved and was directed to pay the amount to DG Kano Forum,” Shekarau said.
The former governor noted that some of the ideas of the administration built on human capital development and social justice were the ideas of the late elder statesman.
