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[quote author=Itoroetti ]one day d bush meat go catch the hunter.obama became the president not because he was the most qualified or they were nt more qualified "whites",but because they people were tired of a particular race always ruling them,hence the advent of obama.when it comes to lagos state,u'll get to hear sometime like,"we are lagosian,we dont vote religion,we vote personality".but the question is;why do the prefer handpicking a governorship candidate rather than normal nomination process?why does the handpicking evolves around one religion?if truly religion is nt always consider,why must d wives always be d opposite religion?[/quote].

thank you for your comments, why was Funsho williams eliminated, why Did Agbaje win the ACN primaries that they manipulated to favour Fashola

lovethokoh: i have been arguing lately with my friends about this topic, and i believed that the southerners are richer, until one of us came out with a vital data about the wealth of the Northerners.

1 The police pension DG is worth N23b Nigeria

2 Alhaji Abdulrashid Maina is worth N88b

3 IBB is worth over $2billion

4 Abacha is worth over $3Billion

5 Dangote is worth over $12b as the Richest African

4 Ishaiku Rabiu and sons are worth over $5b

6 Dantata is worth over $1b

The most critical of the data goes this way

7 the North has more LGA's infact Kano alone has 44 LGA's and so the North Receives more Allocation for development

8 The North Has more people in the federal civil service and so they earn more salaries

9 The North has more Men in Army,Navy,Airforce,Police, Immigration,customs and Other Federal parastatals due to quota system and so earn more salary.

10 They have more senators and House of Reps and therefore Get more constituency Money,Bribery etc

11 they have more politicians and so more money for them...

https://www.nairaland.com/1288174/saw-facebook-decided-share-it

Elrufai u r a shame to ur generation. Dis is enuf of u n ur cohorts. All u r interested is just making negative publications abt our fatherland simply cos u n ur cohorts r nt in power. Mind u, ur blood will also be spilled along ur genration to atone for d sins u hv committed. Ombatse Allah.

1.Vice President =North.
2. Senate President = North.
3. Speaker House of Reps = North.
4. PDP National Chairman= North.
5. Head of Service = North.

6. INEC Chairman = North.
7. Inspector General of Police = North.
8. CBN Governor = North.
9. Chief Justice of federation = North.
10. President Court of Appeal = North.

11. EFCC Chairman = North.
12. President Federal high court = North.
13. National Security Adviser = North.
14. Chief of Defense Staff = North.
15. Controller, Customs Service = North.

16. Controller Prison Services = North.
17. Richest man in Africa= North.
18. 85% of Petroleum Marketers in Nigeria = Northerners.
19. 80% of Oil Block Owners in Nigeria = Northerners.
20. 99% of beggars in Nigeria = Northerners

21. Boko Haram = North.
22. Almajiri = North.
23. Yet, the Poorest states in Nigeria and Educationally backward areas in Nigeria are in the North.
24.
8 former heads of state(TafawaBal ewa, Yakubu Gowon, Murtala Muhammed,
Shehu Shagari, Buhari, IBB, SaniAbacha, Abdulsalam Abubakar) = North.

Now ASK yourself why is there no improvement in the average lives of Nigerians in the Boko Haram zones?

The elites(elrufai, tanko yankassai, buhari, rahamaniya, bello, tukur, and host of others are becoming richer and the common man poorer,yet the
North(elrufai, buhari n few money n greed southerners asiwere bola ahmed n rotimi fasakin blame GEJ for their backwardness,yo u,be the judge...do we need any soother or fortune teller to see this
loot-sidedness? What else do they want from Nigeria? These born to rule believers held power for 3 gud decades n they can't account 4 anytin yet u sit there n join them in blaming GEJ. My fellow youths time has come for us all to readjust and face our fears. Let's serve God not religion, let's lead n nt politicise, let's liberate our ppl after all both d rich n poor will still occupy only a room six feet down.

TRUTHTELA: Elrufai u r a shame to ur generation. Dis is enuf of u n ur cohorts. All u r interested is just making negative publications abt our fatherland simply cos u n ur cohorts r nt in power. Mind u, ur blood will also be spilled along ur genration to atone for d sins u hv committed. Ombatse Allah.

1.Vice President =North.
2. Senate President = North.
3. Speaker House of Reps = North.
4. PDP National Chairman= North.
5. Head of Service = North.

6. INEC Chairman = North.
7. Inspector General of Police = North.
8. CBN Governor = North.
9. Chief Justice of federation = North.
10. President Court of Appeal = North.

11. EFCC Chairman = North.
12. President Federal high court = North.
13. National Security Adviser = North.
14. Chief of Defense Staff = North.
15. Controller, Customs Service = North.

16. Controller Prison Services = North.
17. Richest man in Africa= North.
18. 85% of Petroleum Marketers in Nigeria = Northerners.
19. 80% of Oil Block Owners in Nigeria = Northerners.
20. 99% of beggars in Nigeria = Northerners

21. Boko Haram = North.
22. Almajiri = North.
23. Yet, the Poorest states in Nigeria and Educationally backward areas in Nigeria are in the North.
24.
8 former heads of state(TafawaBal ewa, Yakubu Gowon, Murtala Muhammed,
Shehu Shagari, Buhari, IBB, SaniAbacha, Abdulsalam Abubakar) = North.

Now ASK yourself why is there no improvement in the average lives of Nigerians in the Boko Haram zones?

The elites(elrufai, tanko yankassai, buhari, rahamaniya, bello, tukur, and host of others are becoming richer and the common man poorer,yet the
North(elrufai, buhari n few money n greed southerners asiwere bola ahmed n rotimi fasakin blame GEJ for their backwardness,yo u,be the judge...do we need any soother or fortune teller to see this
loot-sidedness? What else do they want from Nigeria? These born to rule believers held power for 3 gud decades n they can't account 4 anytin yet u sit there n join them in blaming GEJ. My fellow youths time has come for us all to readjust and face our fears. Let's serve God not religion, let's lead n nt politicise, let's liberate our ppl after all both d rich n poor will still occupy only a room six feet down.

https://www.nairaland.com/1199280/northerners-richer-than-all-other

i have been arguing lately with my friends about this topic, and i believed that the southerners are richer, until one of us came out with a vital data about the wealth of the Northerners.

1 The police pension DG is worth N23b Nigeria

2 Alhaji Abdulrashid Maina is worth N88b

3 IBB is worth over $2billion

4 Abacha is worth over $3Billion

5 Dangote is worth over $12b as the Richest African

4 Ishaiku Rabiu and sons are worth over $5b

6 Dantata is worth over $1b

The most critical of the data goes this way

7 the North has more LGA's infact Kano alone has 44 LGA's and so the North Receives more Allocation for development

8 The North Has more people in the federal civil service and so they earn more salaries

9 The North has more Men in Army,Navy,Airforce,Police, Immigration,customs and Other Federal parastatals due to quota system and so earn more salary.

10 They have more senators and House of Reps and therefore Get more constituency Money,Bribery etc

11 they have more politicians and so more money for them...

the moslems of Lagos state origin must continue to dominate in all aspects Insha Allah

check out the list

Fashola---Moslem

Tinubu----Moslem

Sabit Ikufuruji(speaker of hse of reps) is a moslem

90 % of the commissioners and poblic office holders are moslems

80% of the LGA chairmen are Moslems

90% of the Obas and traditional chiefs are Moslems

90% of the agberos and area boys are Moslems.

Insha Allah the next Governor after BRF is going to be a moslem because over 80% of the indigenes of Lagos state are moslems.

With this intimidating data it is obvious that an xtian will never emerge as governor

Uche2006: there are more christian than muslim in lagos. most yoruba are christain.. christain came before islam. it is just pocket of yorubas that are muslim. kwara has alot of muslim. apart from kwara. the rest state christain are the majority.. the reason why islam did not spreed was because yoruba use to worship idol. most ijebus are christain. most egba and egbado too. most people from osun state are christain too. same for ondo, ekiti and oyo state.. in oyo state it is mostly around ibadan that you find muslim.. the yorubas in edo state are christain.

i dont believe your data, they are not correct

bestads: Why is it that 90% of Obas in Lagos state are mostly moslems?,is it that the Lagos state indigenes who are xtians do not like such titles or they are fewer in number?.

No nasty comments please,we are using this as a research material in LASU.

we the moslems of Lagos state origin must continue to dominate in all aspects Insha Allah

check out the list

Fashola---Moslem

Tinubu----Moslem

Sabit Ikufuruji(speaker of hse of reps) is a moslem

90 % of the commissioners are moslems

80% of the LGA chairmen are Moslems

90% of the Obas and traditional chiefs are Moslems

90% of the agberos and area boys are Moslems.

Insha Allah the next Governor after BRF is going to be a moslem because over 80% of the indigenes of Lagos state are moslems.

Praise be to Allah

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Fashola Backs Hamzat To Succeed Him As Opposition Mounts
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, is following the footsteps of his predecessor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu by endorsing a member of his (Fashola’s) cabinet to succeed him.

Thegazellenews.com learnt exclusively that Fashola has put his weight behind the current Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure in the state, Dr Kadiri Obafemi Hamzat, to succeed him as the next governor of the state.

Just like Tinubu, Fashola was reported to have informed members of his kitchen cabinet of his decision.

His choice was reportedly borne out of the desire to have someone who understands the workings of the state to succeed him.

Hamzat was state Commissioner for Science and Technology for six years under Tinubu while he has been commissioner in the state since the advent of the Fashola administration.

He was in charge of Ministry of Science and Technology in Fashola’s first term and currently in charge of Works and Infrastructure ministry.

He is the third son of His Royal Majesty, Oba Mufutau Olatunji Hamzat, Olu of Afowowa but also the Lagos West Senatorial Disrict leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).

Some members of Fashola’s cabinet have started working for the Hamzat. One of them, according to report is the state Commissioner for Rural Development, Pastor Cornelius Ojelabi.. Ojelabi, a former member of the House of Representatives was also one time chairman of Ojo Local Government and Otto-Awori Local Council Development Area (LCDA).

However, there are difficulties in the way for Fashola’s annointed candidate. In the first instance, the national leader of the ACN, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reportedly insisted that all governorship aspirants on the platform of the party will be given level playing ground to prove themselves in an openly conducted primary.

And in this instance, Hamzat is not seen as being a match for politicians like Senate Minority Whip, Senator Ganiyu Olanrewaju Solomon; former state Commissioner for Environment, Dr Muiz Banire and probably Senator Gbenga Ashafa who are experienced in grassroots politicking and are adept at mobilising people.

Solomon in particular is well noted for his grassroots connection and his popularity cuts across all sections of the society spread across the nook and cranny of the state.

Hamzat may also not be helped by alleged zoning of the party’s governorship ticket to the Lagos East senatorial district as his political base is in Mushin in the Lagos West.

Politicians are also quick to point to the fact that the Hamzat family has been enjoying juicy political patronage since the advent of the present democracy in the state. The patriach of the family has been a one time national vice chairman of then Alliance for Democracy (AD).

Now he is the Lagos West leader. Obafemi himself has been a commissioner in the state for the past 13 years and by the end of the Fashola administration he would have spent 15 years as a commissioner in the state.

Added to this is the fact that his elder brother and the older Hamzat’s eldest child and first son, Ganiyu, has been in the House of Representatives since 2003 representing Mushin Federal Constituency 2 and not to be forgotten was the older Hamzat’s second son, Bosun, who died three years ago, was a senior special assistant to both Tinubu and Fashola.

Finally, the question is can Fashola commits the kind of resources and energy to Hamzat governorship project as Tinubu did for him in the 2007 election? Your guess is as good as mine.

Sources within the party have told thegazellenews that majority of party members may not be favourably disposed towards Fashola’s choice not because Hamzat is not capable and suitable but because they are desirous of a change in the method of choosing the party’s candidates particularly the governorship ticket.

“We are determine to ensrue a level playing ground for all aspirants and we want them to show their popularity with members of the party and thank God our leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has acknowledged this fact,” a prominent member of the party told our correspondent.

For now the die is cast as Lagosians await mother of all governorship battle in the ruling party in the state.

the moslems of Lagos state origin must continue to dominate in all aspects Insha Allah

check out the list

Fashola---Moslem

Tinubu----Moslem

Sabit Ikufuruji(speaker of hse of reps) is a moslem

90 % of the commissioners are moslems

80% of the LGA chairmen are Moslems

90% of the Obas and traditional chiefs are Moslems

90% of the agberos and area boys are Moslems.

Insha Allah the next Governor after BRF is going to be a moslem because over 80% of the indigenes of Lagos state are moslems.

Praise be to Allah

SAKUR: The man Harold Smith is not new in Nigerian history. He is one of the architects of the colonial foundation that led to Nigeria’s independence in 1960. I met him in a meeting three weeks ago where he opened up a bit on lingering problems in Africa, especially Nigeria’s unbalanced so-political relationship. We asked if he could make this known to the media. His response was “I am in my 80s now; I have agreed. In the past ‘they’ did not want me to say anything, but now I don’t want to go to my grave without telling the truth about the atrocities perpetrated in Africa by the colonialists.




On a Ben TV programme last Thursday, Harold Smith spoke about what went on behind the scene before independence. The Oxford University graduate had this to say about his role in Nigeria’s pre- and post-independence era. “Our agenda was to completely exploit Africa.

Nigeria was my duty post. When we assessed Nigeria, this was what we found in the southern region: strength, intelligence, a determination to succeed, well established history, complex but focused life styles, great hope and aspirations… the East is good in business and technology, the West is good in administration and commerce, law and medicine, but it was a pity we planned our agenda to give power “at all costs” to (one region), Our mission was accomplished by destroying the opposition on all fronts. The West led in the fight for independence, and was punished for asking for freedom”.

Harold Smith justified the British agenda of colonialism in Nigeria, which he believed was originally to help build Africa after the ruins of slave trade, but lamented that the British only looked after themselves and not Nigerian interest. “The British really let Nigeria down. When I see Nigerians being accused of fraud and from what I saw on the streets of Lagos, the British were the worst fraudsters”, he said.

He said the time has come now to see people of intelligent minds with an open and inclusive agenda for all Nigerians in power, people who will really look after Nigeria’s large population. However, he added: “I still curiously and sorrowfully see now that the British have not let go of Nigeria, her wealth, her future”.

He said that Caucasians now assert themselves as the keepers of the “New Age” keys, adding that it was “only logical for Europeans to maintain their position of power, scientific superiority, economic exploitation; they must continue to perpetuate their lies and falsehoods and this is the most unkind cut of all in relation to the Nigerian situation”.

According to him, Nigeria, a great nation was crippled not because of military juntas or corrupt leaders alone but by the British and American fear of Nigeria’s great future. He confessed, “The fear of the place that will be our ‘dumping ground’ really occupied our minds”. Some of the things he said were not new to Nigerians or to the whole world but hearing it from the horse’s mouth is quite revealing and established more reality zones. He submitted that the colonial masters did a lot of havoc while they were in Africa, and planted time bombs when they finally left. “What we have seen since independence is an administration of new internal colonial masters, fellow Nigerians doing more damage to Nigeria. Instead of detonating the time bombs planted by the British, it is planting mines”.

He added that “It was my duty to carry out all of the above and I was loyal to my country. Nigerians should try to be loyal to their country leaders and followers alike. Love your country. You have got the potentials to be great again and the whole world knows this. I’m sorry for the evil done to Nigeria. I can’t say sorry enough’. My people, this is a great “expo” what do you think

http://www.peoplesdaily-online.com/opinion/letters/4096-harold-smith-on-colonial-britains-hidden-agenda-in-nigeria

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bombay: FULANI ARISTOCRACY

by

Patrick Onigbo Olu

Ikeja – Lagos

In the North, the legacy of the Sokoto Caliphate and its Islamic traditions bore handsome fruits for the Fulani aristocracy as the great – grandsons and direct descendants of the conqueror of the Hausa, Nupe, and Ilorin – Yoruba state walked back into supreme and expanded power in Northern Nigeria.



As the minority ruling group was in full control in the Northern Region while in the Southern Region, there were fresh political ethnic majorities in power. Today, those who exercise national power do so from minority positions, Indeed, of the three groups that attained national power in the early politics of the decolonisation decade of the 1950s namely Yoruba, Igbo, and Fulani, the only group that still retain power at the national level is the Fulani aristocracy which was not a demographic majority in the first place.



Consequently on the above, reaches, some controversial conclusions.:

· It no longer makes goods academic sense to rate the Igbo as a majority power bloc in the past bellum era of Nigeria political history.

· Not could one say of the Yoruba that they constitute an effective power bloc despite producing the present Head of State.

· Inspite of the views in the South to the contrary, the majority Hausa have never been an independent power bloc in the north, as they have only exercised as much power as their Fulani overlords have allowed them.

· It is not far to rate many so-called minority ethnic groups as minor power-holders in modern Nigeria politics. In relative terms, many ethnic groups in the Benue – Plateau complex have itched towards greater control of national power than the Hausa majority (witness: Langtang Mafia).



Above all else, contends that the Fulani aristocrats, more than other ethnic power in Nigeria, have through strategic thinking and strategic planning (twin-virtues in power schemes that are absent in others), steadily insinuated (themselves) back into handsome amount of power-holding by strategically locating themselves into the major engine of power, exploiting the shallowness of their major rivals for power. In the post-colonial Nigeria, the Fulani Hegemony with the British were able to create and nurture political bankruptcy among the political elite.



After examining in insightful details, the long-hegemonies of Atlantic minorities over their majority neighbours, which chronicles the coming of the Fulani to the geographic space that later become Nigeria.



Given the desertification of the Sahara region, many of the populations that were indigenous to the Sahara fled to other areas, eastwards and southwards (West Africa). These nomadic Nubians, who are escaping from drought, then took over the agriculture – based civilization of the Kush in the upper Nile Valley.



In West Africa, the most famous of this nomadic group escaping the desicating Sahara that went on a conquering escapade is that of the Fulani. The political history of what historians label as the Western and Central Sudan, in the two centuries before the onset of European conquest and colonization, was dominated by the rise of Fulani hegemonies in a political revolution of an unusual character. Most probably resulting from their itinerant herding occupation that compelled them to rely on, and negotiate for, the trans human resources of diverse agricultural communities on whom they depend on seasonal basis, the Fulani were the first self-conscious ethnic group in West Africa, possessing vast networks of relationship among themselves and maintaining political ties with the rulers of the host communities.



Between the 18th and 19th centuries, the Fulani were transformed from pagans in a dramatic political revolution that had two main features. First, they virtually established an ethnic aristocracy, whereby they expected to and in several instances did actually occupy the highest political offices in any (country) in whose politics they participated. Second, through the instrumentality of Islam, to which they have become converts, and in cooperation with networks of fellow Fulani, they overthrew the rulers of several existing agriculture – based states, replacing them with theocratic Islamic regimes that they control.



The standard pious explanatory scheme that is offered by Dan Fadio scholars in legimising the Fulani Jihad which began in 1804. He places the power-matrix at the foundation of this Jihad and perhaps subsequent religious zealotry which admittedly, has served the hegemony well, even in present day Nigeria.



The overthrow of Habe (Hausa) rules in the long – established Hausa states in the Central Sudan. Although, it all started as a religious campaign in which Hausa generously used, the outcome was unmistakably to lead to the subjugation of the indigenous Hausa population to a theocratic and immigrant Fulani aristocracy. Despite the cracy for Nigeria historiography to engage in tarik – style eulogies of every pre-colonial, Africa conqueror, and therefore to see the Sokoto caliphate in glorious light, there is good evidence to suggest that its governance was clear retrogression from a Moroccan invasion of 1591 which had plunged the Western and Central Sudan into a power vacuum that the nomadic Fulani were then filling their conquests. In the North, there is few real Hausa in any position of authority.



The Sokoto Caliphate was significantly lacking in any conception of the responsibility of providing security in its region of operation, for its citizens and subjects. Instead, it created insecurity particularly by engaging in slavery and the slave trade, inflicting state-sponsored terrorism on several communities, especially on the so-called pagan districts of the Benue region and in Adamawa. Whatever the theological justification for the 1804 jihad and despite the apparent puritan motivations of Dan Fodio in stirring up this revolution its outcome was one in which an aristocratic ethnic minority terrorized a whole region with force of arms rather than by religious persuasion. The Hegemony sponsored inter-tribal wars and influenced religious violence.



Lord Frederick Lugard, described by historians as a Fulaniphite, posited the claims on the terror visited by the Fulani jihadists on their Hausa hosts. The population of the North – described some 60 years ago (in the 1850s) by a Historian Barth as the densest in all of Africa – had by 1900 dwindled to some 9 million owing to inter-tribal war, and above all, to the slave raids by the religious zeal which had promoted the Fulani jihad . In 1900 the Fulani Emirates formed a series of separate despotism marked by the worst forms of wholesale slave-raiding, spoliation of the peasant, inhuman cruelty and debased justices, Lugard who wrote that Fulani, established the firm framework of northern (Fulani) advantage over the south in the political arrangement of his amalgamated country. But this inhuman cruelty and debased justice, many have been sign-posts of an emergent hegemony which, his now grown in sophistication.



The Fulani aristocracy has grown in sophistication in the exercise of power since the British arrived on their territory of conquest some ninety year ago. Many of the political abuses in the Sokoto Caliphate before the arrival of the British can easily be to their status as power holders. But they have now been in power for almost two hundred years and their areas of influence is virtually now coterminous with modern Nigeria. Today, using tools historically attributed to elite managers of political power who emphasize convert rather than overt influences and who exercise power in a latent rather (than) manifest manner, the Fulani aristocracy has been able to subordinate governance in Nigeria (including military rule) to its authority, and the Sultan of Sokoto has by now acquired a quantum of power and influence that his forebears could not have dreamt of. What Head of State of Nigeria whether military or civilian – would dare to stay in office for the first six months without going to Sokoto to pay homage to the Sultan?



The Basis of Fulani Hegemony

The crux of the mater on the devices used by a minority ethnic group (the Fulani) to effectively stay in power and expand its influence to such an unprecedented level in post – colonial Nigeria.



Organizational Abilities:

An important source of power of the Fulani aristocracy is that common tool of every successful ruling minority that its rival lacks, is its organizational abilities. In the particular case of the Fulani aristocracy, it has so many of its ethnic stock involved in organizing for power in a coordinated manner, and with such continuity across time, that no other group in Nigeria can match.



Although, it has strong clan divisions, its various fractions share a common need to stay in power for their collective survival. But there is much more to Fulani success than his common denominator of ruling minorities. The scholar underscores three contrapuntal principal deployed by the Fulani aristocracy in organizing for power.



Islam vs Christianity

By right of conquest, the ruler of the Sokoto Caliphate was also its Islamic authority. The tradition continues in post-colonial Nigeria. As such, the ultimate responsibility for the welfare of the Islamic region in Nigeria rest in Sokoto. Since the leadership of Sokoto Islamic establishment, is pre-dominantly Fulani, the aristocracy’s self-interest naturally dictates the fortunes of Islam. Up to the present, the Fulani aristocracy has used every bit of its political power to promote the versial formal membership of the Organization of Islamic Conference (IOC) under Babaginda; Nigeria’s controversial formal membership of D-8, a group of developing Islamic countries under the Abacha regime; Ghadafi’s ‘invasion’ of Nigeria to open a mosque in Kano where he declared Nigeria an Islamic state, and so on.



Given this masterful use of which the hegemony has put, Christianity in the North has become, much more than a mere profession of faith: it is a political statement of freedom from Fulani control. Not unexpectedly, the Fulani aristocracy has fought the Christian North with all the political means at its disposal. The expansion of this confrontation to the whole of Nigeria, and the subordination of normal constitutional processes to the invidious distinction between Christianity and Islam, portends one of the greatest dangers to Nigeria’s survival. Fulani aristocracy has not refrained from using confrontation method to win its goal, even when they endanger the survival of Nigeria.



This explanation may throw light on the battles that attend the shift in power. The prize at the center has been won and is being closely-guarded by the Fulani aristocracy. It will then mean that if the prizes are broken – up and shared, the Fulani hegemony will collapse.



Northern Nigeria vs Southern Nigeria

The Fulani aristocracy has been most successful in pushing for common Northern institutions and in enhancing the Northern share of vital national sources. In doing so, it has orchestrated the difference between the North and South. For the Fulani aristocracy, the integrity of the North is a matter of its life or else its demise. There are two principal reasons why this is so: first, as now constituted, there is no state or local government area in Northern Nigeria in which the Fulani make up a majority. If emphasis were to switch from Northern Nigeria to the states, the minority Fulani would be politically endangered in any democratic process in which each community seeks its ethnic folk to represent it.



Second, it is only by acting as spokesman for the whole of the North, against the South, that the Fulani aristocracy can justify its existence.



Hausa Nationalism vs Fulani Interests:

Ultimately, the stability and tenure of the Fulani aristocracy rest on the quietude of Hausa nationalism. There is no subject in which it has invested more of its remarkable talents for ideological formulation than in persuading the Hausa that what is good for the Fulani is also good for them. Any act of separatist nationalism that encourage the Hausa to seek their own autonomy as a district ethnic group would be most threatening to the Fulani aristocracy. Whereas the Fulani aristocracy has shown good political sense by dealing with Christians from various parts of Nigeria, North and South, but it is most uncomfortable with the notion of a Christian Hausa apparently because it is subversive of good orderliness in the Fulani – Hausa hierarchy and has therefore behaved harshly towards Christian Hausa.



Military vs Democratic Rule

For the Fulani hegemony perhaps more than any other tool, military governments have been useful in ensuring the reign of the aristocracy. As a book written by late Mr. Ikoku: Inside Out reveals, Ibrahim Tahir, one of the leading torch-bears of the hegemony, told late Ikoku in detention about his regrets over Shagari’s trumpeted plan to give the South a “presidential chance” which led to the Buhari – Idiagbon coup, to protect the “sanctity” of Fulani rule.



Military rule, has shielded the Fulani from harassment from local vested interests. As in the history of the aristocracy in many other regions of the world, Fulani aristocracy would benefit from the subversion of democratic Nigeria. What followed the (1983) presidential election must be understood to be one of the most mysterious and troubling in modern Nigeria history. Shehu Shagari was “overthrow” in a military putsch headed by two army generals who were not only fellow Fulani but were well-know to be close to the president. Was it carried out as a pre-emptive measure to prevent others from overthrowing a government headed by a Fulani aristocrat, thus (signaling) possibility of a new power-holding ethnic bloc? (Although most southerners mistaken Idiagbon for Yoruba, he was thoroughbred Fulani from Ilorin).



The Fulani Strategic Resolve

(1) It now seems fairly clear, that the Fulani aristocracy has decided that the free-floating democracy is dangerous for its survival and has used considerable resources to disrupt democratic processes. eg impeachment saga meant to remove Obasanjo.



(2) As the only viable corporate power bloc in modern Nigeria politics, it has for now at least considered its disadvantageous to allow power-sharing arrangements among Nigeria’s political regions, and is apparently satisfied that it will continue to retain the top position of presidency or else control whoever takes up this position.



(3) Military rule has been particularly beneficial to the Fulani aristocracy, since under its regimes its members have occupied strategic positions on the economic and government, at will.



(4) The federal principle is all but dead, as the state are dictated to from the top, as military rule which appears preferable to the Fulani aristocracy for whom genuine state bases of federalism could prove troublesome.



Jan 2003

moderator please put this post on the front page

mekaboy: [b] Bross, you have made a good analysis, but i want you to understand this

1, pleasing Nigerians means Offending the North

2, Pleasing the North means offending Nigerians

EXPLANATION

as thing are in Nigerian now, it will be impossible for gej to please SS SE SW and please the North at the same time

ok lets assume the president wants to please Nigeria and he decides to solve the problems of each region.


SE what is your problem ?

We want all Federal roads fixed
we want our own sea port
all federal schools in good condition
security and electricity
provide loans and motivation to the business men and local manufacturers.
proper Health care
OK TAKE MONEY, GET ALL THESE DONE



SW what is your problem?

security
federal roads fixed
electricity
federal universities in good condition
provide loans and support private sector
proper Health care
OK TAKE MONEY SOLVE THE PROBLEMS


SS what is your problem?
proper Health care
Massive development of the region
good roads
a percentage of funds from oil in our land
amnesty program
employment for youths
electricity
security
roads
loans and empower private sector
we want our ports, airport etc


OK TAKE MONEY SOLVE THE PROBLEMS.



NORTH WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?

convert to Islam
dont touch the oil blocks we have shared among ourselves
grant our terrorist amnesty and pay them from oil wealth from Niger delta and other parts of Nigeria.
no schools
now health care
everybody in the north must convert to islam
no bars , clubs or alcohol
shut down all breweries


NOW YOU CAN SEE THAT IT WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR GEJ TO BE EFFECTIVE AND TRANSPARENT WITHOUT PROVOKING THE NORTH. SO IF THE NORTH IS WAITING FOR GEJ TO COME TO THEM FOR BLESSING, THEY WILL BE SHOCKED.

IF EVERY OTHER REGION REGISTERED UNDER AGED VOTERS LIKE THE NORTH DID, OR KILLED EVERY INEC OFFICIAL THAT REFUSES TO REGISTER THEM, DO YOU KNOW THE NUMBER OF VOTERS THAT WILL COME FROM OTHER REGIONS?

AND IF THE WORST SHOULD HAPPEN, THE NORTH WILL NEED NIGERIA MORE THAN NIGERIA WILL NEED THEM. IF EVERYBODY IS TO GO THEIR SEPARATE WAYS NOW, THE NORTH WILL SUFFER THE MOST.
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You have hit 95% of the nails on their heads

Ask yourselves if it is only Governors from the SS,SW and SE that were corrupt while in office and ask your self how many ex-govs from the North have been arrested or convicted from the North especially the Northern ex-govs that are moslems

this topic was first raised before this one https://www.nairaland.com/1287752/lagos-ever-christain-governor

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P.I.T prostitute in training

bizmahn: BEWARE!! SCAM ON THE PRAWL

everything is scam that is why u will remain poor

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It is not the time to hopping from one guy to the other,not the time to be buying the most expensive phones every month,not the time to be pinging away your life on bb,neither is it the to make facebook your photo album nor the to be videoing when you ate bleeping ur bf in campus after leading your church choir on sundays

coaj: I think this is a scam tho. What kind of company doesn't have an office with an address and also doesn't have a number u can call, Just some online form thru which they can decide to or not to reply you once they've got your cash?
Just be wise

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