Tag Archives: Ahmadu Bello

  “Perchance and going by his antecedents, if l were to influence the choice of a successor to the great Gamji, my best and most favoured and credible personality and destination of choice is Benue State, because of former Governor George Akume, whose superlative passion for the unity of the North as well as Nigeria is beyond doubt”. PEGASUS REPORTERS, ...

The bottom line of all these narrations is that inclusiveness and justice are what is lacking in our contemporary democratic traditions. Injustice, Nepotism, ethnicity, discrimination, marginalisation, religious bigotry and extremism are the building bricks of government architecture at all levels in Nigeria. During the First Republic, the Premier of Northern Nigeria, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna Sokoto has a tradition of ...