Excellence is the quality of being outstanding and very good. When the word excellence is attached to humanity it takes a new shape which includes being loyal and feeling and showing sympathy and concern for others.
In Kano politics, we have an example of “excellence” in the humanistic sense of the word in the state’s commissioner for local government and chieftaincy affairs, Honourable Murtala Sule Garo. He possesses the quality of being compassionate and benevolent which sums up his love for his state and his people.
From Kano metropolis to Bichi emirate, through Karaye Emirate, Rano Emirate and Gaya Emirate men applaud and women and children sing his name; they see in him a Samaritan, a saviour, a donor and an emissary of the people-centred administration of Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
READ ALSO: All Hail ‘Commander’ Murtala Sule Garo
If we decide to define EXCELLENCE in the context of “political excellence”, which means political reliability or in short an unwavering loyalty to the master of the game, still we have a powerful example in Hon. Murtala Sule Garo.
Throughout the six and half years Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has spent as the governor of the Centre of Commerce as well as taking giant strides to deliver the dividends of democracy to the doorsteps of the people of Kano State, Hon. Murtala Sule Garo has established himself as the most trusted political protégé of the governor. He has been guided and supported by the governor and in return, he has been devoted.
His unwavering loyalty to the governor has elevated him to an enviable position that the relationship has grown beyond that of master-servant to that of father and son.
As in many other states of the federation, with the 2023 election year in sight, Kano political atmosphere is so tense. It is the biggest democracy in the country. There are twists and turns here and there, as political wrangling keeps on brewing, but the commander is unperturbed; he is not worried because he has been faithful to the governor; and as the master, he knows political turbulence is not new and only part-time and inconsiderate politicians get disturbed by those smokes.
Yet there is one mystery with the year 2023; it will not just be an election year, but a game-changer or a kind of storm that will yank off disloyal and unreliable politicians from the stage; only loyal politicians will survive.
Consequently, if we speak of excellence as compassion and benevolence this is where the man of the people, Hon. Murtala Sule Garo also stands tall among peers.
He sponsors thousands of women and youth to be trained in different skills and then empowers them, just typical of the Ganduje administration’s vision.
Alhaji Murtala Sule Garo is a man of excellence, who is politically reliable, loyal, compassionate and benevolent.
