Musings By Garba Shehu

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Brace yourself for the first-ever elected female state governor in the federation. Pauline Tallen of the Labour Party, LP seems almost certain to become the next governor of the much-troubled Plateau state.

An American humorist writer once described the job of vice-president as “the last cookie on the plate; nobody wants to have it but somebody eventually does.” This seems to be the reality facing the office of deputy governors. A former deputy governor to late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua (then Governor of Katsina state), Alhaji Tukur Jikamshi resigned the job and called for the scrapping of that office in the constitution. His experience reflects the larger picture of frustration deputy governors face, thus their jobs are regarded as unenviable.