WHEN IT COMES TO CHARACTER OF HON. AHMAD BABBA KAITA

Hon. Ahmad Babba Kaita was much loved and greatly hated -- not just liked and disliked but adored by some and despised by others. Some people remember him as kind, generous, compassionate, considerate, decent, and devoted to advancing the well-being of the least advantaged among us. Others describe him as cruel, dictatorial, grandiose, and even vicious.... Supplication, accusation, cajolery, exuberance, scorn, tears, complaint, the hint of threat. It was all these together. It ran the gamut of human emotions. Its velocity was breathtaking, and it was all in one direction. Interjections from the target were rare. Ahmad Babba Kaita anticipated them before they could be spoken. He moved in close, his face a scant millimeter from his target, his eyes widening and narrowing, his eyebrows rising and falling. From his pockets poured clippings, memos, statistics. Mimicry, humor, and the genius of analogy made. The treatment an almost hypnotic experience and rendered the target stunned and helpless.... Ahmad Babba Kaita was a man possessed by inner demons. From early in his childhood he manifested character traits that shaped his behavior throughout his life. As a man, he couldn't stand to be alone; he needed constant companionship, attention, affection, and approval. They were all in the service of filling himself up -- of giving himself a sort of validity or sense of self-worth.... Ahmad Babba Kaita's neediness translated into a number of traits that has a large impact on his political actions. He had a compulsion to be the best, to outdo everybody, to eclipse all his predecessors in the National Assembly and become the greatest Member, House of Representatives in Kankia/Kusada/Ingawa Constituency history. As many peoples says, Ahmad Babba Kaita "wanted to set world records in politics, as a star athlete would in sports. 'Get those coonskins up on the wall,' he would tell people around him.".... As a good Representative, he had to be top lion, and drove himself to become Committee Chairman. He turned a post with limited influence into one of the position in the House, from which he directed the passage of significant laws affecting labor, the elderly, housing, civil rights, defense, Local Government autonomy, Small and Medium Enterprises Bill, Science and Technology, maritime and education, environment, federal character etc. Credit: Musa Nuhu Kankiya musanuhuknk16@gmail.com 08062162465 Kabir Basiru Kabirgachi206@gmail.com 07037417154