When we in the South say that the Hausa people of Northern Nigeria are our enemies, we really ought to be aware that we are just playing into the divide and rule strategy of the oligarchs who have been the powers behind the throne in Nigeria for decades and who want the North and the South to be suspicious of each so they can play one side against the other and continue to dominate us to our detriment.

Now if you are a Southerner, ask yourself, who are these so called Hausa people that are dominating us? Of the thirteen Prime Ministers, heads of state and Presidents that have either ruled or led Nigeria since her independence from Great Britain in 1960, not one of them have been Hausa by tribe.

Tafawa Balewa, our first prime minister was from a small minority tribe called Gere in Bauchi state, known in the singular form as Bagere. Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi was Igbo by tribe from Abia state. General Yakubu Gowon is Angas by tribe from Plateau state. Murtala Mohammed was Fulani from Kano state and President Olusegun Obasanjo is Yoruba from Ogun state.

President Shehu Shagari is a Fulani from Sokoto state. President Muhammadu Buhari is a Fulani from Katsina state while President Ibrahim Babangida is a Gwari from Niger state. Ernest Shonekan is Yoruba from Ogun state and Sani Abacha was Kanuri although he claimed Kano as his state because he was brought up there.

Abdulsalami Abubakar is the only Hausa leader we have ever had. Yet was he a dictator? Was he domineering? Capital NO. In office, he was a God-fearing ruler who treated every part of Nigeria equally and ushered in the Fourth Republic which has been our longest democratic experience ever.

Abdulsalami is, and was a good man. Does his image fit the stereotype of the mean and monstrous Hausa man? No! Abdulsalami is more humane than some people who even call themselves clergymen! If he had wanted to stay on in power, you and I would not have been able to stop him. More than President Obasanjo, General Abdulsalami Abubakar is our own Mandela!

After him we had the second, Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration which was succeeded by the Umaru Musa Yar’adua administration. President Yar’adua was a Fulani from Katsina state. He was succeeded by President Goodluck Jonathan, a minority Ogbia (a minority clan within a minority tribe).
He has been succeeded by President Muhammadu Buhari who is a Fulani from Katsina as previously noted.

From the above, some persons may want to adjust Hausa domination and make it Fulani domination, but that again is another Myth! Of the four Fulanis who have either ruled or led Nigeria, two of them were reluctant Presidents. President Shehu Shagari, whom I have met physically, never wanted to be President of Nigeria. That is what he meant by the title of his own autobiography, ‘Beckoned to Serve’. All he wanted was to be a Senator. He was prevailed upon by the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) to run as its flag bearer. He was a reluctant President.

Ditto for the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua. He never wanted to be President. He wanted to retire as a chemistry lecturer in Katsina. He was persuaded by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to be the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and even during the Presidential campaigns of 2007, President Obasanjo campaigned for Yar’adua more than Yar’adua campaigned for himself!

Now of the remaining two Fulani leaders, President Muhammadu Buhari tried three times to be Nigeria’s President and three times he failed because he largely depended on the Hausa-Fulani (there is really nothing like Hausa-Fulani, it is a creation of the Lagos-Ibadan press. You are either Hausa or Fulani). The fact of history is that in 2015, the then candidate Buhari’s victory depended on God who used two Southwestern Yoruba men, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former President Olusegun Obasanjo. In other words, what the North could not do for President Buhari was done for him by two South-westerners.

So ask yourself who is dominating who? And in fact, Hausa is more of a language than it is a tribe. It is a language that connects the people of Northern Nigeria. A lot of these people that we in the South view as Hausa are not Hausa. They have their own individual ethnic nationalities. But when we in the South resist them and band them all as Hausa, they have no choice but to fall back on that identity and unite on it to also resist us in the South. You cannot expect people you do not like to love you. And government cannot force us to love each other. Government cannot legislate patriotism.

You and I must learn to understand each other and grow to love each whether we are from the North or South. When the oppressed people of Nigeria unite against their oppressors, it is then they will know that the masses are the only dominant power bloc in Nigeria. Until then, enjoy your imaginary Hausa enemies!


Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center in California, author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why Jesus Wept and the host of Transformation with Reno Omokri By Reno Omokri

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/called-hausa-people-dominating-us-reno/

Great one from Reno

Hmmm.

No one is been dominated, inferiority complex smh

He's talking thrash. Who's interest does the appellation 'Arewa' serve? He should tell this his bull crap to the birds of the air. Is the Arewa Youth forum for the Isoko youth or does the Arewa Consultative Forum deliberate on Ijaw affairs?

What ethnic stock make up the membership of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria? Who is their life patron? Whose interests does the organization protect and what are their objectives? What is the lingua franca in the Nigerian Armed Forces? And why is it so?

PLEASE DO NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ!

Mr Reno, who are those dominating us?

The people actually dominating us are criminals and looters

Yoruba are the ones dominating us Abi? una dey wake small small

Only one Yoruba,one Hausa and one Igbo man has ruled Nigeria in substantive capacity. others are the minorities and yet,they complain so much.
The greatest destruction of Nigeria has been carried out under those minorities rule.

When a fool comfortably believes his delusion there's nothing you can do to change that.
So let them continue their mantra "Hausa-Fulani ruled Nigeria for 41 years, they think they are born to rule..... bla bla bla"

So what have u just said now that is new? Mr Reno....
If Tafawa Balewa could say in 1946 that ''if the British leave today...we would continue our conquest of the South as started by our great Othman Danfodiyo...till we dip the Quran in the Sea''
..and Ahmadu Bello said in 12/10/1960 barely a week from independence ''that this new nation called Nigeria shall an estate of my great grandfather Othman Danfodiyo ' the minority in the North shall be used as willing tools while the South shall be conquered territory and they must not be allowed rule over their destiny....and any attempt to alter arrangements must be met with BRUTAL FORCE..
Buhari is also here and kicking for all to see and feel the deep seated HATE he has for the South and the minority Northern Christians...

IBB forced down Sharia in the throats of Nigerian in 1989....
Abdulsalam refused to compensate victims of pipeline fire inferno in Jesse that killed over 255 people within hours in 1998 because they were Southern minority while at same year allocated oil blocs to his folks and friends from the north...
Yar'adua paid all arrears of OIC that OBJ refused to pay in 2008. ..meaning he had wanted to implement Sharia law on Nigerians before death claimed him just as Buhari is playing around it now in all ramifications...
Murtala Mohammed led some Northern soldiers to kill over 3000 unarmed adult males in broad daylight in Asaba 10/1967 who even came out with national flag, well dressed and dancing to welcome him and his boys to their community during the Biafra war..
Gowon screamed to high Heavens that God almighty had given the North power to rule Nigeria forever as they deemed fit...1966 (read the book by Wole Soyinka titled ''the man died''

So why am I citing all these?? Mr Reno Omokri..be informed that the North is one and united foe of the South any day when it comes to politics. They see south with its resources as their ATM counter and property where all their bills will be paid and must be forced to pay or else.....bloodshed...
Most pronounced in this game among them in the North are the Fulanis and Hausas and Kanuris....these three tribes are almost 98% Muslims.....

Be educated pls.....

Nice post@ Reno.....what is killing the southeners in dis country is dia hatred towards dae north. And the more dey hate, the more we are politically uplifted by God!

ProudArewa:
Nice post@ Reno.....what is killing the southeners in dis country is dia hatred towards dae north. And the more dey hate, the more we are politically uplifted by God!

I concur

Those dominating us were called to a meeting in white house recently,my friend Reno did you attend that meeting?

You are a confused fellow_ from this article; it is clear that your public intellectual claim is a misplaced priority.

I can see that you don't know why whenever we want to talk of north by ethnic we use Hausa/fulani_I think you still need elementary history lesson.

GoldCircle:
He's talking thrash. Who's interest does the appellation 'Arewa' serve? He should tell this his bull crap to the birds of the air. Is the Arewa Youth forum for the Isoko youth or does the Arewa Consultative Forum deliberate on Ijaw affairs?

What ethnic stock make up the membership of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria? Who is their life patron? Whose interests does the organization protect and what are their objectives? What is the lingua franca in the Nigerian Armed Forces? And why is it so?

PLEASE DO NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ!

You're the one talking trash, you ignorant, dumb tribalist. What did he say that was false? Regarding Arewa, he wrote that northerners banded together for reasons he clearly enunciated. If the ''lingua franca'' of the armed forces is Hausa, did he not explain that Hausa is not an ethnic group but a language shared by numerous ethnicities across West Africa? But will your tribalist brain allow you to see common sense?

How come when Fulanis attack communities in the north, they leave out the Hausas and go for the Christian minority? What about the core muslim northerner stereotype?

Walhi this guy has some facts

Sibrah:
How come when Fulanis attack communities in the north, they leave out the Hausas and go for the Christian minority?

If Yorubas attack Hausas in Lagos and leave the Igbos alone, does that mean that Yorubas and Igbos are one ethnic group?

Rossikk:


If Yorubas attack Hausas in Lagos and leave the Igbos alone, does that mean that Yorubas and Igbos are one ethnic group?

attack hausas for what in this case?

[size=14pt]But how can we single out the fulanis in their midst, since it appears it Fualni that is wicked and not the Hausa?

Truth be said....

Fualnis are not even Nigerians. They are Taureg from Niger and Mali [/size]

Reno remains a very Big fool......
No Tribe is dominating anyone.

All Tribes feast on corruption

OP made sense to me till ZKOSOSO



If Tafawa Balewa could say in 1946 that ''if the British leave today...we would continue our conquest of the South as started by our great Othman Danfodiyo...till we dip the Quran in the Sea''
..and Ahmadu Bello said in 12/10/1960 barely a week from independence ''that this new nation called Nigeria shall an estate of my great grandfather Othman Danfodiyo ' the minority in the North shall be used as willing tools while the South shall be conquered territory and they must not be allowed rule over their destiny....and any attempt to alter arrangements must be met with BRUTAL FORCE..
Buhari is also here and kicking for all to see and feel the deep seated HATE he has for the South and the minority Northern Christians

ZKOSOSO:
So what have u just said now that is new? Mr Reno....
If Tafawa Balewa could say in 1946 that ''if the British leave today...we would continue our conquest of the South as started by our great Othman Danfodiyo...till we dip the Quran in the Sea''
..and Ahmadu Bello said in 12/10/1960 barely a week from independence ''that this new nation called Nigeria shall an estate of my great grandfather Othman Danfodiyo ' the minority in the North shall be used as willing tools while the South shall be conquered territory and they must not be allowed rule over their destiny....and any attempt to alter arrangements must be met with BRUTAL FORCE..
Buhari is also here and kicking for all to see and feel the deep seated HATE he has for the South and the minority Northern Christians...

IBB force down Sharia in the throats of Nigerian in 1989....
Abdulsalam refuse to compensate victims of pipeline fire inferno in Jesse that killed over 255 people within hours in 1998 because they Southern minority Nigerdeltans while at same year allocated oil blocs to his folks and friends from the north...
Yar'adua paid all arrears of OIC that OBJ refused to pay in 2008...meaning he had wanted to implement Sharia law on Nigerians as Buhari is playing around it now in all ramifications...
Murtala Mohammed led some Northern soldiers to kill over 3000 adult males in broad daylight in Asaba 10/1967 who even came out with national flag, well dressed to dance and welcome him to their community during the Biafra war..
Gowon screamed to high Heavens that God almighty had given the North power to rule Nigeria forever as they deemed fit...1966 (read the book by Wole Soyinka titled ''the man died''

So why am I citing all these?? Mr Reno Omokri..be informed that the North is one and United foe of the South any day when it comes to politics. They see south with its resources as their ATM counter and property where all their bills will be paid and must be forced to pay or else.....bloodshed...
Most pronounced in this game among them in the North are the Fulani and Hausa and Kanuris....why cos they are almost 98% Muslims.....

Be educated pls.....

It seems you and another poster (GoldCircle) have completely missed the point and message of the entire article; even though the author had taken the trouble to put it clearly across, however, your hatred seemed to have blinded you from every letter of his words.
Should you care to carefully review the article again, you would come across the following self explanatory words - which you completely ignored.

But when we in the South resist them and band them all as Hausa, they have no choice but to fall back on that identity and unite on it to also resist us in the South. You cannot expect people you do not like to love you.

ItsMeAboki:


But when we in the South resist them and band them all as Hausa, they have no choice but to fall back on that identity and unite on it to also resist us in the South. You cannot expect people you do not like to love you.

First- we do not ve a united south
scnd -Why do the south unite to band them together.
thd- why do the south resist them

limeta:



First- we do not ve a united south
scnd -Why do the south unite to band them together.
thd- why do the south resist them

It seems you too are also guilty of missing the point.
No, the message did not presuppose a united south but clearly depicts the unity of southerners in their hatred of the north - preconceived and misrepresented as made up of one tribe - Hausa, against the opposite reality on the ground.
The answer to your 2nd & 3rd questions is simply hatred.

This dude has come again, stylishly pandering to the whims of the Hausa/fulani & garnishing it with half truths to sound objective but in the end discernable people could see beyond the veil of his self inflicted myopia! Hausa & Fulani are distinct ethnic groups but they forcefully grouped it together for exploitation & domination purposes ditto the use of the Hausa language in the North!!! Reno should stop talking nonsense because the Hausa/fulani have always been the "resident evil" since the British left the contraption they created.

Islam has wipe off their cultures and hausa is their major language. As far as I know, they are all Arewa. As for me i'll say Arewa has held us hostage in this country

Reno should rather use the north..he shouldn't hide behind this crap he wrote..how is it that a region holds on to power by all means but adds little or nothing to the development of the other regions..nonsense..

essay

ProudArewa:
Nice post@ Reno.....what is killing the southeners in dis country is dia hatred towards dae north. And the more dey hate, the more we are politically uplifted by God!

politically uplifted by God but stacked full with poverty, diseases, illiteracy, violence


be letting your so called northern elders ruin your lives