Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State has made known his intention to embark on a four-year sabbatical from politics at the end of his tenure as governor on May 29, stressing that he will be invisible in the next four years until 2019 “when I will come back in a big way”.
Disclosing this on Monday while commissioning some projects constructed for the newly established Niger state University of Education and the Niger state College of Education, in Minna, the state capital, the Governor failed to mention the ‘big’ role he would be coming back to play in politics by 2019. He also did not mention what he will be doing in the period between now and 2019.
Aliyu had lost his bid to clinch the Niger East Senatorial seat during the March 28 election in the state and also failed to deliver his state for President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid.
The Governor has also been very vocal in asking his colleagues who lost in the election not to allow their defeat to make them decamp to the new party that will be at the helms of affairs in the country on May 29.
He spoke seriously against allowing the All Progressives Congress turn Nigeria to a one party state which he argued will not be democratic and will also be against the political growth of the country.
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