The disappointment of the exit of Kwankwaso from the ADC is turning to be a blessing for ADC especially to Atiku.
Almost everyone is not happy with Kwankwaso up north and there is unprecedented sympathy towards Atiku due to this attempt at backstabbing him.
A heartbreaking tribute from a mother to her late daughter, who lost her battle with cancer. 🥲💔
To My Daughter, Zainab(R.I.P)
May 4, 2018 By Hafsat Aliyu
With a heavy heart and tear filled eyes, i summon the courage to write this Eulogy to my brave and courageous daughter, Zainab Aliyu, who lost the battle to Hodgkin Lymphoma (a cancer that affects the blood) on the 7th of May, 2015. Zainab was diagnosed with cancer when she was 20 years old. Her ill health started in 2003, between the ages of nine and 10 years. I remember she first broke out in a cough accompanied by catarrh and high fever which ended up to be Tuberculosis infection. She observed the free nine months TB treatment at Dantsoho Memorial Hospital, Kaduna, and at the end of the treatment, she was certified TB free and advised to return to the hospital for any complaint. Few months after, she came up with lymph nodes which her doctor thought to be residue of the TB treatment. But when it didn’t go, he referred her to Haematology Unit of Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Shika, where some lymph nodes were extracted and tested, and showed ‘Non Malignant but Positive to Brucellosis (an infection spread from animals to people, mostly by unpasteurised dairy products). The doctors were not convinced with the results though. In late 2012 when the ear pain persisted, a surgery was performed at Ear Care Centre, Kaduna, where part of her lap was removed to mend an opening in the Ear. All went well and she went back to school only to be brought back home due to excessive leg pain and body numbness. She was then taken back to her Ear Doctor, who advised she takes a Physician’s Assessment. On his advice, I took her to a renowned Private Hospital in Kaduna, where again, lab tests showed Brucellosis while Chest X-ray showed multiple Lymph nodes. She was placed on three weeks medication for Brucellosis and Cataflam for pain, but the more Cataflam she took, the more pain and sleepless nights she experienced. It reached a stage where she could not stand straight independently. She felt like her Spinal Cord could not hold her. Whenever she wants to walk around the house, I’d use a wrapper to hold her tight and straight while her brothers would support her. They would make jest of her, calling her an invalid. We were oblivious of what was ahead of us. At this stage, a kind relative who pitied Zainab so much sponsored her to International Medical Center (IMC), Cairo, Egypt, in late 2013. At IMC, it took three weeks of lab testing, City Scan, MRI and a PET scan before the team of Doctor Mahmud Salla determined her illness. Finally, the day he confirmed our worst fear, it felt like the world stood still. We were shocked and appalled. Accepting the fact that Zainab was a cancer patient wasn’t easy at all. I always wished the doctor would call us back and apologise for wrong misinterpretation of her blood tests. But my wish never came true; nothing changed the fact that Zainab was truly a cancer patient. The only good thing was she accepted it in good faith and looked forward to her treatment with strong conviction that she would win the battle. The best of times for Zainab was when she had her first successful Stem Cell Transplant which, as part of the treatment, made her stay for one good month in isolation.
The day she came out was one of our happiest days – the whole family was overwhelmed with Joy, we prayed and even made sacrifice to thank God. Our joy didn’t last long however, as she didn’t even get to achieve any of her plans when she started complaining of back ache again and rapidly losing a lot of weight. After series of checks, her doctor confirmed a relapse – that is, a reoccurrence of the disease, which necessitated her going through another circle of chemotherapy. Way into her new circle of Chemotherapy, she developed swollen feet as a result of having High Creatinine, an indication that her kidneys were affected and as such, the use of
Tsohuwar Ajiya
Wani Lokaci a Baya Kenan
Marigayi Sheikh Ja’afar Mahmud Adam
Imamu Ahlussunnah Sheikh Abdulwahab Abdallah
PROF. Muhammad Sani Umar Rijiyar Lemo
Ga kuma Dr. Abdallah Usman Gadon Kaya da Bakin Yard , a Bayan Mallam Ja’afar ( R ).
Dear @ProfIsaPantami
Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh.
I want to commend you for your attempt to reconcile MNE & US, indeed, as a cleric and a well meaning Nigerian that you are, your gesture is noble and in line with the teachings of Islam.
However, you are wrong to use this opportunity to reconcile them. Here's why;
Malam Nasiru El-rufai lost his mother barely 72 hours before your reconciliation of them. Losing a parent is indeed a very painful experience that leaves a man vulnerable and broken.
Prior to that, he had been in detention for more than 30 days during which he was denied his freedom, access to his family and opportunity to perform his ibada in a congregation like he normally does and maybe go to Umrah since he is capable. This injustice is why he missed the opportunity to be with his mother in her final days. It is unforgivable, but as Muslims, we are encouraged to forgive each other.
Malam Nasiru @elrufai has faced persecution, unlawful search of his residence, harassment and intimidation right from the day he returned from Egypt and has since been under the microscope for alleged misappropriation which he was not allowed any opportunity to defend himself.
Respectfully Sheikh, you had every opportunity to speak for Malam, to bring H.E Uba Sani to order and to remind him of what you preached about today. You have access to them and you could've done so to bring an end to this enmity and encourage unity for national progress... Yet you did not, maybe you did, but there is no information that suggested so.
Ambushing MNE at his most vulnerable moment is unfair to him and to his family, capitalizing on the passing of his mother is wrong and Sheikh, you know it is wrong.
If you must, you could mediate between them in private and reconcile their differences without putting him in a situation where if he refuses to say he forgave Uba Sani, he becomes babban gwaza who would not forgive his junior.
You put Malam in an impossible situation. Malam would prefer to let this play out, to let the ICPC complete its investigations and court cases until the court throws the case out because it is lacking evidence. This stunt you pulled could ultimately interfere with the process and it will be perceived as though Malam's case was dropped because you intervened.
Malam and his legal team have worked out different scenarios and whichever one played out, they would emerge victorious... This scenario was not calculated and your interference did not help Malam at all.
Once again, I must commend you for doing what you felt was right even though the timing was not right and the event was not right... May Allah SWT forgive us all, we are only humans after all.
May Allah SWT have mercy on her, on all our loved ones that we lost and may He grant us all Aljannatil Firdaus.
The Faux Pas By Sheikh @DrIsaPantami in this video is quite unfortunate:
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I was deeply uncomfortable watching the attached video of the Sheikh attempting to force a reconciliation between two former close associates—Ex-Governor @elrufai and current Governor @ubasanius—at the burial ground of the former’s late mother.
It felt tactless, insensitive, and frankly, indecorous.
Performative optics are not what anyone wants when burying a parent.
I questioned my own reaction at first—after all, this is a learned Islamic cleric. But our faith does not diminish our humanity; it only refines and elevates it.
Everything I struggled to articulate was, in fact, perfectly captured by Malam Muhammadu Bello Buhari in the Facebook post below.
May Allah (swt) forgive the shortcomings of deceased and give succour to the bereaved.
Inna Lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajiun.
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Says Mallam Muhammadu Bello Buhari:—
There is a point where religious mediation crosses the line into sheer insensitivity. You cannot come to my mother's burial and attempt to force a reconciliation with the very people behind my persecution, the same people I have helped and mentored my entire life, and rub it in my face under the guise of a peace talk. I don't care if you are a Sheikh, a scholar, or a statesman, there is a time for everything, and a graveyard is not a courtroom for forced forgiveness.
It is the height of hypocrisy to overlook the month-long detention, the denial of bail, and the emotional trauma inflicted on a son during Ramadan, only to pull a stunt of bringing them close at his mother's burial— the same mother he didn't get to say goodbye to. Forgiveness is a personal journey of the heart, not a public performance for the cameras. To weaponize a moment of grief to settle scores or save faces for politicians who sat silent while I was in a cell is nothing short of nonsense.
Respect the dead, but more importantly, respect the dignity of the living who are still bleeding from the knives in their backs. You do not ask a man to hug his oppressors while he is still holding the shovel that buried his mother. True Sulhu begins with accountability and justice, not with a forced handshake at a graveside.
Nonsense.