Nigeria, May 25 -- Three years before he emerged as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, for Niger State and, four years before he was elected governor, I published an article titled,All Eyes on Bago, in which I argued that, Honourable Umar Muhammad Bago, from his performance as Member of the Federal House of Representatives, possessed the right attitude to transform Niger State and launch her on the path of sustainable development.

In the piece, which was published in April, 2019, I observed thus: "For Honourable Umar Bago, the 2023 governorship election might yet turn out to be another payback. As the jostling for 2023 gets underway, the option available to the people of Niger state is to rally round a political...