Dauda Lawal: Between Leadership Award And Zamfara Reality
There are moments when public honours become mirrors that don’t reflect virtue but magnify dissonance. Governor Dauda Lawal’s recent acclamation as “Governor of the Year” by Leadership newspapers should, in a sane political economy, invite sober celebration only if the facts on the ground corroborate the plaudits.
But in Zamfara, where villages are sacked, whole communities flee in fear, the educational system keeps declining in the wake of violence, and mass abductions have become grim headlines, the award reads less like recognition than a rhetorical conjuring trick.
The editorial board that printed the accolade owes Nigerians an apology for being easily misled: how did the red ink miss the echoes of wailings and the river of bloods that flow through Zamfara today?
Let us begin with the unassailable facts. Over the past months, and indeed years, Zamfara has been one of the epicentres of Nigeria’s northwestern security catastrophe.
Author's summary: Governor Dauda Lawal's award is questionable.
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