AMINU TAMBUWAL: STABLE AND PROMISING

Aminu Tambuwal has given priority to education by allocating 28 per cent of his budget to the sector. The government under his watch is rehabilitating 235 primary schools across the state with over N3.6 billion. New ones are also being constructed.

Tambuwal is applying a scientific approach to agriculture with the State Technical Committee on Resuscitation of Agriculture active in capturing the data of all farmers across the state and ensuring intervention in the critical agricultural areas considered urgent to yield the desired result.

Government has also provided fertilizer to farmers at 75 per cent subsidy and distributed water pumps, seedlings and other farm inputs worth several billions of naira to grow its agro-economy. At least 27,166 jobs have been created through various interventions in sustainable agriculture and rural enterprise development in the last two years.

Tambuwal has, in addition, fostered a good relationship with the House of Assembly and the judiciary. As such, there has been no acrimony among the legislators, who have been supportive of the executive.

Yet, Sokoto, the seat of the Caliphate, could do better under Tambuwal. The once serene state has lost a lot of its charm, which the governor has to regain. Despite the scotching heat, the state, being the home of the Caliphate, has the capacity to attract tourists and Islamic scholars from far and wide coming to pay homage to the Sultanate. But investment, in conjunction with the private sector, must be made to make the capital attractive to investors and tourists alike.