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My aunty was a matron, I wont mention the hospital, but let's just say Ahmadu Bello, I lived with her intermittently during my military days. Many times she was caught in the regular Kaduna violence, but nothing ever happened to her. Their family was well known....
...as the go to compound for any medical emergency, also as the food bank, for the kids without homes. Some of them were my friends, I learnt most of my little hausa from them. I am an indigene of Kaduna state, born in tudun wada, though my parents are from Kwara.
I grew up playing soccer with friends from different cultures and ethnicity, we ran around chewing huge sugarcane racks, buying balango, masa, little cheese cubes (hausa name escapes me now). We played volley and basket ball, visited shagalinku, leventis and cash and carry.
1/ An incendiary presidential remark, the country making an EU blacklist, a political gesture posturing as a fuel price cut, and the politicisation of a mass killing fed into a week where political uncertainty reigned supreme.
2/ While there have been attempts by @OfficialAPCNg supporters to justify and defend @MBuhari’s statement, the reaction of the party’s National Leader, @AsiwajuTinubu, where he attempted to declare it a misunderstanding and an impossibility,
3/ is a take that reflects the real gravity of such a statement coming from a sitting President. Military chiefs taking a cue and insisting they will shoot alleged ballot box snatchers is disheartening.
