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A tweet by Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, is creating furore on social media where meanings are being read into it.
Apparently pondering over his political future, El-Rufai posted a poem by Kwesi Brew, entitled ‘The Mesh’ on his twitter handle.
The poem goes thus: “We have come to the cross-roads/ And I must either leave or come with you/ I lingered over the choice/ But in the darkness of my doubts/ You lifted the lamp of love/ And I saw in your face/ The road that I should take.”
His tweet itself was captioned “Saturday Memories – Barewa College (1974).
The Barewa College is known to have produced five Nigerian Presidents and over 20 governors.
Notable among Nigerian leaders who passed through Barewa College are: Mallam Ahmadu Bello, Premier of Northern Nigeria; Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Prime Minister of Nigeria; Military rulers – Gen Yakubu Gowon and Gen Murtala Mohammed; Alhaji Shehu Shagari, Former President of Nigeria, and Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Former President of Nigeria.
Some of El-Rufai’s followers hailed him for aspiring to contest the 2019 Presidential election, but there were others who gave him knocks.
See what they say here:
Barewa College in Zaria, Kaduna State, was founded in 1921 by British Governor General, Hugh Clifford. It was originally known as Katsina College, but switched its name to Kaduna College in 1938 and then Government College, Zaria in 1949 before settling on Barewa College. The school is known for the large number of elites from the region that passed through its academic buildings and counts among its alumni.
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