MAL. ALI WAKILI: A TESTIMONY OF HIS TRUEST PERSONALITY.

I Suppose Leadership At One Time Meant Muscles, But Today It Means Getting Along With People.

-Mahatma Gandhi

       This is just what Mallam Ali Waliki believes and I start with it because it went along with what I am about to say about my first meeting with the distinguished senator one day at his Bauchi residence. Mal Ali Wakili is a very nice, displined and cultured person despite him being a senator.

     Unlike many of his peers who prefer to be given a ‘kingly treat’ by their people, the distinguished senator is the opposite. One day I followed my friend to visit the senator at his residence, we were taken to his living room by his one of his  aides and within the shortest time he came out smiling (not leaving us decay under the AC), we exchanged greetings and we started to discuss the issues concerning the country then,  the senator said something and I said my opinion concerning it and immediately one of his aides who was also with us in the living room interrupted and said to me that ‘’if the senator said this is black, then let it be, don’t debate’’. The senator then laughs and said to me that, ‘’Yusuf, don’t listen to him, I will only go along with you if you debate me and not when you blindly follow me’’.

     What the senator says gives me more energy and a lots of confidence that we charted with him for almost an hour or so before we depart. With this I hold a very huge respect for him and admire the senator for what he is, a very cultured man. He sees all people equal regardless of their economic, social, educational, ethnic or even geographical background.

 

       As a former Secretary of Gamji Club, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi, I have read and heard all the characters and the characteristics of Sir Ahmadu Bello sardaunan Sokoto and our nationals heroes which includes Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikwe And The Likes who sacrifices everything for the good of the common man, and i am telling you that SEN ali wakili also emulates their character and regard them as his mentors and predecessors that is why he sees all as one entity without any distinction or bias.