THISDAY

HAKEEM BABA AHMED: A MOUTH ‘RUNNETH’

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This person is the spokespers­on of the Northern Elders Forum and he can talk anyhow. I don’t even know him sef but the recent comment ascribed to the baba that his ‘North will not play second fiddle’ made me look him up.

It is not today this person has been running mouth o. As I google the name all sort of inciting and very provocativ­e statements were attaching to his name and I begin to wonder what is really wrong with this person.

The sad thing in all of these is the fact that very inconseque­ntial people who cannot even win one vote on their street will now be posturing as if they are speaking for the whole region.

Mbok which one is second fiddle, which one is population. Is it population they are still using to brag in this day and age? He should not allow me to be asking him what ‘they’ have done with the so-called huge population. What are the socio-economic developmen­tal indices saying about his population? This man has a problem and his problem cannot be solved by engaging him at this low level of thinking. The best is to ignore these provocativ­e statements and leave them at the level where they belong – mere sound bites and continue to work for the cohesive reclaiming of Nigeria by all Nigerians.

This man should be taken into the Big Brother House so we can all watch him have his bath. We do not need this type nor his sentiments in the new Nigeria we are building. Kai.

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