selemempe:
I blame the middle belt for not cutting the core north to size when you had the chance during Gowon regime

Gowon was not a middlebelter by heart. He was born and bred in Zaria (Hausa land). His family are intermarried with Hausa fulanis. This was why he was a strong 'pan-northerner'.
He was the best Pawn the core-north could use in their game to deceive the middlebelters.

The likes of Dimka and Orkar who at different times wanted to overthrow a pro arewa government were the ones you could truly say were middlebelters by heart!

Kollyman:


Anytime you hear about high level of poverty in the north, trust me they are majorly Hausas whom the Fulanis have kept in perpetual poverty so that they wouldn't rise up one day to reclaim their birth right. Most Hausas are slaves in their own land as they have been keenly robbed but covered and decorated with religion so that they wouldn't see vividly.

Whenever I come across the Hausa people, I often pitty them as Xenophobia in SA is far better than what they are going through. Hausas have been captured, caged and sent to the bottomless pit. Their hope of regaining their freedom is very slim. Their captors kept selecting some greedy few among them and rob their lips with the oil from the delicious jollof rice which they only perceive the aroma but are not allowed to taste....


Let's forget about religious brainwashing, most Hausas are nice and friendly.

Now that there are a lot of Hausas in the south, maybe they will get civilised and one day do the needful.

As for the Ilorin matter, advocacy had started, those ones have woken up from their religious slumbering and they want to collect their cake from their master.

Exactly. Another way fulanis use in keeping Hausas and other islamized northern minorities in perpetual bondage is through intermarriage.

They intermarry into the elite Hausa class, thereby making every enlightened, rich and educated Hausa man a mix of fulani blood. As a hausa man or woman, you can never think of hurting the fulanis when your wife, mother, daughter in law, husband, mother in law or cousins are fulanis. They then become one inseperable people in islam.
This only happens among the rich and middleclass who have the voice in the society. However, among the illiterates Hausas & fulanis are very seperate and unmixed.

This is exactly the same thing fulanis are doing in Ilorin. Almost every educated and wealthy Ilorin family is of mixed fulani heritage.