Odingo1: You people are bloody cowards, Igbos are your problem why Fulani are installing Emirs in Yorubaland and occupying Yoruba forest.
Adeyinka Grandson has made far more videos against Hausa/Fulani than he has against Ibos. You Ibos enjoy positioning yourself as victims. The kind of actions he has called for on Hausa/Fulani, he has not demanded half of it on Ibo. Kanu called for worse on Yoruba than Grandson is calling on Ibo.
Grandson is calling for revenge on Ibo for killing a Yoruba unjustly. How is that wrong?
For one Adeyinka Grandson arrested in London there are thousands of him in Nigeria with same mindset. A honorable mindset and love for Yoruba nation if I should add!
MEILYN: It has come to my notice that many people are taking this Adeyinka Grandson seriously. This man is a well known troublemaker and liar.
I did a little research on him and I found out he has been doing this for a while now. This guy is doing all of this because, he wants to be noticed and he wants a political appointment in Nigeria.
In 2013, he wrote the below petition, which was signed by 10 people.
Stop mass migration from Igboland and other regions into Yorubaland pending when all ethnic nationalities in Nigeria agreed to Sovereign National Conference and True Federalism.
"In 1960, independent Nigeria's first constitution established a parliamentary democracy, with a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Executive power was vested in a Prime Minister, while a largely ceremonial governor general represented the British monarch as head of state. In 1963, the governor general was replaced with a president serving a similarly symbolic function, making the country a republic. Each of Nigeria's three constituent units—the Western, Eastern, and Northern regions—also had its own constitution, government and premier."
"In 1966, we abdicated responsibility, and consoled ourselves that some armed forces member somewhere would be taking care of it. Instead, it took less than five minutes for General Aguyi Ironsi, to empty the relevance of the three regions coat of arms of the federation of Nigeria by the suspension of the constitution and modification. A simple decree 5 put an end to an experience that was yielding a considerable result from regionalism into unitarism. A new dimension without any measure of certainty - the unknown was so paramount that since then Nigeria had been spoken of only in pessimistic terms. The sum of its misfortunes – its wars, its despotism, and its corruption – is truly daunting."
"That is just the point: we have all failed. These sorts of brakes on democratic process are a microcosm of the overreaching problem with our politics: the people have no real power. The former military regime, before they finally left in 1999 had centralized the state - the police, armed forces, judiciary, prison service, parliament, intelligence service, civil service, border control, educational institutions, and the status of kings all serving to maintain the power of a tiny number who are too hard pressed to look beyond the day’s headline. Our politics, like our economy, has been built on sand since 1966."
When he was confronted and insulted by fellow Nigerians, he replied;
"I dont really believe all of this I am just looking for a political appointment and be noticed...hence me coming on to facebook and trying to incite the crowd...I am mouse and a weak one..I just want a job this is why I do all of this...forgive me"
Please don't take him seriously. He isn't fighting for his people but for his ambitions. We can see what he did in 2013, I'm not sure he has changed.
Myself and many Omoluabis do take him serious. In fact we consider him a leadership material.
"But there's nobody to touch these people. Give me 10,000 Biafrans for six months, and we'll build an army that would be invincible on this continent. I've seen men die in this war who would have won the Victoria Cross in another context".
Shyyyyyytte!!! Modafvkr had over 3million of them at disposal. What did he do with them? He led them to their grave while he saved his own @$$ from bullet fire.
Bigseven: You have'nt seen anything yet until igbo muslem! Hmm. Chukwudi fatima, Abubakar Emeka, Nneka safiyanu, chubuzor Tasiu. So dat one wey u dey yan don teh. Outgoing minister of education is Adamu Adamu. So?
SheikhMuniru: The Same Applicable To Yoruba, eg. Taiye Taiwo, Akin Akin, Lamidi Lamidi, Sule Sule
Lailai! Yoruba get sense pass that level. It is difficult for our tongue to speak in one flat tone. So you will never get a true Yoruba with double name.
gidgiddy: It is very rare to see an Igbo man who uses double names. But when that happens, this usually because the surname is also commonly used as a first name
Stop commenting on threads when you are intoxicated.
Rekhina: Where are my from ?, You yorubas dont travel ,that you married an itshekiri who is a laisaz faire dosent mean u married nigerdelta ,fyi itshekiri marry more hausa than yoruba... By nextyr itshekiri will stop answering SS ,we dash ona abeg!
If you wan see better nigerdelta come to akwa ibom ,cross river ,ikwerre ,ahoada ,anioma ,parts of urhobo ,edo minus muslims ,part of isoko and lastly ijaw izon all this guys are planning to harm you dirty ... Not one itshekiri or edo fulani wey never bath!
Tank me for this secret chap chap
Good morning Dubai
We travel....we just dont travel to places less civilized.
Which one be "better niger delta"? Nothing persin no go hear.
Niger delta na ethnicity? Before it was Niger Delta it was called Niger Oil protectorate.....is that a tribe? But you say you travel!
Rhekina, how do you people in Dubai celebrate sallah. Post video.
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
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
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
tiredoflife: I thought praying by the grave side of the dead was one of the many sins if the Shiites which the Sunnis don't like How come the Sunni Fulani are doing same.
Im a muslim. One of the reasons i like Shiites is they refuse to accept Sokoto or dan fodio and his descendants as the beacon of Islamic practice.
One of the reasons i cant stand my fellow Muslim brothers is because Yoruba practiced Islam before fulani but we cant do anything unless Sokoto and dan fodio descendants says so.
prolog3111: So no records, just some other empty Yoruba words. Now you want to teach me my own tradition ? There is something wrong with you Yoruba. Just to make things clear. The Oba of Benin is 100% Edo. He owns the entire Benin Kingdom of which Edo state is a part. The Oba of Lagos is a vassal to the Oba of Benin and the Oba of Lagos owns Lagos. The only migrants are the Yoruba who by all available records migrated from Brazil (in which they were enslaved) and from Dahomey and from Oyo. This is being factual.
Ok, we hear you. Thanks for your history. We will tell Elegushi, Oniru, Onikoyi and Oluwa to return their crowns and lands to Eleko. Eleko owns the lands.
Traditionally sword was a mark of manhood and honor all over West Africa. Swords are considered heirloom in traditional Soudan lifestyle and are worn as mark of honor at important occassions where men gather to celebrate marriage or cultural festivities in honor of the land and ancestors.
Many of the ethnic groups in West Africa have abandoned sword for dagger.
Far more have stopped carrying any such symbol of family heritage and social status.
Fulani still do. They have not abandoned this ancient practice once common and observed all across West Africa.
prolog3111: Do you care to show these "records" ? To the best of my knowledge, the earliest record of the region ever made shows the Oba of Benin already ruling over an empire called Benin Kingdom whose capital is called Benin city.
Dude, threads abound in nairaland where we have proven this time over time and showed you records of it but you always turn around and ask for more records.
Oba of Lagos does not possess land because he is migrant, same reason Oba of Benin does not possess land and is a tenant in Edo.
Even if no record exist your own cultural rites of coronation speaks to the fact your Oba is a migrant, not a son of the soil.
Change your tradition first if you want to erase this fact.
First, the video you shared of where sand came from is not a serious submission to reference. Thats too casual an explanation for origin of sand, given that when we wake from sleep there is even traceable particles of sand left on the sheets for someone hundreds of miles away from the beach. But lets even leave that to the side.
This discussion of finding truth in Oduduwa's descent is what, as I said earlier, a belief tradition. I will give a couple of belief traditions that are similar.
A child was born of a virgin A man's wooden rod turned to serpent A man was swallowed by whale but lived A man was thrown into fire and not burnt A man died on earth & ascended heaven A man descended from heaven to earth
All these are parallels but each one is a contradiction to logic. Are they true? Is there evidence to support their truth? Yet every year people worship based on these myths....and will vontinue to do so into eternity.
Humanity and advanced civilizations have exended vast knowledge inquiring about mysteries of life and discovering their beginnings or even the truthfullness behind them....yet we have not discarded the belief of a wood that turned to snake and devoured other snakes. Nor have we stopped to honor and revere a man that survived many days in the belly of a fish that swallowed him.
The belief that Oduduwa descended from heaven lives on as a MYTH.
Mkokelvin: You can't say Benin are yorubas, but you can say some yorubas have Benin descendants. Some people in yoruba land and bini because it was Benin that loves to Eko not yorubas that moved to bini. So that's the way it is.
There is record that supports my assertion that Omo N'Oba has his roots in Yorubaland. He came from Ife to Edo with a class of Chiefs and Priests. That community of migrants are the traditional Binis. They are the pioneers of Eleko.
helinues: How can a region supports a party whole heartedly for more than 20 years and not getting rewarded.. Not even the party chairmanship..
2023 Presidency with Igbo candidates under Pdp supposed to be SE birth right or?
You understand Ibo but im not sure you understand PDP. Let me share with you that PDP is desperate to regain ruling power. They understand now what it will take to get back in power. Popularity, or lack of, does not get you elected in modern times. Its numbers, numbers and numbers! The second most important criteria is a persona with a overwhelming acceptance across more than a third of the nation (2 out of 6 regions).
To that end they need blocs with huge population strength and where ratio of registered voters to turn out on the ground is very close and those people are locked in to the anchoring persona. .
Ibos dont meet that criteria. The population of SE registered voters is the lowest. The turn out on election day is lowest. There is no motivating voice with wide acceptance across Iboland....much more across two regions. The odds are stacked against Ibo getting the much desired victory for PDP in 2023.
Frankly speaking, I'm not quite clear how your question here (about sand) addresses any of the above incontrovertible evidences (i.e. the ikedu tradition account, the archaeological evidence, and the historical evidence) that I have adduced to enable me reach the conclusion that the man Oduduwa didn't drop from the sky.
But in case you would be demonstrating how the answer to your question would tie in, then consider the following link which contains a quite clear scientific (and verifiable) explanation of what sand is, and where it comes from:
I believe in my first response two or three days ago I stated the position that some phenomenons in life are just what they are and serve as articles of faith for people who hold belief in them. Not every area of human endeavor need an evidence or a inquisition and we must not dismiss such areas we fail to match evidence as untruthful or non relevant. They are safe harbors for a tradition and its culture. Leave people to their belief.
There are many cultures who believe in earth and worship it. So my question to you on sand is very related in terms of your goal to match a tangible belief to its intangible root. It is deducible.
If you can match evidence of source to the sand material then you can match evidence of truthfullness in Oduduwa's descent. Recall that Oduduwas is reputed to have brought with him a shellfull of sand. Or did you forget that?
We dont have Oduduwa to query for where he came from....but we have sand everywjere and can inquire its root.
Your return that you did not see how the two relate or that you do not understand me exposes your lack of depth in the broad angle of encounters of the subject of Oduduwa. Try harder.
^^^ I will give you something to research for cevidence.
Few grains of sand has no significant weight value. But when you scoop up a bowl full the weight of sand suddenly becomes a significant material. We should have knowledge of such a constant part of our daily living. We walk on it daily, use it to cover seed in the ground which grows to become crop, we use it cover our remains after death....and many other uses. So, where did all the sand on earth come from? Can you tell?
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