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| Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by atlwireles: 12:50am On Sep 30, 2014 |
By Femi Aribisala In 2011, more votes were cast in Zamfara than the total number of legitimately-registered voters, according to the revelation of INEC’s clean-up exercise. Everything turns upside down in Nigeria. Logic becomes illogical. Wisdom becomes foolishness. Two plus two becomes seven. Hospitals become mortuaries. Stealing is not corruption. Education is a sin. In Nigeria, so many things fly in the face of simple commonsense. One major example is the ridiculous idea that, by some inexplicable freak of nature, more people live in the arid less-developed Northern part of Nigeria than in the wet, coastal, more-developed South. Insult to intelligence The larger population of the North is an elephant in the Nigerian living-room. According to the last disputed census of 2006, there are 75 million Nigerians living in the North and 65 million in the South. This is balderdash! As long as we continue to accept such blatant lie, there can be no true democracy in Nigeria. Electoral results must continue to be falsified to conform to it. As long as we continue to entertain such outright falsehood, we shall continue to be subjected to a “born to rule” mentality on the part of some mischievous Northern politicians. The assertion that there are more people in the North than in the South is an insult to intelligence and commonsense. All over West Africa, the coastal states are more densely and highly populated than the arid desert hinterlands. Nobody has been able to come up with a reasonable reason why Nigeria would be the only exception to this rule. Most of the people in Egypt live on a strip along the Nile River. But in Nigeria, we are meant to believe most of the people live in the desert. Some make the case that Northern polygamy leads to more births. If so, why are there only 30 million people in Saudi Arabia, a country more than twice the size of Nigeria? The Saudis are also polygamous. If there are so many more live-births in the North than in the South, this should be reflected in children immunization programs: but it is not. Everything we know about demographics contradicts the inflated population of the North relative to the South. The economic opportunities in the South far outweigh those in the North. That means economic migration is bound to be southward and not northward. The states with the highest internally generated revenues all come from the South; while eight of the last ten are from the North. No Northern state features in the top ten. Mythical Kano The North regularly trots up Kano as the largest state of the federation, but there is no doubt that this is also pure fiction. There is no way that there can be more people in Kano State than in Lagos State or even Oyo State. Let me be even more categorical. Kano cannot be as populous as Ibadan. Kano cannot even have half the population of Lagos. We were told Kano State was bigger in population than Lagos State. Then Jigawa State was carved out of Kano in 1991. But lo and behold, the remaining rump of Kano was still bigger than Lagos. In 1991, we were told there were 5.8 million people in Kano State, while 5.7 million were in Lagos. In 2006, Kano was awarded a population of 9.4 million; more than Lagos which was given 9.1 million. In the meantime, Jigawa was awarded 4.3 million people in 2006. If this were to be believed, it would mean Kano (including Jigawa) had outpaced Lagos by more than four million people by 2006. That is impossible. Moreover, Kano was awarded 44 local government areas; Jigawa 27 and Lagos only 20. Why any right-thinking person would believe Kano State has more people than Lagos State is beyond me. For years, the total amount of internally generated revenue in Kano was less than 6 billion naira a year. In the last year or so, it is now averaging 20 billion. But get this: the internally generated revenue in Lagos is 219 billion naira. So why would people be moving to Kano instead of Lagos? Where are the jobs in Kano to attract them relative to Lagos? Why would more people keep moving to Kano where there is insurgency; from Maitasine to Boko Haram, relative to Lagos where there is none? The answer is simple. The large population of Kano relative to Lagos is bogus. It is pure fiction! If there were more people in Kano than in Lagos, it would show up, for example, in waste-generation. How much waste does Kano produce relative to Lagos? The answer is only a fraction. How many houses and physical structures are there in Kano relative to Lagos? There is no comparison. Google satellite maps show a concentration of people and houses in Kano city centre. Everywhere else is sparsely populated. This is not the case with Lagos. It is not the case with Ibadan. It is not the case with Aba. If there are so many people up North, where are the people? Where do they live? Which vehicles take them from A to B? How many of these vehicles are in Kano relative to Lagos? Only a fraction! Magical Zamfara Precisely because we have accepted the lie of Northern population supremacy over the South, Attahiru Jega and his INEC cohorts decided to sneak further falsehood past us. Having discovered far more double-registration of voters in the North than in the South, INEC still went ahead to create additional polling units, allocating a disproportionate number of these to the North. However, the very audacity of INEC in the attempted perpetration of this fraud has brought to light certain anomalies in the 2011 elections, especially as it relates to the North-West. INEC’s recent cleanup exercise of the voters register is a big indictment of the North. INEC discovered that there are far more double-registration of voters in the North than in the South. The greatest fraud in this regard is committed in the North-West, and the most fraudulent state in the country turns out to be Zamfara. Sokoto and Zamfara states border the Republic of Niger. Niger Republic is 19 times bigger than Sokoto and Zamfara put together in land area. And yet, we are meant to believe that in 2006, Sokoto and Zamfara had a combined total population of 6.9 million; more than half of Niger Republic’s population of 12.9 million. Zamfara’s fictitious population in the 2006 census was 3.2 million. Nevertheless, INEC registered 2 million voters for Zamfara for the 2011 elections. That means 62.5% of the people in Zamfara registered to vote. (This is roughly equal to the 64% of people who registered to vote in the 2012 elections in the United States; a country of far higher voter-awareness and socialisation). This is fraud of the highest order for the simple reason that 62.5% of the population of Zamfara cannot be eligible to vote. The voting age in Nigeria is 18 years. According to U.N. demographics, 44% of Nigerians are below the age of 15. This means under no circumstances can 50% of the population anywhere in Nigeria be said to have registered to vote in any election. It is not surprising therefore that although INEC registered 2 million voters for the 2011 elections in Zamfara, the same INEC discovered in its clean-up exercise this year that 1.1 million of those voters (over 50%) were fraudulent; the result of double registration. Voodoo results That means only 914,886 of the names on the Zamfara register could be verified as not pertaining to double registration. (This does not tell us how many of the remaining names are fictitious). But then get this: according to INEC records, 927,219 people voted in Zamfara in the 2011 presidential election; mostly for Buhari. That means more votes were cast in Zamfara than the total number of legitimately-registered voters, according to the revelation of INEC’s clean-up exercise. Let us put this in stark terms. It means, according to INEC, over 100% of the Zamfara electorate voted in 2011. What malarkey! By the time we factor in the fictitious names that must have been in the register, we can see that the figures coming out of Zamfara have nothing whatsoever to do with reality. In Zamfara, there is procedural inflation of figures pertaining to population and elections. This gives us an idea of how fraudulent the North-West of Nigeria is with regard to population and electoral figures. This is not to say that manipulation and falsification of figures is not standard operational procedure in other states of the federation, but INEC revealed that it is most exaggerated in the North in general and in the North-West in particular. It is not surprising therefore that, in the 2011 presidential election, there were 10.6 million “voters” from the North-West alone; twice the number of voters from either the South-West (4.6 million) or the South-East (5 million). This is preposterous, and is nothing but one big lie! Back to Jega It is on this fictitious super-structure of a larger population in the North relative to the South that Jega’s INEC based its outrageous allocation of 21,000 additional polling booths to the North, relative to 8,000 to the South. In defense of this regional-chauvinism, Hakeem Baba-Ahmad added insult to injury by saying: “Jega admitted that many states in the south did not even deserve the number of units they got, but for the inclusion of the principle of fairness and equity. In other words, if INEC had been strict in sharing out the units in accordance with voting population and geography, the north would have received even more.” What poppycock! In what appears to be the triumph of commonsense and logic, the Senate has advised Jega to suspend the allocation of new polling units until after the 2015 general elections. That should be the end of the matter. People who don’t understand how the Nigerian political system works feel Jega can ignore this advice. He cannot! The legislative branch of the government has oversight powers over the executive branch. Such a directive from the legislature to an arm of the government is not subject to debate. It must be obeyed otherwise Jega will be sanctioned. - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/believes-lie-people-north-south/#sthash.b4kUAdmL.dpuf 2 Likes |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by publicenemy(m): 12:51am On Sep 30, 2014 |
Hmmnnn...second testament. Anyway.... I think the North shouldn't be part of this country becos they are dragginng us back to the middle ages with their babarity and intolerance.they come down south and live in peace yet when we go up there,we are hunted like animals.everyone in the east,west and south can live in harmony anywhere but not north and northerners. They used to feel happy killing non northerners and non muslims and christians in the north but now we have left and their killing themselves... Those guys shouldd live alone with their religion and babarity. 2 Likes |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by atlwireles: 12:52am On Sep 30, 2014 |
^^^ where in the north, you mean your open desert? |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by Yeske2(m): 1:16am On Sep 30, 2014 |
Why blame the north? OBJ accepted Kano was more populous than Lagos, GEJ accepted 21,000 extra polling booths to 8,000 in the south and who am i supposed to blame? Southern Nigeria witch hunting itself since 1914. 2 Likes |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by naijaking1: 1:53am On Sep 30, 2014 |
This Femi Aribisala, is he Igbo? That's what Igbos have been complaining about since 1960. The people who manufactured this bogus census allocation hate national ID system with a passion, because it would immediately expose their fraud. They also hate using supportive data like birth and death rate, school registration(oh they will say northerners don't go to school, but they know how to vote massively) and economic generation as stated. When people are taxed per head, this fraud will disappear for good! 4 Likes |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by o42austino(m): 6:13am On Sep 30, 2014 |
How on earth do northerners think they csn fool all of us in this Nation, d bogus numbers allocated to them to give them powers over others will not stand, this is 2014 pls not 1960. 4 Likes |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by Nobody: 6:46am On Sep 30, 2014 |
publicenemy: Hmmnnn...second testament.You are indeed a jacckasss |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by Nobody: 6:47am On Sep 30, 2014 |
Rubbish & trash. |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by Ngwakwe: 7:27am On Sep 30, 2014 |
If a Northerner wins 2015 presidential election. This caricature will forever be engraved in stone. Had Goodluck Jonathan been a northerner, all these fictitious, illogical and indefensible JEGAstistics will stand without reasonable challenge. The campaign to re-electe GEJ is a battle for justice. 2016 Census must not be stage-managed. 4 Likes |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by RockMaxi: 7:28am On Sep 30, 2014 |
You can only be deceived while you harbor deception.   Census Officials have been threatened over time to count living and non-living things or loose their lives while on duty in some areas of the north. Yet no government is interested in checking this excesses. May be the south is equally guilty. I have been to some places in the north and the south equally, but something keep telling me we are just trying to outdo each other on issues of census in this country.  1 Like |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by dridowu: 8:12am On Sep 30, 2014 |
When will Femi Aribisala write an article on $9.3m ? 1 Like |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by BlackPeni5: 9:13am On Sep 30, 2014 |
First of all, I don't believe there are up to N150 million Nigerians. 1 Like |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by SLIDEwaxie(m): 9:23am On Sep 30, 2014 |
Kano is bigger than lagos, lagos is that very small part under ogun state: check ur map! Ogun state is like 3 times the size of lagos. Kano is as much as a commercial hub as lagos! Kaduna is also big and populous! Second: north is more populous, whether u wanted to biliv it or not. I'm sure u haven't really travelled up north! It is the east that is overrated in population. After Enugu, onitcha, aba, which eastern state really pulls crowd? Bayelsa? Akwa ibom? Dude, northerners marry nothing less than 3 wives, all given birth like bed bugs! Forget it, they're much! 1 Like |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by asadike(f): 9:29am On Sep 30, 2014 |
Thk u so much sir. My people wil never learn. Upon al that, they still want to vote in another almajiri. D backward north cheating d sophisticated south since 1785 1 Like |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by atlwireles: 8:04pm On Sep 30, 2014 |
SLIDEwaxie: Kano is bigger than lagos, lagos is that very small part under ogun state: check ur map! Imagine the primitive angle you came from. Saudi Arabia is bigger than Nigeria in size but they have 30 million people. Saudi Arabia are polygamous too,they don't migrate,in fact they are so rich they can marry a 100 wives each(if it's possible). So how come your primitive analogy doesn't work elsewhere in the world. 2 Likes |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by Johncuppa(m): 8:54pm On Sep 30, 2014 |
It means Gej av many assigments to do after 2015, starting 4rm our constitution to census and lots more. #liberation 2015 1 Like |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by SLIDEwaxie(m): 10:09pm On Sep 30, 2014 |
atlwireles:I thought you are in ur normal sense for educating argument. What is the word 'primitive' doing in your reply? The primitive analogy here is when u jes decide to biliv u another part is more populous just because u resent the north and u think they are not! Period! 1 Like |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by rosebowl01(m): 10:22pm On Sep 30, 2014 |
Has anyone noticed this fact: the inflation of Northern population is ONLY limited to the core Northern/Hausa/Fulani dominated States, and not the middle belt/central part of the North. This fraud is just too obvious. They continue to do this because that is where they believe they can continue to manipulate election results to favor themselves. How can states (Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, Jigawa...) with no known resources (plus limited comparative human ability to generate wealth etc) be quadrupling on paper but not on ground? Kano and Jigawa states have more local government areas (money sharing purpose) than the entire southeast region? seriously? 4 Likes |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by ChimaAdeoye: 10:25pm On Sep 30, 2014 |
The reason for the lie is because we cheat the owners of the oil in their God given resource. Let Nigeria adopt true federalism and there would be no need for all the lies. 2 Likes |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by BlackTechnology: 10:58pm On Sep 30, 2014 |
BlackPeni5: First of all, I don't believe there are up to N150 million Nigerians. This is the most intelligent post Nigeria is not up to 160 million people The inflated Northern population has led to false National census. |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by blexxonmak(m): 11:26pm On Sep 30, 2014 |
The missing link could be accounted for when you factor in the goats,cattle,chickens.camels,donkeys,etc,which probably were counted during the 2006 census exercise. |
| Re: Who Believes The Lie That There Are More People In The North Than In The South? by Nobody: 11:32pm On Sep 30, 2014 |
The only way out is compulsory national identification as well as the conduct of a credible census in 2016. Easier said than done though. 1 Like |
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