Nuhu Ribadu, The Man They Cannot Write Off

By Awaal Gata
In his two-part Daily Trust series, Northern Lessons from The Fall of Nuhu Ribadu, the columnist Suleiman A. Suleiman could not have been more wrong. The central error of the essay is that it mistakes an appointment for a burial and misunderstands the currency of power itself. Politics, at its highest level, is not sustained by noise, ethnic panic, or newspaper prophecy. It rests on two rare assets: shared trust and proven competence. Mallam Nuhu Ribadu possesses both. This is why every attempt to read the appointment of a Special Adviser on Homeland Security as a referendum on him collapses under the weight of facts.
Daily Trust, sadly, has increasingly made itself a co...