The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has described the death of two prominent and illustrious Kano citizens, elder statesman, Malam Musa Gwadabe and Malam Jamilu Salim as “extremely disturbing experiences”.
Malam Musa Gwadabe was one-time Minister of Labour and Productivity and a frontline politician while Malam Jamilu Salim was Registrar, Bayero University, Kano.
“The death of Malam Musa Gwadabe, an elder statesman, a pioneer member of the People’s Democratic Party, and a frontline politician in the country leaves a great vacuum in Nigeria’s political development,” the governor noted.
According to him, Gwadabe was one of the principled politicians the nation was proud of, adding, “His love for his people created a corridor for him to be so endeared to his people, both in the state and in the country at large.
“One of the leading political leaders who stood for the downtrodden ones. The loss is not for his family or the state alone, it is for the entire political class and democracy at large.”
While appreciating the spread of Gwadabe’s disciples across the nation, Governor Ganduje believed that in the nation’s recent political history, politicians like the deceased were very rare.
“I am therefore, on behalf of the government and people of Kano State, extending our condolences to his family members, his political contemporaries, entire Nigeria as well as good governance and democracy”, he said. He prayed to Almighty Allah to bless the gentle soul of the deceased and reward his good deeds with Jannatul Firdaus, adding, “What remains now is for his family and for us all, to keep on praying for him.”
Ganduje also extended condolences to the government and people of Kano State to the Vice Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano, and the management and the university, over the death of the Registrar, Salim.
The governor described the deceased as, “A very dedicated, productive and righteous personality.
“Malam Jamilu Salim was a highly disciplined member of the university whose hard work and dedication to duty took him to the position of Registrar of this great institution.”
“After the fall of some notable academics of the university in the last few years, another vacuum in the administration of the institution is created with the death of this gentleman, Malam Jamilu Salim,” the governor observed.
He reminded the university that it had benefited greatly from the blessed families of the late Registrar.
Ganduje said, “Both within the academic and non-academic circles this death reminds us of his brother, late Professor Ahmed Salim of blessed memory.”
