In a political era where promises are broken faster than they are made, Katsina State stands as living proof that integrity in governance is not a myth.
Katsina state Governor, Malam Dikko Umaru Radda, a leader with vision and the courage to act, has fulfilled nearly 70 per cent of his promises in his first tenure, a feat that many governors across Nigeria can only envy from afar.
While others campaigned for power, he campaigned for progress. Today, the results speak louder than any propaganda ever could.
Katsina’s agricultural revolution has turned countless rural farmers into proud suppliers for entire markets. Roads have been built and rehabilitated, connecting once-forgotten villages to opportunities.
Youth empowerment schemes have transformed idle hands into productive assets.
Healthcare centres have been refurbished, modernised, and equipped to serve every Katsina soul with dignity. This is not PR, this is performance. This is what leadership with a conscience looks like.
Yet amid this visible transformation, the noise of mediocrity still echoes from the gutters of political irrelevance. The so-called opposition, whose only talent lies in recycling complaints and faking concern, has become professional mourners at the funeral of their influence.
They criticise Radda not because he has failed, but because he has succeeded without them. They are not opposition; they are obstacles enemies of progress masquerading as voices of the people.
Where were they when the civil service was crumbling? When security was just a whispered prayer? When was poverty a language our youth spoke fluently?
They stood by silently, complicit.
Some of them, with blood-red hands from failed regimes of the past, now wish to preach morality to a man building hospitals with honesty and constructing schools with transparency? They must be joking or high on the politics of self-deception.
This is a warning to the agents of retrogression hiding behind fake manifestos and cabals with mafia tendencies: Katsina is no longer a playground for political scammers.
We see you. We remember you.The state will not forget how you drained its lifeblood while smiling on campaign posters. And now, you dare challenge a man whose every move brings genuine development? You are not challengers, you are cowards in costume.
Malam Radda is not just a governor; he is a phenomenon a disruption of the old ways, a builder of futures, a man whose words are rooted in service, not coated in sugar.
His leadership proves that when competence meets compassion, greatness is inevitable. His government is not perfect, but it is purposeful and that alone puts him miles ahead of those still hallucinating about 2023.
The enemies of Katsina’s progress will continue their circus of confusion. Let them try to rewrite history with ink dipped in bitterness.
The people of Katsina are not blind, and they are not fools. They have tasted truth, and they will not trade it for the lies of recycled failures. Dikko Umaru Radda is the future Katsina never knew it deserved and the present it will never take for granted.
– Yazeed, a Strategic Media Voice, resides in Katsina
