A futile attempt at rewriting history
It is not gentlemanly for Wadada to talk about Doma in derogatory terms the way he did when he said: “We all rallied round him as a leader and father, unfortunately he has failed. So politically, I will not be where he is because I am convinced he has nothing to offer me.” Wadada must […]
It is not gentlemanly for Wadada to talk about Doma in derogatory terms the way he did when he said: “We all rallied round him as a leader and father, unfortunately he has failed. So politically, I will not be where he is because I am convinced he has nothing to offer me.”
Wadada must be told in no uncertain terms that he cannot rewrite history. Has he forgotten so soon that it was this same Aliyu Akwe Doma that paid the bills for his education at Miango Secondary School in Plateau State, and provided him shelter?
For a proper understanding of the entire scenario, let us go down memory lane. It would be recalled that Ahmed Wadada who contested for election into the House of Representatives in 2003 and 2007 signified his intention to vie for a third term in 2011 and met a stiff opposition from Ahamed Kana, a former legislator in the State House of Assembly who obviously enjoyed the overwhelming support of the youths and majority of PDP members. During the primaries, the then Governor, Akwe Doma had to thrown his weight behind Wadada and even went to the extent of mobilizing the entire leadership of the party to give the ticket to him. He won narrowly with a margin of only 5 votes, a situation that made Kana to defect to CPC.
During the period of electioneering, Wadada was engaged in series of activities that were considered to be against the party’s interests. He was alleged to have told the electorate to vote for him during the national assembly elections and for Tanko Al-Makura of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), instead of his party’s candidate, Aliyu Akwe Doma in the gubernatorial election. Unfortunately, his election was rescheduled to hold the same day with the governorship poll and at the end of it all, he lost his deposit as he failed to win the election. I believe that it is the frustration of that failure that is manifesting now in the way he vents it on Doma and all those considered close to him.
So, instead of reciprocating the kind gesture of Doma, Wadada who is actually from Sokoto State decided to bite the finger that fed him by turning Doma into a foe to be pummelled with the intensity of a Boko Haram bombing. Wadada’s anger is understandable. For a man who prided himself as the best thing that has ever happened to the people of Karu/Kokona/Keffi Federal Constituency to have lost his deposit came to him as a rude shock. Methinks that it was nemesis that eventually caught up with him.
That the Peoples Democratic Party in Nasarawa State is in the throes of crisis and is at a crossroads today is not by accident. The fact remains that the party could not be in this mess by itself. Even a piece of metal that goes rusty by oxidation has external agents acting on it. PDP’s present travails in the state is a product of the collective efforts of Wadada, his godfather and their minions.
Wadada’s increasing intolerance of dissenting opinion is a matter of considerable concern as he, like others, are unable to control the party leadership, so the entire party structure must be pulled down. But he and his band of opportunists should be governed by caution and allow reason regulate their conduct. His campaign of calumny against Aliyu Akwe Doma cannot subsist. He must profit from the lessons of history for it hangs those who ignore its lessons.
Umar wrote from Wuse, Abuja