Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, says without the help of
other ethnic nationalities especially the Igbos, Kano state couldn't
have attained its status as the commercial nerve center of Northern
Nigeria. Ganduje said this when he received the Abia state governor,
Okezie Ikpeazu, in his office.
Ikpeazu and some Igbo leaders were in the
state to pay a condolence visit over the death of elder statesman,
Maitama Sule, who died in Egypt early this month.
The governor said this
while reacting to the call by some Arewa youths for Igbos in the region
to leave on or before October 1st.
“Kano
being the commercial nerve-centre of the North, Kano being the
commercial nerve-centre of some West African countries, could not have
attained that status without other nationalities or without other parts
of the country, especially the Igbo. So, if that is our pride, why do we
have to break our backbone of commerce? We need to maintain our status.
And to maintain our status, we need people from all over the country to
be with us. America is great because people from different cultures,
people with different comparative advantages were put together;
everybody came with his talent, with his own initiation, with his own
wisdom. That is what made America to be great. You can hardly be great
with homogeneity; heterogeneity is the way to development all over the
world” he said
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