WAKE UP: Tambuwal and his deep rooted power of smile joined with pure heart!
By BASHIR ADEFAKA
He must be an exceptionally made creature of Allah. How can a man exist and, whether he faces challenges or some kind of tribulations of any sort, it is smile all the times in his face? Waoh! Well, it is not my place to question Allah over any of his creations. But I can at least ask: Oh Allah! When will you make me a happy, ever smiling creature like this man of the people?
I find out that starting the whole of this write up with a pronoun ‘He’ on the first line that readers have to ask question makes it more tasking as, not even in the second paragraph an answer is found satisfying the quest to know who the ‘He’ stands for.
The ‘He’ stands for Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. Born some 55 years ago precisely January 10, 1966 in Tambuwal Village in Tambuwal Local Government Area of Sokoto State, he had gone through life in the village to the Ahmadu Bello University and then Nigerian Law School in Lagos, after which he not only became a constitutional lawyer but also made his way to mounting the exalted seat of Number Four Most Powerful Man in Nigeria during his last leg of stay in the country’s House of Representatives as elected Speaker. He is married to Hajia Mariya and Mairo with children.
The power of smile joined with pure heart!
Yes, when a clique of politicians, with usual claim of ‘order from the above’, connived with some of his fellow lawmakers in the Green Chamber to unseat the “Uncommon Speaker” unjustly, we saw some unpaid, uninfluenced clearly self-convinced colleagues climbing the National Assembly high rise gate for no other reason but that, not to their witness an innocent would be unjustly persecuted.
The power of smile joined with pure heart!
Sad, his deputy was the unfortunate new bride being touted and planted inside the chamber to be installed as new Speaker while he and his loyal majority Honourable Colleagues were locked out of the gate. But that plot failed at the last count because, colleagues representing Federal Constituencies from across the nation’s geopolitical zones foiled the legislative coup. Why?
The power of smile joined with pure heart!
Anyway, Allah has his own way of dealing with unjust people. The deputy, who betrayed him that time at the National Assembly, later became a state governor in certain part of the country. How many days was he governor before he was shown the way out of the exalted Government House? Some people said 17 days but it is not true. I think he was governor for 90 days full of programme demolishing the structures and achievements of his predecessor. I beg, I have been cautioned not to vent my anger after God has shown his mercy.
Moreso, answer to that will not be my place to provide for real because, in his case, he the shortlived governor was enemy that has today become a friendto my brother governor; only Allah is infallible but the infallibility of the man he betrayed, whose frowning face I have never, I have not seen and will never want to see. Why?
The power of smile joined with pure heart!
Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Commander of the Federal Republic, CFR, and the Mutawallen Sokoto, left the stage as number four citizen in Abuja only for another stage to have been set for him in Nigeria’s most peaceful state that is the Islamic Headquarters of the country and the journey was made easy as he earned the position of Number One Citizen on a platat of gold as elected Executive Governor of Sokoto State. Why?
The power of smile joined with pure heart!
Somebody even told me how Tambuwal served as a saving grace to a debtor, who had no alternative – God save us from heart attack disease possible from burden of debt. Tambuwal not only settled his N7 million debt but also restored his good life and I am told the man remains alive today. I am not sure His Excellency will penalise me for mentioning this but he definitely won’t, because, he did not tell me. And it does not mean that before I wrote this piece I researched about his life record. It is simply another character of a man blessed with ability to smile and relate to people with pure heart, an enigmatic personality that he is, with exceptional ability to achieve successes with less of stress in terms of effort. Why?
The power of smile joined with pure heart!
Okay, when the table turned and his position as governor was heavily challenged, undaunted Aminu Waziri Tambuwal had the power of smile with pure heart, and his personal humility to all, work for him. He eventually emerged victorious and, by Allah’s grace, by next year 2023, I have no doubt in my mind that his heart desire will be made possible by the Lord of the worlds.
One brilliant thing about Governor Tambuwal is in his never being overambitious about anything. Whatever he has become, Allah has made it so, and the people the Lord has placed around him as natural strength. But what would have made people of a cosmopolitan society as it is the case in Nigeria to be so irresistibly attached to a man like this? I found out it is in his humility and fairness to all. I repeat, I have never seen his frowning face. To him, it is a natural gift by Allah that has worked for him and many of us ask from Allah. Smiling face is rewardable act of worship and, to personal being, it is health therapy.
The power of smile joined with pure heart!
No wonder across the Peoples Democratic Party’s group in Nigeria, it is being said that, a presidential ticket will be ineffective outside of Tambuwal as flagbearer, if the will to defeat anybody the All Progressives Congress, APC, will push forward groundside is the goal. Governor Tambuwal, himself using the statement of politician on Channels Television, said, “If winning election is important to PDP come 2023, I am the candidate of choice.”
I agree with all that say so not because Tambuwal is my Muslim brother from the Hausa-Fulani tribe but, more largely because he is the man that has the natural wherewithal to deliver 2023 Presidency to PDP, failure to hand him, which will naturally retain power with the APC. And APC, of course, is not enemy as far as I am concerned. It is democracy that is trying to cause division among people of same source. God help all of us.
The power of smile joined with pure heart!
This is strong characteristic force of a smile joined with pure heart. It has no high mountain it cannot crush to rubble. It has been working for Aminu, we are all living witnesses to its positive impacts in Waziri and it will continue to work for Tambuwal for as long as he lives on the surface of the earth, Insha Allah. For other politicians in the country, there are good examples in the Mutawallen Sokoto for him, who wants to succeed politically without blemish to his name and personality.
Imagine that while they were persecuting him in Abuja as Speaker of the House of Representatives and he defected to APC, they were also looking for any possible means to incriminate in order to cage him and the easiest, they needed, was to find just a slight trace of corruption case and lace it around his neck. If they got one, they would use it. But none was found and, up till today, none has been found and they will never find. Not even some of these “stupid jesters”, who have been working with certain cartel that has been rubbishing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) since the time of Malam Ibrahim Magu, are capable of achieving that. They, as it has looked, have used a well known Omoyele Sowore’s Sahara Reporters online newspaper to bully the governor and the leadership of Sokoto State. You do not wage war against a special creature of Allah. Destruction looms in doing that. Why?
The power of smile joined with pure heart!
After becoming a governor and circumstance made him to defect from APC and go back to his earlier party, the PDP, the “progressive minded in conservative party” was not impossibly targeted with similar witch-hunt, like somebody said, to find a corruption case to cage him and then make a second term difficult for Akanda Eledumare (special creature); that also still failed because they found nothing. The same power that is behind President Muhammadu Buhari, Tambuwal’s elder in the North, that it has always been his enemies and enemies of national unity that have come forward to reveal the evils they do in secret to him, is the same power that is working for the sitting Governor of Sokoto. So, those who are making effort and by extension, splashing that stupidity with intent to insult the the spiritual and royal father of both Buhari, Tambuwal and over 100 million Muslims of Nigeria, His Eminence Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, CFR, mni, should beware because, no one can effectively stop Sultan of Sokoto from talking any of his Northern sons no matter what political party he belongs. We lay in wait to see them who do that stupidity and we will readily give it to them as they deserve.
It is also the same power that is working for the Father, by virtue of his position as Sultan of Sokoto, to both the President and Governor that he has been able to make peace across the Muslim Ummah and other faith groups in Nigeria with huge successes recorded to the extent that today, he is Co-President of the World Religions Council headquartered in the New York, United States of America, the retired General who carried one leg out of the military service of the Nigerian Army, in 2006, and the leg did not touch the ground until it stepped into the Martabah, Palace of the Sultanate.
The power of smile joined with pure heart!
As he came out recently to show interest in Presidency 2023, those unknown adversaries of yesteryears have now been having their mouths wagging saying that Tambuwal ran a lopsided committee system as Speaker of the House of Representatives. They have been beaten to their chest that Aminu Waziri Tambuwal ran the most balanced committees in the Green Chamber, so far, since 1999. Record does not lie.
This is all for the reason of power of smile joined with pure heart and I say congratulations to my brother and leader. Allah ibaka nasara wa ikao lafia achikin arisikinka da arikokinka ko wannan ansiasa ko mi da ko mi ne! Amiin!
*WAKE UP is opinion article column of Prince of Isolo, Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo State, and Lagos based Journalist. Reach him via thedefendernewpapernigeria2022@vk.com or omope72@gmail.com
