Murja vs Hisbah: Kano Governor Not Interested in Trivialities – Commissioner
POLITICS DIGEST- The Kano State Commissioner for Information, Baba Halilu Dantiye has declared that the governor of the state, Engr. Kabir Yusuf Abba is preoccupied with serious affairs of governance, and has zero time for trivial issues or events happening in the state.
Dantiye made this known in a chat with our POLITICS DIGEST correspondent in Kano on Monday.
According to him, the governor is only determined and focused on delivering quality governance and dividends of democracy to the people of the state, who massively voted for him in last year’s general elections.
Dantiye, a former president of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), who declined to speak on the brawl between TikTok sensation, Murjanatu Kunya and Hisbah, noted that fixing Kano’s education sector remains the top priority of Governor Yusuf.
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He said his principal has the clear vision of what he wants to do, and what he wants Kano to be, because he was the architect of the ongoing infrastructural developments in the state.
He then made reference to the 1,001 indigent students that the current administration had sponsored for overseas studies, noting: “Yes people have complained, saying why not within the country. Done say it is a waste of resources. But we want them to go out of the country to experience a different atmosphere. We want them to experience different climes, because that one alone is education.
“The academic, the education and environmental factors,all combined to make them more polished, exposed and prepare them for a better life.
“Most of them are university first class, who had finished their first degrees five,six, seven years ago, without doing anything, but this opportunity has given them the platform to do better things for their life, and be good ambassadors of our dear state”.
Dantiye, also recalled the state government’s efforts in paying the tuition fees of 7,000 indigent students of Bayero University Kano (BUK), after the school hike its school fees.
