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Someone said "Fulani is Yoruba's number one enemy and that the British handed over Nigeria to them."
*This is not the truth.*
The British did not hand over Nigeria to the Fulani.
Parliamentary elections were held in Nigeria on 12 December 1959. The result was a hung parliament with no clear majority to form a government.
Zik's National Council of Nigeria and Cameroons (NCNC), came first with 2,594,577 votes to get 81 seats.
Awolowo's Action Group (AG), came second with 1,992,364 votes to get 73 seats.
However, the Ahmadu Bello's Northern People's Congress (NPC), came a distant third with 1,922,179 votes to get 134 of the 312 seats in the House of Representatives despite getting less public votes.
The above three major political parties in the election did not get enough number of the seats to form a government. An alliance had to be formed to determine who would rule.

It was a no brainer that Zik's NCNC and Awolowo's Action Group should make a coalition government as they came first and second respectively.
Awolowo, then humbled himself and volunteered to be a Deputy Prime Minister or Finance Minister in a coalition government with Zik as the Prime Minister. This was because the Zik's NCNC party had more public votes and seats than the Awolowo's Action Group.
Zik invited Awolowo’s team to Asaba, the gateway between the Yoruba's Western Region and the Igbo's Eastern Region to hold coalition talks.
The talks were a clever ruse to keep Action Group’s hopes high, so that Action Group would be kept distracted from meeting with other minor parties for talks, including: Northern Elements Progressive Union with 8 seats; Mobolaje Grand Alliance with 6 seats; Igala Union with 4 seats; Independents Candidates with 4 seats; Igbira Tribal Union with 4 seats and the Niger Delta Congress with 1 seat.

Whilst the Action Group team was waiting in Asaba for a meeting with the NCNC, they read in the news that Zik and the NCNC had gone up North and clinched the deal with Ahmadu Bello on forming a coalition government with the NPC.
Tafawa Balewa, a Fulani, would be the Prime Minister of Nigeria while Zik would be the figure head Governor-General. Even Nkrumah of Ghana was shocked.
He asked Zik why having spent so much energy fighting for colonial emancipation and then settling for a toothless bulldog role when Nigeria needed him the most.
Zik wrote in his autobiography why he did not form a coalition government with Awolowo.
In 1947, with over £13,500 raised from the Yoruba people and given to the NCNC, Zik had led other six prominent NCNC delegates to London to protest the “obnoxious laws” of Governor Arthur Richards. The trip ended in failure with backbiting, abuses and accusation of theft against Zik. Zik’s opponents at the NCNC, accused him of squandering the money and the trust of Nigerians.
Zik replied insinuating that the Yoruba on the team, that are: Mrs. Fumilayo Ransome-Kuti, Prince Adeleke Adedoyin, and Dr. A. B. Olorunnimbe, were the problem.

There erupted a heated and prolonged press war between Zik’s Political Reminiscence in his West African Pilot and H.O. Davies’ Political Panorama in the Daily Service. This led to Igbo in Lagos rushing to buy machetes in large numbers thinking a tribal war was imminent.
The Governor and his General Secretary, Hugh Foot, quickly called Zik and H.O. Davies to order at the Government House.
Zik went away with the resolve that “the Yoruba must not be allowed to rule over others in Nigeria”.
And afterwards in the Daily Service published the speech of Zik in 1949 about Igbo being destined by God to conquer and rule over others. This among others, will explain why Zik rejected Awolowo's offer of a coalition government in 1959 and instead worked with the Fulani.
The Fulani had been reading Zik and the Igbo through the lens of his 1949 speech ever since.
The Fulani way of neutralising Zik when the opportunity came in 1959 was to offer him a powerless post, which surprisingly Zik and the NCNC dutifully accepted in place of being Nigeria’s first Prime Minister.
Zik had thought that the Igbo can easily manipulate the Fulani in place of the educated Yoruba. He thus manipulated Balewa to arrest Awolowo in 1962 and to have him jailed for 10 years in 1963.
Zik also manipulated Balewa to remove from the Western Region the Edo, Urhobo, Itsekiri and Western Ijaw that account for 70% of the oil wealth in Nigeria and created for them the Mid-West Region.
Zik's hatred for the Yoruba gave the Fulani the impetus to rule over others in Nigeria.
The Igbo coup plotters tried to undo Zik's mistake in 1966. And unfortunately, they killed other tribes and left theirs, which resulted in the civil war.
Britain did not really hand over Nigeria to the Fulani. Nigeria was given over to the Fulani by the Igbo.
However, to hold on to power in Nigeria, the Fulani enlisted the backing of the self-serving career politicians in England.
Not many Igbo especially the young ones know this narrative. I don’t think the Yorubas, even their elders remember this. Has the leopard changed its spots? Yoruba Ronu!!!!
Good morning sir.

But who is suffering now? The South-East of course. Who suffered for the Civil War? The South-East also. That is the price of betrayal.

efighter:
But who is suffering now? The South-East of course. Who suffered for the Civil War? The South-East also. That is the price of betrayal.

See fool the south east are busy enjoying themselves with no one disturbing them in their own land. While you Shameless backstabber Afonjas are slaves to the foolanis in your couresd land Shameless scallywags

And who gave the British the sovereign right to give out lands, people and their country... Are they not mortals like we all!!!?

The Yoruba and Hausa people did , they gave Nigeria to the Fulani in 2015 and in 2019 by voting massively for Buhari in a zombie manner.

Jasparrow1:
See fool the south east are busy enjoying themselves with no one disturbing them in their own land. While you Shameless backstabber Afonjas are slaves to the foolanis in your couresd land Shameless scallywags

The Yoruba and Hausa people have always been slaves to the Fulani.
Both tribes were easily conquered by Dan Fodio led jihadists, same way the Fulani herdsmen of today easily captured a the so called educated south west.

Why Always Hausafulani??

Why not focuse on developing your region the way north is doing... Than keep wasting your time blaming the north...

You guys have been blaming the north for all your misfortunes for all these years, since Nigeria got her independence...

The north is developing and seriously moving forward without blaming any tribe...

This is northern Nigeria...kano state Nigeria

You keep calling them backward, primitives and illiterates... Yet they are developing and putting their houses in order...

The Northerners hold their leaders accountable for their allocations... That's why northern governors are not asleep....they are working for their people...

But in the east... You blame Buhari and the Northerners for every calamities that befall the east...

You don't even know if you have a governor,senator and representatives? They are busy killing your region with Underdevelopment enriching themselves...

While you keep blaming Buhari and the north

Nwannem nwoke...

Why not let Hausafulani people be...

Why not focuse on developing your region?

Why the hatred towards our people??

Every state in Nigeria do receive annual financial allocation...

Why is the north developing why the east still remain backward??

Why is your leaders building their personal mansions while your roads and hospitals are dead traps

Your leaders are your problem...

No dey carry our mater for head...

Please leave Hausafulani alone....

We are not your problem...

We are not the governors rulling you...

Jonathan have ruled this country for 6years yet the east remains the way it is...

Hold your leaders accountable...

Hausafulani ain't your problem

This is kano state...

Agitate for development...

Stop trading blames and hatred that will never help the south east

Arrewa:
This is kano state...

Agitate for development...

Stop trading blames and hatred that will never help the south east

Stop talking crap you this Shameless afonja. we're not as backward as you backward animals this is Enugu. The cool and modernize city in the whole of Nigeria

Show us capital projects stop showing private estate

Jasparrow1:
Stop talking crap you this Shameless afonja. we're not as backward as you backward animals this is Enugu. The cool and modernize city in the whole of Nigeria

TUANKU:
The Yoruba and Hausa people have always been slaves to the Fulani.
Both tribes were easily conquered by Dan Fodio led jihadists, same way the Fulani herdsmen of today easily captured a the so called educated south west.

They will always remain slave to the foolanis

Jasparrow1:
They will always remain slave to the foolanis

Yes o!

Arrewa:
Show us capital projects stop showing private estate

Senseless Afonja and who told you that place is an estate