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Apr 3, 2023 30 tweets 6 min read
PART V - How Zamfara state have been governed

Since the return of Democracy in 1999, Zamfara is one of the few state that are still yet to benefit from the dividends of democracy.
On almost every metric of development, Zamfara just like in the list of states & capital is the last or at the bottom.

According to NBS, 78% of the state is living in multidimensional poverty.  SBM Intelligence says Zamfara has 61.4% of its children out of school, 2nd highest.
Apr 2, 2023 18 tweets 5 min read
Part IV: Election Day & Announcement of Winners

March 18th, the D-Day is finally here. Unlike in the presidential elections, most election materials across the state arrived at the wards on Friday night.
Mar 30, 2023 47 tweets 11 min read
PART II: (B) Who the man @Dr_DaudaLawal

Who is this baby face looking, 40 years old unknown figure that pulled off the impossible.

Well scratch that, DLD is turning 58 this year.

Before his sojourn into Politics in 2019 very little is known about Dauda Lawal Muhammad Dare, I mean Bankers are not known for being out there.
Mar 29, 2023 12 tweets 4 min read
He also donated a brand new 18-seater bus to the National Union of Zamfara State Student

However, Zamfara state students were kicked out of their hostels in Cyprus due to unpaid money. Crescent University and Al-Hikmah students are also yet to graduate as both schools refuse to mobilize them for NYSC.
Mar 29, 2023 22 tweets 6 min read
The Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions.

PART II: (A) How Matawalle Governed Zamfara state After the Supreme Court pronounced that the APC did not conduct primary elections. Hence all candidates for 2019 election were unqualified to run.

Zamfara voters and the entire country were jubilant that Yari had been neutralized and had high hopes that Bello would perform.
Mar 28, 2023 39 tweets 9 min read
PART I

The Political Terrain in Zamfara, Notable events that happened and how the Agenda was set. Zamfara since 1999 has always been an APC state, Ahmad Sani Yarima won elections with the APP in 99, then won with ANPP in 03. Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi Won with ANPP in 07 and decamped to PDP. He lost to Abdulaziz Yari of the ANPP in 11.
Mar 27, 2023 22 tweets 9 min read
Since the announcement, I have been inundated with phone calls, all asking the same question.

How the hell did @Bellomatawalle1 of @OfficialAPCNg lose the Election?

How did a political novice & lightweight beat not just Matawalle, but all the seasoned politicians in Zamfara? Bello MatawalleA Montage depicting Political Heavyweights Dauda had to overDauda Lawal at a Campaign Rally It seemed almost impossible not just to them but to the entire country that such could happen and they were all right to think so.

How then did it happen?
Jul 23, 2021 14 tweets 4 min read
This morning around 0300 hrs, rounds of gun fire were heard by helpless residents of Dansadau signaling another attack by Bandits loyal to Ali Kachalla

They killed atleast 3 people, kidnapped 8 people including grand nephews & relatives of Senator SM Dansadau and were able to destroy an Armored Personnel Carrier
Jun 3, 2021 25 tweets 5 min read
Many people don’t know this, but insecurity has been ravaging Zamfara for almost a decade now.

Most analysts wrongly claim its all because of Gold fields Though it’s a contributing element, it actually constitute a small portion of the multi-varied factors responsible for it. Farmers-Herdsmen clash is as old as Cain & Abel, but they have their dispute resolution techniques which have worked since beginning of the Human Race.
Jul 26, 2018 17 tweets 3 min read
Look, This narrative has always been pissing me off. It’s not just a Twitter thing. It’s a shared opinion across most Nigerians from Southern Geo-political Zones

Issa Thread Most Southerners think of US as being ignorant, backward and Uncivilized

Civil Servants feel the colleagues Of Northern origin are not competent and if they were from else where in the country they would probably only be fit for Motor Park Louts