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<\/p>\nAdamu disclosed that the Waziri Abubakar\u2019s mother was from Jigawa State.<\/p>\n
Addressing reporters on Tuesday in his community, the official of the Dutse Emirate said Abubakar\u2019s mother, Aisha, popularly called \u2018Kande Yar-Malam\u2019, who is from Jigawa State married Abubakar\u2019s father after her first marriage crashed.<\/p>\n
The chief disclosed that the father of the former Vice President, Garba was a student coming from Sokoto to Dutse in search of Islamic knowledge when he met and later married Kande.<\/p>\n
According to the Centenarian: \u201cHe settled at our house, popularly called \u2018Gidan Malamai\u2019 (Scholars\u2019 House). There, he met and married Kande and took her to present day Adamawa State where Mr Abubakar was born.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr Abubakar\u2019s mother, Kande, was junior to Alhaji Ali and Azumi; they are all late now. Kande was our daughter and Mr Abubakar is our grandson.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are all Fulani by tribe; our forefathers are scholars here in Dutse, that\u2019s why our home is called Gidan Malamai.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is coming at a time the PDP presidential candidate responded to claim by the All Progressives Congress, APC, that he was not a Nigerian.<\/p>\n
Abubakar had insisted that he was born and raised a Nigerian, hence has the conditional right to contest for the presidency.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Centenarian from Dutse Emirate Council in Jigawa State, Isyaku Adamu has reacted to the controversy surrounding the nationality of Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate. Adamu disclosed that the Waziri Abubakar\u2019s mother was from Jigawa State. Addressing reporters on Tuesday in his community, the official of the Dutse Emirate said Abubakar\u2019s mother, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3,4],"tags":[27,30,4148,236,11722],"class_list":["post-110250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","category-politics","tag-27","tag-arewa","tag-atiku","tag-jigawa","tag-nationally"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}