Tag: Senator Ibrahim Shekarau

“I won’t retire from politics until death” – Shekarau

Aminu Imam

Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, representing Kano-Central senatorial district, has vowed he won’t retire from politics until death comes calling. The 65-yr-old Shekarau, who was Minister of Education from 2014 to 2015 and two-term governor of Kano State, serving from 2003-2011 and elected Senator in 2019, told newsmen in Kano yesterday that, “I have no time to retire from politics until death”. He made this disclosure while speaking about his political future shortly after he inaugurated the Shura Consultative Assembly whose mission, the former governor said, is to facilitate “Just and fair…

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2023 presidency: Shekarau says no zoning arrangement in APC’s Constitution

Aminu Imam

Ø  Says it is a matter of “common sense” to give power to the South  Former minister and ex-Kano State governor, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, has said that there is no arrangement for the zoning of the presidency in the constitution of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The former two-term Kano state governor and former Education minister made this known yesterday, while answering questions from newsmen. The Senator representing Kano-Central, however, noted that it is by the virtue of common sense and fairness that the power should leave the north to…

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