“The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process” – Andrew Carnegie. It is not surprising that Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, also known as Alu, has remained extremely popular throughout Sokoto state and beyond. His allure stems from the fact that he has never, for once, been known to abandon the people.
The welfare of his people has always been the focus of his extensive and impactful political career, whether as the incumbent senator, representing Sokoto North Senatorial District, or as the director-general, Careers and Special Services, Governor’s Office, deputy governor, or as governor of Sokoto state. One can say, with some degree of certainty, that the various offices Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, aka Alu, had occupied didn’t make him, or did they, in any way diminish him. Wamakko, like our Niger-Delta brothers would say “hold e corner tight”, unlike many of his contemporaries who have long become history because they treated the people with utter contempt and the people in return truncated their political career by making them one “termers”.
The average Nigerian politician has a perplexing disrespect for both the political party that sponsored them to power and the people that voted them into. Once elected they become inaccessible to their constituents until another election season when they must seek the peoples’ votes to remain in power. This unwholesome attitude is partly responsible for the high t.
