Between Adesina and Gambari By wale Olaleye

I feel the Mr. Femi Adesina and Prof Ibrahim Gambari matter is being deliberately situated out of context, overblown or initiated for its sheer nuisance value.

I do not think the debate has in any way taken away from . Mr. Adesina wrote many years ago about the professor. After all, Adesina is not President Muhammadu Buhari and Buhari is not Adesina.

Adesina neither appointed Gambari nor is he going to be directly working for or with the professor. He has no say whatsoever in whoever his principal appoints wherever.

So, where is the meeting point or how does the debate about what he wrote years ago connect with an appointment that was beyond him in all definitions? Or don’t you think if he was given an option, Adesina would not have said no to his choice as CoS?

I’d thought about it since the matter came on stream and couldn’t wrap my finger around it. I was not even interested in joining the debate initially. I just resolved to chip in these few lines with a view to seeking clarification.

Please, if you’re in a position to educate me, I’m willing to learn. Just tell me how what Adesina wrote a long time ago should have shaped an appointment he completely has no say in or how it has undone his submission in the said article? Except, of course, you’re expecting him to resign.

I believe their job descriptions do not even cross and may choose not to have anything to do together. In another breath, Adesina could also choose to move on from the bitterness that informed his column many years ago. It’s a personal conviction.

Life’s not static and the only thing constant is change, for as long as one’s principle or philosophy has not been fundamentally altered and I don’t think that’s the case in this instance. He had no hands in what fate has just thrown at him.

Let’s cut him some slack, please!