A Friend’s Letter to Abdulmumin at 50
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- Ismaeel Ahmed writes about Abdulmumin’s 50th birthday and their shared experience of triumph and adversity.
- He says Abdulmumin has repeatedly recovered from difficult periods in his political career.
Ismaeel Ahmed writes that he has had the privilege of seeing Abdulmumin through both triumph and adversity.
The letter says Abdulmumin’s political journey has included difficult seasons, some severe enough to discourage almost anyone. Yet Ahmed portrays him as someone with an extraordinary ability to return.
He writes that Abdulmumin reflects, recalibrates and rises again, not because the fall did not hurt, but because he is able to recover from it.
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