How Fulani cabal knocked heads of Nggilari, Gulak over senatorial seat

How Fulani cabal knocked heads of Nggilari, Gulak over senatorial seat
EMME EMMA GWANAH
The Adamawa state PDP has created a damaging reputation for itself; it has created a reputation of political insanity and impunity perpetrated to highest level. One needs not to possess a magic wand or consult an oracle to understand the crippling power play featuring few feudalists and political demons who have reduced the ethnic majority in the state into mere skeletons and clapping boys.
The Adamawa ethnic majority cannot forget too easily how the Fulani cabal systematically terminated the well inspiring and cherished administration of Hon. Ahmadu Finitiri who was seen as a threat to their ambition to produce a candidate of Fulani extraction who could promote Fulani hegemony in the state.
Barely three days to the October 11 aborted by-gubernatorial election, the high court sent quivers and shivers down the spine of the Adamawa population by invalidating the Nggilari’s resignation. The development was said to be product of an agreement reached between the cabal and Nggilari to forfeit his ambition as the Governor and to accept the position of a senator for the northern senatorial zone.
The conclusive and successful coup d’état targeted against Hon Fintiri because of his offensive ambition to be the Governor of the state against the wishes and political calculations of the Fulani cabal was said to have been the major factor that ruffled the feathers of the party.
On the other hand, Nggilari sudden change of ambition to declare for the gubernatorial seat was seen as a breach of that agreement between him and the cabal intended to violate the previous agreement. It was a confusion and controversy that degenerated into a game of wits which precipitated the suspension scandal of some key state party officials and hosting of a kangaroo PDP primaries in Abuja to make a way for the presidency favored candidate. In an attempt to douse the tension, Engineer Markus Gundiri was said to have been promised the offer of an appointment as a federal Minister, an offer he was said to have rejected outrightly.
In the process of reconciliation, Nggilari was forced to accept the earlier agreement to vie for the senatorial seat while Ali Gulak who had earlier emerged the candidate for the northern senatorial seat at the Abuja Kangaroo primaries was forced to sacrifice his mandate for the incumbent Governor. Though the deal appeared conclusive, the cabal who was apparently offended by Nggilari’s unfavorable disposition to the initial agreement had to resort to the application of some payback measures to scuttle his chances of becoming   a senator for the northern District. Many have alleged that the subsequent revolt by Ali Gulak to keep his earlier mandate he secured at the Abuja kangaroo primaries was part of the plot by the Fulani cabal to frustrate the senatorial ambition of Governor Bala James Nggilari. Hon Ali Gulak who is fighting vehemently to claim his mandate has questioned the justification for the confiscation of his mandate when in the real sense of it, he emerged the overall winner at an election contested by seven aspirants. He argued that in that same election, Nggilari never contested for the senatorial seat but governorship seat which he lost out.
The bone of contention is how the name of Nggilari was smuggled into INEC as the senatorial flag bearer of the party when in actual sense he never contested in the Abuja primaries.
Sources have alleged that the whole Nggilari/ Ali Gulak open war was an action masterminded by the Fulani cabal to teach Nggilari how to respect simple agreement.