Distinguished Senator representing Adamawa Central Senatorial District and Chairman, Senate Committee on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
She is currently the APC Gubernatorial Candidate for Adamawa State, having beaten six other candidates, all male and political heavyweights, with 430 votes.
While judgement is being awaited from the Court of Appeal regarding the primaries, there’s palpable fears that powers that be are working behind the scene to upstage the victory of this incredible amazon and kallabi tsakanin rawuna.
Women must rise up in stout defence of this mandate, if only to justify the campaign on affirmative action for women in politics and governance. This should, must not be the way of late Senator Aisha Alhassan, nee Mama Taraba.
And the party, APC, has a huge stake to defend its integrity and stand by its candidate. With facts and evidences available on the table, the judgement of the Appeal Court will not chargeSenator Binani guilty for the offence of others, and more.
This, here, is the face of the first elected female governor in Nigeria come 2023.
Mal. Mahmud Zukogi is a Lecturer with the Department of English and Literary Studies,
Bayero University, Kano.