Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu
Buhari on Media and Publicity, has said his principal recently received the
former Chairman of Christan Association of Nigeria (CAN) Plateau State Chapter,
Rev Yakubu Pam who was described as “a total idiot” by the former president,
Olusegun Mathew Obasanjo.
Adesina said Buhari who is of another religion was able to
receive the cleric with dignity he deserved, stressing that “for a Matthew to
call a priest an idiot, “a total idiot?” Not acceptable by any stretch of the
imagination”.
The president’s spokesman who made the remark on Friday in a
statement titled “THE PRIEST AND THE PRESIDENT”, said “What Rev Pam didn’t get
from a Christian, he got from a Fulani man from Daura, a Muslim. Is there any
lesson we can learn from this? Think about it”.
Recall that in May 2004 when fury and hatred were unleashed in Yelwa-Shendam, Plateau State, leading to internecine bloodbath as hundreds of people were killed along religious lines, the then president, Obasanjo accused Rev Pam of inciting violence via preaching.
“What role have you played to bring about peace as CAN
Chairman in Plateau State? CAN, my foot! What kind of CAN Chairman are you? Did
your own Christianity teach you about revenge? You are an idiot. A total idiot.
And I have no apologies for that”, Adesina quoted Obasanjo as saying then.
According to Adesina, Pam who is now the Executive Secretary
of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), is a man of peace who
followed the right part by not retaliating against the former president.
The statement reads in part: “Rev Pam is obviously a man of
peace. That was why “when he was reviled, he reviled not again; when he
suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth
righteously.” (1 Peter 2:23).
“How many of us would be called an idiot, “a total idiot”
publicly, and would not talk back? How many of our modern day preachers, who
arrogate all sorts of powers and authorities to themselves, would not have
cursed Obasanjo publicly, asking him to apologize or be killed by God within
seven days? (You know, some of these modern preachers speak as if God was their
personal property, who they can command and order around).
“I tell you, this Rev Pam, from Gyel, Jos South Local
Government Area of Plateau State is a reconciliator, a peace advocate, and that
is why God has lifted him up today. And not through a Matthew, but a Muhammadu,
one against whom all lies under the sun have been told: he’s a religious bigot.
A herdsman. A nepotist. Jihadist. Everything.
“May God forgive those who condemn the person they don’t
know, and have refused to know.
“President Buhari personally congratulated Rev Pam on his
appointment as NCPC boss. He encouraged him to continue with his peace building
efforts across the country, stressing that no enduring development could be
possible without peace”.
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