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Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by ariesbull: 9:32pm On Aug 09, 2019
Open letter to the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Said and the Fulani leaders

August 08, 2019

The Sultan of Sokoto and Fulani Leader
His Eminence Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad

THE STATE OF THE NATION
We write this letter to you considering your importance as the head of the Fulani people in Nigeria. You are also the head of Fulani Muslims in Nigeria.It is our hope that you will be able to share the thoughts expressed here with the 7 million Fulani people in Nigeria through your traditional means of communication.

We write to honour you with this letter, given the floundering opportunities for a dialogue on the future of Nigeria, which has eluded the various ethnic groups in Nigeria and which may not enhance itself too soon.

Given the drumbeats of armed violence and extremism perpetrated largely by your people, and the fleeting prospects of a national dialogue, we hope this letter will not be the last opportunity to constructively engage you and the Fulani nation.

We, on behalf of Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA), a coalition of several Itsekiri, Edo and Yoruba groups write with our deepest feelings about the Nigerian state and what appears to be the pitfalls that lay ahead, most of which are oiled and orchestrated by your own people, the Fulani, albeit consciously.

THE PAST

There was no history of Fulani in today’s territory until 1804. This was 800 years after the Yoruba Kingdoms had been established, about 600 years after the Hausa, Ijaw, Tiv, Igala, Junkun Kingdoms had flourished. The Igbo Nation had existed for centuries before your people wandered into this hemisphere.
We recall that your forebears came to power through brutal and bloody conquest of indigenous peoples in many parts of Northern Nigeria under the guise of Islam even though Islam had taken firm roots in Yorubaland, Kano and Bornu Empires as early as the 11th century.

Since your sojourn in Nigeria, you have been very lucky.

A whole country of over 300 ethnic groups, was handed over to you a foreigner, first through conquest of some of its part, you, who never owned an inch of land centuries earlier in this hemisphere.

You have reaped the fruits which trees you did not plant and you knew not when they were planted.

Moreso, you were from a family of wanderers and your emergence as Emir and traditional ruler was unusual, having no royal blood in your veins ab initio.

No doubt, You succeeded in taking over the land, the main means of production of these innocent peoples whose main offence was that they were too caring, too gentle, too subservient and accommodating of foreigners in their ancestral homeland, Today, you sit on a throne soaked with the blood of millions of innocent souls anguished with deafening ears to the agony of the spirit of millions of victims of the horrendous killings by your men, who came from Fouta Jallon in Senegal, only some 210 years ago.

The British left in 1960 and you emerged as the main benefactor eventhough your people were not known to have fought for independence.

You were wise enough to plant your people in the security institutions, a reflection of your preference for force and brigandage instead of a knowledge-driven society.

Through direct military intervention or subterfuge, sly plots, you have been ruling Nigeria, or determining who rule Nigeria since 1960. This is a rare luck that only courageous people can manage for some time, but needs wise, intelligent, decent and conscientious people to manage for a millennium.

Under the false, artificial creation called Nigeria, your people produce no oil, yet you appropriate and decide how the resources should be expended.

You have no access to the Ocean, yet you decide which goods should be imported and which vessel should ply routes that indigenous owners of this God given oceans had been using for centuries.

All the military weapons were bought not by your money, but you decide who should use them and who should be killed by the same weapons. You have no rich scholarly tradition, yet your people sit on the Nigerian Universities Commission, (NUC) and decide the faith of other Nigerians.

You located all the military institutions in your land, more out of fear than out of love for justice and fairplay.

90 percent of Nigerian resources are sourced from the South and Middle Belt, yet you decide how the funds should be spent. Did you think this irresponsible way of life will continue for ever? Did your people think we are foolish and even if we are, did you think coming generations will accept this brazen exploitation? We have called for dialogue on these issues, but you call it treason.

The truth is that you have grossly mismanaged this opportunity. Your ruinous and destructive tradition has robbed on all Nigerians. Your intuition for aggression has become a national culture. Your disdain for debate and logical criticisms has been imbibed by Nigerians who continue to gravitate towards the custodians of political power, whose way of life must be imbibed for recognition.

You have ruined and destroyed this whole nation at your beckon due to your exclusive, narrow, primordial and savage instincts driven only by your self interest and your brutal and non-negotiable desire to conquer and subdue every nationality in Nigeria. This is a tall task which you are hell bent in executing.

THE INVASION OF YORUBALAND BY FULANI HERDSMEN

We like to caution you on your latest antics to renew your grand 1804 design to conquer the entire country, not through ideas but through the most savage tradition of killings and maiming.

This to us is at the bottom of the current Fulani kidnapping in Yorubaland. We wish to inform you that we are aware of your grand plan to renew a project done half way and put on mute mode since the defeat of your forces in 1840 by the Yoruba Army.

We are worried that you and your Fulani people have been suspiciously silent on the kidnapping of Yoruba people, the killing of our young professionals including the killing of the daughter of a prominent Yoruba leader.

We were not surprised that you and the other Fulani leaders did not consider it necessary to send condolence messages or even visit the family of the slain woman. This can only mean your tacit approval or at least, a philosophy of cold compromise.

Please be aware that in the past two years, records show that 689 Yoruba people have been kidnapped by your people, Fulani, about 400 reported cases of rape, including rape of toddlers. Out of this number of the kidnapped, 356 were women, and out of that number, 250 were married women.

In all, 112 people were killed by your Fulani people either for resisting kidnap or for failing to pay ransom. This may mean nothing to you, but to us, it means a lot.

We urge you to imagine a group of armed Yoruba cocoa farmers storming forests in Kano, Katsina and Sokoto, kidnapping Fulani people, raping their young girls and even killing the daughter of an Emir or a prominent Fulani leader? Can you also imagine the same heavily armed Yoruba cocoa farmers occupying your forests, stopping your people from farming and preventing your people from plying the highways in their ancestral homes?

To make the matter worse, imagine the armed Yoruba cocoa farmers carry out these terrible crimes under the banner of a Yoruba man as the Nigerian President. How will you feel?
As it is, your people, the Fulani are digging their hands down our throats. They are entering our bedrooms and sleeping with our mothers and wives. These actions are not only against Islam, they are against humanity.

These latest actions plus our experiences in the past have combined to renew the energy of millions of Yoruba people who want a country of their own. Either you like it or not, this will happen. God, before whom you and your big crown are like but a filthy rag, will make it happen.

We urge you to prepare your self to dialogue or if you chose the path of violence, there will be proportional response. Having Yoruba or Igbo Republics is something you do not wish to hear, but which is imminent and inevitable.

Please be aware that the Yoruba do not begrudge your values and the ways of your living, all we are saying is that we want to live our lives, design our political and cultural architecture, live and die on our own terms.

The forthcoming Yoruba Republic will be glad to accommodate righteous Fulani people who respect our civilisations and the laws of our fatherland.

We wish to use this opportunity to advice you and your people to be aware that you have no power to conquer Yoruba Nation. Your forebears tried and failed. Your military and political surrogates tried, marked with killings, maiming and destruction of our economy, yet they failed.

We ask you to instruct your people, the armed Fulani herdsmen to withdraw from Yoruba territories and on their own, mop up the cache of arms and ammunition stored in Yoruba territories.

Sir, the Yoruba people stand for peace and not war. We would prefer these issues to be resolved amicably without firing any gun shot. But, we wish to say that if your heart remains rebellious and your soul defiant, the Yoruba people are not afraid to confront you once again the way we did some 175 years ago, this time in the most ferocious manner you can ever imagine. It is necessary to let you know this even though we are aware that you will not change the conquest desires of your heart.

We wish you a happy Salah and Allah’s wisdom to know and do what is right.
Yours Sincerely,
Col Abimbola Sowumi (rtd)
Mallam Salau Ahmed Akorede
For Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA)
The Yoruba self determination group

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by ariesbull: 9:35pm On Aug 09, 2019
Such a long letter

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by chiagozien(m): 9:36pm On Aug 09, 2019
oyoruba

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by Charleys: 9:57pm On Aug 09, 2019
we write to honor you in this letter.


Someone please summarize.
I believe it's some form of ash licking.

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by pinkPUSSY(f): 10:00pm On Aug 09, 2019
Please be aware that in the past two years, records show that 689 Yoruba people have been kidnapped by your people, Fulani, about 400 reported cases of rape, including rape of toddlers. Out of this number of the kidnapped, 356 were women, and out of that number, 250 were married women.



In all, 112 people were killed by your Fulani people either for resisting kidnap or for failing to pay ransom. This may mean nothing to you, but to us, it means a lot.




This is very deep !
I thought Yorubas and Fulanis have a very smooth relationship ?
Why are fulanis killing them?
Why begging the caliphate again ?
What's happening ?


Only a clown will feed a snake and expect to be protected by the snake he fed.. It will definitely consume you one day.

Just watch how they will invade this thread. .... Fulanis have dealt with them but they don't know how to attack their slave masters that have sent hundreds of his kinsmen to their early graves...

They will now adopt transfer of aggression in order to keep moving.. cheesy

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by Nobody: 10:42pm On Aug 09, 2019
Honestly this letter is on point......

Coming from Odua...let all ethnic groups in Nigeria write same and forward to sultan..

Will serve as wake up call to fulanis...when they understand that the war the bring can be serve to them ...

They alone don they cook for the whole country ..from North to south...east to west.. and we've been eating... silently...

But when we all decide to cook for them...hope they will eat..

Think every ethnic group has to mirrow the fulanis... slaughter their families..kill their cows ..burn their huts ..slay their old ones....found in any part of the country alien to them.... Is all about ethnic boundaries.

That way..they will come to realise that what a fulanis herdsmen can do... A Yoruba cocoa farmer can do much better...a tiv yam farmer will perfect more ..an igbo business man will Excel..

Let's give them ..the same fear .. they're bringing...

One tiny tribe from nowhere can keep 200 million Nigerians to ransome..

This letter must be repeatedly written by all ethnic groups as a forewarning to the sultan...

The president cares less...

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by middlebelter(m): 10:57pm On Aug 09, 2019
The issue with Nigeria is not the Fulanis, it unfortunate to say the Igbos and Yorubas are the main problems Nigeria is not moving forward and this has been giving the Fulanis to do what they want. They can treat Yorubas the way they want because they know the Igbos will applaud such act as vengeance for Yorubas role in civil war despite the fact that manyYoruba supported Igbos during the war, house them, protected them or even fought along with them. They won't remember that Fajuyi choose to die to protect Ironsi, rather they see Yorubas as traitor.
Yorubas, see Igbos as selfish, unreliable when it comes to political alliance and unrepentantly domineering.
Armed with such information, the Fulanis finds it easy to manipulate the South to get what they want in Nigeria at the expense of others.

The only solution and indeed a fast one that will send fear down to thrones in the North is not this type of letter, it is a reconciliation meeting between the Yoruba leaders and Igbos leader with other ethnic minorities in South not taking sides but facilitating reconciliation between all. Thereafter, a joint communiqué of this nature above to FGN, Fulanis , ECOWAS, AU and UN with deadlines will cause the desired reactions.

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by Nobody: 10:57pm On Aug 09, 2019
The okoya abi na kowaya, are all fools.

You know history, you know the Fulanis are barbarians, you know they are bent on conquering yorubaland, why didn't you speak against it when buhari was contesting in 2015?


Why didn't you caution your people to desist from voting fulaniman?

The Fulanis who are bent on conquering yorubaland, by voting buhari, you armed the Fulanis. You gave them more strength to conquer you.

I wish you God's strength.

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by Nobody: 10:58pm On Aug 09, 2019
Rekhina:

When you yorubas stabbed SS nigerdelta's son GEJ did you ever remember you will need an ally

FYI you have no allies in SS maybe itshekiri owned by fulani ,

Bros forget allies.... The fulanis menace is a national emergency...
Not even the northern part of the country is safe..
The only safe humans are the fulanis....

Yesterday army killed policemen to release just one fulanis criminal...

You don't know next...our federal roads are not safe again..abi you nor the travel?
Say what.... anything can happen! .. that the reality..

Me like the letter...and will wish all ethnicities in Nigeria should write same and address to sultan...

If the president is too slow to carry out actions...then the sultan should know how best to rein in his soldiers...


A ffulani lawyer once told me way back in lawschl..
That as map of Nigeria is..
Some day ..the whole north will come crashing on the south...they will chase us from our lands down to ocean..
...and we can only be save ..if we accept Islam..And emir's.. agree to build mosque ..

He made a mockery of south..told me the will crown me emir ..if I accept Islam before then...
The fool was serious talking..like we always shout Biafra.. restructuring..Odua republic...like they too don't have plan..

See this fulanis menace is a well planned and detailed..job...

Obasanjo was not mad when he screamed fulanisation of Nigeria...

Ruga is on our budget...no matter how you try to wish it away or claim is dead ..na lie..

Contract on it are out already....I've seen Ruga contract on taraba ..osun..Benue..
..and it's coming south..

Pressure are on the governors ..with billions as compensation...

These men are coming...and they're coming for real...

If una like make una dey social media the bark...
...you can never see them on social media.?...they don't need it.


Is happening already.

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by Nobody: 11:00pm On Aug 09, 2019
middlebelter:
The issue with Nigeria is not the Fulanis, it unfortunate to say the Igbos and Yorubas are the main problems Nigeria is not moving forward and this has been giving the Fulanis to do what they want. They can treat Yorubas the way they want because they know the Igbos will applaud such act as vengeance for Yorubas role in civil war despite the fact that manyYoruba supported Igbos during the war, house them, protected them or even fought along with them. They won't remember that Fajuyi choose to die to protect Ironsi, rather they see Yorubas as traitor.
Yorubas, see Igbos as selfish, unreliable when it comes to political alliance and unrepentantly domineering.
Armed with such information, the Fulanis finds it easy to manipulate the South to get what they want in Nigeria at the expense of others.

The only solution and indeed a fast one that will send fear down to thrones in the North is not this type of letter, it is a reconciliation meeting between the Yoruba leaders and Igbos leader with other ethnic minorities in South not taking sides but facilitating reconciliation between all. Thereafter, a joint communiqué of this nature above to FGN, Fulanis , ECOWAS, AU and UN to with deadlines will cause the desired reactions.
we have been sending messages to FFK asking him to arrange a meeting between the afenifere and ohaneze but he's hesitant. I suspect ffk is only about heating the polity and doesn't truly care about the yoruba nation.
Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by Biety: 11:01pm On Aug 09, 2019
Rekhina:

When you yorubas stabbed SS nigerdelta's son GEJ did you ever remember you will need an ally

FYI you have no allies in SS maybe itshekiri owned by fulani ,
Jonathan that lost election has visited SW several times and attended occasions organised by yorubas.His people also have never accused Yorubas of any wrong doing as per 2015 elction. Weytin com be you people's problems that are not even from his tribe? Oh I know the answer. You are the biggest beneficiaries of his regime that performed below average. You may not believe this but from what I've experinced over the years, the Yorubas have more allies than Ibos in the SS region.

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by pinkPUSSY(f): 11:06pm On Aug 09, 2019
middlebelter:
The issue with Nigeria is not the Fulanis, it unfortunate to say the Igbos and Yorubas are the main problems Nigeria is not moving forward and this has been giving the Fulanis to do what they want. They can treat Yorubas the way they want because they know the Igbos will applaud such act as vengeance for Yorubas role in civil war despite the fact that manyYoruba supported Igbos during the war, house them, protected them or even fought along with them. They won't remember that Fajuyi choose to die to protect Ironsi, rather they see Yorubas as traitor.
Yorubas, see Igbos as selfish, unreliable when it comes to political alliance and unrepentantly domineering.
Armed with such information, the Fulanis finds it easy to manipulate the South to get what they want in Nigeria at the expense of others.

The only solution and indeed a fast one that will send fear down to thrones in the North is not this type of letter, it is a reconciliation meeting between the Yoruba leaders and Igbos leader with other ethnic minorities in South not taking sides but facilitating reconciliation between all. Thereafter, a joint communiqué of this nature above to FGN, Fulanis , ECOWAS, AU and UN with deadlines will cause the desired reactions.

You want to sound like an unbiased commenter, unfortunately you failed
You are biased!

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by middlebelter(m): 11:10pm On Aug 09, 2019
highcollide:
we have been sending messages to FFK asking him to arrange a meeting between the afenifere and ohaneze but he's hesitant. I suspect ffk is only about heating the polity and doesn't truly care about the yoruba nation.

If Nigeria will be free from Fulanis control, the two tribes must sincerely reconcile, put together a workable relationship, enlighten Thier youths to stop social media attack on each other then face the Fulanis.
As per FFK, remember, his political pedigree is of no consequence in Yorubaland, only the leadership of two tribe can do this. The likes of Woke Soyinka, OBJ, Prof Ben Akabueze,Jim Nwobodo,Former Commenwealyh Scribe,,Ooni and Alaafin, The Obi of Onitsha, Champion Publisher, etc. Will start with reconciliation meeting, silently set agenda and politically set to dismantle the military structure put in place by the likes of Abacha and IBB to protect the Fulanis and invade the South.

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by nabiz(m): 11:11pm On Aug 09, 2019
Good one
Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by johnmartus(m): 11:16pm On Aug 09, 2019
I'm afraid muric will condemn this letter tomorrow Because he is an instrument use by caliphate to attack anyone or group of people from southern Nigeria.

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by Nobody: 11:18pm On Aug 09, 2019
middlebelter:


If Nigeria will be free from Fulanis control, the two tribes must sincerely reconcile, put together a workable relationship, enlighten Thier youths to stop social media attack on each other then face the Fulanis.
As per FFK, remember, his political pedigree is of no consequence in Yorubaland, only the leadership of two tribe can do this. The likes of Woke Soyinka, OBJ, Prof Ben Akabueze,Jim Nwobodo,Former Commenwealyh Scribe,,Ooni and Alaafin, The Obi of Onitsha, Champion Publisher, etc. Will start with reconciliation meeting, silently set agenda and politically set to dismantle the military structure put in place by the likes of Abacha and IBB to protect the Fulanis and invade the South.
The yorubas and igbos cannot work together for several reasons.

The igbos don't trust politicians unlike the yorubas who easily and blindly follow any politician.

Religion is also another factor. The yorubas might be comfortable with Islam but we've seen so much about Islam to not even want anything to do with Islam.

The pain the igbo nation have passed through were mostly caused by people with affiliation with Islam....

Trust is another factor.

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by middlebelter(m): 11:20pm On Aug 09, 2019
pinkPUSSY:


You want to sound like an unbiased commenter, unfortunately you failed
You are biased!

Again, you may please bignore my "biase" and let's run with the message. It is this mutual suspicion that is the strength of the Fulanis.

Believe it or not, the Fulanis are the most sophisticated politically in this country and can read in between the lines if the Igbo and Yorubas are willing to unite.

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by Ooni: 11:20pm On Aug 09, 2019
We now beg the caliphate?

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by MetaPhysical: 11:39pm On Aug 09, 2019
ariesbull:


Open letter to the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Said and the Fulani leaders

August 08, 2019

The Sultan of Sokoto and Fulani Leader
His Eminence Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad

THE STATE OF THE NATION
We write this letter to you considering your importance as the head of the Fulani people in Nigeria. You are also the head of Fulani Muslims in Nigeria.It is our hope that you will be able to share the thoughts expressed here with the 7 million Fulani people in Nigeria through your traditional means of communication.

We write to honour you with this letter, given the floundering opportunities for a dialogue on the future of Nigeria, which has eluded the various ethnic groups in Nigeria and which may not enhance itself too soon.

Given the drumbeats of armed violence and extremism perpetrated largely by your people, and the fleeting prospects of a national dialogue, we hope this letter will not be the last opportunity to constructively engage you and the Fulani nation.

We, on behalf of Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA), a coalition of several Itsekiri, Edo and Yoruba groups write with our deepest feelings about the Nigerian state and what appears to be the pitfalls that lay ahead, most of which are oiled and orchestrated by your own people, the Fulani, albeit consciously.

THE PAST

There was no history of Fulani in today’s territory until 1804. This was 800 years after the Yoruba Kingdoms had been established, about 600 years after the Hausa, Ijaw, Tiv, Igala, Junkun Kingdoms had flourished. The Igbo Nation had existed for centuries before your people wandered into this hemisphere.
We recall that your forebears came to power through brutal and bloody conquest of indigenous peoples in many parts of Northern Nigeria under the guise of Islam even though Islam had taken firm roots in Yorubaland, Kano and Bornu Empires as early as the 11th century.

Since your sojourn in Nigeria, you have been very lucky.

A whole country of over 300 ethnic groups, was handed over to you a foreigner, first through conquest of some of its part, you, who never owned an inch of land centuries earlier in this hemisphere.

You have reaped the fruits which trees you did not plant and you knew not when they were planted.

Moreso, you were from a family of wanderers and your emergence as Emir and traditional ruler was unusual, having no royal blood in your veins ab initio.

No doubt, You succeeded in taking over the land, the main means of production of these innocent peoples whose main offence was that they were too caring, too gentle, too subservient and accommodating of foreigners in their ancestral homeland, Today, you sit on a throne soaked with the blood of millions of innocent souls anguished with deafening ears to the agony of the spirit of millions of victims of the horrendous killings by your men, who came from Fouta Jallon in Senegal, only some 210 years ago.

The British left in 1960 and you emerged as the main benefactor eventhough your people were not known to have fought for independence.

You were wise enough to plant your people in the security institutions, a reflection of your preference for force and brigandage instead of a knowledge-driven society.

Through direct military intervention or subterfuge, sly plots, you have been ruling Nigeria, or determining who rule Nigeria since 1960. This is a rare luck that only courageous people can manage for some time, but needs wise, intelligent, decent and conscientious people to manage for a millennium.

Under the false, artificial creation called Nigeria, your people produce no oil, yet you appropriate and decide how the resources should be expended.

You have no access to the Ocean, yet you decide which goods should be imported and which vessel should ply routes that indigenous owners of this God given oceans had been using for centuries.

All the military weapons were bought not by your money, but you decide who should use them and who should be killed by the same weapons. You have no rich scholarly tradition, yet your people sit on the Nigerian Universities Commission, (NUC) and decide the faith of other Nigerians.

You located all the military institutions in your land, more out of fear than out of love for justice and fairplay.

90 percent of Nigerian resources are sourced from the South and Middle Belt, yet you decide how the funds should be spent. Did you think this irresponsible way of life will continue for ever? Did your people think we are foolish and even if we are, did you think coming generations will accept this brazen exploitation? We have called for dialogue on these issues, but you call it treason.

The truth is that you have grossly mismanaged this opportunity. Your ruinous and destructive tradition has robbed on all Nigerians. Your intuition for aggression has become a national culture. Your disdain for debate and logical criticisms has been imbibed by Nigerians who continue to gravitate towards the custodians of political power, whose way of life must be imbibed for recognition.

You have ruined and destroyed this whole nation at your beckon due to your exclusive, narrow, primordial and savage instincts driven only by your self interest and your brutal and non-negotiable desire to conquer and subdue every nationality in Nigeria. This is a tall task which you are hell bent in executing.

THE INVASION OF YORUBALAND BY FULANI HERDSMEN

We like to caution you on your latest antics to renew your grand 1804 design to conquer the entire country, not through ideas but through the most savage tradition of killings and maiming.

This to us is at the bottom of the current Fulani kidnapping in Yorubaland. We wish to inform you that we are aware of your grand plan to renew a project done half way and put on mute mode since the defeat of your forces in 1840 by the Yoruba Army.

We are worried that you and your Fulani people have been suspiciously silent on the kidnapping of Yoruba people, the killing of our young professionals including the killing of the daughter of a prominent Yoruba leader.

We were not surprised that you and the other Fulani leaders did not consider it necessary to send condolence messages or even visit the family of the slain woman. This can only mean your tacit approval or at least, a philosophy of cold compromise.

Please be aware that in the past two years, records show that 689 Yoruba people have been kidnapped by your people, Fulani, about 400 reported cases of rape, including rape of toddlers. Out of this number of the kidnapped, 356 were women, and out of that number, 250 were married women.

In all, 112 people were killed by your Fulani people either for resisting kidnap or for failing to pay ransom. This may mean nothing to you, but to us, it means a lot.

We urge you to imagine a group of armed Yoruba cocoa farmers storming forests in Kano, Katsina and Sokoto, kidnapping Fulani people, raping their young girls and even killing the daughter of an Emir or a prominent Fulani leader? Can you also imagine the same heavily armed Yoruba cocoa farmers occupying your forests, stopping your people from farming and preventing your people from plying the highways in their ancestral homes?

To make the matter worse, imagine the armed Yoruba cocoa farmers carry out these terrible crimes under the banner of a Yoruba man as the Nigerian President. How will you feel?
As it is, your people, the Fulani are digging their hands down our throats. They are entering our bedrooms and sleeping with our mothers and wives. These actions are not only against Islam, they are against humanity.

These latest actions plus our experiences in the past have combined to renew the energy of millions of Yoruba people who want a country of their own. Either you like it or not, this will happen. God, before whom you and your big crown are like but a filthy rag, will make it happen.

We urge you to prepare your self to dialogue or if you chose the path of violence, there will be proportional response. Having Yoruba or Igbo Republics is something you do not wish to hear, but which is imminent and inevitable.

Please be aware that the Yoruba do not begrudge your values and the ways of your living, all we are saying is that we want to live our lives, design our political and cultural architecture, live and die on our own terms.

The forthcoming Yoruba Republic will be glad to accommodate righteous Fulani people who respect our civilisations and the laws of our fatherland.

We wish to use this opportunity to advice you and your people to be aware that you have no power to conquer Yoruba Nation. Your forebears tried and failed. Your military and political surrogates tried, marked with killings, maiming and destruction of our economy, yet they failed.

We ask you to instruct your people, the armed Fulani herdsmen to withdraw from Yoruba territories and on their own, mop up the cache of arms and ammunition stored in Yoruba territories.

Sir, the Yoruba people stand for peace and not war. We would prefer these issues to be resolved amicably without firing any gun shot. But, we wish to say that if your heart remains rebellious and your soul defiant, the Yoruba people are not afraid to confront you once again the way we did some 175 years ago, this time in the most ferocious manner you can ever imagine. It is necessary to let you know this even though we are aware that you will not change the conquest desires of your heart.

We wish you a happy Salah and Allah’s wisdom to know and do what is right.
Yours Sincerely,
Col Abimbola Sowumi (rtd)
Mallam Salau Ahmed Akorede
For Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA)
The Yoruba self determination group
Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by MetaPhysical: 11:40pm On Aug 09, 2019
ariesbull:


Open letter to the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Said and the Fulani leaders

August 08, 2019

The Sultan of Sokoto and Fulani Leader
His Eminence Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad

THE STATE OF THE NATION
We write this letter to you considering your importance as the head of the Fulani people in Nigeria. You are also the head of Fulani Muslims in Nigeria.It is our hope that you will be able to share the thoughts expressed here with the 7 million Fulani people in Nigeria through your traditional means of communication.

We write to honour you with this letter, given the floundering opportunities for a dialogue on the future of Nigeria, which has eluded the various ethnic groups in Nigeria and which may not enhance itself too soon.

Given the drumbeats of armed violence and extremism perpetrated largely by your people, and the fleeting prospects of a national dialogue, we hope this letter will not be the last opportunity to constructively engage you and the Fulani nation.

We, on behalf of Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA), a coalition of several Itsekiri, Edo and Yoruba groups write with our deepest feelings about the Nigerian state and what appears to be the pitfalls that lay ahead, most of which are oiled and orchestrated by your own people, the Fulani, albeit consciously.

THE PAST

There was no history of Fulani in today’s territory until 1804. This was 800 years after the Yoruba Kingdoms had been established, about 600 years after the Hausa, Ijaw, Tiv, Igala, Junkun Kingdoms had flourished. The Igbo Nation had existed for centuries before your people wandered into this hemisphere.
We recall that your forebears came to power through brutal and bloody conquest of indigenous peoples in many parts of Northern Nigeria under the guise of Islam even though Islam had taken firm roots in Yorubaland, Kano and Bornu Empires as early as the 11th century.

Since your sojourn in Nigeria, you have been very lucky.

A whole country of over 300 ethnic groups, was handed over to you a foreigner, first through conquest of some of its part, you, who never owned an inch of land centuries earlier in this hemisphere.

You have reaped the fruits which trees you did not plant and you knew not when they were planted.

Moreso, you were from a family of wanderers and your emergence as Emir and traditional ruler was unusual, having no royal blood in your veins ab initio.

No doubt, You succeeded in taking over the land, the main means of production of these innocent peoples whose main offence was that they were too caring, too gentle, too subservient and accommodating of foreigners in their ancestral homeland, Today, you sit on a throne soaked with the blood of millions of innocent souls anguished with deafening ears to the agony of the spirit of millions of victims of the horrendous killings by your men, who came from Fouta Jallon in Senegal, only some 210 years ago.

The British left in 1960 and you emerged as the main benefactor eventhough your people were not known to have fought for independence.

You were wise enough to plant your people in the security institutions, a reflection of your preference for force and brigandage instead of a knowledge-driven society.

Through direct military intervention or subterfuge, sly plots, you have been ruling Nigeria, or determining who rule Nigeria since 1960. This is a rare luck that only courageous people can manage for some time, but needs wise, intelligent, decent and conscientious people to manage for a millennium.

Under the false, artificial creation called Nigeria, your people produce no oil, yet you appropriate and decide how the resources should be expended.

You have no access to the Ocean, yet you decide which goods should be imported and which vessel should ply routes that indigenous owners of this God given oceans had been using for centuries.

All the military weapons were bought not by your money, but you decide who should use them and who should be killed by the same weapons. You have no rich scholarly tradition, yet your people sit on the Nigerian Universities Commission, (NUC) and decide the faith of other Nigerians.

You located all the military institutions in your land, more out of fear than out of love for justice and fairplay.

90 percent of Nigerian resources are sourced from the South and Middle Belt, yet you decide how the funds should be spent. Did you think this irresponsible way of life will continue for ever? Did your people think we are foolish and even if we are, did you think coming generations will accept this brazen exploitation? We have called for dialogue on these issues, but you call it treason.

The truth is that you have grossly mismanaged this opportunity. Your ruinous and destructive tradition has robbed on all Nigerians. Your intuition for aggression has become a national culture. Your disdain for debate and logical criticisms has been imbibed by Nigerians who continue to gravitate towards the custodians of political power, whose way of life must be imbibed for recognition.

You have ruined and destroyed this whole nation at your beckon due to your exclusive, narrow, primordial and savage instincts driven only by your self interest and your brutal and non-negotiable desire to conquer and subdue every nationality in Nigeria. This is a tall task which you are hell bent in executing.

THE INVASION OF YORUBALAND BY FULANI HERDSMEN

We like to caution you on your latest antics to renew your grand 1804 design to conquer the entire country, not through ideas but through the most savage tradition of killings and maiming.

This to us is at the bottom of the current Fulani kidnapping in Yorubaland. We wish to inform you that we are aware of your grand plan to renew a project done half way and put on mute mode since the defeat of your forces in 1840 by the Yoruba Army.

We are worried that you and your Fulani people have been suspiciously silent on the kidnapping of Yoruba people, the killing of our young professionals including the killing of the daughter of a prominent Yoruba leader.

We were not surprised that you and the other Fulani leaders did not consider it necessary to send condolence messages or even visit the family of the slain woman. This can only mean your tacit approval or at least, a philosophy of cold compromise.

Please be aware that in the past two years, records show that 689 Yoruba people have been kidnapped by your people, Fulani, about 400 reported cases of rape, including rape of toddlers. Out of this number of the kidnapped, 356 were women, and out of that number, 250 were married women.

In all, 112 people were killed by your Fulani people either for resisting kidnap or for failing to pay ransom. This may mean nothing to you, but to us, it means a lot.

We urge you to imagine a group of armed Yoruba cocoa farmers storming forests in Kano, Katsina and Sokoto, kidnapping Fulani people, raping their young girls and even killing the daughter of an Emir or a prominent Fulani leader? Can you also imagine the same heavily armed Yoruba cocoa farmers occupying your forests, stopping your people from farming and preventing your people from plying the highways in their ancestral homes?

To make the matter worse, imagine the armed Yoruba cocoa farmers carry out these terrible crimes under the banner of a Yoruba man as the Nigerian President. How will you feel?
As it is, your people, the Fulani are digging their hands down our throats. They are entering our bedrooms and sleeping with our mothers and wives. These actions are not only against Islam, they are against humanity.

These latest actions plus our experiences in the past have combined to renew the energy of millions of Yoruba people who want a country of their own. Either you like it or not, this will happen. God, before whom you and your big crown are like but a filthy rag, will make it happen.

We urge you to prepare your self to dialogue or if you chose the path of violence, there will be proportional response. Having Yoruba or Igbo Republics is something you do not wish to hear, but which is imminent and inevitable.

Please be aware that the Yoruba do not begrudge your values and the ways of your living, all we are saying is that we want to live our lives, design our political and cultural architecture, live and die on our own terms.

The forthcoming Yoruba Republic will be glad to accommodate righteous Fulani people who respect our civilisations and the laws of our fatherland.

We wish to use this opportunity to advice you and your people to be aware that you have no power to conquer Yoruba Nation. Your forebears tried and failed. Your military and political surrogates tried, marked with killings, maiming and destruction of our economy, yet they failed.

We ask you to instruct your people, the armed Fulani herdsmen to withdraw from Yoruba territories and on their own, mop up the cache of arms and ammunition stored in Yoruba territories.

Sir, the Yoruba people stand for peace and not war. We would prefer these issues to be resolved amicably without firing any gun shot. But, we wish to say that if your heart remains rebellious and your soul defiant, the Yoruba people are not afraid to confront you once again the way we did some 175 years ago, this time in the most ferocious manner you can ever imagine. It is necessary to let you know this even though we are aware that you will not change the conquest desires of your heart.

We wish you a happy Salah and Allah’s wisdom to know and do what is right.
Yours Sincerely,
Col Abimbola Sowumi (rtd)
Mallam Salau Ahmed Akorede
For Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA)
The Yoruba self determination group
'
Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by MetaPhysical: 11:40pm On Aug 09, 2019
ariesbull:


Open letter to the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Said and the Fulani leaders

August 08, 2019

The Sultan of Sokoto and Fulani Leader
His Eminence Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad

THE STATE OF THE NATION
We write this letter to you considering your importance as the head of the Fulani people in Nigeria. You are also the head of Fulani Muslims in Nigeria.It is our hope that you will be able to share the thoughts expressed here with the 7 million Fulani people in Nigeria through your traditional means of communication.

We write to honour you with this letter, given the floundering opportunities for a dialogue on the future of Nigeria, which has eluded the various ethnic groups in Nigeria and which may not enhance itself too soon.

Given the drumbeats of armed violence and extremism perpetrated largely by your people, and the fleeting prospects of a national dialogue, we hope this letter will not be the last opportunity to constructively engage you and the Fulani nation.

We, on behalf of Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA), a coalition of several Itsekiri, Edo and Yoruba groups write with our deepest feelings about the Nigerian state and what appears to be the pitfalls that lay ahead, most of which are oiled and orchestrated by your own people, the Fulani, albeit consciously.

THE PAST

There was no history of Fulani in today’s territory until 1804. This was 800 years after the Yoruba Kingdoms had been established, about 600 years after the Hausa, Ijaw, Tiv, Igala, Junkun Kingdoms had flourished. The Igbo Nation had existed for centuries before your people wandered into this hemisphere.
We recall that your forebears came to power through brutal and bloody conquest of indigenous peoples in many parts of Northern Nigeria under the guise of Islam even though Islam had taken firm roots in Yorubaland, Kano and Bornu Empires as early as the 11th century.

Since your sojourn in Nigeria, you have been very lucky.

A whole country of over 300 ethnic groups, was handed over to you a foreigner, first through conquest of some of its part, you, who never owned an inch of land centuries earlier in this hemisphere.

You have reaped the fruits which trees you did not plant and you knew not when they were planted.

Moreso, you were from a family of wanderers and your emergence as Emir and traditional ruler was unusual, having no royal blood in your veins ab initio.

No doubt, You succeeded in taking over the land, the main means of production of these innocent peoples whose main offence was that they were too caring, too gentle, too subservient and accommodating of foreigners in their ancestral homeland, Today, you sit on a throne soaked with the blood of millions of innocent souls anguished with deafening ears to the agony of the spirit of millions of victims of the horrendous killings by your men, who came from Fouta Jallon in Senegal, only some 210 years ago.

The British left in 1960 and you emerged as the main benefactor eventhough your people were not known to have fought for independence.

You were wise enough to plant your people in the security institutions, a reflection of your preference for force and brigandage instead of a knowledge-driven society.

Through direct military intervention or subterfuge, sly plots, you have been ruling Nigeria, or determining who rule Nigeria since 1960. This is a rare luck that only courageous people can manage for some time, but needs wise, intelligent, decent and conscientious people to manage for a millennium.

Under the false, artificial creation called Nigeria, your people produce no oil, yet you appropriate and decide how the resources should be expended.

You have no access to the Ocean, yet you decide which goods should be imported and which vessel should ply routes that indigenous owners of this God given oceans had been using for centuries.

All the military weapons were bought not by your money, but you decide who should use them and who should be killed by the same weapons. You have no rich scholarly tradition, yet your people sit on the Nigerian Universities Commission, (NUC) and decide the faith of other Nigerians.

You located all the military institutions in your land, more out of fear than out of love for justice and fairplay.

90 percent of Nigerian resources are sourced from the South and Middle Belt, yet you decide how the funds should be spent. Did you think this irresponsible way of life will continue for ever? Did your people think we are foolish and even if we are, did you think coming generations will accept this brazen exploitation? We have called for dialogue on these issues, but you call it treason.

The truth is that you have grossly mismanaged this opportunity. Your ruinous and destructive tradition has robbed on all Nigerians. Your intuition for aggression has become a national culture. Your disdain for debate and logical criticisms has been imbibed by Nigerians who continue to gravitate towards the custodians of political power, whose way of life must be imbibed for recognition.

You have ruined and destroyed this whole nation at your beckon due to your exclusive, narrow, primordial and savage instincts driven only by your self interest and your brutal and non-negotiable desire to conquer and subdue every nationality in Nigeria. This is a tall task which you are hell bent in executing.

THE INVASION OF YORUBALAND BY FULANI HERDSMEN

We like to caution you on your latest antics to renew your grand 1804 design to conquer the entire country, not through ideas but through the most savage tradition of killings and maiming.

This to us is at the bottom of the current Fulani kidnapping in Yorubaland. We wish to inform you that we are aware of your grand plan to renew a project done half way and put on mute mode since the defeat of your forces in 1840 by the Yoruba Army.

We are worried that you and your Fulani people have been suspiciously silent on the kidnapping of Yoruba people, the killing of our young professionals including the killing of the daughter of a prominent Yoruba leader.

We were not surprised that you and the other Fulani leaders did not consider it necessary to send condolence messages or even visit the family of the slain woman. This can only mean your tacit approval or at least, a philosophy of cold compromise.

Please be aware that in the past two years, records show that 689 Yoruba people have been kidnapped by your people, Fulani, about 400 reported cases of rape, including rape of toddlers. Out of this number of the kidnapped, 356 were women, and out of that number, 250 were married women.

In all, 112 people were killed by your Fulani people either for resisting kidnap or for failing to pay ransom. This may mean nothing to you, but to us, it means a lot.

We urge you to imagine a group of armed Yoruba cocoa farmers storming forests in Kano, Katsina and Sokoto, kidnapping Fulani people, raping their young girls and even killing the daughter of an Emir or a prominent Fulani leader? Can you also imagine the same heavily armed Yoruba cocoa farmers occupying your forests, stopping your people from farming and preventing your people from plying the highways in their ancestral homes?

To make the matter worse, imagine the armed Yoruba cocoa farmers carry out these terrible crimes under the banner of a Yoruba man as the Nigerian President. How will you feel?
As it is, your people, the Fulani are digging their hands down our throats. They are entering our bedrooms and sleeping with our mothers and wives. These actions are not only against Islam, they are against humanity.

These latest actions plus our experiences in the past have combined to renew the energy of millions of Yoruba people who want a country of their own. Either you like it or not, this will happen. God, before whom you and your big crown are like but a filthy rag, will make it happen.

We urge you to prepare your self to dialogue or if you chose the path of violence, there will be proportional response. Having Yoruba or Igbo Republics is something you do not wish to hear, but which is imminent and inevitable.

Please be aware that the Yoruba do not begrudge your values and the ways of your living, all we are saying is that we want to live our lives, design our political and cultural architecture, live and die on our own terms.

The forthcoming Yoruba Republic will be glad to accommodate righteous Fulani people who respect our civilisations and the laws of our fatherland.

We wish to use this opportunity to advice you and your people to be aware that you have no power to conquer Yoruba Nation. Your forebears tried and failed. Your military and political surrogates tried, marked with killings, maiming and destruction of our economy, yet they failed.

We ask you to instruct your people, the armed Fulani herdsmen to withdraw from Yoruba territories and on their own, mop up the cache of arms and ammunition stored in Yoruba territories.

Sir, the Yoruba people stand for peace and not war. We would prefer these issues to be resolved amicably without firing any gun shot. But, we wish to say that if your heart remains rebellious and your soul defiant, the Yoruba people are not afraid to confront you once again the way we did some 175 years ago, this time in the most ferocious manner you can ever imagine. It is necessary to let you know this even though we are aware that you will not change the conquest desires of your heart.

We wish you a happy Salah and Allah’s wisdom to know and do what is right.
Yours Sincerely,
Col Abimbola Sowumi (rtd)
Mallam Salau Ahmed Akorede
For Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA)
The Yoruba self determination group
.
Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by YorubaHero12: 11:41pm On Aug 09, 2019
highcollide:
The yorubas and igbos cannot work together for several reasons.

The igbos don't trust politicians unlike the yorubas who easily and blindly follow any politician.

Religion is also another factor. The yorubas might be comfortable with Islam but we've seen so much about Islam to not even want anything to do with Islam.

The pain the igbo nation have passed through were mostly caused by people with affiliation with Islam....

Trust is another factor.

This is not true, the Igbos trusted PDP throughout the 16years rule, you guys only started hating on the Fulani the moment Buhari was voted in 2015. That’s a fact.

Religion is not the problem here, the people are the problem. In all sincerity, have you even seen a Yoruba man kill on the basis of Islam? The earlier you guys start separating religion from ethnicity the better.

The fulanis are some kind of vengeful, savages, and have no regard for human lives. These attributes has nothing to do with Islam, it’s mainly a mirror of their culture.

Yorubas are Muslim first even before the fulani, Islam got here through the mali people and Dan Fodio came after several years to propagate the religion in Nigeria.

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by Ojiofor: 11:41pm On Aug 09, 2019
When will Aboki wake up and kick their Fulani master's ass?
Abi their own slavery no get end?

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by Mbeki: 11:54pm On Aug 09, 2019
If this was on a letterhead paper, I will believe it. It was a Genuine write up that was not sent anywhere or to anyone

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by Stingman: 12:03am On Aug 10, 2019
We urge you to imagine a group of armed Yoruba cocoa farmers storming forests in Kano, Katsina and Sokoto, kidnapping Fulani people, raping their young girls and even killing the daughter of an Emir or a prominent Fulani leader? Can you also imagine the same heavily armed Yoruba cocoa farmers occupying your forests, stopping your people from farming and preventing your people from plying the highways in their ancestral homes?

This touches the heart.

The Sultan and the northerners will NEVER allow that to happen. Without warning they will start reprisal attack on anything southern...

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Re: Oodua Groups Write Sultan Of Sokoto by OgboAto: 12:07am On Aug 10, 2019
Abimbola Sowumi (rtd)
Mallam Salau Ahmed Akorede

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