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BY SUFUYAN OJEIFO<\/p>\n

The appointment of Festus Adedayo, columnist and member of Tribune
\nEditorial Board, as a special adviser on media to the senate president,
\nAhmad Lawan, and the sudden withdrawal of the same, evidently against
\nLawan\u2019s will, in response to the mordant recriminations by a tribe of
\nincorrigible leaders and members of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
\npresent the clearest indication yet of how Lawan\u2019s philosophical
\ninspiration to contribute to _pax-Nigeriana_, using the platform of the
\nsenate presidency, is on the edge of existential backlashes of\u00a0 politics
\nand ideology.<\/p>\n

To be sure, there can be no question at all about Lawan\u2019s pan-Nigerian
\noutlook.\u00a0 If there was any that tended to create a doubt about his
\npatriotic commitment to a peaceful, united Nigeria before he stepped in
\nthe saddle and prior to the hoopla generated by the appointment, the
\nYobe-born politician had emphatically dismantled the galling question
\nand invalidated the erroneous perception.\u00a0 Adedayo\u2019s appointment had
\nforcefully shattered some histrionic dispositions as well as historic
\npatterns in the configuration of media administrative infrastructure by
\nsuccessive occupants of the plum office of senate president.<\/p>\n

In fact, none of Lawan\u2019s predecessors had appointed a spokesperson
\nclearly outside his regional, ethnic and religious confines. This
\nassertion can be subjected to a realistic historical check. Having been
\nopportune to report the activities of the senate almost consistently and
\nat different times for Vanguard, THISDAY and The Congresswatch magazine,
\nI can confirm that the late Evan(s) Enwerem who was senate president
\nfrom June 3 to November 18, 1999 appointed his kinsman from Abia state,
\nEmeka Nwosu, a former editor at the Daily Times, as his spokesperson.<\/p>\n

The late Chuba Okadigbo (November 18, 1999-August 8, 2000) appointed an
\nIgbo, Emeka Ihedioha, who was then a fringe public relations consultant
\nand currently Imo state governor, as his spokesperson.\u00a0 Ihedioha\u2019s
\nappointment was political and not professional. Anyim Pius Anyim, who
\nsucceeded Okadigbo and served out the term of Southeast as senate
\npresident in the fourth senate, appointed his Ebonyi state brother, Orji
\nOgbonnaya Orji, then working for Radio Nigeria, as special adviser on
\nmedia; and, when there was need to rejig the office, he appointed
\nanother Igbo, Kenneth Ugbechie, an editor at Post Express, and created a
\nnew office for Orji, far away from the path of the media.<\/p>\n

In the fifth senate, although Adolphus Wabara (June 2003 to April 2005)
\nappointed a Yoruba, Mayor Akinpelu, editor of a soft sell\/celebrity
\nmagazine, as his spokesperson, yet the choice was within Wabara\u2019s
\nsouthern regional enclave. Ken Nnamani (April 2005 to June 2007)
\nemplaced a media team, which was patently designed to promote a
\ndivide-and-rule arrangement.\u00a0 He had, upon a recommendation, appointed
\nan Edo man, the late Augsteen Bash-Adamu, who was editor of Champion
\nnewspaper, as his spokesperson. He would immediately sideline him for
\nhis kinsman from Enugu, Uche Anichukwu, whose media pedigree was
\nobscure.<\/p>\n

Senator David Mark from the north-central zone appointed Kola
\nOlogbondiyan, an editor at THISDAY newspapers, from Kogi in the same
\nzone, as his spokesperson for all of eight years while Bukola Saraki, a
\nYoruba from Kwara, with a supposed Abeokuta ancestry, appointed Yusuf
\nOlaniyonu, also an editor at THISDAY newspapers, from Ogun state as his
\nspokesperson. In essence, Lawan\u2019s appointment of Adedayo transcended
\nall these parochial considerations and found anchorage in a seemingly
\npristine cosmopolitan tradition that feeds hope to the Nigeria Project.
\nIn that \u00e9lan, Lawan showed capacity to downplay the factors of region,
\ntribe and religion in his overall consideration and choice of the
\ntrajectory to chart.<\/p>\n

Lawan\u2019s focus was on building a new Nigeria, which could only be
\nachieved through deploying competence and merit in escalating shared
\ncommitment to the Nigeria Project. The office of the senate president,
\nwhich makes him the third citizen in the country, offers that
\nopportunity. Accomplishing the goal necessarily requires that contempt
\nfor region, religion and ethnicity be ensconced in the administrative
\nand governance architecture of the office. Therefore, dismissing the
\nquestions of loyalty, prebendal politics and spoil system in his
\nappointments into a strictly professional media position – after all,
\nmembership of a political party is usually not a criterion – inevitably
\nplaced him at the receiving end of the vitriol of disapprobative APC
\nleaders and members.<\/p>\n

Their argument has been clearly canvassed. Lawan might have acted in
\napple-pie order in the context of his idea to join hands with competent
\nNigerians who are passionate about a better Nigeria, but the choice of
\nAdedayo, as far as they were concerned, was impolitic. They summoned
\nAdedayo\u2019s preoccupation, antecedent and disposition for interrogation
\nas a catholic critic of the administration to achieve his summative
\nindictment as an \u201cObote man\u201d to use his own words as captured in a
\npublished personal conversation that he had with a friend of his on the
\nissue.<\/p>\n

APC\u2019s leaders and members who vehemently opposed Adedayo\u2019s
\nappointment could be justified in their advocacy to stymie his readiness
\nto \u201creap” from where he did not sow; if the idea powering their action
\nis pecuniary. They probably believe a suitable person in their own
\nestimation could be sourced from among those of their foot soldiers who
\ntook the bullet from the like of Adedayo for the APC and President
\nMuhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n

But Lawan\u2019s proclivity represents a higher ideal, tending towards the
\naccommodation of a Nigerian in the push for catharsis of antediluvian
\nfault-lines of politicization of choices and foisting of personages on
\nthe system by means other than merit, competence and nationalism.\u00a0 It
\nwas in that praxis that Lawan had moved to upend the unwritten code that
\na spokesperson to the senate president must necessarily share some
\nethnic, religious, political or even filial affinity with the occupant
\nof the office.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the lower ideal of political consideration within the
\nprogressive conclave that the APC purportedly typifies has
\nunderstandably outweighed all other reasonable considerations that would
\nhave projected the APC as accommodating; sans pettiness.<\/p>\n

Even though, he respected the sensibilities of his party apparatchiks by
\nwithdrawing Adedayo\u2019s appointment, Lawan had succeeded in cutting a
\nniche for himself as a detribalised Nigerian, which is the essential
\nfulcrum of his devotion to pax-Nigeriana. And, besides, the symbolism of
\nAdedayo\u2019s appointment reinforces the belief in and hope for a nation
\nwhere, even though, our tongues and tribes may differ, there can always
\nbe justifiable platforms of brotherhood on which to stand in alliances
\nto achieve a Nigeria of our collective dream.<\/p>\n

This will make the building of synergy between the legislative and the
\nexecutive arms of the federal government easier in keeping fidelity with
\nthe social contract. And, never again shall there be deceptive rhetoric
\nto explain away the retrogressive feuds between the arms of government,
\nespecially in budgetary administration that has become characteristic
\naggravation in their relationship.<\/p>\n

Under Enwerem\u2019s senate presidency, the legislature was tied to the
\napron string of Olusegun Obasanjo\u2019s presidency in constant prostrate
\ngenuflection. Okadigbo redefined that relationship and insisted on the
\nindependence of the legislature.\u00a0 Anyim initially hobnobbed with the
\npresidency until he parted ways and pitted his tent with his colleagues.
\nWabara came with his idea of interdependence of the arms of government,
\nwhich did not save him.<\/p>\n

Nnamani\u2019s mantra was \u201clegislative due process\u201d under which he hid
\nto frustrate Obasanjo\u2019s ignoble Third Term agenda. David Mark enjoyed
\na robust relationship with the late President Umaru Yar\u2019Adua such that
\nin all his executive communications, Yar\u2019Adua always addressed Mark as
\n\u201cMy dear brother\u201d.\u00a0 In the chambers, Mark deferred to his colleagues
\nand referred to them as \u201cmy bosses\u201d. That was one of the wise acts
\nto sidestep the proverbial banana peel.<\/p>\n

For Saraki, the manner of his emergence did not give room for any sort
\nof camaraderie and succor for all of four years. It is expected that
\nLawan, in contributing to pax-Nigeriana, will prudently and mutually
\nrespectfully engage the support of his colleagues.\u00a0 He will need them
\nmore that the Presidency to escape the banana peels. True.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Ojeifo, an Abuja-based journalist, contributed this piece via
\nojwonderngr@yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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