Beautifully written by Ozii Baba Anieto


ATIKU HAS WON MY HEART AND IF YOU READ THIS TILL THE END, HE WILL WIN YOURS
ALSO. My respect for Waziri of Adamawa got a new dimension yesterday. I
learnt that he was the 2nd highest job creator after the state government
in Adamawa. That's what most of us also heard - but none took his time to
examine this closely and critically.


I took my time to Google the poorest states in Nigeria, and from the rear
are Sokoto and Kastina. It's clear that the singular reason Adamawa was not
the poorest state in Nigeria is simply because apart from State Government,
there are other job opportunities - no matter the quality.


What most of us did not put into consideration is the burden on Atiku's
back. Don't we know that every kobo Atiku invested to create jobs in
Adamawa would have fared better if invested in Lagos? Have we forgotten the
golden rule of Economics: What are you producing and for whom?


On this rule, to suceed in Business, you should find a location where
people have the purchasing power. If not, you will fail. Adamawa is not
that location, yet, someone stick his neck.


Atiku is not a fool by siting his business among the poorest. He is
bleeding for his people by applying the dumbest business model to sustain
his state and his people. And it's paying off big time.


I was really touched when an Adamawa indigene, Maliki (twitter:
@AAAhammanyero) twitted this:


**** Kadaria said Adamawa is one of the poorest state in Nigeria, we are
ranked 26 for 20 years. But in the whole Northern Nigeria, we are the only
state that I can beat my chest with pride that we don't send our kids to
other states in the name of Almajiri. ****


Atiku, by providing additional jobs, is preserving the future of the kids
in Adamawa. They are still poor today but are mentally more advanced than
their entire neighbors that still practice the primitive Almajiri system.
In the coming decades, we will find them in industries and government while
other northern states will be learning how to break Almajiri system.


Why did Atiku build one of the biggest University in Africa inside Adamawa?
Do you know what is called tourism? Do you know that Atiku's university,
because of its level, brings only the children of billionaires all around
the globe into Adamawa? And they will live inside the state for years
studying... I am from Anambra, one of the states with richest individuals,
nothing at all brings the children of the foreign billionaires into my
state. Nothing keeps them for years in Agu Awka.... Nothing.


Northern Nigeria is one of the most dangerous according to UN. Most people
will never permit their wards to live in that region. Atiku could have
double his gain if his school was built in Lagos. But he wanted it in his
state. He wants the world to know that Adamawa exists.


No one is thanking Atiku for playing the role of the life jacket for his
state. No one is considering what will become of this state if there's no
Atiku.


Whatever you think of Atiku, just know that he goes through hell to keep
his people safe. I see a man that thinks more of the people than how big he
can grow.


Ozii Baba Anieto
Ajambele