Sen. Abdulaziz BAbubakar Yari was the cynosure of all eyes on the ebook launch on Argungu Emirate on Saturday, as he introduced a complete donation of N280 million for himself and associates.
Of the quantity, Yari personally donated N150 million because the chief launcher, promising to redeem the pledge by this week.
The ebook entitled, ‘A Kingdom in Disaster; Kabi within the Nineteenth Century’, was written by late Muhammad Bello Alkali, as Masters’ Thesis in 1969, in ABU, Zaria.
Sen. Yari counseled the Emir of Argungu, Alhaji Sama’ila Muhammad Mera and different conventional rulers for his or her loyalty and help to the administration of Dr. Nasir Idris, which facilitated peace, tranquility and improvement.
The ebook reviewer, Professor Alkasum Abba, described it as work of mental rigour and historic scholarship.
“The ebook is a fastidiously crafted narrative of pre-colonial Hausa Kingdom of Kabi, the conflicts and challenges it went by way of within the face of the 2 monumental historic occasions.
“These had been the Sokoto Jihad of 1804 and colonial conquest within the late nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries.
“The writer traced the background of the formation of Kabi as vassalage of the Songhai Empire within the sixteenth century and transformation into an unbiased Hausa Kingdom.
“Elaborate point out was made on inside political and ecological challenges, in addition to management disputes that fragmented the dominion and rendered it prostrate within the face of the Sokoto Jihad, and eventually fell to the imperial conquest of the British and the French within the late nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries,” Prof. Abba narrated.
Governor Idris introduced a mixed donation of N100 million by Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara states, whereas the Minister of Funds and {Economic} Planning, Atiku Bagudu, donated N10 million.