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Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by Kingcee1512: 6:36pm On Nov 22, 2020
Well, you are right ���
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by Nobody: 6:37pm On Nov 22, 2020
mmsen:
Tax the churches/mosques and see the state coffers overflow.
Churches are non profit organizations, so how can you tax them?
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by tegrianonigltd(m): 6:38pm On Nov 22, 2020
Simplyleo:
Good advice.

I also suggest Buhari should appoint athifku as the chairman of the presidential committee for this job.

Compulsorily he should then lead by example by first taxing himself. Or is he a poor man?

He can’t tax himself young boy
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by WrittyWritter(f): 6:39pm On Nov 22, 2020
Dis one shaa wants to be on our good side..because of 2023..but we are tired of recycled politicians..d one dat u embezzled never do u ni

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Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by eejo(m): 6:45pm On Nov 22, 2020
This is how develop countries works. If Nigeria Tax is structure that way many poor people in the society will be on benefits and free Healthcare. UK, USA and many others develop countries works that way.
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by Nobody: 6:47pm On Nov 22, 2020
VEXT:

Cow
son of human goat ZOMBIE BEHAVIOR WITHIN YOUR TERRITORY
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by God1stson(m): 6:48pm On Nov 22, 2020
thebosstrevor1:
This does not make sense.

This same man calling to tax the super rich also have hiden offshore accounts outside Nigeria.

The same man use loopholes in the tax laws to pay very little tax.

So i don't understand what he is talking about

Use the message forget the messenger. Is there no sense in his proposal? Don't let prejudice becloud ur sense of reasoning.
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by mmsen: 6:53pm On Nov 22, 2020
onyechez:

Churches are non profit organizations, so how can you tax them?

Non-profit but these pastors are buying jets.
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by King44(m): 6:55pm On Nov 22, 2020
Even if the gvt tax them times 50 what impact does it has on the live of the common man on the street when we all know that it would be looted and looted again besides, the super rich people you are taxing would get the tax the gvt collected from us because they are in control of services and goods more hardship and inflation, so dead on arrival.

A useless policy

I am aiming to be super rich one day, I won't like to take a fall for what I did not cause, plain truth.
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by chloride6: 6:57pm On Nov 22, 2020
This is actually a crappy economic recovery plan..
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by tnerro1(m): 6:57pm On Nov 22, 2020
Ok na, let’s charge him 90% tax first let’s see if he will complain, bye the way, wetin rich people like me do una self? grin
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by capitalzero: 7:00pm On Nov 22, 2020
He gave the advice because he know FG would not do that .
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by mankan2k7(m): 7:02pm On Nov 22, 2020
The Buhari I know will rather tax the poor to save d rich
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by pacespot(m): 7:05pm On Nov 22, 2020
I will rather say tax the luxury goods instead of the owners
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by Nobody: 7:06pm On Nov 22, 2020
mmsen:


Non-profit but these pastors are buying jets.
That's not the law binding such organization.
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by Lexicon123: 7:07pm On Nov 22, 2020
thebosstrevor1:
This does not make sense.

This same man calling to tax the super rich also have hiden offshore accounts outside Nigeria.

The same man use loopholes in the tax laws to pay very little tax.

So i don't understand what he is talking about
Well, he is basically saying "tax me too. I and others like me can pay more to get us through the quagmire".
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by Okuda(m): 7:10pm On Nov 22, 2020
Atikuw would you do this if you were president? i highly doubt that. you are super rich.
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by Okuda(m): 7:12pm On Nov 22, 2020
thebosstrevor1:
This does not make sense.

This same man calling to tax the super rich also have hiden offshore accounts outside Nigeria.

The same man use loopholes in the tax laws to pay very little tax.

So i don't understand what he is talking about

do you think you are in america talking about donald trump? what loopholes has atiku used to pay lower taxes? if you dont have evidence about wht you are saying just stfu!
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by NoFucksToGive: 7:12pm On Nov 22, 2020
Asifiwe:
Blood ,Fire, and water ,


This is the the final destination of Nigeria. Those who are still hopeful that the country called Nigeria will somehow find a way out of this nebulous misery without a Bloody Revolution are in denial of the truth. Nigeria is the playground of the most wicked criminals in Politics, the home of the most cruel men in Power and the comfort zone of pathological liars.

Nigeria is founded on Lies and sustained by lies, For those who are hoping that the doom of the country will somehow be averted by routines of Elections and a change of Power either from the East, West of North. I have one word for you, Keep fooling yourselves. It will not happen.

No change of government can prevent the impending doom, Nigeria is seating on a keg of gun powder. It is a time bomb that will explode without warning. Expect the worse. Some may ask, why did i make this hard statement about the country? It is because of a better understanding. We have paddled this boat for over 50 Years and can state without mincing word, that the country's doom is hinging close

When you have a country with wicked men like Buhari, the current impostor who somehow wriggled himself into our existence after his failure in the 80s,

A coup plotter who ousted a “democratically” selected Sheu Shagari and wasted opportunity by his selfish ambition for power, A fanatic, a nepotist and man lacking in intelligence whose only interest in power is to through his clinging to power waste the ambition of Young people while using proxy to rule. With a man such as this, do not expect so much

A country where Babangida a corrupt element who wickedly began the downward trend of the country when he institutionalized corruption, a man who embodies everything evil in the opportunity he had to drive the ship of state, I need not tell you how this criminal who is too afraid to step outside of the country for his wickedness ruined the destiny of many citizens and hid both himself and the resources of the country in Minna, his only stop outseide of Nigeria since stepping out of power is Germany because he knows that there are dossiers of his crime for which justice sleeps endlessly in Nigeria.

A country where crooks the like of Obasanjo, a Liar, a scammer and s double tongued failure who wasted eight years and sought to become the Mugabe with his third term agenda for which bribes was flying around the National assembly in a Ghana must go bags just for this selfish, power drunk criminal of Abeokuta to entrench himself , to imagine that the same Obasanjo is now being regarded through a fraudulent media which they created as a Nationalist by ignorant men is a course to believe that the doomsday is just being delayed, Obasanjo who in revenge of the failure to have a third term ambition, imposed a sick Man on the country so that the failure of the Late Yar adua will make all consider him as a better man, Men who aught to be in Jail if there was justice in the Land keep a constant presence on our conscience. The list of these failure are many, From Goodluck Jonathan under whose nose criminals became relevant, some taking solace away in foreign climes and others being jailed by the criminal in Power to Abdusalami Abubakar, the man who looted the loots after the death of a despot,

The List of these criminals are many, criminals who we call leaders who pocketed the Police and pay them Poverty wage to prevent the rage of the masses, Criminals who uses the Army to fight the citizens, these are the criminals we call leaders


Those who did not understand the history of Nigeria will confuse these criminals as Leaders, Nigeria in her 60 Years of existence has not produced a Leader, we have been very unfortunate to have profligates as Leaders, men without conscience, who sees the country as a Project site, where they loot the treasury and leave the masses worse than they met them.
The resources of the country is enough to feed the whole country, the Oil in Niger Delta, the income and revenue of the government in Tax, the proceed of Aviation, the revenue from Maritime, the huge investment from the Telecoms company, name it, the monies being generated in the country is enough to feed Nigeria, It is enough to create Business and employment fro the citizens, Nigeria is one of the richest countries in the world with Criminals overseeing the resources.
We have no reason whatsoever to Borrow money from any foreign countries, there is not reason to be indebted to China, or the Paris club.

The one reason we are constantly thrown into Debts is because we allowed myopic and incompetent buffoons to seat over the resources of the state.
The clueless criminals both past and present, Killed every infrastructure, maintained Nothing, and created no Jobs for citizens, all the industries of Government was destroyed by bad managers and no one is sentenced to Jail for stealing the resources belonging to all the citizens, the criminals licensed thievery because they themselves are thieves. They broke every Law and used their position to syphone the resources of the country into privates vaults. They had the Police to protect them, they made bribery an accepted norm.

These criminals ruined the lives of the Youths, they made no provision for the growing Youth of the country, Nigerian Youths have the most brilliant and the most talented people across the continent of Africa, who needed little motivation to tap into the wealth of natural endowment deposited in them, But these criminals we called Leader, weaponized Poverty, created a system where parents cannot fend for themselves of compelled to struggle unaided by the government and demoralized the Younger generation. In recent times, It was so shocking to hear of Young people committing suicide, because they got to their extremities and saw no hope in the social condition imposed on them by the criminals we called Leaders


There are lots of untapped skills in the growing population of Nigeria, who hoped on the society to harness their innate gifts but was left unattended, Young people gets out of school disappointed by the society they call home and have had to look to foreign climes where they are subjected to all forms of abuse and disgrace for survival. This is only because wicked criminals made the country's resources their inheritance and seats in power without a clue. Several young people for the failure of these dinosaurs who recycled themselves into power promising a haven of relief which they all disallowed by their tyranny against the masses, through the Police and the army. These wicked Criminals postponed the evil day which is imminent
They witnessed a taste of it in the October #ENDSARS agitation, which they quelled by the guns and are struggling to deny by lies


The Last time we were out in unanimity against a wicked government was during the Brutal reign of the Evil Genus called Babangida and this was the collective protest organized without social media in all the the southern Universities of the Country, It was during one of this protest i propounded the


Theory of Blood, Fire, and Water.


The Blood representing a total Revolution that will see an end to the injustices by these wicked unrepentant dinosaurs, A revolution that will go after the known criminals who ruined us, irrespective of their tribe, religion and affiliations, a revolution that will be deadly, It will spill the Blood of these wicked monsters who prevented the development of the country, men who made us a shame of the whole wide world., men for whose clueless reign and failure one country can regard us as a shithole, we will go after their properties, the ones built from the proceed of corruption, the things by which they differentiate themselves from the other citizens, wicked men who prior to their part in politic are paupers but stole the country so blind and build mansions for themselves and all their generation yet unborn. It will be worse for these men and their offspring who we know. Their Police should be ready, they will soon realize that the Power of the masses is more than the few men hired to protect oppressors.


During the #ENDSARS movement, we saw Police begging for their lives, some took to their heels when the people said enough is enough, This is what happen when the oppressor pushes the masses to their extremities as has been done by the profligates we called Leaders. Some of them are getting old and dying but they should be aware that all the proceed of corruption which they erected for their bastard children will become monument for the museum when the masses take over their loots.


This is a notice to all those who ruined the country from Gowon to the current criminal who is currently looting the country and annexing the North to Niger and is taking a unilateral decision as a dictator that he is to sign a pact with Niger to export crude oil from Nigeria and export the bi-product back to Nigeria, an embarrassing disgrace into which they have consistently wickedly thrown the country into. If this is the Buhari that we knew in 1983 and not the one from Chad or Sudan, we will make him pay for this unilateral foolishness and all the proceeds and resources stolen to build an empire for themselves will be retrieved in a bloody revolution soon to come.

Then Fire, the fire will be the rage of the masses for and the resolve to take back what has been stolen by these failures, it will be the retribution for the wicked, they will be unable to escape as this will be the day of reckoning and the rage of the masses. For those of them who think we are a docile people and have continually ruined the country and gifted themselves all the land and properties from the failure into which the plunged us into by plundering, They will have a time to mourn and regret if they are alive to tell the story. It will happen. Even it it does not happen in my day, It will sure happen and the oppressors should reflect on what their starched ill gotten wealth will become whether dead or alive, all the monies thy looted in bringing Telecommunication, all the Bribe collected by the likes of Dina Melaye who should be stoned like many of the criminals in the useless senate and all their arrogance by which they insulted us, they will loose it when the fire rage across this country

It then we can have water, the cleansing that will begin the rebirth of a nation, if we do not go our separate ways which is likely to happen after the revolution.
This will be the destination of the lie we called a country
an this is a memo to the oppressor and all their military and Police who revel in corruption and are silenced by the misery money they called salary by which they turned on the masses

Stupendously brilliant

Permission to share on all my social media channels?

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Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by BigBizzy(m): 7:18pm On Nov 22, 2020
Buhari wey no dey hear word?
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by mmsen: 7:26pm On Nov 22, 2020
onyechez:

That's not the law binding such organization.

Those organizations aren't bound by any law besides how to fleece the gullible.

And if it isn't the law now, laws can always change.
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by Nobody: 7:28pm On Nov 22, 2020
mmsen:


Those organizations aren't bound by any law besides how to fleece the gullible.

And if it isn't the law now, laws can always change.
OK. shocked
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by maestro299: 7:49pm On Nov 22, 2020
Asifiwe:
Blood ,Fire, and water ,


This is the the final destination of Nigeria. Those who are still hopeful that the country called Nigeria will somehow find a way out of this nebulous misery without a Bloody Revolution are in denial of the truth. Nigeria is the playground of the most wicked criminals in Politics, the home of the most cruel men in Power and the comfort zone of pathological liars.

Nigeria is founded on Lies and sustained by lies, For those who are hoping that the doom of the country will somehow be averted by routines of Elections and a change of Power either from the East, West of North. I have one word for you, Keep fooling yourselves. It will not happen.

No change of government can prevent the impending doom, Nigeria is seating on a keg of gun powder. It is a time bomb that will explode without warning. Expect the worse. Some may ask, why did i make this hard statement about the country? It is because of a better understanding. We have paddled this boat for over 50 Years and can state without mincing word, that the country's doom is hinging close

When you have a country with wicked men like Buhari, the current impostor who somehow wriggled himself into our existence after his failure in the 80s,

A coup plotter who ousted a “democratically” selected Sheu Shagari and wasted opportunity by his selfish ambition for power, A fanatic, a nepotist and man lacking in intelligence whose only interest in power is to through his clinging to power waste the ambition of Young people while using proxy to rule. With a man such as this, do not expect so much

A country where Babangida a corrupt element who wickedly began the downward trend of the country when he institutionalized corruption, a man who embodies everything evil in the opportunity he had to drive the ship of state, I need not tell you how this criminal who is too afraid to step outside of the country for his wickedness ruined the destiny of many citizens and hid both himself and the resources of the country in Minna, his only stop outseide of Nigeria since stepping out of power is Germany because he knows that there are dossiers of his crime for which justice sleeps endlessly in Nigeria.

A country where crooks the like of Obasanjo, a Liar, a scammer and s double tongued failure who wasted eight years and sought to become the Mugabe with his third term agenda for which bribes was flying around the National assembly in a Ghana must go bags just for this selfish, power drunk criminal of Abeokuta to entrench himself , to imagine that the same Obasanjo is now being regarded through a fraudulent media which they created as a Nationalist by ignorant men is a course to believe that the doomsday is just being delayed, Obasanjo who in revenge of the failure to have a third term ambition, imposed a sick Man on the country so that the failure of the Late Yar adua will make all consider him as a better man, Men who aught to be in Jail if there was justice in the Land keep a constant presence on our conscience. The list of these failure are many, From Goodluck Jonathan under whose nose criminals became relevant, some taking solace away in foreign climes and others being jailed by the criminal in Power to Abdusalami Abubakar, the man who looted the loots after the death of a despot,

The List of these criminals are many, criminals who we call leaders who pocketed the Police and pay them Poverty wage to prevent the rage of the masses, Criminals who uses the Army to fight the citizens, these are the criminals we call leaders


Those who did not understand the history of Nigeria will confuse these criminals as Leaders, Nigeria in her 60 Years of existence has not produced a Leader, we have been very unfortunate to have profligates as Leaders, men without conscience, who sees the country as a Project site, where they loot the treasury and leave the masses worse than they met them.
The resources of the country is enough to feed the whole country, the Oil in Niger Delta, the income and revenue of the government in Tax, the proceed of Aviation, the revenue from Maritime, the huge investment from the Telecoms company, name it, the monies being generated in the country is enough to feed Nigeria, It is enough to create Business and employment fro the citizens, Nigeria is one of the richest countries in the world with Criminals overseeing the resources.
We have no reason whatsoever to Borrow money from any foreign countries, there is not reason to be indebted to China, or the Paris club.

The one reason we are constantly thrown into Debts is because we allowed myopic and incompetent buffoons to seat over the resources of the state.
The clueless criminals both past and present, Killed every infrastructure, maintained Nothing, and created no Jobs for citizens, all the industries of Government was destroyed by bad managers and no one is sentenced to Jail for stealing the resources belonging to all the citizens, the criminals licensed thievery because they themselves are thieves. They broke every Law and used their position to syphone the resources of the country into privates vaults. They had the Police to protect them, they made bribery an accepted norm.

These criminals ruined the lives of the Youths, they made no provision for the growing Youth of the country, Nigerian Youths have the most brilliant and the most talented people across the continent of Africa, who needed little motivation to tap into the wealth of natural endowment deposited in them, But these criminals we called Leader, weaponized Poverty, created a system where parents cannot fend for themselves of compelled to struggle unaided by the government and demoralized the Younger generation. In recent times, It was so shocking to hear of Young people committing suicide, because they got to their extremities and saw no hope in the social condition imposed on them by the criminals we called Leaders


There are lots of untapped skills in the growing population of Nigeria, who hoped on the society to harness their innate gifts but was left unattended, Young people gets out of school disappointed by the society they call home and have had to look to foreign climes where they are subjected to all forms of abuse and disgrace for survival. This is only because wicked criminals made the country's resources their inheritance and seats in power without a clue. Several young people for the failure of these dinosaurs who recycled themselves into power promising a haven of relief which they all disallowed by their tyranny against the masses, through the Police and the army. These wicked Criminals postponed the evil day which is imminent
They witnessed a taste of it in the October #ENDSARS agitation, which they quelled by the guns and are struggling to deny by lies


The Last time we were out in unanimity against a wicked government was during the Brutal reign of the Evil Genus called Babangida and this was the collective protest organized without social media in all the the southern Universities of the Country, It was during one of this protest i propounded the


Theory of Blood, Fire, and Water.


The Blood representing a total Revolution that will see an end to the injustices by these wicked unrepentant dinosaurs, A revolution that will go after the known criminals who ruined us, irrespective of their tribe, religion and affiliations, a revolution that will be deadly, It will spill the Blood of these wicked monsters who prevented the development of the country, men who made us a shame of the whole wide world., men for whose clueless reign and failure one country can regard us as a shithole, we will go after their properties, the ones built from the proceed of corruption, the things by which they differentiate themselves from the other citizens, wicked men who prior to their part in politic are paupers but stole the country so blind and build mansions for themselves and all their generation yet unborn. It will be worse for these men and their offspring who we know. Their Police should be ready, they will soon realize that the Power of the masses is more than the few men hired to protect oppressors.


During the #ENDSARS movement, we saw Police begging for their lives, some took to their heels when the people said enough is enough, This is what happen when the oppressor pushes the masses to their extremities as has been done by the profligates we called Leaders. Some of them are getting old and dying but they should be aware that all the proceed of corruption which they erected for their bastard children will become monument for the museum when the masses take over their loots.


This is a notice to all those who ruined the country from Gowon to the current criminal who is currently looting the country and annexing the North to Niger and is taking a unilateral decision as a dictator that he is to sign a pact with Niger to export crude oil from Nigeria and export the bi-product back to Nigeria, an embarrassing disgrace into which they have consistently wickedly thrown the country into. If this is the Buhari that we knew in 1983 and not the one from Chad or Sudan, we will make him pay for this unilateral foolishness and all the proceeds and resources stolen to build an empire for themselves will be retrieved in a bloody revolution soon to come.

Then Fire, the fire will be the rage of the masses for and the resolve to take back what has been stolen by these failures, it will be the retribution for the wicked, they will be unable to escape as this will be the day of reckoning and the rage of the masses. For those of them who think we are a docile people and have continually ruined the country and gifted themselves all the land and properties from the failure into which the plunged us into by plundering, They will have a time to mourn and regret if they are alive to tell the story. It will happen. Even it it does not happen in my day, It will sure happen and the oppressors should reflect on what their starched ill gotten wealth will become whether dead or alive, all the monies thy looted in bringing Telecommunication, all the Bribe collected by the likes of Dina Melaye who should be stoned like many of the criminals in the useless senate and all their arrogance by which they insulted us, they will loose it when the fire rage across this country

It then we can have water, the cleansing that will begin the rebirth of a nation, if we do not go our separate ways which is likely to happen after the revolution.
This will be the destination of the lie we called a country
an this is a memo to the oppressor and all their military and Police who revel in corruption and are silenced by the misery money they called salary by which they turned on the masses
Lol. U dey vex ooo... See correct textbook grin. But for someone who predicts doom and gloom and yet still took time out to write all this, shows that there's still a lot of patriotism in you.
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by michoim(m): 8:09pm On Nov 22, 2020
Atiku's despicable hypocrisy about the economy, because of his 2023 ambition, is worrisome...
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by FarahAideed: 8:28pm On Nov 22, 2020
Total nonsense
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by Nobody: 8:48pm On Nov 22, 2020
we should keep deceiving ourselves, if we want to move ahead in Nigeria we should first remove that person impersonating Buhari, that is just the reality, that man doesn't know what he's suppose to do for crying out loud, cry cry
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by Rawhumper(m): 9:06pm On Nov 22, 2020
That's how it is done overseas but our coward President can never tread on the right path. Never!!








drinoayo:
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Sunday urged the Federal Government to increase taxes on the super-rich in order to raise government income as the county slides into recession, Igbere TV reports.

Atiku tweeted his idea of how Nigeria could survive recession after the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Saturday that the nation’s GDP contracted by 3.62 per cent in the third quarter of 2020, better than its 6.10 per cent contraction in the second quarter.

Atiku said the recession could have been avoided if the Buhari administration had listened to him and others.

He called on the government to first of all scrap the 2021 budget, saying it “is no longer tenable.”



https://twitter.com/atiku/status/1330407472536952833?s=19

On how to fund the stimulus package, Igbere TV reports that Atiku suggested that a luxury tax be placed on goods and services accessible only to the extremely wealthy individuals.



https://twitter.com/atiku/status/1330407474831175680?s=19

The former presidential candidate also proposed a one per cent poverty alleviation tax to be legislated by the National Assembly on the profits of every international oil company and airlines operating in Nigeria, which should also go towards the Poverty Eradication Fund.
Re: Tax Super Rich To Save The Poor — Atiku Tells President Buhari by chaloskyx: 9:22pm On Nov 22, 2020
The Making of an Empire

A couple of years back, I had some business concerns in some neighboring countries where I had to appear in person. After the business day, I would go about in the evenings to "feel" the locality and attempt to understand the people. In all the countries near Nigeria, something profound struck me...

The Hausa and Fulani communities in the countries were substantial.

Being of Nigeria with a fair understanding of the Hausa and Fulani peoples, and a working knowledge of the Hausa language, subconsciously, I gravitated more towards them. And I learnt a great lesson.

The Hausa and Fulani in Ghana, Togo, Benin Republic, Niger, and Nigeria do play the national politics of their official countries, but do not see themselves as from different countries in reality! What this means is that the artificial boundaries drawn up by the Europeans in 1896 are not recognized by them in their hearts; they only take advantage of those artificial boundaries to further their empire but do not actually respect them.

Shocking? Absolutely true!

With this philosophy in mind, the Hausa in Ghana would endear himself with that from Niger and treat him better than the Fanté from the Western Province or Ashanté from the Cape Coast! The Hausa or Fulani in Bauchi is more culturally attached to his kinsman from Niger and Togo far ahead of his attachment to the Igbo or Yoruba! The Hausa/Fulani kingdom in West Africa made up a huge percentage of the Western Sudan (the original name of the huge country) before it was carved up in 1896 by the voyeuristic Europeans! It was a calamity that ought not have been!

This was a most profound experience for me; I returned to Nigeria thoroughly sober and with more knowledge of why the Arewa part of Nigeria acts towards Nigeria as it does; the Arewa Nigeria sees the country as a resource tool for the greater Hausa/Fualni kingdom...the Caliphate!

In recent times, the non Arewa or non Caliphate Nigerians have been aghast at the investments flowing towards Niger Republic, the influx of Fualni from all over West Africa into Nigeria, the rail line from Maradi to Daura, the crude oil supply agreement from Niger Republic to Kaduna, the refinery construction on the border between Daura and Maradi, the refined products supply from Niger to Nigeria...

And the BORDERLESS existence between Niger and Nigeria, between Northern Benin and Nigeria, between Chad and Nigeria while the borders between Southern Cameroun and Southern Benin Republics are closed and guarded by lions! People have expressed surprise...people have actually been shocked. But the only persons shocked are Southern Nigerians! The Arewa Nigerians actually regard the surprise of Southern Nigerians as EXTREMELY NAIVE!

And I agree with them; Southern Nigerians are absolutely naive!

The investments and borderless existence of Northern Nigeria with their kinsmen in Niger, Chad, Northern Benin, Northern Cameroun, etc are seen as a boost for the greater Caliphate of the Fulani with their Hausa cousins. In Truth, it is not meant to undermine Nigeria as they see the artificial country as a tool to enhance the real country of their hearts. Unfortunately, Nigeria is inadvertently undermined!

It is important for us all to understand the underlying factors that make the Caliphate act like they do. A significant proportion of the Fulani elite especially those in government, do not have origins in Nigeria! Most of the governors are Fulani and most have their father's or grandfathers immigrate to Nigeria only a generation before they were born! Most of their national assembly members did immigrate to Nigeria too. We've had several Heads of States that were never Nigerians in the true sense! Even Mr. Buhari's father was NOT a Nigerian but his mother was Nigerian (Kanuri); Mr. Buhari's father was a poultry trader from Maradi in Niger Republic. He traded "ducks" between Maradi and Daura (he was called Mai-agwagwa...the Duck Trader) and fell in love with his wife with whom Mr. Buhari was sired! But the young Mohamadu grew up with his mother's people in Daura and became Nigerian! So our "dear" president is actually from Niger Republic by parentage but a Nigerian through his mother...or by birth. Just so we know the origins.

Almost all elite of Fulani origins in Nigeria have at least a family home in Niger Republic! There are folks that live in Niger Republic and work in Northern Nigeria. The bond between Niger Republic and the core North of Nigeria is stronger than the binding forces of natural magnets! For all intents and purposes, Niger Republic, Chad Republic, Northern Ghana, Northern Togo, northern Benin and Northern Cameroun are bound by culture, religion, philosophy and all have you to Northern Nigeria! This vast area would have been one giant official country that would compete with Saudi Arabia in influence and riches! The Europeans came along and destroyed that great Empire with their cunning! But that Empire is not done yet; they're rebuilding it with the epicenter in Northern Nigeria...

And the wealth of the South, under the sham arrangement of 1914, is being used now to accelerate the reemergence of a vast Empire of the Western Sudan, with the Fulani at the apex!

These are the facts that we don't dispute! We do not begrudge them their empire; we want Restructuring or Separation so that we could also build our little empire in peace! They do not want us to have an empire in any way whatsoever. Herein lay the angst!

The fight is really not about Nigeria; it is the emergence of empires in the neighborhood! And those that shall control the resources!

Nigeria is just a victim of the scramble for resources in this Empire Building Project of the Caliphate...and the dissonant response of the Ethnic Nationalities of Southern Nigeria!

Good morning, Friends...but #thinkAgain...the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria is the greatest tool regressing Nigeria and the constituent nations trapped within. The lack of understanding, and the absence of strategy among the Southern Nigerian nations is most devastating... and they suffer thereof for their inordinate lack of knowledge and inexplicable naivete!

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