Professor Ango Abdullahi is the convener of Northern Elders Forum and former Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. Abdullahi, who has been in the news for one controversy or the other over the years, especially as it affects Northern Nigeria, turned 80 years old on December 13. In this interview with Ekele Peter Agbo the octogenarian talks about his childhood; growing up among other matters
80 years on earth, how do you feel?
Well, I feel what you see from outside and I also feel what I feel from inside. The other day a friend of mine was making a comment at an elders’ meeting and he said “You don’t look the 80 years that you are claiming, or are you making it up?” And I said, “No! You may be seeing something younger than 80 years, but that is what you feel and you have to allow me to also feel what I feel inside that commensurate with 80 years.
There is nothing more to say, but to thank the Almighty God for His Mercy, for His grace to spare this life from the…
