Akbar Gbajabiamila
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Oh, there's more to the government name.
You want the whole thing?
Yes.
I should make you say the whole thing.
Do it.
Akbar Oluwakemi Idowu Bajabiamila.
Dude, that's bitchin'.
Yeah, yeah.
That's bitchin'.
There's a story behind it.
You know, Akbar means great.
Oluwakemi, you know, God pampers me.
Ido Wu, born after twins, and then Bajabiamila is big man come save me.
And the story is that my great-great-grandfather, this was actually a nickname.
It was a nickname that became our last name.
that he was a seven-foot guy who was a mediator in his village, and people would call on to him to come and help mediate.
And so that nickname then turned into a last name, and that last name is one family's last name.
So everybody who has that last name is a part of this family lineage.
There is no, you know, oh, there's that person with the same last name, but y'all ain't in the same family.
Like, we're all part of the same family.