By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
He calls himself the Ordinary President. But he has been a nightmare to ordinary people. Ahmed Isah is the popular Berekete Radio host, a civic-engagement platform which claims to fight oppression and other rights violation experienced by ordinary people. But the host is no different from the oppressors he claimed to hate, if not worse.
Isah is a gifted radio host since his days at the Kaduna State Media Corporation (KSMC) in early 2000. He was at the time the anchor of ‘Oga Driver’, a radio enlightenment programme for road users on safety.
He also did compere at public events. I once attended one of such events he hosted and noticed that he was almost fighting the audience over some disagreements.
He was a man of self-importance, a narcissist who did not realise that he needed help. And with fame which his gift brought him, the ego became too large for his head to carry, and then a terror to ordinary people who crossed his path.
A few weeks ago, Isah slapped a woman who set her niece’s hair on fire. I felt no pity for the woman. She deserved more than the slap. But that can only be administered by the court, not jungle justice. And to think that the beating occurred when other journalists were filming the interview beats me silly. What would have happened to the woman if they were just two in a room? You guess it right.
Evil sometimes rides on the back of good to do deadly works. When the ordinary president slapped a bad woman on his show, it is obvious that other good people too may have received all kinds of shabby treatment from him.
In a new video that surfaced last Wednesday, another man received a daze from Ahmed Isah. The incident was said to have happened on October 19, 2020. The man’s fault was to collate names. Who asked you to collate the names, Isah kept barking at the young man until he gave him a terrible slap on the face.
Only God knows how many ordinary people have been terrorised by this so called ‘Ordinary President.’
