₦airaland Forum

Of the thirteen Prime Ministers, heads of state and Presidents that have either ruled or led Nigeria since her independence from Great Britain in 1960, not one of them have been Hausa by tribe. Tafawa Balewa, our first prime minister was from a small minority tribe called Gere in Bauchi state, known in the singular form as Bagere. Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi was Igbo by tribe from Abia state. General Yakubu Gowon is Angas by tribe from Plateau state. Murtala Mohammed was Fulani from Kano state and President Olusegun Obasanjo is Yoruba from Ogun state. President Shehu Shagari is a Fulani from Sokoto state.

President Muhammadu Buhari is a Fulani from Katsina state while President Ibrahim Babangida is a Gwari from Niger state. Ernest Shonekan is Yoruba from Ogun state and Sani Abacha was Kanuri although he claimed Kano as his state because he was brought up there.

Abdulsalami Abubakar is the only Hausa leader we have ever had. Yet was he a dictator? Was he domineering? Capital NO.
In office, he was a God-fearing ruler who treated every part of Nigeria equally and ushered in the Fourth Republic which has been our longest democratic experience ever. Abdulsalami is, and was a good man. Does his image fit the stereotype of the mean and monstrous Hausa man? No! Abdulsalami is more humane than some people who even call themselves clergymen! If he had wanted to stay on in power, you and I would not have been able to stop him. More than President Obasanjo, General Abdulsalami Abubakar is our own Mandela!
After him we had the second, Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration which was succeeded by the Umaru Musa Yar’adua administration. President Yar’adua was a Fulani from Katsina state. He was succeeded by President Goodluck Jonathan, a minority Ogbia (a minority clan within a minority tribe). He has been succeeded by President Muhammadu Buhari who is a Fulani from Katsina as previously noted.

From the above, some persons may want to adjust Hausa domination and make it Fulani domination, but that again is another Myth! Of the four Fulanis who have either ruled or led Nigeria, two of them were reluctant Presidents.

President Shehu Shagari, whom I have met physically, never wanted to be President of Nigeria. That is what he meant by the title of his own autobiography, ‘Beckoned to Serve’. All he wanted was to be a Senator. He was prevailed upon by the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) to run as its flag bearer. He was a reluctant President.

Ditto for the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua. He never wanted to be President. He wanted to retire as a chemistry lecturer in Katsina. He was persuaded by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to be the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and even during the Presidential campaigns of 2007, President Obasanjo campaigned for Yar’adua more than Yar’adua campaigned for himself! Now of the remaining two Fulani leaders, President Muhammadu Buhari tried three times to be Nigeria’s President and three times he failed because he largely depended on the Hausa-Fulani

Reno Omokri is a SA to former president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/called-hausa-people-dominating-us-reno/

Fulani people who migrated from Senegal just come hijacked our country

Op ABDULLSALAM ABUBAKAR is not a hausa man as you claim, he is an indigene of CHANCHAGA local government of niger state . And they are GWARI by tribe

Timaya I concor GB

He is not a fulani man.
I think the major problem is the fulanis.

Never knew.. Tnx boss Omokri

when FFK said that this guy new love for North will make him a stupid person oneday. He should just leave the north alone..

Yakubu Gowon was not a fulani but he championed the majority fulani Born to rule mentality when he denied the country from practicing Confederation that would have indirectly benefited his region but Reno failed to analyze a common Northern mentality. u come to see that whether fulani,hausa or whatever...christian or moslem they think alike.

Northerner na Northerner.

Noted. TINUBU how market?

you are on point remo

Abdul Salam isn't Hausa by any stretch. He is Gwari

No single Hausa man has ever ruled the country. They are the most marginalized of the big tribes

the present fulani man is not ruling wel. Period

ok.

Abdulsalam is a gwari from Niger state.
Jonathan never wanted to be president or vice president just like Yaradua.
GEJ too is an accidental president.

Abboki na abboki, wether from kogi, benue, jos, sambisa, kwara, kano or kafanchan all na thesame.... Smh

DrayZee:
Northerner na Northerner.

Why u no say southerner na southerner...

koladebrainiac:
Abdulsalam is a gwari from Niger state.
Jonathan never wanted to be president or vice president just like Yaradua.
GEJ too is an accidental president.

Was there anything gej wanted to be? Maybe a deputy governor though...

Who is a Hausa?

yarimo:
Op ABDULLSALAM ABUBAKAR is not a hausa man as you claim, he is an indigene of CHANCHAGA local government of niger state . And they are GWARI by tribe

How can a guy not from here hold office. Are his parents nigerians or does Nigeria border just lines on map. Any african can fake being one of us.

Oblang:
Why u no say southerner na southerner...

Because the South are more divided and diverse than the North.

In terms of tribe, no Hausa man has rule Nigeria before. Just a bunch of Fulanis, that's all

DrayZee:
Because the South are more divided and diverse than the North.

The South more diverse than the North?

My guy, you need to go learn more about your country.

I see some people lumping the middlebelt with the North today... Tomorrow they 'll tell you a different story only when it suits them.

yarimo:
Op ABDULLSALAM ABUBAKAR is not a hausa man as you claim, he is an indigene of CHANCHAGA local government of niger state . And they are GWARI by tribe

Nope! Abdulsalami claims chanchaga LG but he is originally an hausa man. However, Babagida is not a Gwari man, many tribes have been ascribed to him wthout certainty but his mother is a confirmed nupe woman from wushishi town in niger state

#whayasay...... in other point, our guy man above no Sabi rule

Well my take is wherever they are from shouldn't be my business but good governance

Minority or majority shouldn't determine our line of reasoning or assessment but how well they govern the country

I wish Nigeria will be great

Lies upandan!

tribalism will get us nowhere. . Except division and discontentment.

Abok¡ na Abok¡





Change Abok¡ to Northerner make I see.
Us*less bot

lack of free money to embezzle is making people think and write 'spoil'

Wetin dey do this idiot sef?
Is he this jobless?

People think any Nigerian from the north is a Hausa man