By
Salim I. Hassan
To me, being me a man of full freedom of choice and
expression, without a slight intent to appease or annoy anyone, ain’t
comprising anyone’s view, my Best Man Award of the 2016 year is not as you pick
it. It cannot be, and never be, the way you thought it. Though I have lovers
and loved ones, haters and hated ones, followers and followed ones, parents,
wives and sons……I have intellectuals, writers, ideologues, leaders and scholars
who deserve my award for one reason or the other, I can humbly ask them to take
their eyes from it, bypassing them and taking it to the person in the right
place and in the right time.
If I so wish I can give it to some of my critics who are able
to change any of my worldview with the power of proof and logic (a hard thing
to get), for whimsical, frivolous, wishful and baseless points can never work
in me. All previous attempts to siphon one have failed.
May Allah bless my parent for bringing me up and safeguarding
my person from childhood to adulthood despite stress, anxiety and ups and downs
of life. They lead my person in life and all of my successes are by-product of
their relentless effort. Thank you Mum and Dad, for you placed me in the right
way of life, Islam the best ever choice of religion you can make. Oh My
Parents! Permit me to eschew this award from you only for this time alone.
To my wife, thank you
and may Allah bless as you keep on showering me with your unlimited truly
sincere love, care, obedience and compassion. May Allah bless you again for she
married me when I was in abject destitute and in spite of many of her proposing
tycoons. Oh My Wife! Permit me to eschew this Award from you only for this time
alone, though you deserve it more than 100%.
To all my friends, those that have offered and still offering
goodness to me, many of which I cannot forget. Let me take it away from you. I
am still with you, appreciating your kindness and extra care in my relation
with you, taking none of you a pariah.
My this year Award, I need to take it to someone that I can
put my credence in him, to save me, to save my people, religion, nation,
country, from the precipice of perish, destruction and annihilation, noting God
is the first and final Saviour. Who that
man is and what his existence meant to Nigerians?
He is him of his own word whose action is always consistent
with his policy and ideology……….the one that we should put our credence in him
as Buharism fails. Although he must go
by his destiny, in the parlance of empirical life discourse we can assume he
wrongfully fall into the unwanted position of administration when we need one
of his caliber in the nation politics and to lead the nation.
He is a vibrant ‘Mutafanni’
intellectual, a Banker, an administrator, a leader and a scholar indeed.
Bilingual Speaker and writer, versatile in knowledge, an authority in Shari’ah,
economy and finance.
The one who knows how
to influence, motivate and create action point among those under him and
whosoever follows him. The defender and saviour of Shariah in the 1999 debate
who had challenged and defeated the enemies throughout the media. He is the
formidable defender of Safiya Hussein who saved her from the erratic decision
of death penalty of the shari’ah court. He is that the only one whom the
southerners are hitherto, vying the northerners over him…how they wish he is
one of them and not of Hausa/Fulanis.
He is the only Hausa personality from the North that became
the C.E.O (Chief Executive Officer) of First Bank since its establishment in
1894. He is indeed the greatest Reformer and Saviour of Banking industry in
Nigeria. He is the only Hat-trick Winner
of the Best Africa Central Bank Governor of the Year”
(2013 being the last).
He
should be in politics, and from politics to presidency, but his destiny
inscribed Kingship in his abstract life and now a visible reality in him.
The
current His Royal Highness , the Emir of Kano Alh. Mal. Sunusi Lamido Sunusi, is
the man, the man of his own word, and always remain unshakeable no matter the
hatred, animosity and disparages. The revealer of truth is he even before the
most oppressive regime. His time of emirship recalls me the era of the esteemed
companions and their successors, the time when the leader was the Imam in the
Muslim mosque, the one who offers sermon and preaches. We now have someone of their caliber amidst
us. He can lead and save the nation from its annihilation. His only advice if
acted upon by the current regime can save the economy of the nation. How I wish
him to become our President! Now if Buharism fails (and I don’t want) who
next………………..My Man is far away from
you. You should better look for alternative…… Atiku, Bola tinubu, Sule Lamido,
Kwankwaso or who else………
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