Jigawa State born ex-legislator, Hon. Abba Anas Adamu, is scheduled to be buried in Kano later today. The burial will be attended by a mixture of activists, academics and politicians. The late legislator was each and every of these.
Hon. Abba Anas Adamu, a governorship aspirant of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) died in captivity. He was kidnapped by bandits along the Kaduna – Abuja highway on a journey to Abuja mid-last week. Nobody is sure when exactly he died but Intervention learnt impeccably that his body was recovered yesterday (May 11th, 2026).
Hon Adamu was kidnapped along with another politician from Jigawa State, Mallam Ali Gantsa who has, however, regained freedom. His freedom lent credence to the belief that Hon Adamu might have died from Asthma related complications under horrible conditions of being kidnapped.
He is an experienced politician, having served twice as Chairman of Guri Local Government Area of Jigawa State under the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) before becoming a member of the House of Representatives for Guri/Kiri-Kasamma/Birniwa Federal Constituency between 2007 and 2011. He had been commissioner for, amongst others, Education, a portfolio which corresponds with his career line as a lecturer for many years at the Kaduna Polytechnic.
His death is a blow to many souls but most especially Comrade Peter Manase Turaki, a fellow activist whom Adamu subsequently appointed as Senior Legislative Aide when he (Adamu) was in the House of Representatives. Comrade Turaki told Intervention how they met as activists of the Youth Solidarity on South Africa in Nigeria (YUSSAN) of which Hon Adamu was the General Secretary of Kaduna Polytechnic chapter aside from their joint membership of Nigeria-ANC Friendship and Cultural Association (NAFCA) of which Adamu was the Kaduna State chapter chairman just as he also was Chairman of the Kaduna State chapter of the Democratic Alternative (DA) at formation. It was thus not surprising that Adamu appointed Turaki as Senior Legislative Aide upon winning election into the House of Representatives.
Cde Turaki has described Adamu as an easy going person who got along with all persons that associated with him, recalling how politics and power never changed him to anything different from when they first met in 1886 at an Africa Liberation Day at the Kaduna Polytechnic, an event attended by Hassan Summonu, then NLC president; Dr. Patrick Wilmot; Ayesha Imam and many prominent others from the defunct Women in Nigeria (WIN).
The usual tragic elements are complete in Hon Adamu’s capture and death: bandits would not let him take his drugs from which he was far away anyway once captured; they collected the ransom even when he was already gone and, anyone captured is on his own. According to Daily Trust, the Police in Jigawa State said it had no idea of the case because it didn’t happen in its territory although it was in Jigawa-Kano axis people contributed the ramson. It is unlikely the Police in Kaduna State knew.
66 years old at the time of his death, Hon. Abba Anas Adamu, served on the board of many organisations, including chairing the Governing Council of the Federal Polytechnic Damaturu in Yobe State and was the incumbent National President of the Kaduna Polytechnic Alumni Association. Another civilised soul gone, just like that!
