22/08/2022
BALARABA GANDUJE: HISTORY WOULD NEVER FORGET THIS GLITTERING STAR THAT NEVER FADE..
By Shariff Aminu Ahlan
Many people descended on this planet with a different mindsets, backgrounds, orientations, cultural and religious affiliations, accumulation, views, intellectual endowment, different callings, faculty of reasoning, interactions, beliefs, character, roles and general conduct in their life endeavours depending on the opportunity God bestowed on them and how they utilise it, be it positively or negatively based on their individual's perception and matter of choice. Some were blessed to have used the opportunities that come their way in making a great impact that would be beneficial to them and other populace through the contribution of their quota for the overall interest of the people. Establishing legacies by those opportune to be in a position that provides them with resources and power, while many misused the relief to destroy themselves or cause pain and anguish to others. While very few were bestowed with a golden heart, a sympathetic mind and an inbuilt desire to transform the lives of others and in the process created legacies in their different field of endeavour which would forever be cherished and remembered with awe. A special species that are barely unique and entirely different from others.Highly opportune and excessively adored by the God in form of educational and intellectual endowment coupled with power and privileges to make an impact on others' lives through endless supports be it materially or morally. The Extraordinary gifted and intellectually endowed Balaraba Ganduje, the daughter of His Excellency Dr. Abdullahi Umar and Prof Hafsat Ganduje is indisputably one of such rare species whose overall live technique is commendable, admirable, awesome and emulative.
There is no denying the fact that she is one of that blessed children who are referred to as "Born with a silver spoon'' a breed of a powerful and influential household. But her simple demeanour in conducting her lifestyle and open interaction with the less privileged whom she freely associates with respect and dignity despite their lower standing singled her out as one of the finest species who never belittle or look down upon them. A first-timer that may encounter her would never imagine her to be the daughter of such an influential family due to her simple-minded nature and open-hearted attitude beret of arrogance, high hardness or flamboyancy which is a common and entrenched attitude of her kind. But she has been globally recognised and acknowledged as a tireless goal-getter whose major preoccupation is giving succour to the downtrodden without fanfare or publicizing. A self-made professional who dedicated her whole inputting extra effort in her place of work and personal business venture which capitulate her to her level where he is now, excessively endowed and fully loaded with her hard-earned fortune.
Call her an Amazon and exceptional female species who is full of energy and inbuilt zeal and determination to be her version that won't decorate her traits, vision and fighting spirit with the symbol of her fortunate influential parents. Right from childhood, the gifted lady started exhibitions and demonstrations of her independent-minded personality. She was said always be on top of the situation when the need to show strong character occurs. She loathes being subjected to need of others' help or push up. Always love to be allowed to try her bit even if is a risky venture. As such, she grew up enjoying extra special love and admiration by both the parents and her siblings..
A lion hearted, Balaraba is one of such rare talents who always strives hard to be extraordinarily knowledgeable and hardworking with a dream and passion to be something useful and attain vital level or position on their own beret of anyone's contributions or pulling strings from background. That what's led to her tremendous efforts which always placed her on top of the rest during her school days. From elementary level to advanced level, the gifted Amazon distinguished herself among her peers by being on top of the rest due to her incredible gifted intellectual faculty. No wonder he ended up with flying colours and honour during the said period. And it's doesn't surprise those around her when got an offer with N.N.P.C, the biggest federal government-owned petroleum industry. A place that is known for its strict policy of picking the best brain with top-class grades in their different field. She got the job on merit after passing rigorous testing and examination which she proves herself and got a slot in such competitive agency. Today she rose to the top position based on her skill, expertise and dedication to duty. It quite impressive seeing her getting different award at such mega establishment that is full of different professionals and intellectuals technocrats. A sheer indication that she is such an ambitious personality who always strive to do better and better in any endeavour she is committed to.
Her encounter and associations with different people both high and mighty and downtrodden can be said to have been originated from the her father's involvement in politics that has been entranced in her vain right before he even breath the air of this planet earth. As such he grew up been surrounded with different people from many diverse group who are political associates of her father. Their compound was always besieged by huge number of people who are politicians, favour seekers, praise singers and even commoners, for her father was fortuned to have occupied different positions of power and authority. Moreover, her parents are fond of dolling out assistance and charities which has been one of their major preoccupation up to this very moment. As such he was exposed to association with different people of all cadre, with different status , financial might, achievements, fortune and misfortunes. That's how she got used to dealings with powerful people and also less privileges. She cultivated rich experienced which moulded her to her present character of mastering how to interact and be comfortable with all kind of people.
The Princess of our present time (emphasis mine), Balaraba is indeed an achiever who is making waves in her place of work and her personal ventures. A lady with Midas touch, anything he touch naturally turned to gold. And politics is genetic to her body system, been born from a successful political-oriented father.
Balaraba towered tall above other privileged daughters of powerful and influential parents based on her globally recognised humanitarian gestures. Her major preoccupation is alleviating the suffering of the downtrodden going by her numerous philanthropic activities that are too numerous to mention.
And one hidden talent and mastery of human natured that she has in stock manifested during the 2019 election when her father and the party APC where confronted by the deadly gangs of opposition element and in-house hypocrites, integrates and ungrateful politicians that ganged up to truncated her father desire to go for the second term. A tensed and overheated atmosphere then gathered over the state political horizon, Balaraba engrossed herself and dedicated her whole in campaigning for her father where she demonstrated an admirable guts, energy, unique, work rate, superb brain, mastery of the game and organisational skills. She built a strong political block that attracted thousands party faithful where they organized and assembled as a strong and formidable campaign team. She singlehandedly toured the entire forty four local governments of the state where an arrangement where made for massive campaign rally in which massive number of people received her with awe and admiration. It always delightful watching her delivering her speech at every campaign with eloquence and power of drawing audience that always besieged the venue to listen to that unique and exceptional orator outlining her fathers achievements in the past four years and convincingly enriched the listening audience with endless narration of teeming projects the government executed that were always elucidated in details from her powerful retentive memory. Then also highlighted the need to vote for the party reelection bid through intellectually and logically stated reasons that warrant the need of reelection for the sake of continuity. Any one that was then privileged to listing to her convincing words in any of the event, would always have a story to tell about this exceptionally gifted daughter of his Excellency. She is one of those rare females species whose action and overall attitude would convinced the doubting Thomas of the authentication of the age long slogan that said 'what a man can do, a woman can also do" but even better as is the case with Balaraba Ganduje.
She also cultivated and demonstrated an aura of charismatic and attractive personality who are naturally endowed with powerful force that derive and attract the attention of people. Where ever she then visited, he always left people talking about her unique gift and in some cases naturally attracted attention and sympathy towards her father which led thousands upon thousands paying their allegiance to her father including those from opposition parties. It was then vividly clear and uncontested fact that quantifiable number of people decided to vote for Ganduje and the party because of the iron melted influence she has over thousands of people because of her kindness, benevolence, and unique humanitarian tendencies..
Moreover, at a period when every member of the party was jittery, confused, lamenting and wallowing in fear of the unknown because of the almost catastrophic disaster that nearly upstage the party from the exalted position of power that led to conducting of new voting in some areas due to what INEC refers as inconclusive.
Then Balaraba was then remains calm and unshakable and was full of confidence that the rearranged election would at last favoured her father. She dusted the shock of the unfortunate event that nearly sent the government packing, she once more occupied herself with endless activities that made sleeping a huge luxury to her. Day and night, the extraordinarily gifted and energetic Balaraba was up and doing, attending meetings, consultations, planning, strategizing, blocking loopholes and initiating activist and actions which help tremendously in winning the historic reelection. Her contributions then was one of the very best ever played by the effective and hardworking party members in the history of the party since it's inception. She played behind the scene but the impact was huge, acknowledged and praised by all those who knows about her gallantry in political battle that led to her father and the party to victory.
Due to unique humanitarian gesture that revolves round her golden mind that is sympathetic and always seeking for opportunity to better the lives of the less privileged, she was able to curb the ninth for herself and unknowingly and subconsciously built a strong fellowship from thousands of people that benefitted from her endless gestures. That what led many then pleading, begging, yearning and calling upon her to contest for an elective posts. Unfortunately,, the highly achieving lady has other plans and priorities.
After the hard fought victory of the tensed and nerve cracking election and few months of nourishing the feeling of victory, resting the exhausted body and soul, couple with expression of gratitude to God for historic victory, the Amazon lady moves on to keep pursuing her dreams. Today she is presently nourishing feeling of love and satisfaction towards her professional line of work where she continues to blossom, and keeps moving up the ladder to the top, while her private businesses ventures is also striving and breaking barrier in business world.
She ts still been herself, driven and enjoying unimaginable feeling of happiness and satisfaction in giving out succour to the downtrodden and all other categories of individuals seeking for one favour or the other. Despites the anguish and pain felt by her admirers when she proceed to continue flourishing in her own way that was the product of independent-minded, be rest assured that the world has not forgotten her and her seat was purposely reserved for her whenever she decided to venture fully into the game of politics. For she is a rare jam whose glittering aura would never fade.
Sheriff Aminu Ahlan
Ganduje Intellectual Warrior
