A Nigerian
man has made a provoking utterance after boasting on Facebook that Hausa
language will soon be made the official language in Nigeria.
Sadiqq
Ibrahim made the statement
An Hausa man
has caused a serious controversy after he came on Facebook to boast that Hausa
language will soon be made the official language of Nigerian after President
Muhammadu Buhari addressed
Nigerians in the language in celebration of Ramadan.
Sadiqq
Ibrahim said the language will soon be made the official language because it is
the most spoken language in Nigeria. He was tongue-lashed by Nigerians who
couldn't stomach the provoking statement.
Nigerians
had rubbished Buhari over his decision to address the country in Hausa in
celebration of Ramadan when he knew the official language. The decision has
left many people angry.
Criticising
the President, Professor Pius Adesanmi of the The Institute of African Studies
(IAS) at Carleton University wrote: "What President Buhari's handlers
and supporters are doing to him - and what he is doing to himself or allowing
them to do to him if he still has full agency and sentience - is pathetic.
I just
listened to his eid "message to Nigerians". Somehow, in a small part
of the brains of his handlers, it was perfectly okay for the President of
Nigeria to send a goodwill message to Nigerians in Hausa! So much for all the
work Osinbajo has been doing to preach unity, inclusion, national unity, and
all that jazz in times of perilous contestations of the rationale for the
existence of the Nigerian state.
And then,
that drained, strained, barely-audible, and tired voice. That voice belongs to
a man who needs to be surrounded by his family and fight his health battles in
dignity. This is not a voice that should be hanging on, holding on, clinging to
office in defiance of good sense.
Those
staging these cameos are preying on the dignity of a very ill man.
Anyway, when
next you trample on the man's dignity and stage the next cameo, remember that
Nigeria has an official language: either you make him talk to us in a language
we can all understand or you make him record the same message in some 800
different Nigerian languages. Do you understand?
E wokun oni
noin. E ku r'odun. Se gbogbo ghin i gbadun odun?
I just spoke
Yagba. I cannot claim to have addressed that eid message to Nigerians. I
addressed it to Okun people, Okun Muslims in particular. Do you get it
now?"
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