By Abdu Labaran Malumfashi.
15-12-225.
TURBANING RaRaRa was a DISASTER waiting to HAPPEN, and it FINALLY did, with a reverberating sound, heard all over Nigeria. Tardy, the article may appear to some people, but NEVER an unneeded one.
RARARA came to Daura Town in Katsina State on 13th of December expecting a HERO’s welcome. Instead, he ended up RECEIVING a VILLAIN and TRAITOR’S welcome. Both unenviable descriptions personify him and his FEW supporters, as far as most of the people in the birth place of Maigaskiya, the immediate past incorruptible and incorrigible President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, are concerned.
TOTALLY wrong it was, to TURBAN DAUDA KAHUTU, alias RaRaRa, by the Emir of Daura, Alhaji Faruk Umar Faruk, given that the Hausa singer went to the Radio to FALSELY accuse the past president for all the ills of the Nigerian economy, for the simple reason that his ‘services’ were NOT rewarded with a ministerial appointment. The accusation was made by the ignorant praise singer shortly after the swearing in of the present ‘PERFORMING’ president.
DESPITE the heavy presence of Federal Government security, and of the HEFTY private minders in his entourage, many of the huge and expensive vehicles they rode to the ancient town of Daura, were damaged by the IRATE attackers. His vehicle, which was adorned with the SEAL of ‘Sarkin Waķar Ķasar Hausa’, suffered the MOST damage.
BY the way, even some EDUCATED, elected and appointed officials of the present regime at both levels of government who FELL SHORT of expectation, have received the same treatment in their respective towns, for supporting the present inept and CORRUPT regime. Why then NOT the HAUGHTY and EMPTY political praise singer, who is in the habit of making his charities for worldly applause.
THE singer may have enjoyed the welcome of BUHARI HATERS, but CERTAINLY not Buhari SUPPORTERS. The Emir, and others like the head of ‘Daura One Man Development Association (DOMDA), cannot CLAIM to be late Muhammadu Buhari’s supporters, and RARARA’S FRIENDS in the same breath. It is clearly NOT possible.
IN a past article, ‘Emir Of Daura And Rarara: A Case Of The Birds Of Same Feather?’, which I wrote on 28/9/2025, I expressed the belief that, “THE emir and RaRaRa are a kind of ‘birds of the same feather’, having a couple of things in common. They are ALLEGED to be the TOO educated, and they are NOT averse to the fairer gender. The former, who is in his 90s, enjoys MATRIMONIAL relationship, while the latter is said to welcome all comer damsels.
“HADIZA Gabon, a veteran KANNYWOOD actress, who now doubles as a radio host, once visited Abuja to confirm the veracity of the allegations that the Hausa praise singer, Rarara, was the person who distributed I phone 16 and Mercedes GLK to PRESENTABLE members of the fairer gender, who wanted them. With strings attached, of course.
“ON hearing what took the actress and radio host to Abuja from Kano, the singer, in his usual jovial manner, bust out laughing, and told the visiting lady that she did not mean what she said. Even when she tried to convince him otherwise, he still refused to give her, CONVINCED that her mission was anything but what she told him.
“HE was right, she went to meet with him in Abuja NOT to collect the items, but to CONFIRM that he was indeed the giver. Hadiza Gabon is ALIVE, and one does not lie against the LIVING. You tell lies against the DEAD, because they cannot answer you back. But the LIVING does.
“THE current Sarkin Daura introduced the traditional title that ends with ‘Na Ķasar Hausa’. And not UNLIKE other emirates, the titles go to the ‘MOST FITTING’ people in the world. AND the emir’s RESPECT for EVERY LEADER OR RULER that happens in the country or Katsina state, is LEGENDARY. So legendary that it has in deed become infectious in his emirate, as others within, are also for ALL leaders or rulers, regardless of the respect or lack of it, with which Nigerian citizens have for them.
“IF the Daura monarch is SERIOUS about giving out the title of ‘SARKIN WAĶAR KASAR HAUSA’, then the right Hausa singer to confer the title on is ALAN WAKA, who sung an enchanting Hausa song CELEBRATING him.
“BUT conferring the traditional title on Rarara is tantamount to DANCING ON THE GRAVE of the immediate past president of the country, and DISTINGUISHED son of Daura, who less than two months ago, answered the call of his maker.
“IT is a fact known by political watchers that there was no love lost between the immediate past president, and Rarara, who expected but never got a ministerial appointment during Buhari’s tenure. Rarara, a hitherto KNOWN Hausa praise singer in his adopted state, became VERY POPULAR and RICH as a result of his ATTACHMENT to the then Presidential candidate, Malam Muhammadu Buhari. But he WENT on RADIO after BUHARI’S tenure, ABUSING and INSULTING the immediate past president, blaming him of ALL the ills afflicting the country.
“THERE was also, allegedly, NEVER been a love lost between the Daura emir and the former president. It was alleged that one day Buhari (pre his becoming president in 2015) angrily went to Daura Emirate unannounced and went straight to the seated emir and THREATENED to have him removed as emir if he did not stop the insults on the late MAIGASKIYA, who contested for the presidency against OBASANJO, ÝAR’ADUA and JONATHAN, before he made it in 2015.”
AS expected, a stream of write ups has trailed the RaRaRa UNFORTUNATE visit to Daura, with some writers blaming the state government for allowing the emir to turbane the Hausa singer in the first place.
THE treatment received by RaRaRa suggests that there would be ‘NO HIDING PLACE’ in the country for people like him, ONCE the present regime falls. Hence the DESPERATION of many clueless people to have the present civilian DICTATORSHIP continue beyond 2027.
GOVERNMENTS at both federal and state levels are therefore advised to think twice before considering any punitive action against those suspected to be behind the DESERVED disgrace of the illiterate political PRAISE SINGER. It is his JUST DESERT, and the beginning of BAD things coming to the way of BAD people in Nigeria, before the closing of the curtains for them in 2027.
MAY God DISGRACE anyone who is unjust to MOST Nigerian citizens, and still ENTERTAINS the hope of an ENCORE in 2027.
Malumfashi wrote from Katsina.
