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Nigeria: Adedibu - Northern Politicians Absent at Fidau
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This Day (Lagos)
20 June 2008
Posted to the web 20 June 2008
Ademola Adeyemo and Tunde Sanni
Ibadan
Former National Secretary of the party and Governor of Jigawa State , Sule Lamido, had been the only Northerner who came to Molete, to condole with the family.
The apparent political indifference of the South-west governors also raised suspicion, especially with the arrival on Tuesday night, of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala from France, where he went with President Umaru Yar'Adua.
An Islamic Preacher, Sheikh Muhyideen Ajani Bello, yesterday predicted an upsurge in armed robbery incidents and other violent crime in Ibadan, with the demise of Chief Lamidi Adedibu.
Bello cautioned political elites, especially political office holders and appointees against closing their doors to political hangers-on and social miscreants who had been beneficiaries of the economic gains of Adedibu in politics.
National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, former Senate President, Adolphus Wabara, Chairman Senate Committee on Federal Capital, Smart Adeyemi, as well as deputy governors of Ekiti, Ondo and Ogun states were among dignitaries at the ceremony.
The fiery Kano-based cleric lamented that the Fidau, which ordinarily should have been a solemn occasion, was converted to a political outing.
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Alao-Akala fought back tears, while describing his late godfather as the first to show that an unelected leader could traverse the entire nation so effectively than those given the mandate.
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