From the cradles of Kaiama local government area of
Kwara state cometh a man with a mission to liberate
the great people of Kwara state from the shackles of
poverty and destitution which has plagued the state for
generations. Just like the historical account of Prophet
Moses whom God sent to liberate his people from the
grip of slavery and impoverishment, Abdullahi Sanusi Kaiama, a proud and loyal son of the great and
harmonious people of kwara state has a burning and
an unquenchable desire to take his
people into the proverbial “promised land” flowing with peace,
prosperity and overwhelming
happiness. He has a robust and a
well thought out plan to completely
eradicate poverty and illiteracy
from Kwara state and turn kwara
into the most industrialized and
literate state in the Federal republic
of Nigeria.
He plans to remove poverty and
illiteracy in the rural communities through the orchestration of his micro-business model and the rural
literacy initiative that his administration will launch.
He is a visionary leader who understands only too
well that poverty and illiteracy are the two biggest
challenges facing far too many of his people and he is
determined to stamp them out. Kwara has a population
of 2.8 million people and many of them are domiciled
in the rural communities with poor schools and few
employment opportunities.
As a successful business man and astute entrepre-
neur Abdullahi Sanusi Kaiama fully understands that
the way to break the curse of poverty and bring his
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people into true and lasting prosperity is by training
his people on how to run and manage micro-businesses, so that instead of them looking for a job, they will
create their own jobs by becoming micro-entrepreneurs. The ancient proverb states and I quote “give a
man a fish and he will eat for a day, but teach him how
to fish and he will eat for a life time” readily springs to
mind.
Abdullahi Sanusi Kaiama is a
man who has ran an extremely
successful oil and gas company
for many years and therefore
understands only too well the
skills necessary in order to run a
successful business, and he wants
the opportunity if elected Governor of Kwara state, to pass these
skills on to his people.
We live in an economically
driven world and the leader than
can solve, once and for all, the
economic challenges of his people and completely
erase systemic and endemic poverty from their lives
will certainly go down in history as the true “saviour
of his people”. What is the job of a leader?
Simply put, a leaders job is to identify the problems
facing his people, organisation or any other entity that
he has been mandated to lead, and then to apply the
appropriate solutions necessary in order to solve those
problems.
Far too many leaders across our great federation are
doing the exact opposite. They don’t even know the
“real” challenges facing the majority of the people
with whom they have been elected to lead.