#KogiDecides: Audu Does Not Disdain Anyone by Odih Daniel N.

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A recent article, written by one Mr Ojonugwa Adamu on September 24th, 2015, stating that Audu would never change is a piece of writing that has no life and facts. It is a piece of hurriedly written pap chiefly for the superficial thinkers. Whenever people criticise Prince Audu as direspectful, arrogant, unchaging, etc. I feel repugnant at their denigration because Audu is not what they are saying he is.

Before now, some people, out of sheer hatred, criticised that Audu normally ordered his visitors to sit on the floor instead of in his sofas. I join in the chorus out of ignorance when I was a little boy and was going to Audu’s house when he was the governor. I realised at last, after many contacts with Audu at adulthood that Audu is not to blame for anything. People on their own, or out of sheer act of humility and favour-seeking spirit, normally chose to sit on the floor to project the humble image of beggars. They do these just to have Audu’s money, mercy and his food.

Secondly, the delay in starting the Eid-prayer in Alloma on September 24th, 2015 as written by one Ojonugwa Adamu and published by Kogi Reports cannot be blamed on Audu.

It is an established fact as Audu himself had criticised them, and Audu’s criticism is even the talk of the village that some of the Muslim Ummahs in Alloma community for many years have always sold their religious obeisance for bags of rice, money and fat Sallah cows. To show Audu that they respect him, they sit waiting for him for hours before Eid-el-prayer was said at 1pm. They usually sit waiting for the ram Audu will bring to Eid ground to be slaughtered before or after the Eid-el-prayer.

As far as I know, Audu had never ever asked Muslims to wait for him before starting Juma’at or Eid-prayers since he is not the Chief Imam of the town. But the people, trying to show him the respect as the son of the land, usually delay activities until Audu arrives. Is it today you know some of the Alloma Muslims are worshippers of money, placing value in bags of rice and in cows above any other considerations according to Audu? While it is true that Audu values Ogbonicha far and above Alloma, and might have gone there to say his prayers, what held Alloma people from holding their heads high, take their religion seriously, stop the worship of money, avoid casting any blame on Audu and said their prayers at the appropriate time?

Odih Daniel N.,

Lokoja, Kog State.

odih4sure@gmail.com


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