Author: Abdulkarim Yakubu

IN the ever-turning wheel of Nigerian politics, few things are as predictable as the sudden emergence of faceless civil society groups always conveniently timed, always politically motivated, and always funded by those who dread the dawn of accountability. The recent protest and press statement by a group calling itself the ‘Forum of Kano Civil Society Organisations Against Corruption’ is a glaring example of this theatre of deception. While cloaking themselves in the garb of activism, their true intentions are no secret: to distract, defame, and derail the good work being done by the administration of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf and…