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THE CAPTURE:

With over 4,000 Nigerians dead and Maitatsine still at large, there was palpable tension in the land. The old and romantically beautiful city of Kano had suddenly turned into a horrible scene of war, a theatre of speeding bullets, stabbing machetes and wheezing arrows. There was confusion all over the place and as the death toll continued to rise, the Kano State government had to admit that they had underestimated the strength of Maitatsine and his sect, who responded with so much ferocity that the State Governor had to call on the Nigerian President to assist. The state command of the Nigerian Police was totally overwhelmed by the raging Maitatsine and his sect. An enforcement of more mobile police (MOPOL) units from neighboring states could not quench the fire too. When the combined forces of the police and the mobile units could not tame the overwhelming force of Maitatsine, weapons were borrowed from the Nigerian Army arsenal but nothing tangible happened to reduce Maitatsine and his irate army. It was time to call in the federal troops. According to Toks Ekukinam, who was then the Assistant Legal Adviser to President Shagari, a request for help from the Kano State Government reached the Chief of Army Staff and it was discussed in the Cabinet, and approved by President Shagari in his capacity as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

A battle-ready contingent led by Colonel YY Kure from the Nigerian Army was finally drafted to the ‘battlefront’ and what followed was another round of butchering interspersed with the ceaseless gunfire of furious Nigerian soldiers. In the ensuing scrimmage, the Nigerian soldiers progressed and went deeper into the heart of the Yan Awaki enclave, the evil empire of the dreaded sect. A continuous pounding with heavy artillery shells, armoured tanks, mortars, rockets and machine guns by the Nigerian Army changed the tide of the battle.

It must however be said that the Maitatsine fighters fought so well that Colonel Kure said of them glowingly:
I pray that Nigerians would be able to fight for this nation in the same manner as the fanatics fought in the event of an attack on Nigeria.
From the heavens, warplanes of the Nigerian Air Force rained bombs on his household. Maitatsine fled Kano metropolis with a handful of followers, wives and children as the heat of the gunfire, consistent shelling and aerial bombardment became unbearable. His time was up but his followers would not just give up on their prophet like that. They launched an assault to save their spiritual leader from the crushing jaws of the Nigerian Army but in the crossfire, Maitatsine himself was hit. A bullet flying from nowhere lodged itself in his leg. He let out a piercing shriek of pain and agony and would later die of the wounds he sustained. He reportedly bled to death.

Maitatsine met his end at the Rijiyar Zaki suburb of Kano (while some others believe it was at Rimin Abzinawa village that he met his waterloo). The Nigerian Army met the band of his mourning followers who had just buried him hurriedly by a roadside grave. The Nigerian Army had kept pounding non-stop for 48 hours before the Maitatsine men capitulated. Their corpses were littered all over the place, some on the roads, some in the gutters, the scene was very grisly and repulsive. Other Maitatsine members who fell in the battle were buried in four mass graves by their comrades.

Meanwhile, about 1,000 sect members were arrested and jailed (224 of them were foreigners), with many subjected to most horrendous torture in the hands of the Nigerian police and the Nigerian Army. Over 100,000 people were rendered homeless and an estimated 20,000 people survived with varying degrees of injuries. The carnage had claimed a total of 4,179 lives according to official statements (excluding police and miltary deaths), some estimates put it as high as 10,000 with hundreds of houses, shops and other buildings burnt. People shed hot tears while they counted their losses and for those who witnessed those bloody days, the memories are forever etched.


THE END:

THE BLOODBATH:

Either using the benefit of hindsight or simply taking time to orchestrate the most effective strategy to invade Yan Awaki and flush out Maitatsine and his die-hard loyalists, Governor Rimi did not immediately act on his threat even when the deadline came and passed. But something would later happen that would force Rimi to invite the combined forces of the Nigerian Police officers, Nigerian Air Force fighters, Nigerian Army soldiers and the heavy federal might of an angry President Shagari to crush Maitatsine.

In December 1980, bright-red blood of Nigerians was flowing on the streets of Kano. What happened? An uprising by the Maitatsine sect and led by the leader, Marwa himself, had taken the ancient city of Kano with its old mud walls by the storm. He did not even wait for Rimi to unleash his men on his sect. For Maitatsine, offense is the best defence. On the 18th of December, 1980, his sect launched a series of catastrophic and coordinated attacks on government buildings, churches, schools, police stations, moderate Muslims and Christians. They spared nothing in their way. But how did the attack all start?

Earlier that day, Maitatsine had visited his regular venue of sermons, the popular Shahuci Playing Ground, a vast open field where he preached. Upon getting there, they were stopped by 150 policemen who insisted they did not have a permit and would not be conducting any religious activity that day. The police also added that there were complaints that each time Maitatsine was preaching, there were several cases of harassment. Before long, an argument broke out between the police and the sect members. The police had made a very costly mistake as they underestimated the number and strength of the sect. Before they could spell the word ‘police’, the three force units sent to the ground were overpowered and in the twinkle of an eye, about 3,000 sect members descended on the ground, and they were all armed with knives, daggers, bows and arrows and dane guns. It was real chaos. All the thirteen vehicles brought by the police were set ablaze and razed to the ground. Four of the policemen were murdered while others escaped with varying degrees of injuries abandoning their weapons in the hands of the jubilant Maitatsine sect members.

After the police had scampered away leaving their dead members on the ground, the Maitatsine members, glee with the smiles and confidence of victory, decided to take on the city of Kano itself. And on they marched, spreading to Yan Awaki, Fagge, Koki, Kofar Wamba and other places. That was the genesis of the trouble that day. As they were going, they were shouting:

"Yau zamu sha jinni!” meaning ‘today we shall drink blood!"

For a people used to living in impunity and believing they were in their own republic, free of any government, the followers of Maitatsine regularly clashed with the Nigerian Police. But this particular clash was extremely bloody. By the next day, the 19th, the sect was in firm control of strategic areas of the city like the popular Fagge Mosque, the Sabon Gari Market, the largest in the city, a cinema house and even some schools. For the next 11 days, the Nigerian police was utterly powerless to stop Maitatsine and his rumbustious followers as they rampaged all over the city, leaving sorrow, blood and tears. Don’t let me add regular trademark to that. Defenceless Nigerian citizens fled the city for the neighbouring states and what many lost during that period cannot even be quantified.

Considering the fact that the government was already planning on how to smoke Maitatsine and his followers out of their fortress and that the populace was already fed up, the government decided to land the blows one after the other. By the time the madness ended, over 4,000 Nigerian lives were wasted.

While a frenetic BBC crew ran into the center of action to interview fleeing Nigerians, government security forces responded brutally. Frantic efforts to control the madness led to hundreds of suspects rounded up by the Nigerian police and military to be summarily executed. It was a desperate time and extremely desperate measures were taken by the Nigerian government, making some costly mistakes in the process, especially with the extrajudicial killings.

“They prayed while counting their beads, five times a day, facing the East, but think Prophet Muhammad was not a breathing image of Allah…They read the Qur’an but don’t see the need to visit Mecca…At worship, the other Moslems in supplication to the Deity, place their open arms, facing away from themselves, in upright positions, on the side of both ears. But the Maitatsines, in prayers, rest the open palms of both hands on their chest…The Maitatsines preach a strong compulsion to kill. They believe that if they are able to kill ‘Arnas’ (infidels) who don’t believe in Allah, they will go to heaven”.
Maitatsine branded almost everyone candidates of Hell: other Muslims, Christians and people of other faiths, and in his eyes, killing them was not only a rewarding experience, it would be of no consequence. A petrified government watched helplessly as events snowballed. Other Muslims in the city were not just angered at Maitatsine’s arrogant and heretical pronouncements, they were also genuinely worried about the menace he was rapidly constituting. The clerics also knew that more masculinization of Maitatsine and his adherents would mean a catalysis of the progressive erosion of the unbridled power and influence they had enjoyed for centuries. Something really decisive had to be done. But as his foes were planning, Maitatsine too was not sleeping, he was scheming. Towards the end of 1980, there were widespread rumours that Maitatsine and his sect would overrun and take over two of the city’s most important mosques. By then, the Governor of the state, the late Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi, later Sani Abacha’s minister, felt he had had more than enough. On the 26th of November, 1980, Rimi fired a hotly-worded letter to him and stated that Maitatsine’s illegal enclave in the Yan Awaki area be broken up within 14 days and that they vacate the area or Maitatsine and his followers would regret the day they were born. But for a man used to so much impunity and scoffing at the political leaders right in their faces, Maitatsine brushed Rimi’s order and deadline as not just some laughable comedy but an empty threat. Rimi later undermined his own authority by secretly telling Maitatsine that he could ignore the contents of the letter and settle for dialogue. Maitatsine rebuffed his call for a dialogue and instead called all his followers and told them that there was serious fire on Mount Kilimanjaro. He stated that the Kano State government had declared total war on them and even threatened to forcefully remove them from their homes.

Maitatsine then instructed his followers to get set for the mother of all wars, they started stockpiling weapons, fortifying their bases and stepped up their military training preparing for the final onslaught with Rimi’s men. The stage was set for was has been described as the second most violent incident in Nigeria, second only to the civil war.

Bitter and enraged, he would once again worm his way into the hearts of his followers who believed that he was unjustly victimized by the Kano elite and monarchy. It must be pointed out that a vast majority of Maitatsine’s followers were street beggars and destitute, called almajiris or gardawas in the local dialect. Many of these people learnt the Qur’an from him and got high on his bold and eloquent teachings. To them, the state was nothing but a sheer representation of evil and oppression, as exemplified by the imprisonment and deportation of their highly-revered leader.

A very clever and intelligent man, Maitatsine was not blind to all these developments and in time, he would make his boldest claim ever. He told his enthusiastic followers that he was the forerunner of the much-awaited Mahdi (Saviour or Messiah) who would wipe away all their tropical tears and take them to the much-desired Promised Land. He said he was the saviour to rescue them from the tyranny of the establishment. He would banish the infidels, bring peace to the land, erase all their wheelbarrow-pushing suffering and water-hawking stress. For centuries, West African Muslims believe and still believe that a Mahdi would eventually emerge to get rid of all the injustices of this world. Maitatsine cashed in on this age-long belief of the people and kukuma declared himself as the one they’ve been waiting for, the one to come before the Mahdi himself.

He even compared himself to the late Fulani scholar-warrior, Uthman Dan Fodio. The other Kano clerics could not get their heads over Maitatsine’s latest pronouncements, which many of them regarded as nothing but heresy. It was the beginning of the Islamic calendar 1400AH and Maitatsine seriously believed that he was the long-awaited mujaddid (reformer or renewer) for the century.

But while they were trying to grapple with what Maitatsine was saying, he fired another shot. He declared all the hadiths and sunnah (recorded actions, sayings and traditions of Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam) as false and that no one should follow them. Maitatsine did not stop there. He went further to ban his followers from facing Mecca, Saudi Arabia while praying and even criticized the rakats of the Muslim prayer (salat). This clearly went against the standard requirement in Islam that mandated that worshippers face the Ka’aba in Mecca while praying. But that was not Maitatsine’s business. He would release another damning pronouncement: no one must say Allahu Akbar (God is Great) while praying and whoever said so was condemned to Hellfire.

You thought he would end there but he did not. The Emir of Kano and the clerics were more than alarmed but Maitatsine was yet to drop the real shocker. He simply declared himself the nabeey (Prophet). His excited followers happily shouted his praise and truly believed in his new gift of prophethood. Still riding his wave of power and influence, he stated that Muslims in northern Nigeria should not mention the name of Prophet Muhammad again, as they regarded him as any other Arab. Reports have it that after his death, copies of the Qu’ran found in Maitatsine’s home were already altered: Prophet Muhammad’s name was replaced with Maitatsine’s name. But that was not even the strangest part. The most curious part was yet to come.

He declared that while the Holy Qu’ran was indeed the true word of God, no one but him was in the right position to interpret and explain the contents of the Qu’ran and issue new proclamations in his new status as a prophet. A deafening howl of approval from his thousands of followers assured him that all was well. But all was far from well or even borehole. Just as Maitatsine was busy proclaiming himself the overall lord of the heavens, the earth and all that was in between, his terrified enemies knew that they had to do something really quick if not they would have willingly signed their own documents of annihilation because Maitatsine and his overzealous band of followers would stop at nothing to bitterly fight the opposition this time around. Once bitten, the shame of 1962 would never repeat itself again. For Maitatsine and his followers, their actions were justified and they were backed by God Himself with His Divine Armed Forces with invisible jet fighters. On the 18th of March, 1984, the Guardian described the sect thus:

THE POWER:

As he spoke with considerable rage from his pulpit, his gleeful supporters and frenzied followers nodded in agreement to everything Maitatsine said. To them, he was nothing but an angel, God’s own manifestation on the face of the earth. Many swore they would lay down their lives for him, and they were not joking. At the height of his power and influence, Mohammed Marwa was the toast of the high and mighty. Influential personalities paid him visits in his Kano powerhouse seeking his services as a marabout.

High-ranking clerics also visited his sprawling quarters. That the high political class and the religious elite have worked hand in hand to unleash terror upon the populace for their selfish gains is an unfortunate recurring decimal in Nigeria’s history. But what is even more unfortunate is the desperate attempts by some Nigerians (who are already bearing the brunt of the stupidity of the ruling class) to either justify the actions or even shift blames.

At a point, Marwa had become so powerful to the extent that he operated his own autonomous enclave. Because his followers regarded other Muslims as heretics, they avoided the general population and lived in an isolated section of the city. You know, in the Reverend Jim Jones style. Like the Hamaliyya sect of the Tijanniya order, the Maitatsine preferred to live in their own hermit kingdom, creating a minuscule North Korea in the heart of Kano. Interestingly, one of the fastest and most efficient ways to indoctrinate anyone is to isolate them or cut them off from relatives and friends and then subject them to a constant stream of sweet propaganda. Maitatsine and his followers lived in an area of Kano called Yan Awaki. In this enclave, he was the absolute ruler and the king that no one dared question. He was clearly, a power unto himself.

From within the comfort provided by the confines of his Yan Awaki residence, he launched scathing verbal assaults against the city’s imperial ruler, Emir Sanusi who was the traditional leader of all Muslims in the city. With thousands of eager youths at his beck and call, flanking him on all sides and ready to carry out his even his flimsiest instructions to the last, Maitatsine felt he had the height of it all. He became bolder, more confrontational and even more daring as the sun rose and set.

But the Emir, the government and the security agents were not finding his astronomical rise and popularity funny at all. The royal institution in collabo with the religious establishment and with the tacit support of the state government, decided to act fast before this volcano blew up on their turbaned heads. So in the year 1962, the Emir released a royal edict indicting Marwa of various crimes. He was accused of preaching illegally and for engaging in what is called shatimati or abusive speech in fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). An obstinate Maitatsine was then brought before a qadi (Muslim judge) to face proper judgment. It was not funny at all. The qadi sentenced him to 90 days in jail and after serving out his sentence, he was promptly deported to Cameroon. Many thought that was the end but the battle had just started. Maitatsine would return, full of renewed vigour, hate and anger. The Nigerian populace would suddenly be rudely woken up to the latest brand of terror in town.

Towards the late 1960s, Maitatsine managed to slip back into Nigeria. Not only that, he made his way back to Kano where he properly settled in his Yan Awaki area. But the authorities would also make life hell for him and between the years 1972 and 1979, he was in and out of prison under the military regimes that could not just keep up with the nonsense anymore. In 1973 for example, he was arrested for preaching without a permit and locked up in Makurdi Prison until 1975. However, when the civilians came with the election of Shehu Shagari in 1979, tensions were doused, things became better and Maitatsine took full advantage of the newly-found freedom.

Maitatsine’s teachings were quite interesting indeed. Although many may see Boko Haram as a new creation or novel development, the truth of the matter is that this is not the first time in the history of Nigeria that a fundamentalist religious sect would challenge the state with their audacious teachings and unleash maximum destruction in a bid to establish their own version of how a society should operate. A forceful and persuasive speaker, Maitatsine spoke with anger and instructed his followers that:
Any form of Western influence is a sin and that westernization has corrupted Islam.
The use of money is not important and even accumulating too much money is a grave sin.
They should do away with all tools of modernity such as wristwatches, radios, television sets, cars, bicycles, tobacco, must not wear buttons and the rest stating that none of these things were mentioned in the Qur’an. Considering the fact that many of his followers were even already too poor to afford such luxuries, the teaching was quite easy to follow and enforce. Even those of his followers who had these items gladly smashed their black-white Philips television sets.
Later, he preached that he was on a mission to save the world, condemned the Holy Prophet Muhammad, and had his own customized copies of the Holy Qu’ran.
Anyone who reads any other book apart from the Holy Qu’ran was a pagan irretrievably destined for the blazing flames of Hell.

However, out of these four main sects Maitatsine stood out as the most radical. While other sects still cooperated to a reasonable extent with the government, Maitatsine was absolutely against the government and anything that represent constituted authority. Even the Emir of Kano was not safe from his wrath. He would later be known for his fierce and curse-filled speeches against the Nigerian government. It was this practice that earned him the nickname Mai Tatsine. That was because he would mount the pulpit and lash out in his red-hot speeches in a not-too-perfect Hausa:

Allah ya tsine maka albarka!

Meaning: May God deprive you of His blessings!

He would continue thus: Whoever uses wristwatches, radios or ride bicycles, Allah ya tsine maka albarka!

In no time, the people of Kano quickly labelled him Mai Tatsine which can be loosely translated to mean ‘he who curses‘, ‘the one with curses’ or ‘the one who curses’.

But that was not all. There was another dimension to Maitatsine’s teachings that alarmed millions all over northern Nigeria: he preached clearly against the conventional form of Islam. He came with his own brand of puritanical Islam and condemned everything else. The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi (who incidentally was the grandfather of the current Central Bank Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi) was shocked at Maitatsine’s audacity. A majority of the city’s clerics were also appalled and outraged at Maitatsine’s teachings and the challenge that he would pose as an obstacle to constituted authority, both in the religious and political spheres. But the man from Cameroon did not even send anyone of them, including the all-powerful Emir. He continued his fiery preachings and scary sermons to his amused followers, who obviously lapped up and enjoyed everything he said.

THE TEACHINGS AND THE SPREAD:

At this point, a little background information will be helpful. Maitatsine was just one of the many sects of Islam in northern Nigeria as at that time. Others included the Shiites (as at the time of writing this piece, the home of the Shiite leader, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky was reportedly attacked by hired youths in Zaria and left many dangerously wounded with machete cuts), Izala (Sheikh Abubakar Gumi’s Jamaat Izalat al-Bida wa Iqamat al-Sunna (“the Society for the Eradication of Evil Innovation and the Establishment of the Sunna”) and the Tariqa. These other sects are still active and there is a precarious swing of harmony and violence. It has been like that for a while with occasional but very turbulent clashes.

The founder of the Maitatsine sect, Alhaji Mohammed (Muhammadu) Marwa was not a Nigerian even if his activities would later lead to the loss of thousands of precious Nigerian lives. He migrated from the town of Marwa (Maroua) in northern Cameroon to Kano State in 1945. Marwa, which is a center of cotton industry is also the capital of the Far North Region of Cameroon and the predominant religion there is Sufi Islam. Maitatsine settled in the warm and hospitable city of Kano, acclimatized and adapted to their ways of life.

Fulfulde, the language of the Fulanis, was the common language in Marwa where he came from so it is safe to assume that blending in would not have been a major issue. Not much was known about his activities in the ancient city of Kano up until the early 1960s when the story changed all of a sudden.

Before then, Maitatsine had gained a reputation in Kano as a noble scholar and an expert in the interpretation and commentary of the Holy Qu’ran. He was so good at it that he was named Mai Tafsiri. Tafsir is the exegesis, in-depth explanation or critical interpretation of the Qu’ran. In 1960, Nigeria became an independent nation but the politics that would follow in Kano State was far from peaceful. The senseless jostling for power by the politicians led to an entropy in the society, and Maitatsine, who was already gaining some followership, took advantage and rode on this resultant wave of disorder initially generated by the power-hungry politicians.

Unemployment soared, crime rate increased, poverty was not abating, people were disgruntled and the citizens were already tired of the fumbling and corrupt politicians. It was at that time that Maitatsine decided to launch his own movement. His message was simple but brutally efficient: to oppose the government and even orthodox Islam itself. He had transformed himself into another creature, one that would terrorize the world’s most populous black nation.

It was 33 years ago, the 18th of December, 1980 to be precise. A Fulani teacher named Shehu Shagari was the first civilian executive Nigerian President but the nation he was leading was in flames, set alight by an energetic man who spoke high-pitched Fulani. The security forces were helpless and even the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces seemed confused blaming external forces that he said were ‘jealous of Nigeria’s growing international influence’. The violence, the horror and the terror that ensued from the wild ideas of one old man who was not even a Nigerian was about to consume the nation. Sheer madness was mixed with agonizing destruction as major cities burned. Untamed hordes of insurgents brandishing all sorts of primitive weapons like catapults, stones, swords, clubs, bows and arrows, dane guns, leopard skins to serve as bulletproof vests and powdered charms went from house to house in Kano State looting, maiming, burning, raping and killing as they wished. But despite the low sophistication of their weapons, their pattern of destruction was so brutal and complete that in a matter of just days, over 4,100 Nigerians lay dead, most of them, Maitatsine’s followers.

Identifying many of the corpses was however not easy. Their eyes, noses, ears and tongue had already been removed. They were deliberately mutilated by their angry attackers.

Considering the fact that Boko Haram’s activities have claimed the lives of over 3,000 Nigerians since 2009, you will appreciate the scope and degree of violence of this red-faced sect that killed so many Nigerians in just 12 days. Maitatsine had become a terror and a fast-growing one, with 6,000 followers ready to march to the death on the vehement orders of their much-revered spiritual leader. For the first time in the history of Nigeria, religious differences would lead to the loss of thousands of lives.

Since the arrival of mr president tension had doused down through out the country and kanu had remain mute!
Is kanu afraid of Buhari?

decomaniaboss:
this bellow is one and is none of the 2 that was mention on the tread....are u blind ? Becos google doesn't know something doesn't mean it doesn't exist ...don't let me call u a dummy

more evidence:

One of the geographical features that has turned into a good tourist attraction in Nigeria is the hanging lake of Ado-Awaye. Some of you readers and non geographers would wonder what a hanging lake is, A hanging lake is a lake that is formed as an effect of glaciation during the ice age. It is usually suspended on a rock. It is as a result of erosion caused by ice movement.
There are two destinations known for the hanging lake in the world, the first one is in Colorado in America and the second one is the one on Ado hill in Western Nigeria known as ‘Iyake’
http://www.traveltowestafrica.com/the-suspended-lake-ado-awaye-nigeria/

decomaniaboss:
this bellow is one and is none of the 2 that was mention on the tread....are u blind ? Becos google doesn't know something doesn't mean it doesn't exist ...don't let me call u a dummy

you have done that!

The lake is located on Iyake Mountains that sprawl around the sleepy town of Ado Awaye. The journey to the lake on the mountain top is not one for the faint hearted. A stair of 369 steps leads through a bush path to the plains on the mountain top. A litany of artefacts and earth shards are evidence of human habitation of the mountains in the past. It takes about one hour of rigorous climbing to get to the mountain top.

Le mont Manengouba est un volcan du Cameroun situé dans la région du Littoral. Il est entouré d'une épaisse forêt tropicale.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Manengouba

You people don't know soldier,
do you think soldier is a push-over?
have you people ever live in Barack?
or nearer to the Barack?
have you ever join in military training?
you people were blag!
Kanu will be picked-up!
very early hour of a day!
and soldiers will seal-off the totality of east in dawn!
any one wake-up to urinate, when he/her see how tense the environment is, will have no option than to jejely close his door and return inside!
three days were in enough, the situation will turn normal!
if Abiola is not bigger than Nigeria, I don't think no one can!
be warned!

MalcoImX:
Yeah I did. I felt fresh and rejuvenated.

Amen!

you have done you own?
good!
Amen!

letusbepieces:
Pretenders at it again.

They say nice words to his face but back bite and conspire at his back.

The worst enemies Buhari can ever have, the enemy that pretends.

four minutes to go!
ready!

MalcoImX:
Sure buddy, it's done.

five minutes to go!
are you ready?

get prepare it's about the time!

This is the real Nigeria I know!
In those days we don't differentiate between the Muslim, christian and pagan!
when it come to prayer it is prayer!
And God answer!

Baba Nnamdi kanu nearly set this country ablaze when he said he will protest in kano & Lagos!

heei!
before I forget!
Baba arewa youths said they would send igbo back to village!

Baba when you were away, ffk & fayose said you won't return back!

Am very happy today, very, very happy!
I mustn't hide it!
For this occasion I've organised a dinner for the best wishers of Buhari,
Every one were invited!
and those who may be far away the event will took off at 21hrs Nigeria Time!
If you were far away to mark the event do the following and see the God miracle in your life!
i. If you are a Muslim, take a cup of water say Alhamdulillah X3(three times) and drink it!
ii. If you are a christian, take a cup of water say Halleluyah X3(three times) and drink it!
iii. If you a pagan, take a cup of water say Heriwo yaaah X3(three time) and drink it!
Leave the rest to God Almighty!
Do it and see Nature is amazing indeed!
Oladeebo.

I officially welcome you back to Nigeria.
mr president!
you are welcome!
oladeebo

glassjar1:
Afonja has allowed this boko haram clannish impotent


To cloud their blurred brain with Fulani fear .

The impostor is not Yoruba but the Yoruba tribe chose muteness because the moniker is strictly against the Giant IPOB.

Long live Biafra.

Buhari loved world wide and you can't do nothing about that!
sorrow!

In Niamey Niger Republic people were seen celebrating in the street following the information they heard of the arrival of Buhari to Nigeria, Some even share "dabinu" Datte for the people, people were very happy!
monitoring the event across the border!
oladeebo!

Aaapinu'ya latoni loooo!
Apinu'ya o!
Awon ajegudujera,
Arije nibaje tilo o!
Apinu'ya o!
E je kadupe lowo ogagun o to gbawa lowo awon ojeoluu o!
Gbogbo Nigeria o a ma ma ndupe!
Kolawole mo gbele mi gbo royin o!
Nilu alagbado Baba alatika!
Ni mo gbo lori radio, pe Nigeria ti dero adupe o
Buhari ooooo!
Buhari ooo!
pelu awon member leyin to ku andupe o e seun!
Baba loke a ran yin lowo!
Baa ba rawon tio ba dun mo o, eni kitoun gbalu father re lo!
ko biwa ninu gbogbo wa lodun moo
Bamaiyi sai Allah
Bamaiyi sai Allah o!
O gbawa oo ake poluwa Edumare gba wao!
Akepoluwa Edumare gba wa o!.......
Kollington Ayinla.

talk2rotman:
If not that some nigerians are so stupid and useless how can u come to term with ur prezident spending like 100days outside his country on whatever ground it may be. Itz not a crime to fall sick but its a shame dat a prezident is away from his country dat long. Why not taking d necessary health care in nigeria and even using that to serve as an examplary leader. How many of those country we so much admire dat we ve seen dia prezident flown out to other country for such a long time. What a pitty

but you forget Nigeria is an incomparable special nation that anything that destroy other nation is a mere joke in Nigeria!
terrorism worry other nation but Nigeria deal with it in recession!
secessionist worry other nation, but in Nigeria it's a child play!
recession is deadly even in developed countries but in Nigeria, it's just a mere step forward!
A week president vacation is a trouble in other country, Nigeria progress with acting president!
Every president of Any nation boast of his 100 days in office!
Nigeria boast of 100 days of acting president in office!
who still comparing Nigeria state with any other state in the world!

mpianya39:
Kedu ife afamu mere gi

kedu ajokuta ma mu mi mere gi?

eclecticbaron:
It's a bit weird that this lot held their pro rally the very next day after the resume/resign night vigil. Looks like somfin PMBs handlers staged. Just my opinion though.

action and reaction were equal and opposite!
igbo hate Buhari before he came to power!
igbo hate Buhari more when he is in power!
igbo show the whole world that their hatred of Buhari is eternity when Buhari get sick!
what do you expect the patriotic Nigerian to do?