The Deputy Senate President, Sen. Barau Jibrin, has been commended for effective and efficient political leadership that has improved the living standards of his constituents.
A chieftain made the commendation of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State, Comrade Alhaji Shu’ayb Darki, who spoke to journalists in Bauchi on Wednesday.
According to him, “For more than any Federal Lawmaker, Sen. Barau Jibrin has brought laudable projects worth over N234 billion to his constituency and has empowered nothing less than 60,000 youths, businessmen, and women both within and outside his senatorial district in his zeal to combat poverty and insecurity.”
He also said that “Without any iota of doubt, Sen. Barau Jibrin is not only representing his Kano North Senatorial District or his home State, Kano but rather the whole of the Northern part of the country, which consists of 19 States and has 57 Senatorial Districts.”
Shu’ayb Darki stressed that “There is no state in the North where you find people whose lives were not touched in one way or another by Senator Barau Jibrin through his humanitarian/philanthropic activities.”
According to him, “In fact, I know of people who were knocked down by one deadly sickness or another, and students whose parents were too indigent to pay for their school fees in states like Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger, and Zamfara State.”
He also said that, “But through his humanitarian activities, thousands of lives were saved from the razor-sharp claws of death, and thousands of the sons and daughters of the less privileged are now graduates, courtesy of Senator Barau’s Scholarship Scheme.”
“When it comes to employment, Sen. Barau Jibrin has so far employed not fewer than 785 graduates in various sectors. Having been a business mogul all through his life, he has underwritten thousands of small businesses across the federation with the money he makes from his businesses,” he added.
The politician added that, “He is now a political measurement scale used to gauge the political worthiness of our Senators and Members of the House of Representatives by their constituents. You could see that any Senator/Federal Lawmaker from Kano State who is not as public-spirited and hardworking as Sen. Barau Jibrin was punished by his constituents on the voting day during the 2023 General elections.”
He stressed,”But Senator Barau Jibrin did not only survive that electoral hurdle but also saved the necks of almost all the Federal Lawmakers from his Kano-North Senatorial District owing to his unrivalled popularity and the unflinching love his constituents have for him.”
He also said that, “Hence, politicians of Senator Barau Jibrin’s calibre are very thin on the ground. For he is such a nice politician, you can pay top dollar to associate yourself with, for your association with him will make you have a heart for suffering masses who find it extremely difficult to afford the three square meals.”
He added that, “I can tell you that there was never a Senator from the First Republic to date who was as hardworking and dedicated to the needs of his or her constituents as Senator Barau I. Jibrin.”
According to him, “He also believes, as did Mahatma Gandhi, that the only sure-fire way to do away with insecurity is by keeping the youths unavoidably engaged.”
While recounting their meeting for the first time, Shu’ayb Darki explained that, “I came in contact with Senator Barau in 2001 when he was the Member, representing Tarauni Federal Constituency at the Green Chamber of the NASS. It happened that we brought one elderly person to Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano on referral and luckily enough for us, that very day, at dusk, we overheard people saying Hon. Barau was in the hospital to wish the in-patients a speedy recovery and render some medical assistance to them.”
According to him, “When all of a sudden, he rammed into the door of our room, I tried to take away the badge of the APP, which was later rechristened ANPP, from the left-hand side pocket of my ash-colored jacket, being the Local Government secretary of the defunct APP/ANPP so that he will not see it because my expectation or rather fear was that if he sees it, he would not render any assistance to us, and he might end up lumping us together with our deadly sick patient as card-carrying members of the opposition party.”
He said that Sen Barau Jibrin thereafter picked up payment of the old man’s medical bill, stressing that he was not at the hospital for politicking.
“Our relationship became much stronger when he joined us in the defunct ANPP and showed his interest to run for governorship. I could remember vividly, myself and one Idi Mashi from Takai Local Government used to be members of his little entourage that always accompanied him when he was going out of the city to attend some occasions such as paying condolence visits to people who lost their beloved ones, attending marital ceremonies, paying visits to commiserate with the people of a certain community, whenever there is a disaster or an outbreak particularly in the Kano-North senatorial District,” he added.
According to him, “So, I suppose I need no paper identification before I consider myself as one of his aides. I have always been acting as his aide ever since I got to know him 22 years ago because he is the type of person any serious-minded politician would want to associate with.”
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