Sacked Kano commissioner speaks on Facebook post on Abba Kyari

Muazu Mogaji, the former Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure in Kano State who was sacked on Saturday by Governor Abdulahi Ganduje on the accusation of rejoicing over the death of the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari. He denied the accusation, saying that he was misunderstood by what he wrore on his Faacebook page on the deceased big man.

The commissioner was sacked after angry reactions trailed his Facebook post while the late CoS was still being buried at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

The Facebook write-up of the Commissioner:

“Win-win. Nigeria is free. You can’t change history. You are who you are, and what you do define who you are dead or alive!”

“There is a world of difference between a good person and a good leader. Leadership is an aggregated quality of mass empathy and personal favours.

“Institutional democracy is bigger than the State. Our interest is to get equity and capacity in the highest position of power. It is not personal.

”Nigeria is bigger than any individual. While praying for the President’s late support staff. Ours is to prevent a repeat of a non-accountable domineering era.

“You can’t change history. You are who you are, And what you do define who you are, dead or alive.

“Abba Kyari is no ordinary citizen. He amassed so much power that decided the fate of my nation and its people. Hence the death is never a personal thing.” he wrote.

Magaji, however, explained that he was misunderstood and that gloating over the death of a fellow human being was against his culture and religion.

He wrote: “As a Muslim and a patriotic Nigerian, I was only misunderstood by people to think that I celebrated Kyari’s death, the truth is I did not.

“The use of “win-win phrase” is basically an attempt to explain the Islamic Promise on the people that died as a result of any kind of pandemic.

“The late Mallam Abba Kyari was privileged to die as a result of COVID-19, making him among the beneficiaries in Islam. He is conferred with the automatic privilege of martyrdom.

“However, in an emotional reaction to my posting, agents around the office of the Chief of Staff misunderstood my whole meaning, infuriated from the loss of their benefactor (and) as such petitioned my principal.

“They twisted the narrative with explanation completely out of context and lacing it with religious and cultural connotations that made it necessary for my principal to show leadership and solidarity with the dead by relieving me of my position.

“I could not have celebrated the death of any human being; because it’s against my culture, social civilization and most importantly, the teaching of my religion.

“I sincerely apologise for any misunderstood action, reaction and inactions, we are all in a difficult time that anxiety, worries and depression make understanding difficult.

“I pray for Allah to grant the late Chief of Staff eternal rest in AlJannah Firdaus and give his family and associates the fortitude to bear his loss.”