NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL FROM MAINSTREAM POLITICS DUE TO SAFETY CONCERNS: THE SITUATION IN KADUNA AND THE SAFETY OF EL-RUFAI & ADC SUPPORTERS
For accountability and posterity, I believe I owe everyone an explanation.
Over the last three years, I have participated voluntarily in several political initiatives. I started with Rescue Kaduna, which many eventually left for APC; then SDP, where I helped form the SDP North-West Youth Movement. I later became part of the El-Rufai Media Team, which merged with El-Rufai Live, an opposition platform that has grown to generate about 16 million monthly engagements.
I helped establish the Kaduna ADC Youth Wing, co-forged the Nasiriyya-Ashiru Youth Front, established media platforms, led Kaduna youth participation at the ADC convention, advocated for youth quota during the congress, participated in the screening of aspirants and sale of forms, and contributed to the emergence of two House of Representatives candidates and several State Assembly candidates.
Everything we have done politically has been voluntary. Nobody forced or enticed us into it. We did it because we believed in a cause, in the leadership we followed, and because we believed APC had failed and that Nigeria and Kaduna deserve better leadership.
It is therefore with a heavy heart that I announce my withdrawal from mainstream political activities due to growing safety concerns and the increasingly difficult environment for political participation in Kaduna, particularly for El-Rufai and ADC supporters.
Over the past seven months, more than 50 of our members have been arrested and 20 injured. In every incident, no one from the party at the national or state level visited these victims at home or offered the support they deserved. Statements after each incident are not enough to prevent attacks or make ADC youth feel safe. At a bare minimum, the party can provide lawyers and press support whenever members are attacked, and leaders can sometimes lead solidarity protests. That is what parties facing repressive regimes at every level of government do.
Even our leader could not secure a protest by ADC national leaders. APC appears willing to take advantage of this weakness and regain power. If ADC does not provide defence and safety, and continues to drag its feet, we may face a painful reality.
I will remain a supporter of ADC candidates and, Insha Allah, vote during the polls. I will continue to monitor the affairs of the candidates we have supported and assist them in every possible and safest way.
However, until safer conditions and a more secure atmosphere emerge, all El-Rufai youth groups under my coordination will go into inactive political mode. Any individual member who personally feels safe enough to continue participating in ADC activities remains free to make that decision independently.
This is not directed at any single person, nor is it an attempt to blame an individual. I see this as an organisational concern. As a party and organisation, I have not seen sufficient plans, frameworks, attention or concrete measures directed towards the safety and protection of young El-Rufai and ADC supporters who are actively promoting the party and its candidates.
I cannot continue encouraging thousands of young people to take risks when I cannot guarantee their safety or confidently tell them that adequate protection and support will be available if something goes wrong.
To every young person who may feel hurt, disappointed or abandoned by this decision, I sincerely apologise. I am sorry. I am not capable of protecting everyone, and I will not give anyone a false sense of hope that help will certainly come when I cannot guarantee it.
I sincerely appreciate Hafiz Beyro, Hon. Bello El-Rufai, Mukhtar Baloni, our Mummy Hajiya Hafsat Baba, Sardauna Matasa and Captain Jamil for continuing to look after Malam’s youths even in difficult circumstances.
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@ADCNig@BolajiADC@atiku@IsaAshiruKudan@B_ELRUFAI@muktarbaloni
You are back with your lame weak ass “ high “ joke . Someone that is far more successful than your whole family generation . You can hate on him but you can never be like him . Bello ya fi ubanka kuma ya fi uwarka . Shege mai ruwan kauyawa .
@BashirAhmaad@B_ELRUFAI Don’t mind him. It’s possible he didn’t know he wrote that, or he has mistaken you for the demons that come to him whenever he is high on his white powder as posted by his brother.
The man needs help, I don’t know why they allow him to come back to social media now.
This man has been rude & has consistently grandstanded against every successive government in Kano State. You wouldn’t have tried this with Umaru Musa Yar’adua in Katsina, or more recently, Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai in Kaduna.
Umaru removed the most influential & powerful prince, Badamasi Kabir, as Secretary of the Katsina Emirate Council for gross misconduct. Nasir read the riot act to the Gonin Gora community leaders.
Alaji, I agree 💯 with Comrade, rangwada ba ta gwamnati. There are times when, as a leader, you have to put people in their place. Governance is no joke.
Wai wannan jakin a haka yayi karya wai yayi mafarkin fiyayyen halitta. Shege tsinanne ba abinda ka iya sai zagi . Toh za mu ci durin uwarka. Ba kai kadai ka iya zagi ba . Shege gunkin yan bidi’ah . La’ananne
Oga he had all the best cars that year . But he never bought a Bugatti . He would have if he wanted but he didn’t . AA oil was the first to ride a BV in Abuja . Una sabi lie for this app . Chai
Classical and Ornamental New Money Nigerian Architecture which peaked around 2005 to 2013.
To the first man to ever buy a Bugatti Veyron in Abuja, Alh Rahamaniyya may you overcome the tough times.
went through this thread a lil and everyone saying "and you can't even do anything about it, they can kill you and your family members". So we've unanimously agreed to be at the mercy of sodomites and degenerates? This what we on now, just folding, aite then...
Kashim Shettima may well go down in history as one of Nigeria’s most extensively delegated and internationally engaged Vice Presidents. I don’t think any VP has been entrusted with quite this level of international representation and delegation.
From representing the President at major global summits to leading high-level Nigerian delegations across different countries, the exposure has undoubtedly broadened his experience on the international stage.
If you ask me, that level of exposure has added significantly to his perspective and diplomatic experience.
All this is happening yet men are so quiet about it, but if it is to accuse women of being ashawo that is when your voices will be heard, and some of you do it just based on assumptions with no proofs.
Now that your fellow men are toasting some of you up and down at least use that same energy to call them out and expose them.
You are so broke to understand that life isn’t about money . Charity and helping people is another reason of making money . Not fake life that most of you desire .