Ganduje and his policy fine-tuning-Muazu Muazu

By Muazu Muazu

Yesterday, scanning through the pages of Daily Trust Newspaper, I came across a full- page advert by Kano State Government celebrating Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso at 65.

In his warmest greetings to Kwankwaso, Ganduje said “the modest achievements we recorded while you were Governor and my humble self as the Deputy Governor, which I eventually built upon and fine-tuned as your successor, have no doubt significantly contributed to the growth and development our dear state and uplifting the general wellbeing of the citizenry”.

As practicing journalist, an ardent reader and follower of many interviews, this was not the first time Mr. Ganduje would be mentioning the word fine-tuning.

In February, 2017 in an exclusive interview with Daily Trust while explaining his strained relationship with Kwankwaso – Mr. Ganduje said, the two basic issues between him and Kwankwaso are the issue of sycophants from both sides, and the issue of policy fine-tuning. He mentioned fine-tuning many times.

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What does fine-tuning mean? Well, it simply means adjustment to existing policy or process to achieve the desired output or performance. It involves using weights of a previous process or deep learning algorithm for programming another similar process.

Mr. Ganduje put his hand on his chest when he maintained that there was need for fine-tuning his predecessor’s policies because it is an important theory in political science.

That he was one of the proponents of Kwankwasiyya ideology and he read political science. Therefore, one cannot tell him about ideology.

The holy question is, what has Ganduje been fine-tuning?

What is the fate of the 100 pilots sponsored by Kwankwaso?

The students sponsored abroad – has he paid the remaining total cost of over N 3bilion he said?

What about the Paris Club fund?

What about the Independent Power project from two dams he inherited – what is the stage of the contract at the moment?

Kano is among the top five contributors of VAT with 5%. Why the state is generating less in its own Internal Generated Revenue? Why is the revenue dropping? Is there a leakage in the system?

Available record obtained from the website of the Debt Management Office – Kano state debt from 31 December, 2020 hit 68.3million USD external and 116.9million naira domestic debts – what is the implication of these?

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Kwankwaso was generating less than N 1billion because most of it was from pay as you earn; the minimum was N600 to 700 million. The internal revenue board under Ganduje started generating N2 to N3billion in 2017 – what is happening at the moment?

Where are the 700 graduates employed by the state Internal Revenue Board? Is the board still independent at the moment?

Where are the over 6,000 primary schools established management committees that take care of the day- to-day activities? Where are the 2,000 qualified graduate teachers? And many more questions left unanswered.

Virtues may or will not be enough to meet challenges. When making analysis, one should refrain from joining the partisan melee – brawl – fray when discussing Nigerian politics and situation —— because there are tendencies in all hoopla’s from people read ulterior motives and invent conspiracy theories in reaction to otherwise simple analysis or understanding.

Democracy in this country is sitting too unsteadily on sundry problems. It is not as exciting and stimulating as it should be because of many problems caused by desperate politicians who appear to be above the law.

It is only in Nigeria’s definition of democracy that votes do not count. In 2023, we must defend ourselves from desperate politicians.

Muazu, a media professional writes from Kano.