Broken Bonds, Shattered Trust: A Betrayer’s Vile Legacy


By AbdulAziz Na’ibi Abubakar

Governor Ahmadu Umar Fintiri, your name now echoes through Adamawa not as a leader, but as a traitor, a man who bites the hand that fed him. Your betrayal of Atiku Abubakar, the Waziri Adamawa, is a stain that no political maneuver can wash away. 

You dare to strip Atiku of his revered chieftaincy title, a move as petty as it is cowardly, hoping to provoke a titan who towers above your small stature. But let this be clear: Atiku will not stoop to engage a man so lacking in honor, intelligence, and integrity. You are too insignificant to command his attention, too shallow to grasp the weight of your actions, and too naive to understand the consequences that loom.

Your treachery is no surprise. Adamawa remembers how Atiku’s support lifted you to the governor’s seat. In 2019 and 2023, when you teetered on the edge of defeat, it was Atiku’s influence, his own backing, that saved you from being “flogged hands down by a woman,” as the streets still whisper. Yet, like a serpent, you turned on the man who propped you up, aligning with the likes of Nyesom Wike and the G-5 governors to undermine Atiku’s presidential bid. This is not leadership; it is opportunism, a vile legacy of disloyalty that history will not forgive.

You lack the intellect to rival Atiku’s vision, the skill to match his statesmanship, or the depth to comprehend the trust you’ve shattered. Your actions expose a governor too ignorant to lead with wisdom, too untrustworthy to inspire loyalty, and too stupid to see the trap you’ve set for yourself. Stripping Atiku of his title is not a show of strength; it is a desperate act of a man scrambling for relevance, a shallow ploy to distract from your own failures.

But beware, Fintiri. Betrayal carries a heavy price. The people of Adamawa see through your façade, and their judgment will be harsh. You have alienated allies, eroded trust, and invited scorn. The consequences will not come from Atiku’s hand, he is too great to be swayed by your antics, but from the court of public opinion and the annals of history. Your legacy will be one of broken bonds, a cautionary tale of a governor who traded honor for fleeting power.

Turn back now, if you have any shred of wisdom left. Apologize, restore what you’ve unjustly taken, and seek forgiveness from those you’ve wronged. But know this: no title you strip, no alliance you forge, will ever elevate you above the man you betrayed. Atiku Abubakar remains a giant; you are nothing but a shadow, destined to fade in the light of your own treachery.

But following a serious backlash, the governor in a curious and dissembling meltdown, shot himself on the foot by trying to change a narrative he scripted and pursued with intense animation to logical conclusion, thinking that the people are as crassly unintelligent as he was.

In an interview with Premium Times, the governor who seemingly lost touch with empathy and leadership's most treasured quality of honesty countered the position of his administration which gave an express directive that kingmakers and council members who are indigenes of other domains have automatically lost their positions. 

In a rather narcissistic contortion, Fintiri said, "the policy was not targeted at anyone, and no one has been removed from any office or title, only the Lamido of Adamawa could determine the status of the title and how the new policy affects Atiku. 

"Wazirin Adamawa is just a title, and no law makes the holder a kingmaker, a member of the Adamawa Emirate Council or the second in command to the Lamido. 

"Whether it is right or correct for someone to be a kingmaker or council member where they are not an indigene is left for each chiefdom to determine in line with the Adamawa State laws and the policy just released. The chiefdoms must decide if they complied with the new policy."

Giving a directive which expressly disqualified non-indigenes from occupying kingmakers and council membership positions and in the same breadth saying that only Lamido has the remit to decide who is a kingmaker and council member amounted to a doublespeak since Lamido was not in the first place consulted before the sinister policy was hoisted.

Such doublespeak and complete bunkum can only emanate from a feeble mind that has lost touch with honesty, moderation, fear of God and morality which has become a past time of governor Fintiri in recent times.

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