Shehu of Borno wants politicians to adopt Waziri Ibrahim’s politics without bitterness

From: Shehu Abubakar, Maiduguri

Less than two weeks to the general elections, the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji

Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai

Al-Amin Al-Kanemi has urged politicians to borrow a leaf from the second republic leader and presidential candidate of the defunct Great Nigeria Peoples Party, the late Waziri Ibrahim’s politics without bitterness while contesting the elections.

He has also urged them to sustain a no-victor-novanquished relationship after the elections for the sake of the peace and progress of the country.

The monarch was speaking while the Peoples Democratic Party Borno Central senatorial candidate, Jibrin Mustapha Tatabe, paid him homage in his palace in Maiduguri.

“Whether APC or PDP or any other party, you are Nigerian politicians working for the peace and progress of the country,” the monarch said, urging, “you should, therefore, play politics without bitterness, like the late Waziri Ibrahim.”

He urged the senatorial candidate to fight for the employment of the teeming Borno youths if he wins the election.

Tatabe, who launched his electioneering campaign after the homage to the Shehu, told newsmen PUNCH that he had always been a staunch advocate of politics without bitterness. “My committment to politics without bitterness is unshaken,” he stressed, adding that he does not believe in any form of confrontation in the game of politics.

He said his main agenda is seeking jobs for the teeming youths, the empowerment of women and the vulnerable and the education of the massive population of the out-of-school children of the state if he wins the election.