myobjective:


Don't mind the writer of that article.
Any Muslim from the northwest identify has Hausa despite having minorities in some of the states.

Muslims from States like Bauchi, Yobe, and Gombe either identify as Fulani or Hausa despite not being Hausa. Hausa is now an identity used by northern Muslims who are originally Hausa or Fulani

Do you blame them?

Atiku Abubakar is not Hausa or Fulani, but he will not say what he is.

Babangida is not Hausa or Fulani, but he will not say what he is.

Abdusalam Abubakar is not Hausa or Fulani, but he will not say what he is.

Abacha was not Hausa or Fulani, but he never said what he is.

Gowon is not Hausa or Fulani, but he said what he is.

This country has no reward for being a minority. If you want to get to a certain place, you have to use the right medium. Nigerians made it so.

As a Northerner, the first thing that qualifies you to be a president is your religion, followed by ethnicity, then wealth, then influence then at the least, your capacity to lead.

Wickedfacts:


You'll get plenty of them in Plateau state, Niger State and Southern Kaduna.

They are also in Kano. Some of them left during the incessant riots in Kano, where non-indigines were attacked (including non-hausa Muslims), while some sold their properties to other tribes predominantly Igbos and left to other areas(tho this is not done mainly by ogbomosho people but the Yorubas)... check sabon gari/Badawa areas in Kano and some areas in southern kaduna.

***This reply can be corrected/changed. Although this was the info I got/heard during my time there.

myobjective:


Don't mind the writer of that article.
Any Muslim from the northwest identify has Hausa despite having minorities in some of the states.

Muslims from States like Bauchi, Yobe, and Gombe either identify as Fulani or Hausa despite not being Hausa. Hausa is now an identity used by northern Muslims who are originally Hausa or Fulani

Please no one from Yobe, Borno, Adamawa, Plateau, Benue etc recognize as Hausa or Fulani. Borno and Yobe people are predominantly Kanuri and are proud of that. They have Christian minorities in Borno like the popular Chibok town having tribes like Margi, Babura etc. None identify as Hausa. Plateau or Jos people don't even identify as Hausa any day or anytime. Taraba has majority Jukun people who are not Hausa. Same as Adamawa that has a lot of non-hausa. Hausa is like a lingual franca in the north because it is generally spoken but ethnically not all are hausa. The real hausa are mostly in the north west, Kano, Jigawa, Kaduna(Zaria part), zamfara, katsina etc...for the Fulanis because of there nature you can see them almost everywhere in the north but are found in large numbers in Adamawa, Gombe,Bauchi...Hausa/fulani is just a term to recognize the long union between the Hausa's and Fulani...over time they intermarried, although we still have pure Fulanis and you can easily notice them by their physique and we have pure Hausas too...Southerners seem to have a wrong knowledge if this hausa, they think if someone up north speaks hausa then he is one which is very very wrong...all these tribes have their language which is not related to hausa at all

Enculer2:


What an idiot you are. Have the presidents be competent?

Seems u can’t pass a point without insults and what has their ethnicity got to do with performance or u think if we simply bring another ethic group we will automatically have good and great governance?? Pls tell me?

What are the yardsticks we shud have for good governance and performance? Tell me

sarrki:


https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2020/02/true-ethnic-origins-of-nigerias-past.html?m=1

You kept using the word mutually intelligible, in your write up, it was unnecessary.

Dreambeat:
Great article. Never knew about a couple of information in the article but the article is right about Goodluck Jonathan.He is Ogbia and not Ijaw like most people who are not Bayelsans or haven't lived in Bayelsa think. Ogbia is only POLITICALLY Ijaw but are in no way the same people.

is the language different?

hausadreturn:
No Zik?

Zik na ceremonial President.

Good article.

ogaemma:
The Murtala Mohammed history is true. After the civil war, because of trade and commerce so many people from Auchi, Ida and Okene left for Kano and never returned. Today their children are claiming hausa or Fulani.
Thanks for this history.

So murtala was born after the civil war ?

And you forgot Abacha.

mvem:
Please no one from Yobe, Borno, Adamawa, Plateau, Benue etc recognize as Hausa or Fulani. Borno and Yobe people are predominantly Kanuri and are proud of that. They have Christian minorities in Borno like the popular Chibok town having tribes like Margi, Babura etc. None identify as Hausa. Plateau or Jos people don't even identify as Hausa any day or anytime. Taraba has majority Jukun people who are not Hausa. Same as Adamawa that has a lot of non-hausa. Hausa is like a lingual franca in the north because it is generally spoken but ethnically not all are hausa. The real hausa are mostly in the north west, Kano, Jigawa, Kaduna(Zaria part), zamfara, katsina etc...for the Fulanis because of there nature you can see them almost everywhere in the north but are found in large numbers in Adamawa, Gombe,Bauchi...Hausa/fulani is just a term to recognize the long union between the Hausa's and Fulani...over time they intermarried, although we still have pure Fulanis and you can easily notice them by their physique and we have pure Hausas too...Southerners seem to have a wrong knowledge if this hausa, they think if someone up north speaks hausa then he is one which is very very wrong...all these tribes have their language which is not related to hausa at all

Oga calm down. Read the key world Muslim the Muslim among them identify as Hausa

Ausrichie:

Tell them. Nigeria is the one of the foolish countries practising apartheid with happiness.

I am telling them because many have ear but they can't use it to hear many have eyes but they can not see.

myobjective:


Oga calm down. Read the key world Muslim the Muslim among them identify as Hausa

Capital Wrong...There are many Non- Hausa Muslims in the North. I think you haven't been up north. Like the Kanuris of Borno are predominantly muslims and don't identify as hausa. Different heritage, tribe, language, culture etc...haven't you heard of the Kanem-Borno empire...there are other non-hausa Muslims up north, infact so many...

adanny01:


Do you blame them?

Atiku Abubakar is not Hausa or Fulani, but he will not say what he is.

Babangida is not Hausa or Fulani, but he will not say what he is.

Abdusalam Abubakar is not Hausa or Fulani, but he will not say what he is.

Abacha was not Hausa or Fulani, but he never said what he is.

Gowon is not Hausa or Fulani, but he said what he is.

This country has no reward for being a minority. If you want to get to a certain place, you have to use the right medium. Nigerians made it so.

As a Northerner, the first thing that qualifies you to be a president is your religion, followed by ethnicity, then wealth, then influence then at the least, your capacity to lead.

I think Abdulsalam Abubakar is actually a Hausa by ethnicity, his parent just settled in Niger state.

One other thing you have to understand, it was the military that gave those northern minority the clout and power without the military most northern minority will not attain all those feet no matter how well they claim to be Hausa.

Look at most democratically elected Northern leaders have always been from the core northwestern states. People like Atiku were hated because they are from the States with huge minorities

adanny01:


Why are you angry?

Do not forget that a group of Igbo military officers went on rampage, killing every other ethic officer in the way of Gen. Ironsi with the support of Igbos.

Up till, today Igbos don't subscribe to Nigeria as a nation, they are either thinking of an Igbo president or secession.

If an Igbo man still thinks of secession, how can he be made president when he can just put an end to the Nation.

Civil war happened because an Igbo man was passed over for president. Till today, the Igbo man has not shown any sign of unity with all ethic groups. How do you expect the Igbo man to be president with such behavior.

The SS has decided to move on and the have gotten recognition from the rest of Nigeria, when will the Igbo do same?

Keep lying to yourself with well documented lies from the pit of Nigeria terrorist defend quarters.


Any time Nigeria massacred innocent people of the land, Nigeria terrorist state will invent lies against unarmed innocent people to make them look bad, after taking all their belongs and resources.


Just as today, Nigeria is stealing BIAFRANS oil and other resources, anytime the Indigenous People Of BIAFRA cry against the zoo called Nigeria, terrorist security chiefs will give order to from their terrorist defend quarters to destroy, steal and kill unarmed innocent people of BIAFRA.

mvem:
Capital Wrong...There are many known- Hausa Musl ims in the North. I think was you haven't been up north. Like the Kanuris of Borno are predominantly muslims and don't identify as hausa. Different heritage, tribe, language, culture etc...haven't you heard of the Kanem-Borno empire...there are other non-hausa Muslims up north, infact so many...

Did you see Borno in the example I gave?
go through my message again, this time slowly and you will understand my message. I was born and live all my life here in the north

"Na san arewa fiye da yadda kuke tsammani"

FuckAllTheMODs:


They are also in Kano. Some of them left during the incessant riots in Kano, where non-indigenes were attacked (including non-hausa Muslims), while some sold their properties to other tribes predominantly Igbos and left to other areas(tho this is not done mainly by Ogbomosho people but the Yorubas)... check sabon gari/Badawa areas in Kano and some areas in southern Kaduna.

***This reply can be corrected/changed. Although this was the info I got/heard during my time there.

Not only Ogbomoso but Yoruba generally.

People always undermine the population of ethnic groups such as Yoruba, egbira and Auchi in the north because majority of them are Muslim who easily assimilate into the culture of their host communities.

WelcomeToBiafra:


Keep lying to yourself with well documented lies from the pit of Nigeria terrorist defend quarters.


Any time Nigeria massacred innocent people of the land, Nigeria terrorist state will invent lies against unarmed innocent people to make them look bad, after taking all their belongs and resources.


Just as today, Nigeria is stealing BIAFRANS oil and other resources, anytime the Indigenous People Of BIAFRA cry against the zoo called Nigeria, terrorist security chiefs will give order to from their terrorist defend quarters to destroy, steal and kill unarmed innocent people of BIAFRA.

The only thing worth replying to is the bolded.

South South has its own identity now. One by one, SS is joining forces with the North. The North appreciates them and am 100% sure that the next time a president is to be considered from the SE, it will go to the SS.

They are no longer Biafra because they are wiser. SE is Biafra and Biafra ends with the SE. Why would Biafra boast of what it isn't theirs in the first place.

360degreess:
All i know is;North is hausa and hausg is North.

where is sani abacha

What about Sonekan? Cant he be considered as one of them?

Donaldoni:
If you could add Ironsi, why didn't you add Shonekan

What of acting president Osinbajo

Waiting for piggiiddiiioootts to come for my head...

Why didn't you add Nwafor Orizu?

sarrki:


Away from politics, today's column on the back page of Saturday Tribune explodes myths and unmasks the ethnic origins of Nigeria's past military and civilian heads of state: Nigeria’s education system robs Nigerians of basic knowledge about their country and its people. That’s why although ethnic identity is a central part of Nigeria’s national imagination, most Nigerians know awfully little about the ethnic identities of their rulers.

In the absence of accurate, official information, most people have resorted to assumptions, guesswork, and outright falsehoods on the ethnic origins of their rulers—and on most things about the country, leading me to once characterize Nigeria as a “know-nothing nation” in my August 10, 2013 column.

I have chosen to dedicate today’s column to providing accurate, verifiable information about the ethnic identities of Nigeria’s past presidents and heads of state.

1. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. Several people, particularly in the South, have assigned a Hausa, Fulani, or “Hausa-Fulani” ethnic identity to Nigeria’s first Prime Minister. But he was neither ethnically Hausa nor Fulani. Of course, if he was neither Hausa nor Fulani, he couldn’t conceivably be “Hausa-Fulani.”

He came from a small ethnic minority group called the Gere, whom Hausa people call Bagere or Bageri (singular) and Gerawa (plural). Gere is not mutually intelligible with Hausa or Fulfulde. It’s a wholly separate ethnic group that traces distant roots from what is now Chad.

As I pointed out in my January 23, 2016 column titled “Gere:Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa’s Real Ethnic Group,” a 1905 Journal of the Royal African Society article by a G. Merrick titled “Languages in Northern Nigeria” said the Gere are “closely related to the Bolewa [a minority language spoken mostly in Fika Emirate in Yobe State] and living to the west of them.”

2. Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi: There is no question that Aguiyi-Ironsi, who became Head of State after Tafawa Balewa’s assassination, was Igbo from Umuahia in what is now Abia State.

3. Yakubu Gowon: Although he was raised in Wusasa near Zaria, which is home to Fulani Christians, his parents were Angas (also called Ngas) from what is now Plateau State. Angas is an Afro-Asiatic language like Hausa, but it is mutually unintelligible with Hausa.

As I pointed out in my April 3, 2016 column titled “Nigerian Languages are More Closely Related Than You Think,” “Another surprising fact about Nigeria’s language family classification is that Hausa, the most prominent member of the Afro-Asiatic family in Nigeria, shares the same ancestor with the Angas of Plateau State. In fact, just like Hausa, Angas belongs to the Chadic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Yet two ethnic groups couldn’t be more culturally different than the Hausa and the Angas.”

4. Murtala Mohammed: Murtala Mohammed's paternal identity is the subject of elaborate, long-standing speculations. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who is now Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II, once wrote that Murtala Mohammed was Fulani. A few other people from Kano say the same thing. But several other people say it was only Murtala’s mother that was Fulani from Kano.

His paternal identity is shrouded in controversy. But the most credible clue to his paternal identity, in my opinion, is the assertion that his father was from northern Edo State. A man by the name of Austin Braimoh, who says he is Murtala’s paternal first cousin, wrote in a February 19, 2016 Vanguard article titled “Remembering Murtala Mohammed” that Murtala’s father's name was Dako Mohammed and that he migrated to Kano from the village of Igbe in the Auchi area of Edo State after briefly living in Lagos.

“It is well documented that General Murtala Mohammed made efforts to reach out to his paternal relations before his demise,” he wrote. “Two months into his tenure as Head of State, he was at Auchi to confer with the Otaru of Auchi Alhaji Guruza Momoh. He invited him to join him to that year’s Hajj in Mecca. On his way out of Auchi, he directed that a mosque be erected at Aviele, near Auchi in a predominantly Muslim settlement. The mosque was completed after his death and named after him.”

Given the number of people with “Auchi” ancestry who rose to prominence in the Kano society, including the legendary Isyaku Rabiu, this claim isn't far-fetched.

5. Olusegun Obasanjo: Obasanjo’s Owu ethnicity is well-known. There is nothing to add or take away from it. Of course, the Owu are a subgroup of the Yoruba ethnic group.

6. Shehu Shagari: Shehu Shagari’s Fulani ethnicity is also well-known. Although he also spoke Hausa, he self-identified as Fulani. His great-grandfather founded the town whose name he adopted as his last name.

7. Muhammadu Buhari: Apart from being phenotypically Fulani like Shagari, Buhari also never missed an opportunity to proclaim his Fulani ethnic identity. In fact, at 18, when he applied to enlist in the Nigerian military, he gratuitously mentioned his ethnicity. “I have the honour to apply for regular service in the Royal Nigerian Army,” he wrote on October 18, 1961. “My name is Muhammadu Buhari and I am a Fulani.”

8. Ibrahim Babangida: IBB’s ethnic identity is surprisingly a magnet for controversy and speculations. He has been called Gbagyi (whom Hausa people call Gwari), Nupe, and even Yoruba from Ogbomoso or Osogbo. But he told journalists and his biographers at different times that his immediate ancestors were Hausas from Kano who migrated to what is now Niger State.

I’d rather go with his self-definition of his ethnic identity than the evidence-free claims of others.

9. Abdulsalami Abubakar: Because Minna, where Abubakar was born, was founded by the Gbagyi, people have also assumed that he is Gbagyi. But he told a biographer that he was born to Hausa parents. Since Hausas are not native to Minna, it must mean that, like IBB, his immediate ancestors came to Minna from Nigeria’s northwest.

10. Umaru Musa Yar’adua: Yar’adua has been erroneously called “Fulani” because of his phenotypic features, but his immediate paternal ancestors are actually Tuaregs, possibly from Mauritania. The Tuaregs are a branch of the Berber cluster in North Africa. Many Tuaregs (whom Hausa people call Buzu) in northern Nigeria tend to be mistaken for Fulani because of the similarities in their physical features. I got to know that the Yar’Adua family are Tuaregs when I lived in Katsina town in the late 1990s.

Another prominent Tuareg family in northern Nigeria that people mistake for Fulani is the Baba-Ahmed family in Kaduna State.

11. Goodluck Jonathan: Jonathan is often mistaken for an Ijaw, but he is not. He is from a small ethnic group called the Ogbia (or Ogbinya), which is linguistically and ethnically unrelated to Ijaw. As of 2006, according to records, the Ogbia were a little over 266,000.

As I pointed out in my August 3, 2013 column titled “What’s REALLY President Goodluck Jonathan’s Ethnic Group?” while Ijaw belongs to the Atlantic-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family, Ogbia belongs to the Central Delta subphyla, but historians say the ancestors of the Ogbia people most likely migrated to their present location from present-day Edo State. Ogbia has its own dialects, which are all mutually intelligible, according to Ethnologue. They are Agholo (or Kolo), Oloibiri, and Anyama.

Concluding Thoughts
A distribution of the paternal ethnic identities of Nigeria’s presidents and heads of state shows that the Hausa and the Fulani each had two, and Yoruba, Igbo, Angas, Ogbia, Tuareg, and Etsako (or Afenmai) each had one.

Of course, that’s simplistic. Identity in northern Nigeria is more complex than that. Religion is a more important marker of identity than ethnicity is. For instance, although Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was Gere, he was culturally Hausa and was indistinguishable from a Hausa or Fulani Muslim.

Nonetheless, in the interest of historical accuracy, it doesn’t hurt to be familiar with the facts about the ethnic identities of Nigeria’s past and present presidents and heads of states.

https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2020/02/true-ethnic-origins-of-nigerias-past.html?m=1

I really do not know why idiocy has taken root in certain sections of Nigeria. Even free education, most of the masses are starkly uneducated. For the sake of the shithole called Nigeria, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa WAS NOT HEAD OF STATE of Nigeria. He was the head of government. The head of state and command in chief of the armed forces when Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the prime minister of Nigeria was Hon. Dr. Nnmadi Azikiwe.

mvem:
Benue people are not hausa, Plateau are not hausa, Taraba , Adamawa...even Borno and Yobe who are kanuris are not hausa. The core hausa is around the Zaria, Kano axis. The Hausa spoken in the north is like a lingua franca everyone speaks but ethnically not everyone up north is hausa...Southerners make this mistake

Op failed to name Abacha. Abacha is a kanuri man from Borno from his tribal mark but adopted Kano as his state

Even Northerners make the same mistake. They thought that Jonathan is Igbo.

symbianDON:
I don't believe IBB is originally from the north. His middle name, Badamasi, is a twisted form of Gbadamosi which is yoruba in origin.

But IBB said that he's Hausa. Do you know better that he does?

Sylraph1:
It baffles me on how a particular tribe we ascibe to be illiterates,backward,religion fanatics and so on are the one ruling Nigeria from time immemorial..

How is that even possible.....
Abi They are the real owners of NIGERIA

How has the North fared with their brothers ruling? They're not the real owners of Nigeria. They're just devilish to have ignored their people.

mr poster u need brain surgery. goodluck is ijaw, obj is yoruba, stop talking nonsense ur cant carry.

I have also heard about that Auchi angle of Murtala Mohammed, from a 'trusted' source from Auchi. So I would like to go with it.

In all, the article was insightful especially for pointing out that Yaradua is Tuareg rather than Fulani as popularly believed.

myobjective:


Not only Ogbomoso but Yoruba generally.

People always undermine the population of ethnic groups such as Yoruba, egbira and Auchi in the north because majority of them are Muslim who easily assimilate into the culture of their host communities.

We are actually not talking about population but ethnicity of those the first person I quoted mentioned.

Back to your quote...
About population, that is their decisions, some decided to keep their real ethnic on the low because of their safety or other reasons best known to them.

P.S- I don't think they are undermined, when you see any of those ethnic you mentioned and their host, you will be able to tell their differences if you have been their for a while(long time).

Dedetwo:


I really do not know why idiocy has taken root in certain sections of Nigeria. Even free education, most of the masses are starkly uneducated. For the sake of the shithole called Nigeria, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa WAS NOT HEAD OF STATE of Nigeria. He was the head of government. The head of state and command in chief of the armed forces when Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the prime minister of Nigeria was Hon. Dr. Nnmadi Azikiwe.

I thought I'm the only one that noticed the deliberate omission. That's why I didn't take the OP and his/her post serious.

Modified: I just checked the OP's moniker. I shouldn't have gone through it in the first place had it been I checked the moniker first.

Many West African leaders are of the Fulani descent including
the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari;
the President of Senegal, Macky Sall;
the President of Gambia, Adama Barrow;
the Vice President of Sierra Leone, Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh; and
the Prime Minister of Mali, Boubou Cisse.

They also lead major international institutions, such as
the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina J. Mohammed;
President-Elect of the United Nations General Assembly, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande; and
the Secretary-General of OPEC, Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo.

List of notable Fulanis (List of Fula people)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fula_people

Nigeria
Usman dan Fodio (1754–1817) – Famous Islamic scholar from Sokoto, Spiritual leader of the Sokoto Caliphate, Nigeria
Abdullahi dan Fodio- Former Emir of Gwandu. Scholar and brother of Usman dan Fodio, Nigeria
Nana Asma'u- Princess, Poet, Islamic Scholar and Daughter of Usman dan Fodio, Nigeria
Muhammed Bello (1781–1837) – Second Sultan of Sokoto in Nigeria
Abu Bakr Atiku (1782–1842) – Third Sultan of the Sokoto Caliphate, reigning from October 1837 until November 1842. Nigeria
Modibo Adama (1786 – 1847) - First Laamiɗo Fombina in Nigerira and Cameroon and small parts of Chad and Central Africa Republic
Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Al-Fulani Al-Kishwani- Great African Mathematician in the Early 1700s.
Ahmadu Bello – Sardauna of Sokoto and First Premier of Northern Region of Nigeria
Shehu Shagari – Former President of Nigeria
General Murtala Mohammed- Former Head of State of Nigeria
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua – Former President of Nigeria
Major General Mohammadu Buhari – Current President and Former Head of State of Nigeria
Major General Shehu Musa Yar'Adua – Former Deputy Head of State, Nigeria
Major General Tunde Idiagbon - (Fulani/Yoruba); Former Deputy Head of State, Nigeria
Atiku Abubakar – Former Vice President of Nigeria
Brigadier General Sa'adu Abubakar –Current Sultan of Sokoto, Nigeria
Muhammadu Barkinɗo Aliyu Musdafa Current Laamiɗo of Adamawa, Nigeria
Abubakar Shehu Abubakar Current Laamiiɗo of Gombe, Nigeria
Alh Abbas Njidda Tafida Current Laamiiɗo of Jalingo, Nigeria
Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi - Former Governor of Kano State, Politician
Rabiu Kwankwaso - Former Minister of Defence, Former Governor of Kano State, Nigeria
Abdullahi Umar Ganduje - Current Governor of Kano State, Nigeria
Alhaji Sule Lamido - Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Former Governor of Jigawa State, Nigeria
Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila-Politician and Administrator
Amina J. Mohammed – Politician; Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations; Former Federal Minister of Environment, Nigeria
Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo – Secretary General of OPEC, Nigeria
Ibrahim Gambari – Scholar and diplomat. Under-Secretary-General / Special Adviser – Africa United Nations; former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nigeria
Alhaji Ibrahim Kolapo Sulu Gambari- Nigerian lawyer and monarch. Current Emir of Ilorin, Nigeria
Ibrahim Dabo – Emir of Kano (1819–46), Nigeria
Muhammadu Dikko – Emir of Katsina (1906–44), Nigeria
Sir Usman Nagogo – Emir of Katsina (1944–1981), Nigeria
Muhammadu Kabir Usman – Emir of Katsina (1981–2008), Nigeria
Abdullahi Bayero – Emir of Kano (1926–1953), Nigeria
Muhammadu Sanusi I – Emir of Kano (1954–1963), Nigeria
Ado Bayero – Emir of Kano (1963–2014), Nigeria
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi – Emir of Kano, former Governor Central Bank; Nigeria
Abubakar Olusola Saraki – (Fulani/Yoruba); Former President of the Senate Second Republic, Nigeria
Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki – (Fulani/Yoruba); Former Senator Kwara Central, Current Minister of State Transportation of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Nigeria
Bukola Saraki – (Fulani/Yoruba); Former President of the Nigerian Senate; Former Governor of Kwara State and Former Senator Kwara Central, Nigeria
Captain Muhammad Bala Shagari – Politician, Former Nigerian Army officer. Current Sarkin Mafaran Shagari and District Head of Shagari Local Government. Nigeria
Bello Bala Shagari – Documentary filmmaker, a Youth Activist & Leader and the Current President of The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Nigeria
Sir Siddiq Abubakar III – Was a Nigerian Muslim leader. Former Sultan of Sokoto, Nigeria
Ibrahim Dasuki – Former Sultan of Sokoto, Nigeria
Muhammadu Maccido – Former Sultan of Sokoto, Nigeria
Rilwanu Lukman- Former Minister of Petroleum Resources and Mines, Power, Steel; and Former Secretary General OPEC.
Jubril Aminu - Former Senator of Adamawa; Pioneer Cardiac Surgeon; Former Minister of Education/Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Former President OPEC Conference
Aminu Bello- Nigerian Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Alberta and Consultant Nephrologist at the University of Alberta Hospital.
Muhammadu Ribadu - politician, First Minister of Defense after independence, Nigeria
Aisha Buhari - First Lady of Nigeria
Nuhu Ribadu - Former Pioneer Executive Chairman of Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande- Political scientist, administrator and career diplomat. Current President of the United Nations General Assembly, Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the UN, Former VP of the UN General Assembly.
Aliyu Modibbo Umar- Former Minister of State, Power and Steel (2002-2003), Former Minister of Commerce and Industry (2006-2007), Former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Abuja (2007-2008).
Ahmed Suleiman- current emir of Misau, Bauchi State

Burkina Faso
Thomas Sankara – Former President of Burkina Faso; Burkina Faso

Cameroun
Modibbo Adama – Islamic Scholar and first emir of Adamawa (Both Cameroon and Nigerian Adamawa)
Ahmadou Ahidjo – First President, Cameroon (1960–1982)
Sadou Hayatou – Former Prime Minister, Cameroon
Issa Hayatou – Former President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Former Acting President FIFA, Cameroon
Bello Bouba Maigari – 2nd Prime Minister, Cameroon

Ghana
Mohammed Ibn Chambas -lawyer, diplomat, politician and academic. Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA); First Executive Secretary of ECOWAS, Former Deputy Foreign Secretary and Deputy Minister of Education, Ghana

Mali
Amadou Toumani Touré – Former President, Former Head of State, Mali
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow – Former Prime Minister, Mali
Oumar Tatam Ly – Former Prime Minister, Mali

solmus:




I have always told people who just lump north up as just an ethnic group, North is diverse just as the South, just that they a bounded by religion

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not religion because there is a very large Christian population. The are bound by the idea of the north.christains make up about 30%