"Alhaji Baba Ahmed, a Mauritanian cow seller, plied his trade from his country to the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and to Dahomey (now Benin Republic). Business was very good but at a point, his customers in Dahomey, with impunity, refused to pay for his cows. Is it not the law that every seller must collect the proceeds of his sale? This was not the case with the cow seller who was not a son-of-the-soil in Dahomey. The options before him were very limited. My people say if the landlord offends the tenant, it is the tenant who must go; again, if it is the tenant who has wronged the landlord, it is still the tenant who must go. This trader from Mauritania had to move out of Dahomey, leaving his money behind. And he moved, crossing over to Nigeria; first to Sokoto and later to Zaria. He entered Nigeria all alone but soon found Zaria a very conducive environment for his business, for his Islamic scholarship and for raising a family (See Daily Trust of Saturday, January 13, 2018). The Mauritanian finally settled in Zaria around 1920 - that was about 100 years ago - and died on November 5, 1987 in Zaria"- Lasisi Olagunju
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I am immensely impressed by Dr Lasisi Olagunju Tribune Editor intervention on this issue, the way he went back memory lane to dig out the ancestry of this impudent immigrant gladdens my heart immeasurably
Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) who spoke down on the entire southern Nigerian people last week is grandson of that Mauritanian cattlerearer who sojourned in Zaria, Kaduna State in 1920
Imagine the effrontery and impudence from a first-generation immigrant in Nigeria talking trash, read the nonsense from him "We will lead Nigeria the way we have led Nigeria before. Whether we are President or Vice-President, we will lead Nigeria. We have the majority of the votes and democracy says vote whom you want. Why should we accept a second class position when we know we can buy a form and contest for first class and we will win?,"
Because southern governors met in Enugu days earlier and demanded that the next President of Nigeria must come from the South, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, Northen Elders Forum spokesman emitted fire and brimstone
Someone need to remind this impudent immigrant (atohunriwa atoko wa ba ile ję) that the current agitation is not about Presidency alone but equity, fairness and justice prevailing. Restructuring is the keyword now and true federalism, guess what the VAT issue is percusor to what is loading and una go hear am las las
I hope a man who is well read like Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed will also keep his tongue in check and be more circumspect on national issues, but if he chooses to be belligerent, young elements like me down South will never fold up and also find his ultra intransigence disposition totally unacceptable
#justscribblingmythoughts
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