Attahiru Bafarawa

Alhaji Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa (born 4 November 1954) is a Nigerian politician who served as the executive governor of Sokoto State from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007. Quotes Well, I am not a media politician. I am a grassroots politician. So, I am doing my politics the way I understand how to play it. But I am not quiet; I’m still active. I am more active now than before because since I started politics in 1976 as a grassroots and local government councillor, as a party chairman of the local government, and as the state chairman and national chairman of the party. So, you can see that in all these things, I have aspirations. I have never thrown away my party membership card. I am a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), I am a member of the PDP Board of Trustees and I am also a PDP elder and leader in Sokoto. So, I am still active as a card-carrying member of my party, PDP. Religion, ethnicity and money played greater roles during the primary elections of the two major political parties; APC and PDP. It appears the same factors will determine the next president of the country. This 2023 election is another dimension of Nigerian politics because the followers are the ones who are changing the game. Unfortunately, politicians have ended since about 10 years ago. So, those who are into politics now are just doing it for the sake of their personal interests that are the reasons why we have seen changes in our politics; the politicians brought religion, they brought ethnicity, they brought money and they brought everything into politics for their own personal interests. So, all the politicians; people like us who are doing politics for the sake of the common man, the state, regions and for the sake of country, virtually were phased out. So, it is the system of the people that brings this problem. Now, you can see Ulamas in politics and everybody in politics just because it is a small scale industry where they will get easy money. So, by the time things continue like this, democracy will never stay peacefully in this country, unless we change our attitude. We, the old politicians, have only the wisdom; we don’t have the money to play the politics the way the young politicians are playing. Unfortunately, people are not ready to listen to the wisdom; they are only willing to know how much they are going to get out of the system. External links Category:Politicians from Nigeria Category:1954 births Category:Living people