…The Land of Beauty isn’t a Den of Criminals
…Thuggery and gangsterism, like banditry are unacceptable, must be nipped in the bud by relevant security agencies, collaborative community policing and societal reorientation
…As a mother, I have forgiven them – First Lady
…Police can’t relent in nipping criminality in Muchala to the bud – PPRO
By Adamu Muhammad Dodo
It is disheartening and unacceptable the threat to the life of the wife of a governor, a.k.a the First Lady, by any individual and/or coordinated crooks, either politically sponsored or otherwise. It implies that it is an attack to the citizenry and undermining the security operatives of the state.
It is a thing of joy, a restoration of public confidence in the security operatives of the state; unity, peace and stability, to have the a female governorship candidate, Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed, a.k.a Binani, flying the opposition, APC, party flag, traversed Adamawa territories; covering the entire local government areas of the state, not excluding the hitherto insurgency occupied towns and villages, from morning to midnight and beyond, unhindered, canvassing for her party’s popular electorates’ support ahead of the February 2023, general elections.
Even though political rivalry is without doubt inevitable, playing it without bitterness defines a genuine democracy that he who controls the state structure must ensure it is safeguarded even at the point of his electoral cost.
Based on this premise, a governor’s friend identified by ghetto-thugs-talk, threatening the major opposition party with a sword, should the candidates trade theitheir party in Michika, was literally neutralised; alter-internet-ively hibernated.
Eventually, APC held campaigns that attracted mammoth crowds across the state and everything went well, in peace.
Those who took to social media ethno-political hate against a popular candidate – represented by the uncultured so-called media aides – without putting into consideration the Rwanda damaging a genocide they are ignorantly instigating, “by proselytising ethnoreligious hate theology,” a moralist would express, are simply dismissed with the challenge that they should learn to be responsibile by keeping a family they could not do, having spent over five immoral, intoxicated decades, surviving in and with liquor-tipsy culture, than destroying the state with diatribe, believing that they have nothing to loose by pulling down the roof.
Adamawa APC governorship candidate did not call for anarchy when she was denied Women Development Centre, a public facility, she was using to share N20,000 to the poor across the state; a federal government intervention, to boost their local business. The amazing amazon simply identified a secured alternative venue and the monies went to the target beneficiaries across the state.
When the court voided the party primaries that earned Binani the APC governorship ticket, she did not sing violent protest as a lawless redress, she called for calm, assuring her supporters staging peace protest that the unacceptable judgement would be challenged before a superior court of competent jurisdiction.
When the lone lady governorship candidate was denied the use of Mahmud Ribadu Square, a public facility she had requested, to flag off her campaign, she was not to engage thugs to humiliate her deniers, with political diplomacy and strategy, supported by well wishers and God’s will, she erected another purposeful rally square she named after the President that no conspiracy could frustrate the flag off campaign in grand honoured style from taking place there. All went in peace, free of thuggery already arrested.
Venue or no venue, the major streets of every town and village could not get to accommodate the campaign train, the traditional authorities are also adept at managing political campaigns and candidates in their domain without undue bias; an exhibition of democratic playing ground.
It was Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa state, as he was quoted, who cautioned that politics should not be a do or die affair and that no sane person should work on losing his life because of a political candidate, where he urged both the candidates and the electorates to act with decorum by cultivating the culture of politics without bitterness and continue to live in mutual coexistence devoid of any non divine divide, as a one-big-family.
Now that the political rally is coming to end, the thought of voting against thuggery is being obstructed by the alleged miscreants in Muchala, Mubi North local government area, northern senatorial district of Adamawa state, who are reported to have attacked the First Lady’s convoy.
According to the social media report about the ugly incident, while attending the Maiduguri Diocese’s Diocesan Convention of Catholic Women (Zumutan Mata) Saturday, held at St. Paul Catholic Church Muchala in the Mubi North Local Government Area, Her Excellency Hajiya Lami Ahmadu Fintiri’s convoy came under attack by unidentified hoodlums.
Though there was no identified casualty of any magnitude, five vehicles, including the Press Crew Bus and an Ambulance were visibly touched.
The First Lady was said to have extended the Diocesan sermon beyond Muchala Catholic women to the youth away from the church, urging them to fortify their conscience against being bewitched into political thuggery by politicians without attitudes who have nothing to offer than violence to shield their inefficiency and ineffectiveness.
She said “let us continue to be unsatisfied until integration takes place and our political differences are seen less as a hindrance and more as a chance to embrace and participate in the beauty of diversity in our politics, as other nations of the world”.
Even though Lami the First Lady would with compassion say that “as a mother, I have forgiven them,” Adamawa state Police Command, according to the PPRO, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, would stop at nothing to fish out the criminals and unravel the conspiracy
Political thuggery is unacceptable in Adamawa state, especially the northern senatorial district hitherto under the insurgents occupancy. It must be addressed with total condemnation. The Land of Beauty must not be mortgaged to the ugly. PEACE!