Hon. Ndakene Certificate Saga; A Dangerous Path Shongalites Should Avoid

_~ Shonga Emirate Youths Warns Crises Patrons_

Social media has been recently agog with allegations and counter allegations, accusations and counter accusations of a certificate forgery involving a serving House of Representatives member, Hon. Ahmed Abubakar Ndakene and Mr. Hassan Babako, his contender in the 2019 general election. There is no doubt that the central theme in this issue is not for the development of the immediate community of the two contenders, that is, Shonga Emirate but absolutely aimed at achieving self aggrandizement not minding the possible detriments that it may cause Shonga Emirate which is suppose to enjoy the political fruits ripe on its tree.

To start with, Mr. Hassan Babako has accused Hon. Ndakene of forging is ABU (A famous and leading Nigerian University) degree certificate. An allegation we find very difficult to believe not because it is not possible but because it will be senseless and thoughtless for one in Nigeria to forge Ahmadu Bello University Certificate and use same to contest for a Federal House of Representatives knowing fully well that the world is now a global village and too interconnected that such will easily come to lime light if done. After all, Degree is not the minimum requirement for contesting an election in Nigeria, not even the office of the President, so, why would one under take such adventure whose risk of exposure outweighed it secrecy? At first, the allegation was about his SSCE Certificate, later it was switched to Degree Certificate. Well, Time shall tell as the issue is now in court. .

The second leg of the accusation, although not yet taken officially, is that Mr. Hassan Babako who is supposed to be believed to be a graduate of Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto also did not graduate from the alleged university. This, the promoters of this assertion explained why Babako did not use the said alleged forged UDU degree certificate as his highest qualification while submitting his documents to INEC bit opted for SSCE. I began to wonder why one who holds a first degree will opt to use SSCE as his highest qualification in a contest? Only time shall tell.

The third leg of the accusation is the believe by some quarters that Alhaji Shuaibu Yaman is the Director General of the political script that Hon. Babako is playing with Hon. Ndakene. The reason for this believe is not far fetched. It is not longer a news that Alh. Shuaibu Yaman is nursing governorship ambition, the position he fought up til primary election level with the current governor of the state. This same ambition is still believed to be alive and awaiting 2022 before it start manifesting and it also expected that Hon. Ndakene would want to go for a second term. Coincidentally, both Alhaji Shuaibu Yaman and Hon. Ndakene are from the same Shonga Emirate and off course, the two positions can not be left to Shonga Emirate alone. So, they believed Alhaji Shuaibu Yaman would want Hon. Ndakene out of his political way. Only time shall tell.

The Dangerous Nature of this Path and How Shonga Emirate Will Suffer It If Left Unchecked

It is a common saying that when two elephants fight, it is grasses that suffer. A critical perusal of the itemised three accusations above will show that it is premised on nothing but selfish interest of the key players one trying to outsmart the other. At the end of this game, it is Shonga Emirate that will bear the brunt that it may not come out of in the nearest future.

Come to think of it, Shonga Emirate people are already divided among the three political blocks each fighting the other instead of uniting to attract the needed development that Shonga Emirate is lacking in all ramifications of life. The youths are not where to be found in terms of capacity building, hospital, road network, portable water, functioning schools etc are all a mirage. In the face of all these sociopolitical and economic anomalies withholding the development of Shonga Emirate even when compared with the little that are happening in the other contemporary Emirates, no any sane individual will choose to chase away the little opportunity we have now in Shonga Emirate to right the long time wrong and fuel the vehicle of emancipation and development for the benefit of all because of selfish interest.

The youths who are the key tools that this behind the scene players are using need to have a rethink and follow the path of unity for development.

The position occupied by Hon. Ahmed Abubakar Ndakene is an envious one that is capable of transforming and rewriting the history of Shonga Emirate in terms solution to its challenges. The gentle man is already laying a foundation for a good and quality representation. In his less than one year in office, he has been able to touch lives in positive ways, empowering the youths, nominating life changing projects in the National budget, supporting the small scale business women among other viable adventures.

It is important to state that when Engr. Yunusa Yahaya of Tsaragi was there, he was supported with two hands of Tsaragi people. They had their political differences but they never witch hunt him and try to bring him down Tsaragi had its taste of goodies of that office through out the eight years of his tenure. Hon. Aliyu Ahman Patigi just finished his tenure of 12 years and was all the time supported by the people of his immediate emtoday and today, Patigi Emirate is the envy of all because the goodies that comes with the office he occupied, the same office Hon. Ndakene is occupying today.

Why then should the case of Shonga Emirate be different? Posterity will not forgive you all if for your selfish reason you deny the people of Shonga Emirate this wonderful opportunity of turning things around.

Fellow youths, we advice that we don't allow ourselves to be used as tools for political fight of selfish interest because that will not yield anything but underdevelopment.

We leave us all to our conscience.