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Inside Buhari’s cattle farm, by Femi Adesina,I spent three days in Daura, Katsina State, about a fortnight ago, visiting with our former Pr

"President Buhari shows the way. No danger of herders and farmers clashing here."

It’s a few minutes past mid-noon, Yunusa Abubakar, a visually impaired resident of Rinji, a community in Dass local council of Bauchi State, was praying. A minute later, he gazed around. He wanted to use the toilet. The 70-year-old man must be escorted by a guide to where he can ease himself outside his compound. He obviously wasn’t comfortable with this, but had no choice. “We don’t have a functional toilet here,” he said. Again, he could not privately go to the nearby shrubs.

The second stanza of the league was more significant for them. As at match-day 15, after two consecutive victories, they were already within the top three and needed just few points to solidify their place among the contenders for the continental tickets and the title.

INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Dauda Aminu, declared the results in Hunkuyi Sunday, saying that Faisal scored 22,993 votes to defeat his closest rival, Nura Abdulkarim of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 22,878 votes.