The Speaker, Kwara House of Assembly, Yakubu Danladi, has sacked his media aide, Sheriff Ibrahim.
Ibrahim, who is the Special Assistant (Media) to the Speaker, confirmed his sack in a report he personally authored, explaining that he was “sacked by domineering government forces”. He however said he accepted his travail in absolute good faith.
Narrating the event that culminated in his sack, he said he was caught up in the moral dilemma of rescuing Bashir Bolarinwa, the state estwhile APC's Caretaker Chairman , when he was fiercely attacked at the venue of the Stakeholders Meeting or, pander to the whims of certain individuals who felt he should be on their side.
He said, “For most people, this is not an everyday dilemma, but it can be a problem for some people. It is for me. I feel a serious ethical issues in having to wage wars on people that stood with me shoulder to shoulder during the Otoge struggles. It is my conscientious conviction that people that almost paid the ultimate sacrifices to ensure our collective struggle was a success doesn’t deserve to be hated.
He explains further, “I was at the Banquet Hall on a formal invitation of Senator John Danboi, the Chairman of the APC Membership Registration Exercise. I was there early with the hope to pick a front seat. But despite that we arrived on schedule, the entrance to the event was under locks and keys till way after 2pm. There were a lot of people, party stakeholders who were standing in the sun to enter the hall. But they were all locked out for reasons best known to the organisers.
“It was in the middle of this that the Caretaker Chairman of the APC, Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa, dashed in. How he came, where he came from, I would not know. But as he made for the door, a woman suddenly appeared from among the crowds, charged at him, grabbed his shirts and locked it. It was all obvious that the woman was on a mission, either to kill BOB or strip him naked. Every person with good conscience had to come to BOB’s rescue. Everybody forgot party affiliations at that moment to do what we felt was right and moral. And we did rescue him from the firm grip of the violent woman.
“At that point, it dawned on all the rescuers, including me that the only place safe for BOB was inside the Banquet Hall itself. If we had acted otherwise, I can bet it, BOB would not have made it out of the Kwara Banquet Hall alive. It was that terrible!
“This is the part I played at the Banquet Hall, no more, no less. This is what I would have done for anybody else. I would have done same for Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq if I found him in that sorry situation. So, it was not about BOB, it was about what was right and moral, what was decent.
“And that scenario was perhaps what our friends in the Government House saw on video that made them announce my ‘sack’ online. They were so recklessly desperate they forgot I was never on their payroll. This is the unfortunate political situation we have found ourselves, and we’ve been asked to live with.
Ibrahim said he later formally met with the speaker who told him that he had accented to his disengagement.
Meanwhile, the speaker is yet to make a public statement on the development.
The former media Aide to the Speaker who was appointed by the Speaker immediately after the inauguration of the ninth Assembly in June 2019, was former Editor of an online newspaper, “theFresh lnsight”.
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