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Awaal Gata

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The tasks before Kasimu Ikwa in Gwagwalada

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By Awaal Gata
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Politics could seamlessly be described as the art of the possible. Yet, from time to time, it becomes something deeper. It becomes a vessel for collective memory, a repository of old grievances, deferred hopes, and the stubborn belief that history can be corrected. The emergence of Kasimu Mohammed Ikwa as Chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council belongs to that category of political moments. His victory was not merely an electoral triumph.
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Nupe politics and the deliberate misreading of Senator Sani Musa

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By Awaal Gata
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Politics in my beloved Niger State has never lacked passion. It has never lacked rumours. It has never lacked the tendency to take a statement, strip it of context, stretch it beyond recognition and then present the distorted version as established truth. That tendency is once again on display in the conversations surrounding Senator Mohammed Sani Musa, widely known across the state as 313.
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Mokwa and the mystery of Jibrin Muregi

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By Awaal Gata
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Every community occasionally produces a public figure whose rise cannot be adequately explained by the usual instruments of political analysis. Money can explain some victories. Political structures can explain others. The support of influential figures can explain many more. Yet there are individuals whose journeys seem to exist outside these familiar explanations. Their careers repeatedly confound political logic. Their victories arrive when defeat appears more likely.
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