As Nigeria celebrates her independence day next Tuesday, Hausa-Fulani leaders from emirs to top political bigwigs are reported to be making frantic efforts to rebuild the widening gulf with the Middle-Belt region targeting General Theophilus Danjuma as contact point.

Sunday Tribune was told that the leaders involved in the reconciliation project include top emirs from core North, influential clerics, elected governors and leading professionals, who are said to have concluded that rebuilding the old alliance between the Hausa-Fulani and the Middle-Belt elites is a condition for defeating President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.

The Hausa-Fulani leaders were said to be alarmed at increasing integration and mobilisation of minority tribes across the three zones of the North in an anti-Hausa-Fulani agenda. The interpretation of new Middle-Belt region was discovered to be encompassing of all other tribes in the North, except the Hausa-Fulani.

Findings by Sunday Tribune showed that core Arewa leaders also noticed that Middle-Belt leaders involved in the new Middle-Belt project are heavily funded and enjoy support from influential Middle-Belt people like General Danjuma. The minorities in the North are said to harbour a political agenda which was to assert themselves and achieve what the late Joseph Tarka and others failed to do in the aborted Third Republic.

A top northern leader who was involved in the Project Danjuma lamented that the efforts to woo Danjuma had failed and that the Middle belt appears to have sealed a pact with the South-South.

Why Danjuma shuns Core North- The Yar’ Adua/Atiku Connection
Sunday Tribune investigation, however, revealed that the general who was a top operative within the Arewa elite in the late 60’s and due to his alleged nasty experience during first and second time of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo as military and civilian leader of the country.

Findings revealed that the relationship between Danjuma and his old Hausa/Fulani friends started to crack soon after the assassination of General Muritala Muhammed and ascension to power of General Obasanjo in 1976. Danjuma could not be made the chief of defence staff because a Christian/ Christian ticket won’t work.

Obasanjo was said to have conceded that Danjuma should search for a chief of staff agrreable to him. According to a source very close to the situation then, Danjuma brought General Buhari but the Ota farmer reportedly told him Buhari would be too independent minded for the job at hand.

Danjuma was said to have later settled for late General Sheu Musa Yar’Adua, who relatively young was accepted by both Danjuma and Obasanjo as the right choice for the position. The occupant was, however, to hold the office symbolically while Danjuma,the Chief of Army Staff, was to be the de facto second in command.

The arrangement was said to have worked for some few months until the late Yar’Adua came under pressure from Arewa elite still smattering from the death of Muritala. Obasanjo later succumbed to pressure to treat all service chiefs the same way and enforce reporting by service chiefs through the Chief of Staff,adegence Headquarters.

Danjuma was thus reduced to the level of other service chiefs, despite the circumstance under which late Yar’Adua was brought into government. He was said to have left government a changed man who believed he was maltreated simply because he was a minority Christian in the Middle Belt. Reports indicated that Danjuma shifted his wealth and inflluence to funding Christians and ideals of Middle Belt as a distinct from that of Hausa Fulanis.

If the experience of 1976 to 1979 changed Danjuma fundamentally, it was learmt that the event of 1999 to 2003 under the Obasanjo presidency sealed any hope of the General realligning with the core north for ever.

The rift between Danjuma and former Vice President Atiku Abubskar when Danjuma was the defence minister was cited as the ladt straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back.

An Hausa Fulani traditional title holder disclosed on condition of anonymity that while Danjuma started funding Middle belt groups since 1980,he has since leaving government in 2003 become the largest single financier of Christian associations in the North.

“Because of that relationship with both YarAdua and Atiku Abubskar ,The General has foreclosed any thought of unity with the core north. We know he felt betrayed and wounded by events in those days”, the source said.

An official of the Middle Belt Forum from kaduna state confirmed to Sunday Tribune that the core north indeed tried to recruit Danjuma into thier anti- Jonathan agenda but he declined

“ The General rebuffs them. He told them nobody should drag him intranet fight. And we stand by him and we stand by the President” , the official. Who said he was not authorised to speak said.


http://www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php

Hmmmm.

The core north is not sincere with the issue of ''we are all northerners''.

During PTF time, kwara state was not part of the north.

We cannot stand with the core north anymore in our life,
these guys are the worst experience we ever had.

when its time to compete with the south we are one north
but when we won profits and the victory goes straight to Fulani group then hausa and no more.
rubbish those guys cannot be trusted we have tried all we can.

we have been only loosing side all along therefore we are going to stand out no matter what the result will be.
to hell with your one north agenda to bring back hausa Fulani to power.

we all know their grand plan to wipe out our religion or our tribe from existence.
its now or never we are not one.

how can I be one with a group whose only plan is to wipe out my family lineage.
even if they ended up wooing danjuma they still wont woo us the masses.

they know their ally in the south let them continue their dirty business with them.

Okay

They may be wasting time in their desperation to return to power by all means, Middle Belterns have learnt their lesson.

The more reason why SNC is long over due, we've to discuss our existence and the best way to exist if Nigeria must continue as one.




.

Thank God, that union will not work.

The more Hausa/Fulani insist on gaining power whatever the consequences the more our resolve strengthens to make sure it does not happen.

If this results in the dissolution of Nigeria so be it.


NO SURRENDER

GEJ 2015

SNC. Sovereign National Conference.

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Mogidi: The more Hausa/Fulani insist on gaining power whatever the consequences the more our resolve strengthens to make sure it does not happen.

If this results in the dissolution of Nigeria so be it.


NO SURRENDER

GEJ 2015

Between Jonathan and core north, who needs 2015 by all means?

We will keep doing what we are doing and you will keep saying what you are saying.

Then you will realise who needs who more.
Up North!
Down Haters.

D fact is that jonathan cannot win 2015 election without the North support.....#dirty fact...U can say wat eva u want to say, bt dax d fact

Obasanjo was said to have conceded that Danjuma should search for a chief of staff agrreable to him. According to a source very close to the situation then, Danjuma brought General Buhari but the Ota farmer reportedly told him Buhari would be too independent minded for the job at hand.

This Buhari man sef.

masu: We cannot stand with the core north anymore in our life,
these guys are the worst experience we ever had.

when its time to compete with the south we are one north
but when we won profits and the victory goes straight to Fulani group then hausa and no more.
rubbish those guys cannot be trusted we have tried all we can.

we have been only loosing side all along therefore we are going to stand out no matter what the result will be.
to hell with your one north agenda to bring back hausa Fulani to power.

are u ok?

are u okay

Clerverly:

Between Jonathan and core north, who needs 2015 by all means?

Both are desperate 4 power, dis 2015 sef while we are stil in 2013, d hardship dis year is terrible

Der are all storing our moni 4 election, nt minding d masses nd we d masses are shouting Jona 2015 even thou we are suffering in Jona 2013

God hep us

May una use anode method

This really comfirms to me how desperate these northerners could be. Freaking desperados! It shows that without power, there's no other source through which they get daily bread. So one Nigeria could be likened to literally saying? Lip service, since we have the north, the core north, the this and the that. This is so bad! What are the sins of Jonathan if i may ask? Just 4yrs out of Aso Rock and these guys are acting like thay are staving. Imagine the Baraje faction accusing the GEJ faction of massive looting and i ask, when did they divide? So is just within the past few weeks they divided he discovered the looting? Whether educated or north, the whole northerners are the same, they think alike with the ill-believe of born to rule. I imagine the possibility of this nonsense, in a plural society a people have sworn that they will forver rule others. Is it possible? Hell no! Northerners should better have a rethink and look for jobs.

Good, wonderful, splendid, am so happy that the central part of nigeria aka (middle Belt)is awakening from their long time slumber.

Bavo to Danjuma, bravo to the entire middle belt, pls you guys should snub the vampires that called themselves core North and do good buisiness with enlightened people of the southern Nigeria.

We are ready to accept you guys and treat you fairly,unlike those Vampires.

I rest my case. Ifeco. Onwa ndi igbo, from great Anambra state, the home of big and fat political wig within diaspora.

i think the south south/east should produce a better candidate come 2015, GEJ is clueless.

Which way Nigeria was sang wen Nigeria was heaven filled wt milk nd honey

I wonda wot d musician wil sing now dat tins has really fall apart so bad

Backward Region but they want power by all means

yet some Southern Animals would create a group called APC and want this Parasite to join

I could still remember wen there was Bank of North, its mostly only d cotre northerners that benefited, dey never care abt state like kogi, kwara, benue, and plateau or d core northern xtains.
Wen Buhari was headin d PTF also, its d core north dat benefit most. People head don wise oooo. Wen dey need sometin, dey will remember dat we are 1 north, bt after everytin, dey will start differentiatin.

sharap all dis egbere fools. all d development in southetn states are done by northern leaders. good example third mainland bridge. we need good leaders not miscreant

After 53 years of independence we still talk of north/south thing.

No to one nigeria. One nigeria is just waste of time.

no more core north
midle belt are wise know
lol

The dog (North) has returned to his own vomit (Middlebelt).

Politics na comedy o.

I don't care about the north, neither do I care about GEJ. The two parties are equally desperate for power. My vote will go to the most credible candidate in 2015. If none is provided by any of the political parties then I'd keep my voters card in my pocket, open a bottle of wine and watch the election coverage on tv on election day.

Ok

9jii.:
We will keep doing what we are doing and you will keep saying what you are saying.

Then you will realise who needs who more.
Up North!
Down Haters.

Its obvious the northerns need the South more given the money that accrue from the black gold gotten from the South.

The northerns r ranting n crying Jst bcs power is off the Northerner's hand for some few seconds.

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