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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

This is it, damn! Very very in depth & thought provoking

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

I can only WEEP, after reading through this .
The IGBOS saw all these except ONE IGBO...who also had a better dream for Nigeria, thinking he was dining with humans...

The letter makes sense but Yorubas will have to match their letter with action before other southerners will take them serious.

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

No source. This is fake

highcollide:
we have been sending messages to FFK asking him to arrange a meeting between the afenifere and ohaneze but he's hesitant. I suspect ffk is only about heating the polity and doesn't truly care about the yoruba nation.

...y will he call for a meeting?

curse will be on ffk if he calls for a meeting!

My boyfriend has land in d east already,
Obi of onitsha has adopted him ,
.jp clark has him as his son already ...

he warned yorubas but they mock him of sleeping wt bianca ...i remembered his telegraph on buhari around 2014

Listen his silence with fayose's means "We have been Vindicated"

.Tinubu should Call the Meeting, Anything short of that is OYO ...because tinubu will sell igbos again...claiming fulani brouhaha is a heist by the wise tinubu...


Be careful ,Yinka odumakin & gani adams dont even want the meeting ,i Know what they want !

Rekhina:
We already forgived yorubas after d war ,y will they bring a terrorist called buhari to spite igbos did they think buhari will wipe us out ? ... ,
.......blame it on the yorubas , and if not we are in nairaland i would have cursed ur generation ,middlebelter is it not u tivs that prevented igbos from voting GeJ in zaki biam ,ur people suffered for it 2332 deaths in one year in Tivland anyway...

U be yoruba stop hiding to squirt ur hatred on igbos prepare for fulani u voted

You are a typical example of the problem with Nigeria. A good reason for the Fulani to continue to dominate Nigeria.Absolute lack of respect for other people being propanded by the Yoruba, a case for continuous suspicion even when a genuine attempt is being made for Southern unity. One thing you need to be educated on is that Nigeria is so diverse and greater than Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa /Fulanis interest.
Perhaps you are one of the few Igbos enjoying the status quo ? Just continue to wish Yoruba and Igbo didn't agree.

middlebelter:
You are a typical example of the problem with Nigeria. A good reason for the Fulani to continue to dominate Nigeria.Absolute lack of respect for other people being propanded by the Yoruba, a case for continuous suspicion even when a genuine attempt is being made for Southern unity. One thing you need to be educated on is that Nigeria is so diverse and greater than Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa /Fulanis interest.
Perhaps you are one of the few Igbos enjoying the status quo ? Just continue to wish Yoruba and Igbo didn't agree.

A warlord bedekedemi in Ijaw opobo creek once advice me ...never to do meeting with a coward friend is better you do the meeting with ur Enemy !
...

Tinubu should call for the meeting ,if not "Yorubas use fulani herdsmen to trick igbos on an igbo domination project forever"

middlebelter:
If Nigeria will be free from Fulanis control, the two tribes must sincerely reconcile, put together a workable relationship, enlighten Thier youths to stop social media attack on each other then face the Fulanis.
As per FFK, remember, his political pedigree is of no consequence in Yorubaland, only the leadership of two tribe can do this. The likes of Woke Soyinka, OBJ, Prof Ben Akabueze,Jim Nwobodo,Former Commenwealyh Scribe,,Ooni and Alaafin, The Obi of Onitsha, Champion Publisher, etc. Will start with reconciliation meeting, silently set agenda and politically set to dismantle the military structure put in place by the likes of Abacha and IBB to protvect the Fulanis and invade the South.

The Igbos and Yorubas can never unite again. Mark my words. If they make any attempt at uniting, the Fulanis will frustrate such move.

In 2023, the Fulanis would keep the PDP ticket and they will give APC ticket to either Yoruba or Igbo. That is what they will use to destroy the remaining little unity between the Igbos and Yorubas.

The best opportunity for the south to unite and make a statement in the Nigerian political space was 2015 but they blew it. Pre- 2015, the entire northern political elite ( both APC and PDP) united behind a northern candidate Buhari, irrespective of Buhari's obvious incompetence. I expected the southerners to do same and unite behind a southern candidate, but they messed up. The rest is now history.

Nigerfine2:
I read from beginning to the end.
The igbos are wiser. The letter was the history of how the fulanis who had no part in Nigeria came in and by virtue of peace loving hausas they were accommodated and they eventually held power till date.this group of yorubss are not begging but saying they are ready for war but wouldn't prefer it.
The accepted that the fulanis have circled them ,rape kill abduct etc.
Pls let me stop here.
Obassnjo is more clever than many Yoruba leaders.

Obasanjo has 100% igboblood in him ,he was adopted by an ogun merchant

YorubaHero12:
To be honest, it’ll be hard to muster the vote number to displace the north by the south. The configuration of Nigeria does not favor the south, hence the north will always be the kingmakers in Nigeria so far we maintain this form of democracy.

We need a strong southerner to become the president, someone brave enough to challenge the current Fulani domination on Federal parastatals and all arm of government. The north wield so much power due to their population and they have their men in strategic places so it’ll be hard for any southerner to become president without the consent of the North.

To break up Nigeria is not that easy and my fear is that the politicians across both divide will sabotage it coz a fractured Nigeria will limit the bandwidth of how much they can loot and plunder.

The elite politicians are the main people destroying this country either Yoruba, Igbo, or Hausa. They become saviors while out of power but becomes tyrant while in power. We are all just pawn in their game of chess.

I’m sure a southerner will be the president in 2023, coz the north knows its dangerous for the stability of Nigeria for them to extend power more than 8years in a row.

Campaigning for Tinubu already ... So dat you will rub it on our face ,like u rub it on us for voting obasanjo!

...power remains in the north

bonnylight003:
Is working in Dubai a plus?
For how much diram? Peanut..maybe a cleaner..

Dubai ke..

People work in NASA..they don't make noise..Dubai up and down ..like you don't know how long it took you to secure that job..while living in a 70k bunk...and starving your ass under Dubai sun..

Olboy shift with your .Dubai.... Can you afford a quality Nigerian food over there? On a three daily and weekly?
Stay your lane with your Dubai crap..

I don't deal with them..

You claim you saw what in 2015... Is fulanis agenda a 2015 thing...or you think it started with Gej?

You claim you know...

Why has the oligarchies in Nigeria been denying Buhari presidency..even tho he's a general?

You claim you know...
What happened to maccido .. children and grandchildren..

You know nothing..you just another online worrior..that hustle 900k and find himself in Dubai to work out arss as a slave..

Some people has been going to dubai pre 1999...

Tribal champion..go carry award..
Mkpi.

Jealousy broke boy

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

This is an insultive letter from odua to his eminent the Sultan of sokoto. Point of correction, his eminent is not just the leader of fulani moslem in Nigeria but the leaders of all moslem in Nigeria, including yoruba, igbo, I jaw moslem. Also the existence job the fulani people in Nigeria dates beyond uthman Dan fodio jihad of 1804.This date is dramatic because of the jihad that took place but before that historic event, fulani people had lived in Nigeria. Please write with fact. At least yoruba moslems will not celebrate a moslem festival until the Sultan gives his nod. Yoruba moslem as a religion was greatly influenced by the fulani.

Great!
The pressure must not stop.
Eventually, Fulani killer herdsmen will leave Yorubaland.
Pigiddiottts be posting like they are not suffering worse. Luunatics!

Rekhina:
Campaigning for Tinubu already ... So dat you will rub it on our face ,like u rub it on us for voting obasanjo!

...power remains in the north

Firstly, Tinubu will not contest coz he won’t even win overwhelmingly in the Southwest.

Secondly, the Yoruba don’t really need the Igbos vote to become the president, that’s a fact!

Igbos are generally PDP, they won’t vote APC even if your son is on the ballot so no need of seeking votes in the SE.

I repeat, the Yorubas don’t need the SE vote especially if we can bring out someone that is generally acceptable in the SW that can get the block vote. Then we form an alliance with the north by picking a strong Vice President that’s generally acceptable.

If the Yorubas can’t challenge the north and always behave like the Igbos that feel defeated even before starting a fight (in case of presidency), then this nation would have been ruled forever by just the north.

You are spoilers but APC should be wise enough to woo the core north and middle belt instead of concentrating on the SE.

Supported & Seconded by all The Orisas/Oruntos of Yorubaland.
Olodumare je ki eyi ti odore wa li oruko ODUDUWA. ASE.

Biety:
u are d one deceiving urself.
If u understand d kind hatred some of the SS tribes are harbouring towards ur tribe,you'll understand that the Yorubas u ignorantly think are ur biggest headache are learners. If Tinubu extends invitation to GEJ tomorrow,he'll gladly receive the invitation and attend d occasion. It's u people that don't have the habit of moving on.

We have heard.
We the Ss crew.
Nonsense.

ariesbull:
Such a long letter

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Such a serious ISSUE(ISSVE IN HEBREW).

Charleys:
we write to honor you in this letter.

Someone please summarize. I believe it's some form of ash licking.

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The Taste is in eating all, so read all. Every word matters.

ariesbull:
Such a long letter

Yes..long and very very straight to the point.
I love this,not that loose broken compass, grandson who keeps wasting his time on the harmless Igbos.

The whole south should please put aside our imaginary differences and join hands,forces,heads together and face, tackle this common enemy...

These are yorubas with their thinking caps not the ones will have on here with their Igbo this Igbo that sermons

Rekhina:
Please oodua stop making noise ,Every1 knows igbos are worst than fulani with their evil business of sparepart ,goods and services ...

Their hardwork(wickedness) pisses me off ,
They are 2 handsome and they avoid our yoruba girls ,
Their girls so preety and they callously avoid we islam male ,
Fulanis are innocent eventhough they killed hundreds of us !



Cc Adaibeku

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Omo ale ni e.

Biety:
As the head of islamic religion and the father of the fulanis there's nothing wrong writting to him to call his subjects to order.This is what common sense dictates, not issueing empty threats and fighting imaginary enemies online as common with some people. Good one from this Oodua group,comrising not only Yorubas but also Edo and Itskekiri people.This is a reasurance that our allies in SS are strongly behind us.

Refrain from this way of thinking,the entire south should stand as one against the Common enemy.

When you point one finger at and accuse others of empty threats and imaginary enemies,four fingers are pointing back at you.

I'm Edo,we Niger Deltans,the Igbos and you yorubas are at the receiving end of this northern internal colonisation and oppression.

Let's come together and liberate ourselves please

middlebelter:
The issue with Nigeria is not the Fulanis, it unfortunate to say the Igbos and Yorubas are the main problems Nigeria is not moving forward and this has been giving the Fulanis to do what they want. They can treat Yorubas the way they want because they know the Igbos will applaud such act as vengeance for Yorubas role in civil war despite the fact that manyYoruba supported Igbos during the war, house them, protected them or even fought along with them. They won't remember that Fajuyi choose to die to protect Ironsi, rather they see Yorubas as traitor.
Yorubas, see Igbos as selfish, unreliable when it comes to political alliance and unrepentantly domineering.
Armed with such information, the Fulanis finds it easy to manipulate the South to get what they want in Nigeria at the expense of others.

The only solution and indeed a fast one that will send fear down to thrones in the North is not this type of letter, it is a reconciliation meeting between the Yoruba leaders and Igbos leader with other ethnic minorities in South not taking sides but facilitating reconciliation between all. Thereafter, a joint communiqué of this nature above to FGN, Fulanis , ECOWAS, AU and UN with deadlines will cause the desired reactions.

BEAUTIFUL

AfonjaConehead:
Refrain from this way of thinking,the entire south should stand as one against the Common enemy.

When you point one finger at and accuse others of empty threats and imaginary enemies,four fingers are pointing back at you.

I'm Edo,we Niger Deltans,the Igbos and you yorubas are at the receiving end of this northern internal colonisation and oppression.

Let's come together and liberate ourselves please

Noted!
United south is all we all want but it's difficult to look the other way when a person from another tribe insults your people.
Example of what I'm saying is your user's name AFONJACONEHEAD, it says opposite of what you claim to stand for.

Biety:
u are d one deceiving urself.
If u understand d kind hatred some of the SS tribes are harbouring towards ur tribe,you'll understand that the Yorubas u ignorantly think are ur biggest headache are learners. If Tinubu extends invitation to GEJ tomorrow,he'll gladly receive the invitation and attend d occasion. It's u people that don't have the habit of moving on.

was that why apc the yoruba party lost presidential election in all 6 SS states?

Bede2u:
was that why apc the yoruba party lost presidential election in all 6 SS states?

APC yoruba party? lol

Biety:
APC yoruba party? lol

no its an igbo party lola

Bede2u:
no its an igbo party lola

It's no longer hausa fulani party?

Biety:
It's no longer hausa fulani party?

it has always been an amala and ewedu party. Hausa fulani has no party...they can join pdp in 2023 and u knw it

Bede2u:
it has always been an amala and ewedu party. Hausa fulani has no party...they can join pdp in 2023 and u knw it

PDP is now a regional party under the control of WIKE, so if any hausa fulani joins the regional party, it's not for its progress but to serve as mole. And believe me PDP will have moles joinning its rank but thinking they are loyal party members,this will make the 2023 presidential election an easy ride for a SW candidate that will contest under the banner of APC.

Biety:
PDP is now a regional party under the control of WIKE, so if any hausa fulani joins the regional party, it's not for its progress but to serve as mole. And believe me PDP will have moles joinning its rank but thinking they are loyal party members,this will make the 2023 presidential election an easy ride for a SW candidate that will contest under the banner of APC.

chai delusions and stupidity in one write up