National Conference: LAMIDO'S ABUJA GAFFE

By Ochereome Nnanna

THE Lamido of Adamawa, Dr. Muhammadu Barkindo Mustapha, is turning out to be quite an outstanding delegate to the ongoing National Conference. I can imagine, by now, his colleagues will stop their side-talks, whisperings and murmurings whenever the royal turban is given the microphone to speak.

In the two recorded episodes when he addressed issues arising in the gathering, he has managed to ruffle feathers, raise hackles and stoke ethno-religious temperatures, including hurling an outright direct personal insult at a colleague, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, whom he accused of “ranting”. It beats me that the Chairman of the Conference, Justice Legbo Kutigi, did not caution or ask him to apologise to Adebanjo. I shudder at a situation where the situation were turned the other way round and Adebanjo calls the emir’s obvious incendiary contributions a “rant”. It would probably get Hausa/Fulanis and Yorubas stabbing at each other all over the streets of Northern and Western Nigeria, heavens forbid.