Alhassan Bashir Alhassan Fuseini, popularly known as ABA Fuseini is one of the wittiest and most vocal lawmakers this country has produced.
In his 12 years in parliament, the Member of Parliament for Sagnarigu has lived up to the title ‘king of proverbs’ as almost every submission of his has an element of proverbs.
The incumbent MP for Sagnarigu, however, lost his candidature to Atta Issah in the just-ended parliamentary primaries of the NDC on Saturday, May 13, 2023.
The defeat means that ABA Fuseini, will not be returning to parliament in 2025, but Ghanaians will have a hard time forgetting this proverbial man.
Below is a list of 35 significant proverbs we would remember ABA Fuseini by:
1. A risk taker is someone who has a running stomach and still fart comfortably in public.
2. My brother, tattered clothes are better than nakedness.
3. A man who has died in the market, needs no announcement for his funeral.
4. When you see a pregnant goat in the market, it means there are a lot of problems in the house.
5. A man floored in the market square by a pregnant woman, has no reputation to protect.
6. The testicle that will degenerate into a hernia, it will be spotted from the first day it is seen.
7. You have to chase the Hyena before you blame the goat.
8. The man who is supposed to do his nightly duties blames errant mosquitoes when he fails.
9. A man who can’t carry his load blames his headpan.
10. You will not see guinea fowl flying and its offspring will be walking.
11. Until mosquitoe step on your testicles, you won’t realize violence doesn’t solve all problems.
12. When you see a chief being beaten when entering a town you don’t ask about the situation there.
13. When a handshake reaches the elbow, it is no longer greetings, it is a defeat.
14. He who marries a beautiful wife has the same problem as the one who plant maze at the roadside.
15. A woman who gave birth to twins did not fear a big manhood.
16. If you fart in front of your in-law, just run to hug your wife.
17. Everything is going up, except the height of the president.
18. When you hear the house is on fire, you don’t ask if the roof is still standing.
19. They will never know the importance of their buttocks until it develops boils.
20. The wind that blow a woman skirt is the same wind that blow dust to a man’s eyes.
21. When you eat a full cow and you are not satisfied, what will the intestines of a fowl do to you?.
22. It’s the mischief of the mosquitoes that enables the ordinary man to slap the chief.
23. When your cloth is too small, you cannot have big pockets on your shirt to attract delegates.
24. When pepper settles on the forehead of a person, it is a sign of danger to the eyes.
25. It is only the HE goat at the mayanka that knows the sharpness of Abotsi’s knife .
26. When delegates say you have won in an election that is yet to be held, do not drink in jubilation. Rather, ask for extension of time.
27. Mr. Speaker, When the weather becomes cold, all women are beautiful.
28. If a delegate is your father, disown him before u go to an elections, the anger in him will force him to vote for you.
29. If you want to watch the underscore of your in-law, you give her a hill top farm.
30. When you want to know your value, contest an election.
31. When a judgement delays at the chief palace just understand that the poor one has right.
32. When you’re caught on top of the chief’s wife, you don’t stop; just continue because you’ll definitely be killed.
33. When you see elders rushing to go and burry a family man, just know that he left behind a widow with big buttocks.
34. When a lion keeps on patronizing the market place, they will treat it as a puppy.
35. They don’t like vulture but vulture is flying.
