Kwankwaso has taken countless children of nobodies and empowered them to stations in life not even his own children have reached, without demanding anything in return from them. No other person in Nigeria’s public space has done this.
Kano this and Kano that, but there are hundreds of thousands of homeless children wandering Kano sent there by their parents from all over Arewa in the name of almajirci. Far from being a breeding ground, Kano is the melting pot of the irresponsibility which characterises Arewa.
If you’re managing a 10 million naira project and someone carelessly wastes 100k of project money, you at least seriously consider firing him. But 10,000 HUMAN LIVES can be wasted and nobody even gets a query. This is the legacy of Buhari.
Nasir El-Rufai appreciation tweet.
We need to pay more attention and take notes. An absolute masterclass in governance is unfolding in Kaduna during this Covid-19 crisis.
I have never come across a thinker who operated at the level of Ibn Taymiyyah. Tempered empiricism and existentialism all in one man, while remaining on the traditional clear understanding of the Salaf. The man was a gift from Allah to us. Can’t find other words.
Aminu Ado Bayero wrote sack letters to the likes of Sarkin Bai Mukhtar Adnan, Madakin Kano, his uncle Idris Bayero and Ali Ibrahim. Nothing that can be done to him is worse than what he participated in doing to others.
Shehu Usman dan Fodio personally never went even to what is now Kaduna State, talkless of waging a war in Benue. Garbage threads like this pass for Nigerian history, and that’s sad.
My highest aspiration is to be a Muslim who truly answers the name. There is no joy in life greater than bowing down to Allah with all your heart. There, all worries and anxieties vanish, and there is only bliss.
Kwankwaso has done something that perhaps nobody in Nigeria today has: he has taken thousands of children of nobodies & given them the same elite opportunities as his own children. Many of them have now reached levels Kwankwaso's children will never reach. Beat that.
As far as I can see, all of the problems Muslims face in the world today come down to a people reciting and listening to the Qur’an and the words not getting anywhere past their throats. This Book has within it the keys to every transformation we need. We’re supposed to feel it.
Two completely opposite letters.
Same response: Allah.
A lesson for all believers.
What a man, Sarkin Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II. Allah ya kara tawakkali, ya sa albarka a zamani, ya kuma sa a gama lafiya.
You have to feel for Aminu Ado also. When MSII was removed, he could fall back on his work with Tijjaniyya, MTN, UN, writing his book, FG economic advisory…Aminu Ado’s whole life seems to be just that sarauta. I honestly wish he could be Wambai again.
The Jihad in Kano was led primarily by 4 Fulani clans. These clans were spread all over Kano Emirate. It’s a recognition of that massive contribution that the 4 kingmakers come from them:
Sarkin Dawaki Mai Tuta - Sullubawa
Madaki - Yolawa
Makama - Jobawa
Sarkin Bai - Dambazawa
No way you can get these opportunities without elite privileges.
Also no way you can scam El-Rufai and Dikko Radda to promote you like this. You have to be at least decent and definitely extremely hard working.
Both are true.
Khalil Nur Khalil, mai bai wa gwamnan jihar Katsina shawara kan tattalin arziƙi ya fara shiga gwamnati tun yana ɗan shekara 25, kuma matashin ya samu ɗaukaka inda har ya riƙe shugabancin Hukumar bunƙasa zuba jari ta jihar Kaduna a zamanin Mallam Nasir Elrufai.
Please let us not forget to pray for understanding of the Qur’an, and the chance to incorporate it in our lives. There is nothing like it: it is the most important eye opener to how reality really is; a guide through ALL of life’s problems, and a healing for the heart.
Thousands of Kano youth working with no time off for free. I hope Nigerian politicians do some soul-searching on why RMK is so deeply loved.
Such a simple template: be there for people, work tirelessly for them, give them hope, and they will go to the ends of the earth for you.
Resurrection: Ertugrul is in my opinion the most important thing to have ever come out of Muslim Cinema. It carries a message of pristine Islam without being stale, a difficult achievement. I’ve been collecting my favourite quotes for the past few years and have decided to share:
The 40 Hadith of Nawawi are a masterpiece of moral education. All through life, you keep seeing the gems holding true.
I have learnt far more outside than I have in them, but likely the most important things I know are all from basic Islamiyya education nearly everyone here got.
Kano has 4 kingmakers:
3 were appointed by Ado Bayero
1 was appointed by Aminu Ado Bayero
All 4 are on Sanusi’s side on this Kano tussle. This fact should ordinarily lead Aminu Ado to do some deep introspection.
A court order from Justice Amina Aliyu in Kano prohibits the police, the State Security Service (SSS), and the Nigerian military from removing the reinstated Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II.
The lawsuit was submitted by the emir in collaboration with the four traditional
In 2015, when Jonathan was playing while our lives were wasted, we were all together in condemning and eventually kicking him out.
Today, as Buhari sleeps on duty for the same thing, our APC brothers tell us insecurity is “complicated”.
How can you tell a woman whose husband is an adulterer that Allah wants her to be patient with him and to strive to be better to him? Reverse roles and see what’s said of adulterous women. We have normalised this nonsense, giving feminists and other advocates of Kufr free points.
"Duk macen da mijinta ke neman mata tana cike da kunci da bacin rai" in ji Shiekh Abdallah Gadon Kaya.
Ta yaya ya kamata mace ta bi da mijinta idan yana neman mata?
A key reason Buhari was voted was to punish the rich. Indeed, many of the rich have been punished and are being punished. What the poor didn’t have in mind is the saying: “when the upper class catches a cold, the working class dies of pneumonia.”
Abba Kabir Yusuf is the only candidate in any election - including presidential - who got over 1 million votes in one state this year. Yet two court judgements by 3 people each have sacked him. So much for the “will of the people”.
Abba Kabir is calm and silent…until it comes to his work; then it’s always like he’s about to fight. He knows no rest, has no tolerance for nonsense, and is very demanding of the people he works with. Easily mistaken for arrogance, it is the attitude that gets things done.
The Kwankwasiyya group ran a massive, organised and sustained effort to ensure fair voting, safe transportation and collation of results. Thousands of young men abandoned everything - even sleep - for over 2 days. Without the diligence, this election would have been stolen tuni
Muslim Northern Nigeria has a tendancy to abandon all reason and place blind faith in individuals. This fraternisation with Shirk will take us nowhere. Allah alone is perfect. EVERYONE is open to scrutiny.
The Buhari administration stole ₦26.627 trillion from the pockets of Nigerians.
Something like 99% of Nigerians are poorer today than they were 8 years ago. I believe this to be the greatest crime in the history of Nigeria.
One of my favourite places kn the Qur’an is where the Mushrikun of Makkah in the peak of their kufr declare that nothing could ever destroy them, “except time”. Even peak peak peak kufr knows that time destroys everything. Allahu Akbar indeed.
The claim that 9 out of every 10 men castrated died in and around the Sokoto Caliphate was made by H. Barth in his 1851 travel diary. He was very clear it was PAGANS WHO CASTRATED PAGANS, NOT MUSLIMS. In his words, castration “is an abomination in the eyes of every Mohammedan”.
Your people were killing 9 out 10 boys to make one eunuch to be sent as a gift to the Sultan but sure, only white people were evil. We whose ancestors were enslaved by both black and white, we remember. And we will not be railroaded out of nuance. We will speak about it all.
At MSII’s last Eid Prayer in Kano, his recitation included this section of Aali Imran while leading Ganduje and his folk. Drunk with power, they desecrated everything with impunity. Now the tables have turned, and the rewards of patience and perseverance are here.
ALHAMDULILLAH
At Eid today, Sarkin Kano Sanusi recited ayahs that stressed the importance of patience in the face of adversaries; how no calamity happens without Allah’s permission; and how Allah has power over all.
Dr. Bashir of Al-Furqan came all out against Ganduje today.
It’s particularly good given the misguided sense of righteousness that the most respected people in our society shouldn’t have political opinions. Politics is our most important issue as a society.
Aminu Kano said that Nigeria would know no peace until the son of nobody can become somebody without knowing anybody. Kwankwaso is a very flawed man, but he is the closest thing in Nigerian politics today to fulfilling that dream.
Just a glimpse of what happened during the so-called primaries in my constituency. Scoring a single vote must have even been a miracle. There are much more to what was seen here. Exploring all the possible and legal ways to reclaim our mandate.
Cc
@OfficialAPCNg
@inecnigeria
The hand of the thief is not to be cut if extreme deprivation led him to it. The very laws of God are suspended when hunger is in play. Now you have a scenario where the biggest problem for tens millions of people is where they’re going to get their next meal.
Visiting Tarauni Cemetery is like going to some massive Kano reunion.
May Allah have mercy on them and us and reunite us in Jannatu Adn, the Gardens of Eternal Bliss, where there is no separation or sadness anymore.
We knew our sister
@notSalmata
only as a truly good person. We have high hopes and pray she has left all pain behind, that Allah have mercy on her and admit her into Daarus-Salaam - the abode of peace - where she will know only eternal bliss.
“Remember, God has the picture, we have just a pixel. Until the 1950s, all physicists, including Einstein, believed that the universe was eternal; all the data supported this, and this belief conflicted with the Qur’an.
Kwankwaso and Ganduje have given Kano youth the saga of a lifetime. Kwankwaso showed us glimpses of the promised land, Ganduje is showing us we must get past dangerous dragons to get to it.
Computer Science and Economics/Finance: You may not have studied them at school, but they are in every facet of your life. Do yourself a favour and improve your education by reading, documentaries, youtube etc.
The looting is tragic, and it will likely get much, much worse.
But the problem is not the protests. The problem is this level of hunger, desperation and utter hopelessness in the future.
The Tiktok - and even Instagram - culture in Arewa is worrying. But railing against decadence doesn’t seem to achieve much. Perhaps we should focus more on our failure to provide our society with a realistic and practical vision of a good life to be aspired to.
Never dragged anyone on Twitter but
@dawisu
simply does not deserve the respect given to him here. The man is a degenerate accomplice to this evil. It was crystal clear APC had lost tun tuni, but he kept pretending otherwise because he thought the overnight theft would succeed.
If Kwankwaso is a “local champion”, then so was Malan Aminu Kano. At the peak of his political career, Aminu Kano ran for President and won only Kano State, getting next to nothing in most states.
There is far, far, faaaaar more to a Presidential election than just who wins.
The Hadiths that Aisha was 9 when the Prophet SAW married her are reported by Sahih Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Nasa’i, Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah and others using several different chains. It takes A LOT of intellectual gymnastics to say she wasn’t 9.
Nana Asma’u would fight against injustice against women today, yes.
But if she were to meet Arewa feminists today, part of her immediate reaction to many would be: “where is your hijab”?
Both are Nana Asma’u, but the woke appropriate the 1st and ignore the 2nd. Unacceptable.
FIRS plans to “generate” 25 trillion naira this year. It is downright satanic to want to suck 25 trillion out of the most financially wretched of the whole earth.
Sometimes I get deathly afraid. The Lord who revealed to Nuh, Ibrahim, Musa, Isa, Muhammad and all the other prophets is more real than everything we know, and He’s just watching us as we take everything He gave us for granted and go about living as though he doesn’t even exist.
Unlike most other religions, Islam does not teach us to abstain from enjoying the good things of this life. We pray and work for the best of this life and the life to come. They are not mutually exclusive.
At Eid today, Sarkin Kano Sanusi recited ayahs that stressed the importance of patience in the face of adversaries; how no calamity happens without Allah’s permission; and how Allah has power over all.
If there was an official historian of Kano, Ibrahim Ado Kurawa would most likely be that. He’s come to take us all down memory lane at this time, using history to deliver a devastating critique of Ganduje’s fictitious 4 “Emirates” in Kano.
El-Rufai’s reign in Kaduna is a good model for leadership which takes adequate time to study things and then tries to do what is needed, decisively. Little happened in his first few years, but now work is going on non-stop. You cannot say that of Buhari.
The Qur’an is a reminder about your own self. The people of Nuh, Ad, Thamud, people of Lut…all human beings like you and I. The things they did, we can all do if we’re not careful and if Allah doesn’t have mercy on us.
The consensus among many well-meaning Arewa analysts is that peace is more important than anything else.
I personally detest that position. Justice is a far more important goal than peace. Indeed, the peace that comes with injustice is a false one.
Kano has been in existence for centuries. Without a doubt, Kano will still be there after tomorrow's Supreme Court verdict on the state’s governorship election. And regardless of who is declared the winner, our beloved Kano will prevail, in sha Allah.
Let's be considerate
I wasn’t intent on commenting on the Pantami issue but the inability of people in Arewa to think logically is EXTREMELY worrying. Listen to this. So many talking points. Where is the logic?
Death scares me a lot. But when I call to mind all those I have lost and will never have access to in this life, death doesn’t look so bad. The human heart yearns for a happiness without limits, and death is a necessary portal to that.
Aminu Kano was Fulani.
Zakzaki is Fulani.
Maitatsine was not Hausa.
300 retweets. This is the nonsense that passes for informed analysis. We are in trouble as a country.
The first charismatic Hausa leader to unite his people against Fulani overlords was a scholar by the name Abd al – Salam, another Hausa scholar by the name Dan Buya joined him. His movement started around 1818, shortly after the death of Usman Dan Fodio.
Kano’s Kwankwaso in 2011-2015 was something man: he made the usual fantastic governmental promises and then did the unthinkable by going ahead to actually deliver them in concrete. People started to hope by seeing REAL RESULTS of Government’s ACTIONS.
I see the deep level of economic devastation as a rock-solid guarantor that Nigeria cannot know peace, no matter what govt officials armed with guns do. Excruciating poverty is a close sibling to Kufr. When people are pressed to the wall, there is no depravity you won’t see.
200+ years after losing Zazzau, the King of Suleja is still addressed as Sarkin Zazzau.
150 years after his overthrow, the descendants of Sarkin Kano Alwali in Maradi - who didn’t control even a neighbourhood - were still crowning a leader among them and calling him Sarkin Kano.
Its not right, it has never been done, not in the North, not in the south. And it simply reaffirms what I have always said that he wasn't brought up in the Palace and does not know the traditions and culture. To him, being a KING is dressing up! Sadly!
I am 100% for the calling out of the BS of PR boys. Wallahi these are the moral equivalents of Fir’auna’s cheerleaders.
MK, Ibn Wali and all the other ranters and people lighting and fuelling the fire are doing the Lord’s work. Allah ya yi musu jagora.
Governors Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame were convicted and sentenced to jail for corruption, and President Buhari presided over the council of Nigeria’s elders, which sat down and gave them state pardons.
2 years on, I am still in shock.
You will find Yusuf SAW, his brothers, father, prison mates, temptress etc. in yourself and around you, and others will continue to do it until the world ends. Every Qur’anic story is about the literal past and how reality will always be. Its words live.
The same people who brought into Kano a deposed Emir under strong military protection and try to forcefully incite protests by incendiary comments and burning a few tyres on State Road are publicly calling for “Allah to bring peace to Kano.” A Kano that stubbornly stays calm.
Alhaji Bashir Tofa’s death has really touched me. I don’t know his life in depth, but he’s been a near-solitary voice of conscience among Kano’s elites in the past few years, hence my growing interest in him.
My latest write-up is a rejoinder to an article by
@ScholarAkassi1
making rounds this week. I think he misrepresents Islamic scholarship, and here I explain why.
The single root cause of Boko Haram, Fulani banditry, Niger-Delta militancy etc. is the states’s failure to give people justice. While we struggle to stay afloat under the strain caused by these problems, we remain more than ever committed to using power to oppress others.
Kwankwaso’s shocking “sweep” of Kano is him getting 75% tops, but people who seem to have voted one man 99% are accusing the north of lacking sophistication. Living in a glass house and throwing stones.
Dear PR Boy/Girl,
How can you accept money to spread what you KNOW is not true or is misleading? Do you know how GRAVE that is before Allah? Every single time you spread such lies, you are making a case for a prime ticket to Jahannama. Continue and see.
Growing up in Badawa, Kano, there was a well-known atheist in the neighbourhood. He lived freely I never saw or heard of anybody harassing him. Had he chosen to openly insult people’s faith, it would have been a different story.
I have also watched the BBC documentary on Mubarak Bala. I have a lot to say about it, and I will do that, but not here. Nevertheless, there is a need to correct some salient misconceptions the documentary maker obliquely suggests. 1/7
Modern liberals have a problematic relationship with shame. On one hand they tell Muslims to be okay with the desecration of their most sacred symbols; on the other, they promote the persecution of people for not using “their” pronouns.
There was never 165,000 fake votes.
@Kyusufabba
’s membership in NNPP was never an issue.
Yet for 5 months, millions of us were forced to focus on this nonsense with heart-wrenching tension, when we had far more important things to do.
I will never forgive this. Allah ya isa.
I’ve been studying this period lately and am appalled by how Muslims massacred each other in the causes of Europe. But in every period, there are always those who transcend the fads.
ربنا اغفرلنا و لاخواننا الذين سبقونا بالإيمان
All subsidies are being ditched one by one, but everybody is blind to one subsidy: every increase in government revenue through taxation is Nigerians subsidising more the thieves in government.
Taxation as a rule is highway robbery, and especially so in Nigeria today.
In an unprecedented budget fraud in Nigerian history, the National Assembly has appropriated N370 billion on running costs, contingency, vague and duplicated projects for the Senate and House of Representatives in the 2024 Appropriation Act.
In the N370 billion NASS budget,
Sarki Halifa Muhammadu Sanusi II explaining the situation in Kano for all who want to understand. Thugs are being imported into Kano from other states and even abroad to steal the election as was done in 2019.
Books provide a unique, memorable companionship, especially through lonely times. Sometimes you see a book and it instantly brings to mind pleasant memories. Reading a good book is like going through an awesome journey. Going over it again, like going over photos of old times.
Why do we always have to assume the worst of people? Me yasa ba ma yiwa mutane uzuri? Annabiﷺ ya rantse ba zamu shiga Aljanna ba sai mun so junanmu. Soyayya kuma ta gaji yiwa mutane uzuri. Ko kuskure ka ga wani ya yi, fitowa da shi fili kullun don nishadi ba dabi’ar musulmi bace
Compare Gawuna’s words here to the thuggery APC has unleashed on Kano. And if we call Gawuna a hypocrite, they’ll say Kwankwasiyya youth are disrespectful.
How many times did Annabi SAW sit down to teach people about the most blessed days and nights? Why did he never talk like this?
It’s peak injustice to Muslims to always be putting them in situations where they have to be denying virtues attributed to Annabi SAW.