Presidential Candidate of Labor Party, Peter Obi, has replaced Doyin Okupe as his VO and replaced with Datti Baba-Ahmed, younger brother of a notoriously bigotted Hakeem, who is an executive member of Northern Elders Forum, a major think tank that works in the promotion of Northern interest in supremacy of Islam and Fulani in Nigeria.

Below is a revelation recently published on who the Baba-Ahmeds are.
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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, reportedly at the age of 104 (see Facebook post of Abdulrahman M. Baba-Ahmed of 9 July, 2021).

Alhaji Baba Ahmed loved all and was much loved by all around him. He prospered in Zaria, Nigeria, had 33 children – and got all soundly educated. One of the 33 children of that Mauritanian businessman is Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) who spoke down to the entire southern Nigerian people last week. What did the south do to him? Because southern governors met in Enugu days earlier and demanded that the next president of Nigeria must come from the south, Hakeem, mouthpiece of the north, came out, emitting fire. The son of the Mauritanian immigrant shouted down the south and its 17 governors and boasted that his north had enough votes to defeat them and produce the next president. 

“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?,” he was heard saying so on television and in viral video clips. He said more: “If they don’t like the fact that it is a northerner who may emerge as the next president, too bad…”

I feel that was rather crude – and rude. Is it no longer the case that a guest does not break the dishes of his host? I am from the south of Nigeria and I feel hurt and insulted by what Baba-Ahmed said of my people. If you say you won’t ever play second in a game of two supposed equals then who will? Baba-Ahmed’s father was not an indigenous Nigerian but so was Joseph in the holy books. He was not an Egyptian yet he ended up as Prime Minister of Egypt. But could Joseph have achieved that lofty height and lasted in grace by spitting in the face of those who prepared the grounds for his ascendancy? If a first-generation northern Nigerian was that audacious and so condescending in talking to the south, I wonder what those whose fathers’ placentas were buried in the soil of Nigeria would do. Ethnic converts are like religious converts in zealotry. They swim in extremism. Remember Enoch, the “proud, zealous, and belligerent” Christian convert in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Remember, how, with his mouth, he serially provokes violent clashes with ‘the other side’ – his own south. And, remember that with his belligerence, he rips apart the mask of the sacred Egwugwu finally putting a knife on the things that hold his land together. That is the import of that insult from Baba-Ahmed.

Even if the south were his cows’ grazing ground, it should still get some measure of respect. Baba-Ahmed spoke to a south he took as his inheritance, a vast land of slaves. A carpenter thinks always of hammer and nails and there is an eternal connection between the earth and its fruits. The taproot of this talker is Mauritania, the very last country in the world to officially outlaw slavery. It did so as late as 1981 – 40 years ago. Even then, there are still castes of generational slaves in that country. The fair-skinned there are freeborn; the dark-complexioned are serfs. They are still there. The way Hakeem spoke against the south and the applause he got from his ABU, Zaria audience could only mean that he and his people thought (and think) the south is a camp of bondsmen and women; an enclave of enlightened slaves – with no useful votes; a band of hapless states whose governors are second class. The north holds the hammer of incumbency, and they will do anything with it. The people Hakeem Baba-Ahmed speaks for see the south and its loud denunciation of Nigeria’s current structure as impudent nails that must be hammered down. And they are hammering and breaking the nails one by one. I heard Baba-Ahmed say something like ‘we’ will produce the next president then let’s see what ‘they’ will do. Whenever I hear that kind of fire-rhetoric, I look at the chirping bird and the branch on which it stands. How about you produce your president, and I produce mine? Something like nail driving out nail as said by Desiderius Erasmus. But whose purpose will that anarchy serve?

If Nigeria burns, descendants of the Mauritanian have Mauritania to relocate to. They are citizens by descent under that country’s laws. Mauritania’s Nationality Code of June 12, 1961 says any child “at least one of whose parents is a citizen of Mauritania, regardless of the child’s country of birth” is a citizen by descent. Their old man died 34 years ago, yet the road to Mauritania has remained a familiar terrain for his surviving children. On Saturday April 17 this year (2021), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed with his brothers and sister and uncles had a family get-together in Nouakchott, Mauritania (see his Facebook post made on 18 April, 2021). That is the man threatening fire unless ‘his north’ has its way in Nigeria’s 2023 and at all times. When a man that has more than one home stirs trouble, the Yoruba have for him a saying: Asa o naani a nkun’gbe, igi da, eye oko fo lo (Kite does not care if the bush burns; when the tree falls, the bird flies away).

Now, let us look again at the words of the kite: “We will lead Nigeria the way we have led Nigeria before. Whether we are president or vice-president, we will lead Nigeria.” If you boast that you have led Nigeria all the time, including when all you had was Vice President, and the nation is this down and out, what does that tell you about your score? You failed; you are a failure. And do you think any sane people would put its future in care of such castes of failure? We go to his next sentence: “We have the majority of the votes and democracy says vote whom you want.” Baba-Ahmed’s north is so proud of its Almajirai population buoyed by ceaseless streams of illegal immigrants. Beyond using the overcrowded households to vote on election days, what else has been the benefit of that ‘majority’ to Nigeria? Omo beere, osi beere (many children, much misery). Every Yoruba child is taught that sense very early in primary one. If you can’t feed them, don’t birth them. Beggars give birth to beggars who also give birth to beggars on the streets of Lagos and Ibadan. They are there as I write; they procreate every minute and suffer generational misery. They are northerners without the care and empathy of northern elders. What excites their strange elders are the next elections and the veins of gold in their vaults. There should be no pride in birthing a pack of millions without skills beyond the menial and mendicancy. You hatch them in billions and load them in open trucks for your southern neighbours to house and feed and you mount the mountains now to proclaim your supremacy over that same south! Shamelessness has no better definition.

It is strange and surprising that Baba-Ahmed’s north still think southern agitation and restiveness are about posts and positions. No. That was the case years ago. The spirit roaming the streets of southern Nigeria today is not about Nigerian presidency or about who sits in there. It is about how to escape the north and its curse. The experience of recent years has told the south that having even a southern president won’t ever make any positive difference. Baba-Ahmed confirmed exactly that in his impudent statement. He said on the very few times when the north did not have the president, it was still the captain of the ship. Or what else did he mean by: “We will lead Nigeria the way we have led Nigeria before. Whether we are president or vice-president, we will lead Nigeria.” He added forcefully that a southerner would be supported only if the person would serve the north’s interest.

When a sheep says it wants to grow horns, it should be prepared to have its ears cut off. Baba-Ahmed’s Mauritanian people have some other interesting proverbs which should have guided his lips. They say: “He who begins a conversation does not foresee the end.” They also warn that “one must talk little and listen a lot.” And this one: “He who wears too fine clothes shall go about in rags.” That is rather deep! Now, apart from its production, harvest and circulation of terrorism, banditry, mass death and mass misery, what has the north achieved for itself and for Nigeria with its decades of being in power? If you spit in your partner’s face and tell him it is saliva then you are bold. But you can’t do that and forbid a reaction from the assaulted. Nigeria’s case now borders on the insane; it is the folkloric Omoye who has entered the market stark naked. When you listen again and again to Baba-Ahmed and you remember that this is a highly educated man who was even at a time the secretary of our electoral commission, you conclude that Nigeria’s ailment is truly beyond cure. But if you are right behind someone on a journey and you discover that the person does not behave normal, what do you do? You retrace your steps without letting him hear your footfall. The southern vibes and vibrations are exactly about that.


https://tribuneonlineng.com/2023-for-hakeem-baba-ahmed/

Una no dey tire ? Whether mauritanian or Lagostanian I am Obi-dient

Metaphysical channel your energy towards your preferred yooba nesan agitation. I see you got a lot of energy rotting away.

Na Una go tire, useless Agbadoist

Hopelessness drive the Obidient to use emotions without sense or logic

Most of them a drifters not capable of rational thinking

Soon Bbnaija would resume and the idiots would support a new idol

*You want a youth for a President, then opt for 61 year old grandfather

*You want the most qualified but hoped for a 3rd class Philosophy Graduate and a rich man son who rose due to daddy money

*You want to retire PDP and APC but support a card carrying PDP member as President and Vice just for the fact they resign from PDP few months to primaries

*You want a perfect country but think Administrator of Anambra a failed state edge out Administrator of Lagos you all come to for survival

* You want freedom of speech but choose to attack everyone who have different opinion on social media

* You want to talk about anti corruption but forget to question a man who was revealed by association of Investigative journalist worldwide to keep his asset and finances offshore account

* You want honesty but support a man who have been caught telling lies and falsifying figures and asking you to go verify




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Tinubu urchins una go cry well well.

This country nah wah

Toh

Ok

Bob Chicago and his wailing wailers
Agbado baba and his forty thieves

ChoCho54:
Metaphysical channel your energy towards your preferred yooba nesan agitation. I see you got a lot of energy rotting away.

So op wrote the article?

helinues:


So op wrote the article?

He posted it on nairaland.
That is enough

Ogbuu101:

He posted it on nairaland.
That is enough

Anything wrong with that in posting latest news?

Tribal card is the last card any other card please pass I will play

helinues:


So op wrote the article?

Where did you read that?

ChoCho54:
Where did you read that?

So which energy has the op made use of for posting a news that you are advising him to channel elsewhere?

All this IPOB bingos barking ... and cursing ...

What will be next after Obi has lost?

Set east on fire and kill other Nigerians ... like the north you accuse ?


Or

Go back chanting Biafra or dead while sitting at home seven days a week

Because e go clear after votes ... 2023


Power to the people
North 2023

helinues:


So which energy has the op made use of for posting a news that you are advising him to channel elsewhere?

This should have been your first question, not fishing around for idiots.

Let me know when you are ready with the right question.

OP , is one of the Tinubu Urchins. Dont let tribalism kill you.
We have moved beyond that. Is Buhari your Tinubu gave us a Nigerian?
is he not from Niger?

ChoCho54:
This should have been your first question, not fishing around for idiots.

Let me know when you are ready with the right question.

Now that I have asked the right question, why not answer it then?

Would you have advised the op to channel his energy elsewhere had this thread is a canary song in tune of Obi?

Balkan:
OP , is one of the Tinubu Urchins. Dont let tribalism kill you.
We have moved beyond that. Is Buhari your Tinubu gave us a Nigerian?
is he not from Niger?

Tinubu supporter or not, who ever Obi picked as his VP would still be questioned.

The real deal is are those questions genuine/reasonable?

Meanwhile, none of you guys have responded to the news itself apart from attacking op the messenger

helinues:


Now that I have asked the right question, why not answer it then?

Would you have advised the op to channel his energy elsewhere had this thread is a canary song in tune of Obi?

Don’t die yet brother allow sai baba reverse to take place

Viscuz:


Don’t die yet brother allow sai baba reverse to take place

Face the topic and don't derail

helinues:


Now that I have asked the right question, why not answer it then?

Would you have advised the op to channel his energy elsewhere had this thread is a canary song in tune of Obi?

Read what you wrote and help me understand you?

Write in Yoruba if you wish.

helinues:


Face the topic and don't derail

No one is derailing dumbo allow sai baba reverse to take place

Na so. Diggers done start work. Ndi ara.

Wow! You have to be brave to be a politician.

ChoCho54:
Read what you wrote and help me understand you?

Write in Yoruba if you wish.

For the fact that they can't handle intellectual questions, there response will mostly be derailing from the topic or insult you.

Repeat that same question and see them fade into the thing air

I get una medicine

Iceberg3:
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Cowards bore me
Speak if you got anything to say

Says an op who campaigned and voted for same northern Fulani,what a hypocrite!!!!!

fuckingAyaya:
Una no dey tire ? Whether mauritanian or Lagostanian I am Obi-dient

Slave, Peter Obi is not representing us Ndi'Igbo. This is the same thing that Zik did and was warned to no avail and today we are suffering the consequences. It must be Biafra or nothing. Some of you are too dumb to read and understand the way these fulanis operates. Why foist a fulani on Obi as his vice, and a foreign fulani for that matter. Are there no other muslim ethnic groups in the north? If you had read the article above, despite it coming from Tinubu's camp, you would have been worried reading the below bolded.

“We will lead Nigeria the way we have led Nigeria before. Whether we are president or vice-president, we will lead Nigeria.