The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Ahmed Idris Wase, at the weekend revealed how the late front line politician and a former Governor of Plateau State, Chief Solomon Lar, once predicted that he (Wase)would one day become a presiding officer at the National Assembly.
According to a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Sunday by his Chief Press Secretary, Alhaji Umar Muhammad Puma, Honourable Wase disclosed this while speaking at the commissioning of Solomon Lar Memorial Hospital in Gazum, Langtang North local government area of Plateau state.
It stated that Honourable Wase recalled how late Chief Lar urged people to support him when he was contesting for the House of Representatives in 2007.
According to Wase who poured encomiums late Lar, “the second encounter I had with Baba was when I was contesting for the 2007 election. I came to him on the Christmas eve of 2006. He took me around and showed me the first house that had zoo in Langtang which was built by him.
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“We entered the room and by the time we got out of the room, he told the congregation that they must go and support me for the primaries. He believed I will be a member greater than the person in the House then.
“And as I got in there, he believed I will not be an ordinary member, one they, I will be a chairman, and one day, I will be a presiding officer. He prophesied, and lo and behold, it has come to pass.”
Honourable Wase further said his close relationship with Lar made him look out for her daughter, Hon Beni Lar, despite being a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the lower legislative chamber.
According to him, “when we started the politics of the National Assembly in his particular election, of course, my sister was not with us. I told my brother, that whether Beni Lar joins me or not, she is safe. Because I have a history and I respect what has happened to me
“I am telling this story because for us to understand the need to stay peacefully with one another and co-exist. God has a reason for giving us what he has given us in our individual capacity. Good leaders are leaders that bring out the weak ones to limelight.”
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