Walking the Talk. Decades ago, Shaykh @ProfIsaPantami suggests that learner people, with plenty degrees & certificates, and experience, crowned by PURPOSE should join politics to salvage the situation.
My Loyalty Is Not Blind
A lot of people try to place everyone in their own shoes.
They think everyone supports a politician because he wants money, appointment, contract, access, or personal reward. But we are not all built the same way. We were not all raised the same way. We do not all think the same way.
I am not a rich man, but I am not poor either, Alhamdulillahi. By the special mercy of Allah, I can pay my bills. I get paid well where I work. I have other skills I can use to make ends meet. I have a car I can use for Uber or Bolt if that is what it takes to put food on the table for my primary constituency, my family. I know how to farm. I also trade in legal commodities.
So no, my support for any politician is not driven by hunger.
I have never reached out to any politician in his official capacity to ask for personal favour. But I have benefited from people holding offices; people I have known before office and outside office. Not necessarily money benefits. But a lot more valuable. I don't beg, nor lick toes, not because I have everything, but because I do not believe that is why such person is there. When I have access to a leader, I see that access as a responsibility. I reach out when I have suggestions. I reach out when I see things going wrong. I reach out when people without access have legitimate concerns that need to be heard.
If a leader takes it well, good. If he chooses to shut the door, then I have every right to speak publicly. I am a Nigerian. I am a taxpayer. I am one of the people he is leading.
I have supported people before. Some became inaccessible after getting power. One of them was a representative in a chamber whom I had known since university. We supported him from his first step into politics. I campaigned for him. I mobilised for him. I introduced him to my ward, and he won all the ballot boxes there.
All free of charge.
But when he got there, he became unreachable and failed the same people he made promises to. I told him directly that I would not support him again. When he lost his second attempt, I was not sad.
So when I support someone, it does not mean I have surrendered my conscience.
I have shown my support for Shaykh Prof. Isa Pantami openly, and I will continue to do so. He is my teacher, my mentor, and someone I believe has the capacity to lead Gombe and even Nigeria. We have seen people with far less capacity contesting and even ruling. So why should I not support him with my chest?
Does that mean I see him as infallible? Far from it.
One of the reasons I support him is not only because I have access to him. But yes, if I see something wrong, I can reach out to him. I have done it before, even while he was a Minister. I have sent him messages on issues of insecurity in Northern Nigeria, even though he was not the Minister of Defence, and he still responded and made efforts where he could.
Through me, he has assisted people he did not even know. And I know many people in Gombe, Bauchi, and across the country can call him, advise him, criticise him, or draw his attention to issues.
That kind of access matters.
My loyalty is not blind. It is not stomach-driven. It is built on value, conviction, access, correction, and responsibility.
Prof. Pantami is contesting again as Governor of Gombe, and I am supporting him. And I pray he wins. It is all in the hand of the Almighty.
Anyone who wants to oppose him has the right to do so. That is politics. But nobody can stop me from supporting him, just as I cannot stop anyone from opposing him.
Support your candidate. I will support mine.
Gombe abar wa Malam ๐ณ๐ฌ
Hahahaha. Make we do Barka da Sallah for our people sir abeg. We canโt forget the streets, make ground soft small ๐๐๐
God gives, Man delivers ๐ซถ๐พ
Press Release:
El-Rufai issues public alert.
Malam Nasir El-Rufai wishes to alert the public to certain malicious orchestrations directed against him. The unwarranted effort to arrest him upon his arrival at Abuja Airport from Cairo on 12 February 2026 served as a clear signal of more troubling developments to follow. On 16 February 2026, Malam El-Rufai honoured an invitation from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He was detained, then transferred to the custody of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on the night of 18 February. He remains in detention and has been arraigned in two separate high courts.
On 18 April 2026, The Nation newspaper published a report headlined โEl-Rufaiโs trial: Gunmen invade principal witness home.โ The article stated that Mohammed Umar Karage, a witness in the criminal proceedings at the Kaduna State High Court, had reported to the police that armed individuals had invaded his residence. While it is the civic duty of every citizen to report crimes to the authorities, it is an entirely different matter to publish false imputations against others.
The Nation proceeded to do precisely that by including innuendos suggestive of a plot to frame Malam Nasir El-Rufai. According to the report, Mr. Karage linked the incident to his role as a witness in the corruption charges against El-Rufaiโspecifically one of the nine counts involving the alleged unlawful revocation and reallocation of land. The article further quoted Mr. Karage as alleging that the invasion might be part of an effort to silence him, drawing parallels with the controversial disappearance of Kaduna-based activist Abubakar Idris Dadiyata.
Any objective reader would recognise the clear intent behind these statements: to smear Malam Nasir El-Rufaiโs reputation, jeopardise his pending bail application at the Kaduna State High Court, and implicate him in serious capital offences. The evident objective is to secure his indefinite detention through these reprehensible tactics. Such conduct is unacceptable, particularly toward a citizen who has made substantial contributions to our country.
Malam Nasir El-Rufai is an upstanding and law-abiding citizen who has no connection whatsoever to the incidents described in The Nationโs publication. Therefore, he has already instructed his legal team to initiate defamation proceedings in this matter.
Since 2023, Malam El-Rufai has been subjected to an appalling and sustained campaign of innuendos and vilification. This is a man with a distinguished record of public service. Many will recall his sterling service to the cause of national unity through his principled opposition to opportunism, alongside other senior leaders, during the events leading to the 2022 primaries of the ruling party and thereafter.
The rule of law must never be perverted into a tool of oppression. Legal processes should serve the ends of justice, not be employed to deny a citizen his fundamental right to liberty while he stands trial. Malam Nasir El-Rufai should be accorded full due process guaranteed by law to every citizen, and the persistent disregard for his rights must cease immediately.
Signed
Muyiwa Adekeye @MuyiwaAdekeye
Media Adviser to Malam Nasir El-Rufai
19 April 2026.
ALOU IBRAHIM GEBI RESPONSE ON PREMIUM TIMES (@PremiumTimesng) ALLEGATION.
"First, let me make something clear: I can never speak ill of our heads of security agencies, my president, or my country. Never. So, for anyone to twist my contributions into something sinister is deeply painful. But I am a patriot. And patriots take the good with the bad, on behalf of the nation they love.
That said, let us ask the right question: Was it the socalled "false intelligence" about Abuja that made the United States issue a travel advisory covering 23 states? Let us be serious. Let us also remember that when President Buhari was in office, and the U.S. wanted to evacuate its embassy staff, I was the one who stood up and defended Nigeria. The record is there. I did not hide. I did not run.
Bauchi was stable until the Americans came. So perhaps, just perhaps, we should be directing some pertinent questions to those who arrived and things changed. Just like we discussed the case of Alex Babir. I will not insult my country. I will not tear my country down. I will not burn my country. Why would I? Nigeria will outlive all of us. Nigeria will succeed and thrive, not because of us, but in spite of us. I will take my love for Nigeria to my grave. And if I were to come back a billion times, a billion times I would choose Nigeria.
I am an optimist, never a pessimist. This is why the glass is never half-empty for me. That is also why I have always recognised the efforts and sacrifices of the National Security Adviser, our intelligence agencies, especially the SSS, and our gallant military. There is no doubt that we are gaining ground in the fight against insecurity.
But before we rush to push things out, we must take a deep breath. We must reflect. We must weigh our words carefully. We must not throw the baby away with the bathwater.
Let me leave you with this: The Americans are here on the ground, with boots and intelligence assets. Do they truly need someone to tell them that something is going to happen? Or are they the ones who should be telling us? If we have reached a point where we have to inform them of impending danger, then perhaps, just perhaps, we need to reevaluate the relationship, based on the intelligence-sharing pact we have.
I love my country. I have bled for my country. And I will never stop defending it."
Signed
Hon. Alou Ibrahim Gebi
We call on the Intelligence, Security and Defence Community to to investigate this fellow thoroughly, for NIS to re-confirm the terms of issuance of his visa to Nigeria, to be cautioned as appropriate, and to be expelled from the Country if deemed appropriate.
This is deep and Sad to read,
Written by Saโadiya Adebisi Hassan to H.E Malam Uba Sani the Governor of Kaduna state
This isnโt politics, this is character failure at the highest level.
A man went to war for you politically. He defended you when others walked away. He took hits, made enemies and helped clear the path that brought you to power.
Today, he loses his motherโฆ and this is when you choose to draw a line?
You suddenly remember โpolitical differencesโ to the point that you canโt even offer simple, human respect? You refer to her as โtheir motherโ - cold, distant, calculated as if compassion now requires party approval.
Your Excellency, power has exposed you.
Because only a certain kind of person forgets loyalty this tquickly. Only a certain kind of person benefits from someoneโs sacrifices, then turns around and acts like they owe them nothing not even basic decency in a moment of grief.
That woman isnโt just โhis mother.โ She is part of the story that helped shape the man who stood by you when it mattered most. The least you owe is respect - not this dry, politically-filtered acknowledgment.
This is how people reveal themselves not in speeches, not in campaigns, but in moments like this.
When gratitude is absent.
When empathy is selective.
When power replaces humanity.
No amount of protocol can hide it.
No statement can dress it up.
This is what hypocrisy looks like - raw and unfiltered.