Author: Tijjani Sarki

“Cancelling or abandoning existing projects and programmes weakens governance and slows progress.” – Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, September 21, 2025. I WRITE this not out of hatred, but out of responsibility to my state, to my conscience, and to the truth. I watched Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje speak recently at the send-off of Bayero University Kano’s outgoing Vice Chancellor, Prof. Sagir Abbas. In his speech, he declared that “abandoning projects weakens governance.” For a moment, I paused. Perhaps he had forgotten his own record. Or maybe he assumed that we had. But we haven’t. Because in Kano, we remember. The…