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Rufai Hanga: The People’s Senator, The People’s Mandate.

Rufai Hanga: The People’s Senator, The People’s Mandate.

By Umar Aliyu 

Kano Central is not a silent witness to history; it is living history. And in this history, one name refuses to be ignored Senator Rufai Sani Hanga. In just two years, he has rewritten what it means to represent, what it means to serve, and what it means to touch lives.

For some, politics is a ladder to power. For Hanga, politics is a bridge to the people. His works speak louder than any critic’s complaint. From paying ₦45 million in school fees for indigent students to sponsoring thousands more in universities and polytechnics; from distributing JAMB forms, uniforms, and books, to building schools in forgotten wards education in Kano Central is breathing again because one man remembered the children of the poor.

He has empowered women with capital, revived farming with fertilizers and water pumps, given dignity to artisans with sewing and grinding machines, and restored mobility with cars, motorcycles, and bicycles. He has lit up communities with solar lights, repaired boreholes, tarred roads, built training centers, and delivered transformers where darkness once reigned.

Even in the sacred matters of life and death, he has stood with his people providing burial support for thousands, donating land for mosques, and sponsoring medical outreaches across all 15 LGAs. His compassion is not selective. His service is not seasonal. His politics is not transactional.

Yet, there are those who complain. Let them. History has never been written by the voices of ingratitude. It is written by the evidence of action. And Hanga’s evidence is overwhelming visible in every ward, every community, every home touched by his service.

This is why the people of Kano Central speak with one voice: this is not just a senator; this is our mandate, our pride, our voice in Abuja.

The truth must be said without fear: if two years of Senator Hanga can look like this, then Kano Central has no reason to gamble with its future. What he has started must not be abandoned. What he has built must not be broken.

For over 40 years, Rufai Hanga has been in public service - practical, consistent, unshaken by the temptations of power. Today, as Deputy Minority Whip in the 10th Senate, he has proven that leadership is not about position, but about performance.

Kano Central is not asking for too much. It is only asking that a man who has delivered continues to deliver. And that man, in truth and in action, is Senator Baba Rufai Sani Hanga.



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