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Each year, I take the liberty to pen a tribute to His Excellency, Dr. Ibrahim Shehu Shema, former Governor of Katsina State, on his birthday on September 22nd. It’s one of the few occasions I write about him without his prior knowledge or input, a privilege that comes with full responsibility for every word.<\/p>\n
Born in 1957, Shema is a rare breed of politician: intelligent, humane, sincere, and a master of governance. I vividly recall a sunny afternoon in February 2021, sitting in his office…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Each year, I take the liberty to pen a tribute to His Excellency, Dr. Ibrahim Shehu Shema, former Governor of Katsina State, on his birthday on September 22nd. It’s one of the few occasions I write about him without his prior knowledge or input, a privilege that comes with full responsibility for every word. Born […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,15555,257,4687,393,5761,11511,9398,15989,254,5124],"class_list":["post-207999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-belief","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-patriotism","tag-potential","tag-shema","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spotlight"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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