He is Dauda Kahutu Rara by name, an epithet of Katsina and Kano state-based Hausa political singer. He is unarguably the most popular political singer among his peers for the simple as well as obvious reason that he is at his prime since the time of his business till date. His rhyme-decorated stanzas are top class and that makes his content more succulent and attractive to the ears of his listeners.
Rarara political polemical consistency against his erstwhile paymasters is something I find very admiring. For the fact that it is well known to all that the child you train to rain an insult, cast aspersion, or denigrate someone on a political or social basis would surely pay his master with a similar token in the near future.
On the Yoruba-Igbo political antipathy
The game of name-calling and ill-mannered treatment against the personality of notable politicians by Dauda Kahutu Rara, in Kano, particularly took the path right under the watch of the Pioneer of Red Capist movement Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso down to his political all- time foe Mallam Shekrau and then recently to their latest political.
Until politicians discard their worthless politically motivated attitude of hiring and establishing a toxic set of people like Rara in their dealing with political rivals, the gutter scenarios will keep emerging thereby making anyone an object of mocking and ridicule.
Not praying for more deterioration of the system, but if things keep taking this awful shape in our society, I will give up on witnessing a saner political community with people of upright political skills.
Abdulrahman Yunusa, a social and political affairs analyst, writes from Bauchi
