By Suleiman Anyalewechi
The former Governor of Abia State and Senator representing Abia North Senatorial district, has urged Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal to review his political relationship with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the over all interest of his political future, and the development of Zamfara state.
This is as he cautioned that Zamfara State and its people will be the ultimate losers should the Governor continue to hold diametrically different political ideology from that of the President.
At the official commissioning of the reconstructed office complex of the State Ministry for Women Affairs and renovated Zamfara College of Arts and Sciences in Gusau on Monday, June 2025, Senator Kalu urged Governor Dauda to borrow from his personal experience when he, as a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governor in Abia, maintained a very cordial relationship with Tinubu who was of the Alliance For Democracy, AD, at the time
According to him, much as he is not insisting that the Zamfara Governor should abandon the PDP, he nevertheless appealed to him to put political differences aside, and maintain cordial relationship with the President so as to fast track the development of Zamfara state
Senator Kalu advised the Governor to play what he called “political economics”, so as to attract more Federal funds for developmental project in Zamfara.
He warned that failure to strike a balance between his political persuasion, and working relationship with the President, may lead to Zamfara not having enough funds to execute essential projects for the good of the people.
“Whatever my political differences with the President were, we have healed them, and we are now one.
“I want you to heal your political differences with the President.
“I know you are in PDP, and the President and I are in the APC, you can do PDP as a party, and do economic development as a Zamfara man so that the people can benefit and the state will develop.
“I am not asking you to leave your party to join APC .But you can play economic diplomacy.
“Once you leave economic diplomacy and play politics, you will lose, Zamfara people will lose.
“Go and take the Federal money. If you do politics, you will miss the Federal money. But if you do political economics, you get the Federal money, and develop Zamfara State.
“Former Governor Abdulaziz Yari is from here, and you are from here. You people should come together and give your people the development they need, and the lifewire they need.
“The place ( Zamfara ) needs the attention of the Federal Government. I am not saying you should join their party (APC), but I am saying “be in good terms with the president” Kalu stated.
The Source, however, reports that the APC led- Federal Government has of recent been accused of employing some under hand methods, including the type that Senator Kalu is unleashing on the Zamfara Governor to cajole, and even subtly threaten most opposition Governors and other officials to join the APC.
So far, the APC has succeeded in wooing Governors Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta state and Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State, through tactics not too different from the one Kalu is applying in Zamfara.
The opposition, and indeed not a few Nigerians, have expressed concern over the alleged plot by the ruling party to foster on the country a one party State.
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