Adamu Adamu: Not a politician

By JOHN DANFULANI |

Ibrahim Gamawa, whom I suspected is Adamu Adamu’s tag-team mate made a piece in Thursday’s 30th July Daily Trust in defence of the former hypercritical priest of moral shrine Adamu Adamu. He unsuccessfully tried to show his initial lack of interest in these exchanges, but could not stand by such feelings to the end. And finally rolled-up his sleeves, picked a pen and jointed this titanic fray that one suspects will not finish before Christmas. It is now a balanced equation of a tag-team of twos, with Chaji/Danfulani axis versus Gamawa/Adamu team.

Like his co-team mate, he wobbled and fumbled round issues and ended up not seriously addressing any raised by me or Chaji or helped Adamu’s case.

Else, what was the point he was making by accusing us of playing “someone else’s script”? Since when did people who advance moral questions become mischief makers? If posing moral questions, evangelising, and accusations is an act of mischief, is your Adamu not the biggest Nigerian shareholder in the venture? Because his entire journalistic career which spans over two decades was anchored on asking moral questions, preaching morality, and mischievously accusing others of lack of it.

Gamawa also opined that “I do not want to delve into the accusation of arrogance and other issues on Adamu”, of course you will not, because only your hero has the right to use words as desired. How can you detach these titles and phrases from wanton arrogance: “talking silly about Bauchi”, “given to some clowns”, “this nation might have tolareted corruption but should never be allowed to accept it could tolerate insult to its collective intelligence by those who daily inflict and then add salt to it, our collective injuries”, “in the past my attitude even to reasonable rejoinders…”.There were countless other arrogant and contemptuous sentences and phrases in his weak response to Chaji,s moral sermon.

There were conspicuous lacunas of logic in thinking because at some point he asserted that “Adamu was right to say that his duty as a journalist should not be restricted to Bauchi, and it is nobody’s responsibility to tell him when or who to write about. Since there is the possibility that his opinion may be influenced and as such he will not be objective in his writing”. In this case, Adamu and his supporter swam their illogical wings into our waiting net. Was Adamu not aware of this possible influence ab initio when he picked on Muazu and his government? By your confession, which is quite true, we state our case that all Adamu wrote on Muazu was influenced and prejudiced by interest. What is remaining, is to forward an apology to Muazu and being a true Muslim, Muazu and some of us that were hoodwinked to believing him will forgive, forget and forgo.

The last sentence of his fifth paragraph was laughable and portrayed his parochialistic perception of what is politics, who is a politician, and what event is political. You stated that Adamu is not a politician? Who else is, in this world? These are rather some of the insults to our collective intelligence that your master accused others of. It is my utmost belief that Adamu was not careful, otherwise he would have stumbled on that phrase in your piece and outrightly pruned it out. But Adamu is still recouping from Chaji’s merciless shelling and my back up blitzkrieg of Wednesday; so, it will be hard for him to see all the contradictory statements in the write up.

Activities of Adamu in 2003 and 2007 confirmed that he is not only a Hobbsian political animal but a living and practicing one with the main opposition party ANPP. Can Gamawa tell us what Adamu was doing when he said in his reaction to chaji “throughout 2003 I was virtually Shekarau’s sentry standing by Buhari” In the said duty, was Adamu Adamu standing sentry in a military parade ground or in a political rally? Your guess is as good as mine.

Again, Adamu told us before the 2007 general elections that he was resting his moral pen because he was joining Buhari’s presidential campaign trail. He actually left because some of us stopped seeing his Friday sermons in the Trust. Many actually saw him close to Buhari wherever the Gen. went. Votes hunting actually took them to Bauchi where Adamu and Buhari appeared and successfully sold Malam Isa Yuguda to the conscious people of Bauchi who are now thinking whether the product Adamu and co “seduced” them to buying was worth the price. Then, can somebody with fertile conscience write and tell us that Adamu Adamu is not a politician? By nature and practice, he was and will continue to be one until he answers the call of Allah to reunite with Him, the angels and other saints in aljanna.

These are some of the deceits and holier-than-all mantra some of us are out to combat and totally eliminate from the system. People like Adamu have exhausted their barns of deceits and bare faced fabrications against the system and people. The role of a pen man is not evangelizing a principle he does not believe or wished it exist.

Lest I forget, Chaji has advanced further questions to Adamu Adamu and by extension his tag-team friend, are we likely to get answers soon?
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