Questions Adamu Adamu needs to answer

Mallam Adamu Adamu, a renowned public analyst and columnist with Daily Trust, needs no introduction. He is a public commentator with a distinct style, fearless, educated and bold enough to express his views and opinions both locally and internationally. As an indigene of Bauchi state, when former Governor Adamu Mu’azu was being portrayed as an achiever, Adamu Adamu took time to debunk all the propaganda been said about him.

Naturally, his readers and people of Bauchi state in particular would have expected Mallam Adamu Adamu to come out in the open to express his views in either supporting what is happening in relation to decampment of Governor Isa Yuguda and attempts made by him to have his deputy impeached or to critically analyze what is happening in the state where as reported by the media the members of the Bauchi state House of Assembly were offered ten million naira each to support the impeachment of the deputy governor, Alhaji Muhammad Garba Gadi.

Though Adamu Adamu is from Bauchi state, he has written on so many issues happening in other states of the country. He has also written so many times on international politics. Then why is it that Adamu has been silent on what has been happening in Bauchi state before and after Governor Isa Yuguda’s defection to PDP?

Or is it that what is happening presently in Bauchi state is acceptable to him? Or is he shielding Yugada from the hammer of his pen because they are friends? Or is it his own type of politics to abandon his supporters in their hour of need? Is Adamu Adamu not part of those that accompanied General Muhammadu Buhari to Bauchi state during the 2007 elections to sell Yuguda as ANPP gubernatorial candidate?

For months when the local and international media started featuring stories of Governor Isa Yuguda decampment and presently his scheming to have his deputy impeached for refusing to decamp with him to the PDP, I have been following his Friday column to see what will be his reaction, but unfortunately Adamu Adamu has declined to say or write anything on the issue.

Any follower of Adamu Adamu’s Friday Column will observe that he is anti-PDP and staunch supporter of General Muhammadu Buhari of the ANPP. He even boasted that if the 2007 elections were rigged, he would be on the street demanding for justice. On the present administration of President Umaru Musa Yar’adua, Adamu was so critical that he virtually hoped for military intervention. Even of recent he was critical of the opposition in the just-concluded Iran election. Then why is he silent on Bauchi state, which is his state of origin?

Adamu Adamu should remember that either directly or indirectly he has influenced people to vote for ANPP in all stages before the 2007 elections, and after the people of Bauchi state answered his call and massively voted for ANPP, why is he shy in coming out to criticize Governor Isa Yuguda of not being fair to the people of Bauchi state for abandoning the platform that provided him the opportunity of the office he now occupies? Why wouldn’t he come out to chide Yuguda for betraying General Buhari?

And why wouldn’t he ask questions about the ten million naira each said to have been given to any member of Bauchi state House of Assembly that would support his deputy’s impeachment? And if it is true, whose money is he using? His own money or that of people of Bauchi state?

Maybe by the time Adamu Adamu decides to write Gadi would be gone; in that case would Adamu Adamu have been fair to the people of Bauchi state? Why is Adamu Adamu fearless when writing about other events in other states and his pen tends to fail him in regard to Yuguda’s conduct in the governance of Bauchi state in the last two years? Or does he approve of what Yuguda is doing?

Charity begins at home, if Adamu Adamu wants his readers to take him seriously on national and international issues he writes on, he should be able to say the truth to his state governor no matter what the relationship between them is.

Shehu Mustapha Chaji
shehuchaji@yahoo.com