Reduce your beard earlier than you ban dreadlocks — Daddy Showkey tells Niger’s Governor Bago

Ace Nigerian musician Daddy Showkey has criticised the Niger State governor, Umar Bago, for ordering safety operatives to arrest any people with dreadlocks.

DAILY POST stories that Governor Bago gave the instruction in Minna throughout a safety assembly on Tuesday.

He defined that the measure is a part of his authorities’s efforts to curb the resurgence of insecurity in Minna, the state capital.

Nonetheless, reacting to the declaration in an Instagram put up on Thursday, Daddy Showkey, who is thought for his signature dreadlocks, questioned whether or not dreadlocks have been the reason for insecurity.

Whereas revealing plans to cancel his scheduled journey to Niger State following the directive, Showkey challenged the governor to chop off his personal beard first earlier than chopping individuals’s hair.

He wrote: “Mohammed Umar na Dada be your downside? I dey come to Minna however now that you simply requested your safety brokers to chop off dreadlocks, so maintain your state however make you chop your beer beer.”