Underpinning Mallam Adamu Adamu’s function(s) within the President Muhammadu Buhari administration could be just like emphasising to a 40-year-old how a lot his mum cherished him and took excellent care of him when he was an toddler, a toddler, and over his years of juvenile delinquency, rising up as a younger grownup.
It might not solely be stating the plain, however quantities to emphasising what everybody is aware of and accepted as incontestable reality. Again within the days of the Buhari Organisation from 2003, Mallam Adamu may very well be described as Buhari’s private assistant and his secretary. He was his principal non-public secretary and his private workplace/organiser who made life each non-public and public, a simple routine. PMB had in Mallam Adamu a bookworm that digested the thousands and thousands of correspondence and mails that got here in. The ‘geek’ churned out tonnes of government summaries for his boss to ponder over and make the suitable calls or choices. Even on household issues, Mallam Adamu was delegated or assigned to make vital and correct interventions.
When Buhari turned president, one would have thought that Mallam could be made his PPS, or change into his chief of employees, despite the fact that some felt Colonel Hamid Ali (rtd) ought to have been the president’s chief of employees. The duo are PMB’s closest aides and notoriously his most trusted ‘employees’ who would have been the primary drivers of a PMB agenda when his authorities berthed. They’d be the actual ambassadors of the Maigaskia mantra.
They nonetheless are by the best way, however that they might have operated in several roles and proximity to the seat of energy. By the sword of energy intrigues on the Villa, Mallam Adamu was posted to the Training Ministry, courtesy his well-liked ASUU article of 2013. It’s by no means unsure that he had and nonetheless is captivated with resolving the ASUU crises and discovering lasting options to the issues of ASUU; whereas laying a strong basis for the way forward for tertiary training within the nation. PMB trusted Mallam Adamu to be his worthy ambassador and go discover the rabid canine that has bedeviled and knawed on the development and growth of tertiary training in Nigeria. Like each different factor within the nation, the requirements have dropped astronomically through the years.
Lacking the purpose is failing to understand that a variety of the problems which have at all times stalled ASUU vs FG face-offs and negotiations have been Labour primarily based, which is resident with the Minister of Labour. Within the PMB period, even the a lot vilified Ngige, had knowledgeable us that over 92 billion naira was paid as earned allowances and revitalisation charges to federal-owned universities. This was a part of the December 2020 settlement which was a renegotiated state of affairs of the infamous 2009 settlement which govt had indicated was unrealistic, particularly with the prevailing financial circumstances of shortages and sabotages.
The cost methods platform matter was additionally being mentioned and ironed out. Ngige had taken over the ASUU matter and the Training Ministry needed to take a again seat, in any case, labor was the crux of the matter most frequently. In line with him, as soon as a labor dispute had snowballed right into a strike, unresolved; it had change into the prerogative of the labour ministry. He appears to attract his vitality from the Commerce Disputes Acts.
Assaults had been launched on the individual of Mallam Adamu and it was greater than evident that as an alternative of sticking to the problems primarily based debates and discussions on the best way ahead, advert hominems had been launched at him. Jealousy and envy had precipitated a variety of the immodest media slander towards him. He was beneath strict directions from his boss to not cave into penning agreements that8 had been unrealistic and unsustainable. Regardless of being an election yr, which is ASUU’s favourite yr of lengthy strikes, PMB guided Mallam Adamu to not slip into the frivolities concerned within the negotiations.
PMB’s custom of silence and inaction purchased the mandatory time for ASUU to unravel. Earlier than our very personal eyes, ASUU unravelled as an affiliation of ‘Quacks’. Earlier than you might say Jack Robinson, there have been splinters of the mom physique and Ngige’s sport of getting extra tutorial employees unions started to repay. ASUU Chairman turned partisan and it was only a matter of time earlier than his followers and different eager observers noticed by the facade. Right now ASUU has referred to as off the strike and each side, FG and ASUU have change into richly educated about how governance works and the way strikes work too. The no work no pay exhausting line was the deal breaker finally and this could assist in assuaging the size and extent of strike actions within the nearest future.
As an APC stalwart by default of his boss PMB because the chief of the celebration, Mallam Adamu Adamu has achieved fairly effectively in making certain that the APC didn’t or doesn’t go the umbrella manner; in tatters. His intervention in London over the crises that almost engulfed the celebration, gave solution to the emergence of a brand new celebration Chair in Sen. Abdullahi Adamu. Again in 2019, only a few know Mallam’s very notable strides in conserving the merger agreements one; with Asiwaju Jagaban Bola Ahmed Tinubu, appeased over clear infractions of sure understandings he had with the CPC camp. If you happen to have no idea this, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu does and that’s the reason few within the PMB circle command the sort of respect Adamu does with The Jagaban.
In Bauchi, my constituency and Mallam Adamu’s, his legacies as a Minister are sterling and stand the take a look at of time to be matched by some other political appointee, within the 4th Republic. On the twenty seventh of September, 2022; I used to be invited to the Senate Committee on Tertiary Training and Tetfund listening to on Federal Faculty of Training Jama’are Bauchi state, Institution Invoice 2022, SB 991; and Federal College of Well being Sciences Azare, Bauchi State, Institution Invoice, 2022, SB 990. These two tertiary establishments in Bauchi state carry quite a bit to the desk, as dividends of democracy to the folks of Bauchi state.
We stay appreciative that regardless of the meagre sources of presidency and the competitors between states of the federation, for the siting of those establishments, Bauchi alone was capable of get them. Job alternatives, enterprise and commerce for artisans and entrepreneurs, high quality training for secondary faculty leavers ~ are of the very many beneficial properties Bauchi stands. Mallam Adamu is one hell of a son of the soil. As for the ASUU crises, I’m greater than satisfied that the final outing has lastly laid to relaxation, the ghost of ASUU strikes, with reasonable, conceivable and attainable agreements, and never these which might be signed beneath duress, oblivion to actuality, or at election fever time.
Tahir is Talban Bauchi.
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