Sanga: An emerging face of leadership in Toro.

By: Abdullahi Isa Ahmed

Politics, Government and Governance in Nigeria is incomplete without mentioning Bauchin Yakubu in our national archives of its rational process of selecting of those they want to put in the position of authority. It is also a state has produced the nation first prime minister and the only African golden voice who's richness in language and his polished English placed him ahead of all and sundry during the first Republic. Bauchi State is the first to distroyed Political godfatherism in the entire Political arena of Nigeria and subsequently paved way for clean electoral process when the fought the mighty Mu'azu and his Political machineries. 

Same scenario repeated itself after Mallam Isa Yuguda second tenure runs out in 2015 and subsequently the the emergence of the incumbent Governor Bala Mohammed. To cut it short , almost if not all of Bauchi born politicians are in one way or the other benificiaries of the goodwill of Bauchi State electorates.All those who lost woefully while in PDP in 2007 and 2015 despite their power machineries should have been a lesson APC should have learn. The main reason why they lost was their lawlessness and impunity nature of installing candidates (incompetent) on the Electorates as against their wish. 

Toro Federal Constituency has since 1999 remain of the deciding factor on who may emerge as Governor of the State because of their voting population .This is man who has made his intention to vie for the seat of the Federal House of Representatives in Toro was a result of numerous demands of the citizenry who felt have been short change of countless opportunities and good governance. It is for the first time that an indigenous son of the soil outside is investing through many interventions in health, Education, Agriculture , Empowerment, employment opportunities and portable drinking water outside power.

Transformational leadership theory is used in this article to explain the relationship between political achievement and leadership style of the Nigerian political class who’s actions and inactions in governance has direct bearings on our societal and environmental decadence. Bass and Alvolio’s transformational leadership model is used in this context to demonstrate the yet to be identified leadership potentials of Joshua Titus Sanga ,a man who have written his name bold and penned it in the wall of all and sundry that comes across him. It is a worthy of note that today ,one may authoritatively say that his billboards attached to His Excellency Senator Bala Mohammed has filled all the major nooks and corners of entire Toro Local Government area. 

Leadership in Toro today has become a parrot cry both to the government who failed to give what they promised and the governed who only read about the promises from a distance on the pages of newspapers. This affirmative mentioned theory is very true but yet in most cases the Electorates has equally been identified as the architects of their own problems. Using Toro federal constituency as an example, anyone one that knows the very efforts made by Sanga to make life more meaningful in Toro will to agreed and believes in this submission. He should have been given a chance to lay a solid foundation of leadership and sustain his rich ideas of ensuring that things get done for the overall interest of Toro Federal Constituency in 2019.

Hon.Sanga  exceptional transformational leadership styles has motivated others to achieve more than what is originally expected of them through creation of  a political  space conducive enough for the Youths to flourish in Toro federal constituency through his humanitarian services through communities engagements and priorities in Empowerment and employment creation.His programs of youths and women empowerment have created thousands of employment to youths and women who were trained and empowered through numerous skills acquisition programs in the Constituency. The costly mistake we made in the last election should not be the way to go and let the subsequent elections give us another opportunity to change the narratives by ensuring that we decide our future and that of our generation unborn by investing in this reliable, trustworthy and dependable gentleman.

Toro Federal Constituency has indeed become a crying chickens rolling on the dry sand without direction with their mouths widely open waiting for who to give them water.This is because as population increase the number of graduates are equally on the raise and it is only good representation that can reduce the demands of the Constituents to a bearest minimum.He has consistently maintain a very cordial relationship with the people of his communities and federal constituency with and without power which spoke in high volume his love and admiration for his good people. The Youths of this great local Government has began a process of ensuring that leaders with the capacity to the fortunes on the people will be consider and voted into power in the coming elections.

The Journey of making Toro a home for all where emphasis will be on the number of young graduates gaining employment opportunities in different federal ministries, Departments and agencies is now. We shall ensure that people who are share the pains at the sametime their joy will be given high priority deveot of their tribes and religion. Mallam Nasir El-rufai has made an intructive Statement when he decided to run with his current woman Deputy Dr. Hadixa Sabuwa Balaraba a fellow Muslim as against the traditional Nome of Muslim/Christian join ticket. He said ,Sir. Kashim House (Government House ) is not a worshiping center Which implies that it is neither a church or a mosque but a structure where Government policies and programs are decided int the interest of the overwhelming people of Kaduna State.

Many of then gave the Statement an ecthnic dimension though it was more than necessary because Religion and Tribes has kept us behind when compared to our contemporaries. The time to launch an upright campaign that will be an issue based is now where our future will always be the focus of those Representating particularly at the level of the house of Representatives the most exolted Office in Toro Local Government at the moment. The inconsistency of our leaders has for long given raise to high unemployment,lack of accessible drinking water, Functional Health care system,access to standard and quality education among other key necessities of humans and basic societal needs. The  journey is begin today and it is now .We can all testify the level of magnanimity and crowds that he always pull whenever he attends events be it political, condolences or weddings which always defined Sanga.

His unique attributes of saying little and achieving  much and his attitudes towards the people and his wide acceptability has been on the increase.Many have interacted with him both in the state and local levels ended up pencilling him always as material urgently needed to fix the overswellling Political landscape in Toro Federal Constituency. His good morals, quality leadership and family values have made him as an exceptional personality and a leader of the current generations.

A grass root politician, a community leader and friend to all,his respect for traditional institutions earned him “JAGAGAN WUNTI” the traditional title from Hakimin Kasar Lame Emirates bestowed on illustrious  sons of the soil who worked and has done remarkably well in community development. 

His advocacy and stands for a united Toro is well documented in the mind of right thinking sons and daughters of the soil who adhere to the principles of nation building through peace initiatives that left the likes of Sardaunas ,Tafawa Balewas ,J.S .Tsarka ,Kashim Ibrahim ,Ziks , Awolowos among other notable leaders of the first republic that spent their entire life time in service to humanity. He has been a pillar and symbol of hope to many less fortunate, young generations and victims of our societal social vices.

His vibrant conversations on issues is centered around bringing his people together to eschew divisive tendencies of  ethnic, tribal, religion, regional and political divides. His endowed nature of speaking extensively on a number of topical national issues in the State has won him numerous awards of excellence from religious, regional, political, youths and students groups and associations in Toro, Bauchi State  and Nigeria as a whole.This is the true picture of the man Engineer Joshua Titus Sanga FNSE (Jagaban Wunti) that all eyes are invariably waiting for to change the fortunes of Bauchi Federal Constituency come 2023.

Abdullahi Isa Ahmed.

A public affairs commentator/analyst, 

Writes from Bauchi State, Nigeria.