Opinion: Ismaila Isa Funtua: Adieu, Baba Sama, By Mohammed Isa
The present generation and generations yet unborn have lost the opportunity to benefit from the numerous experiences and stories of political intrigues and calculations, as Mallam Ismaila was a key participant in the nation’s power game for many decades. He was an encyclopedia on the nation’s political journey and history.
Before his return to his creator on July 20, Baba Sama meant different things to different people, but for me he meant one thing – my backbone, which makes it difficult for me to, in one breath, describe him or relate my experiences with him. His major impact on my life as an adult was in changing the course of my carrier to the profession of journalism through cajoling and persistent advices.
As the politics correspondent and later political editor of Peoples Daily, Baba gave me all the support needed by becoming one of my reliable sources of getting or confirming news stories. I vividly remember the anger in his face when, sometimes in 2014, over lunch, I had expressed my bitterness on how he released one of his properties in Kaduna to Mallam Nasir el-Rufai as a campaign office, considering the humiliation he suffered in the hands of the governor when he was FCT minister.
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