Two former governors of Sokoto state, Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa and Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko engaged in verbal attack at the Sultan Abubakar III International Airport, Sokoto on Monday, December 9, Daily Trust has reported.
Bafarawa was said to have shunned Wamakko who stood to greet him at the VIP lodge of the airport on his arrival.
According to the report, Bafarawa’s action was not unconnected with the recent statement describing him as a seasonal migrant to Sokoto by his predecessor.
“You said I am a seasonal visitor to Sokoto, why are you greeting me. I know my father and grand father were born and died here, I can even show you their graves. Can you show me the grave of your grand father?,” he allegedly asked Wamakko.
Wamakko was said to have responded by saying: “I don’t want to know where your father and grandfather are buried. All I know is that you are a seasonal migrant in Sokoto, that is all.
“There are other people whose parents and grand parents have been buried here but you called them seasonal migrants as well. So just go and face your businesses.”
The duo, however, boarded the same flight to Abuja after the hot exchange of words. Wamakko, now a senator, deputized Bafarawa for almost eight years before he voluntarily resigned to avoid impeachment.
The senator later succeeded Bafarawa after defeating his anointed candidate who is now the minister of police affairs, Alhaji Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadi in the Sokoto state 2007 governorship election.
