Borno raises the bar
Mon Dec 28 2020
When two professors took the oath of office as local government chairmen in Borno State last week, they became immediate celebrities, as it is unusual to find persons of their calibre stooping to stand for elections at that lower level.
Though Professors Adamu Alooma and Ibrahim Bukar won the contest unopposed in Damboa and Gwoza Local Government Councils, respectively, it did not draw away an inch from the uniqueness of their political foray. It is the first time in Borno and probably in the entire North, thus raising the bar henceforth, far up, for qualifications to such seemingly mundane positions.