It's Gender Discriminatory, Tribalistic, to Call Me "Non-Indigene,"-Grace Bent Blast Adamawa PDP Chair
Daily Rendezvous In an age of globalisation where we have stories of Nigerians getting elected or appointed into political offices in England, America, etc to hear the state chairman of a party refer to a one time senator in his state as "Non-indigene." It was in this light that the former Senator representing southern Adamawa, Grace Folashade Bent, described the reference to her person as "Non-Indigene" by the Adamawa state chairman of PDP, Tahir Shehu, as a cheap resort to tribalistic Slur and that only a woman can be conveniently and demeaningly called a non- indigene after being married to a man for over four decades. Bent contended that the state chairman should have denounced her position with superior facts instead of condescending to making globally unacceptable comments on ethnicity and gender that degrades commonness of humanity and portrays Adamawa and Nigeria in a disgraceful and demeaning light in the eyes of the world. The sena...