Nyako And The Verdict Of History By Daniel Friday

Nyako And The Verdict Of History

By Daniel Friday

The admonition to make new friends and keep the old as one is silver and the other is gold may be  lost on many who don’t ponder issues deeply.In truth however, the adage has long stood the test of time and landslide victory of the All  Progressives Congress (APC) at the presidential polls following former president Goodluck  Jonathan’s dismal outing strongly attests to that.

This is because his dramatic failure at the polls can be traceable largely to his very unfair and  unfriendly treatment of his hitherto very good old friend Admiral Murtala Nyako, then governor of  Adamawa State.
This treatment followed Goodluck’s new political friendship with Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, a man who  despite being a kinsman was known by all to be rabidly anti Nyako.

This trait increased dramatically following Tukur’s enthronement by Jonathan as the People’s  Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the  2015 presidential election in defiance of an express agreement  brokered by no other than Murtala Nyako and his G7 group of governors.
Sadly, Tukur could not appreciate the French principle “Les Amis des Mes Amis Son Mes Amis”  translated as “the friends of my friends are my friends”.
Thus rather than using this platform of party chairman to align with Murtala Nyako to consolidate  the president’s position, he turned it into a fortified position to continuously attack Nyako in  what several people had seen as a plot to pave way for the emergence of his son Awwal