{"id":147358,"date":"2025-01-22T22:23:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/bashir-ahmad-jaafar-jaafar-call-out-kano-gov-over-misstep"},"modified":"2025-01-31T21:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T20:41:25","slug":"bashir-ahmad-jaafar-jaafar-call-out-kano-gov-over-misstep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bashir-ahmad-jaafar-jaafar-call-out-kano-gov-over-misstep","title":{"rendered":"Bashir Ahmad, Jaafar Jaafar call out Kano Gov over misstep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Renown journalist, Jafar Jafar has taken a swipe at Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf for personally distributing goats to rural women as part of his government\u2019s empowerment package.<\/p>\n<p>On his X handle, Jafar, who seemingly was a supporter of the NNPP government wrote that it would be hypocritical to remain mum on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: \u201cGov. Yusuf should remember that we are in the 21st Century, the era that sired AI-driven technologies, compact drones, reusable rockets, big data, driverless cars, blockchain technology, gene editing for enhanced crop production, etc. Kano always admires Lagos for its policies and programmes, but when our leaders implemented some policies, you\u2019d think they are implementing the peasant economic edicts of an Iron Age potentate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith local government autonomy in effect, livestock empowerment and wheelbarrow distribution should be left for local government chairmen to handle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a duty to tell Gov. Yusuf the truth because we told the people that he would be different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Presidential aide, Bashir Ahmad had backed the criticism, adding that the Governor could have sent a delegation.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cEven staunch supports of the Governor know he had a misstep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Renown journalist, Jafar Jafar has taken a swipe at Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf for personally distributing goats to rural women as part of his government\u2019s empowerment package. 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