MinorityOpinion:
He's a mixed Fulani

FortuneDeGreat:
His father was purely a Gere man, not mixed, his mother's father was a Gere man while the mother was Fulani, how come would he then be referred to as a Fulani?

FortuneDeGreat:
His father was purely a Gere man, not mixed, his mother's father was a Gere man while the mother was Fulani, how come would he then be referred to as a Fulani?

MinorityOpinion:


Mixed Fulani as in Gere/Fulani

Corporate2020:


Success has many children while failure is an orphan. If you ask me where I am from, I will tell you that I am from Awolowo's state. But, I am an Egba man while Awolowo is an Ijebu man. Egba and Ijebu have no ancestral relationship. As a matter of fact, Ijebus are from Sudan and are not Oduduwa's children. But because Awolowo was a great man, I will associate with him. Tafawa Balewa was not a Fulani man. If you call him a Northerner, you are right, but he is definitely not a Fulani man.

FortuneDeGreat:
Going by the claims of the leader of miyetti Allah, Bello Abdulahi Bodejo in an interview with the sun newspaper few days ago that the Fulani produced the first and only prime minister of Nigeria which we all know to be Alh. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the first thing that actually struck my mind is "was ATB actually a Fulani by ethnicity?"

It prompted me into going for a detailed information about the ethnicity of the great man, after a careful study on that I was convinced that the Fulani are either laying claims on other component groups in their region or has fully succeeded in effecting a total assimilative principle thereby infusing in it's entirety the whole culture, religion and tradition of the Fulanis in others.

Going by record, Rt Hon. Sir Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was born in December 1912 in the present day Tafawa Balewa LGA in southern Bauchi state to the family of Yakubu Dan Zala of the minority Gere ethnic group.

Furthermore, I discovered that just few original Fulanis have ruled Nigeria and they are- Shehu Shagari, Umar Musa Yar-Adua and Mohammadu Buhari, others are either of Hausa or minority folk.

For more clarification, I would like fellow nairalanders to lend their views and contributions to this.

Mynd44
OAM4J

godofuck231:
he was Chadian, his father moved from Chad and settled in nigeria,
"Tafawa Balewa village takes its name from two corrupted Fulani
words: "Tafari" (rock) and Baleri (black)."
The area has been known for sectarian and ethnic violence over
the years. The major ethnic groups are the Sayawa and
Hausa/Fulani.
An Associated Press story states, "The
Sayawas are in the majority in the town and its surrounding
villages, but their traditional rulers have been of the predominantly
Muslim Fulani ethnic group. The Sayawas have demanded a
separate traditional ruler, which has led to attacks and
counterattacks over the past two decades."
his father was a settler

Mightymanna:
Sophisticated Southerners
Every northerner they see they will call him Hausa/Fulani

MinorityOpinion:


Mixed Fulani as in Gere/Fulani

Mightymanna:
Sophisticated Southerners
Every northerner they see they will call him Hausa/Fulani

drinkwaternow:
No hausa has ever ruled Nigeria

FortuneDeGreat:
I thought Murtala Mohammed was an Hausa man.

timekeeper1:


Wayray... Ijebu from Sudan abi from Mauritius

Corporate2020:



https://www.nairaland.com/3378902/yorubas-ijebu-descendents-north-sudans

timekeeper1:


N u bliv that... Does their language resembles any of the Sudanese

godofuck231:
he was Chadian, his father moved from Chad and settled in nigeria,
"Tafawa Balewa village takes its name from two corrupted Fulani
words: "Tafari" (rock) and Baleri (black)."
The area has been known for sectarian and ethnic violence over
the years. The major ethnic groups are the Sayawa and
Hausa/Fulani.
An Associated Press story states, "The
Sayawas are in the majority in the town and its surrounding
villages, but their traditional rulers have been of the predominantly
Muslim Fulani ethnic group. The Sayawas have demanded a
separate traditional ruler, which has led to attacks and
counterattacks over the past two decades."
his father was a settler

FortuneDeGreat:
No, not mixed, the father was a Gere man as well as the mother, but the mother Fatima Inna's mother was a Fulani.
Where's the mixture?

Corporate2020:


Everyone is from somewhere. You, I and everyone.

https://www.nairaland.com/3378902/yorubas-ijebu-descendents-north-sudans

FortuneDeGreat:
I thought Murtala Mohammed was an Hausa man.

drinkwaternow:
. he is fulani not hausa

Corporate2020:


Success has many children while failure is an orphan. If you ask me where I am from, I will tell you that I am from Awolowo's state. But, I am an Egba man while Awolowo is an Ijebu man. Egba and Ijebu have no ancestral relationship. As a matter of fact, Ijebus are from Sudan and are not Oduduwa's children. But because Awolowo was a great man, I will associate with him. Tafawa Balewa was not a Fulani man. If you call him a Northerner, you are right, but he is definitely not a Fulani man.