Hurray as Aunty Zee Marks Another Milestone Today

Today the 3rd day of August, 2024, Hajiya Zainab Ibrahim Abubakar marks her birthday.

Truly, it can’t exactly be remembered the last time Hajiya Zainab popularly called Anty Zee in spite of her verve and vivacity, was associated with a lavish and memorable birthday.

A big surprise! Hajiya Zainab is one woman whose activities never passed unnoticed let alone easily forgotten, but it appears birthday for her is not such an activity.

Generally, birthday whether hugely celebrated, quietly marked or ignored altogether gives us the picture of life. As often said, it means”a different thing to a different people”.

The meanings people make of birthdays are quite emotional. Our birthday replicate the day we first opened our eyes to this wonderful world and experience the beautiful creation of God, that is for one who still sees the world as beautiful.

Again, their are people who give birthdays an occultic interpretation involving the transport of the soul out of the body to the source for a meeting with the supreme for sustaining powers. Whatever is done or undone, birthday remains significant in our lives one way or the other; it either rekindle the flame of our aspiration or brings us into the reckoning of our friends, families or associates and their expectations on us.

For Hajiya Zainab, birthday especially this edition is significant in more ways than one. Anty Zee is a politician wanted for the restoration of hope and sunshine in a nation like ours that is endowed with enormous potential for greatness, and as God would have it, was blessed with a highly versatile and visionary Hajiya Zainab Ibrahim Abubakar as the deputy national woman leader of a great party like the All Progressive Congress (APC) to help catalyze the development of the party as an admirable case study.

The last general election in the country was very instructive and as would be expected, electorates across the country heard her clearly to vote for her party who they expect can bring about the desired social change and particularly the candidate of her party at the presidential election, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who indeed, belongs to that class of leaders.

The people heard her clearly because hey trust her when she vouched for the President as a man after many hearts, and surrounded by many who care, appreciate and genuinely love the masses. For them too, her birthday counts. Last but not the least, Hajiya Zainab conveniently portrays the figure of the most stormy, yet heroic political figure of Taraba state today and that comes with its costly price for the sake of her party.

Just as Hajiya Zainab is greatly admired by the majority she is passionately loathed by a reactionary minority who finds discomfort in his exceptionally astute political prowess, and ambitious eyes for the enormous possibilities of transforming the APC. Aunty Zee as she is popularly called visualized the party as pulsing with vitality and went to great lengths in trying to bring the visions to fruition and this she with other great leaders of the party achieved with the victory of the APC in the general elections of 2023.

In all of these, there are reasons for us to take Anty Zee’s birthday as important even in our private homes.

It must be pointed out that Hajiya Zainab’s life-long dream of taking her party into broader horizons have been achieved. The people do keep faith with her as was amply demonstrated with the. landmark victory of President Bola Tinubu victory and that of the party’s candidates in almost all elections in the 2023 general elections. It was a striking testimony of her dynamic leadership qualities, the intensity and severity of the helplessness that has engulfed the people and a burning expression of the desire for the changes resident only in her.

Hajiya Zainab Ibrahim Abubakar’s ambitions which remains the victory of her party in the next general elections in her state Taraba state are supportable because they hold meanings for the generality of the people. She knows the victory of her party in Taraba state would translate into many positives for her people and bringing her state into the mainstream politics of the country which is capable of bringing more development in all its physicalities to the state.

This sound and sensible plan she knows are necessary to harness the natural and human resources available to Taraba state inorder for it to transcend to the heights of glorious developments.

The first time in her political life when she cut her political teeth was when she was introduced by her political hero her late sister popularly known as mama Taraba of blessed memory to the politics of the state and she instantly became a great popular leader with her careful, deliberate plan, purpose and facility for adapting of means to end in nurturing her party in the state to greatness.

She has not wavered one bit. If anything being out of government in the state has increased his perceptions and given her new perspectives of governance. And because she is true to her dreams for the state, no force, no conspiracy will trounce her because she will never succumbed till victory is achieved. Such persistence, courage and resilience is needed to save our Taraba state.

Therefore, this edition of the Anty Zee’s birthday, the message is “Aluta continua,till victory is achieved in the state.

Hajiya Zainab Ibrahim Abubakar is to those who knows her and her politics is an apostle of the new type of politics dispensation. A woman who is familiar with the pains and helplessness of the masses and chooses to play the extremely compassionate type of politics.

She came through like a comet living through a trail of light as hope in the life of the people.Today she has a foundation catering for the life of the common fold in the society. Her foundation has contributed a lot to the basic need of the people all over the country and because she is committed to fight in the trenches with the people against poverty and deprivation,a lesson she learnt from her father who was the founder of the great political dynasty that have served as a memento to all his children.

The lessons she learnt from her father which is that politics is about the people is alive today in Hajiya Zainab’ who is the new heir to the great Mama Taraba of blessed memory political dynasty.

As she marked another milestone with the addition of another year to her life on earth,many across the country and beyond wish her a happy birthday and many happy returns.

Musa Wada is a political affairs analyst sent this piece from Abuja