₦airaland Forum

My personal Opinion!

Former governors like matawalle of Zamfara, Ganduje of Kano, Bagudu of Kebbi, Fayose of Ekiti and that of Jigawa state have little to nothing that they can contribute aside with the sole aim of enriching themselves. I don’t mind ex governors like Fayemi, Dave umahi, elrufai (even though I thoroughly hate this elrufai guy because of his utterances and extremism). There’s abit of know how about these particular ex govs that asiwaju could use. As for Wike, even though he did well as a governor, he seems to lack maturity in some certain waYs.

Above all, BAT knows better that as to who he is appointing and I very well trust in his ability when it comes to assembling great minds. Kudos to BAT so far, Nigeria shall be great again.

From an Atiku supporter.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FEDERATION
PRESS & PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT

June 19, 2023

PRESS RELEASE
*PRESIDENT TINUBU RETIRES ALL SERVICE CHIEFS, ADVISERS, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF CUSTOMS, APPOINTS NEW ONES*

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, has approved the immediate retirement of all Service Chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police, Advisers, Comptroller-General of Customs from Service as well as their replacements with immediate effect.

The newly appointed Officers are:
S/N NAME APPOINTMENTS
1 Mallam Nuhu Ribadu National Security Adviser
2 Maj. Gen. C.G Musa Chief of Defence Staff
3 Maj. T. A Lagbaja Chief of Army Staff
4 Rear Admirral E. A Ogalla Chief of Naval Staff
5 AVM H.B Abubakar Chief of Air Staff
6 DIG Kayode Egbetokun Acting Inspector-General of Police
7 Maj. Gen. EPA Undiandeye Chief of Defense Intelligence

Mr President has also approved the following appointments:
S/N NAME APPOINTMENTS
1 Col. Adebisi Onasanya Brigade of Guards Commander
2 Lt. Col. Moshood Abiodun Yusuf 7 Guards Battalion, Asokoro, Abuja
3 Lt. Col. Auwalu Baba Inuwa 177, Guards Battalion, Keffi, Nasarawa State
4 Lt. Col. Mohammed J. Abdulkarim 102 Guards Battalion, Suleja, Niger
5 Lt. Col. Olumide A. Akingbesote 176 Guards Battalion, Gwagwalada, Abuja

Similarly, the President has approved the appointments of other Military Officers in the Presidential Villa as follows:
S/N NAME APPOINTMENTS
1 Maj. Isa Farouk Audu
(N/14695) Commanding Officer State House Artillery
2 Capt. Kazeem Olalekan Sunmonu (N/16183) Second-in-Command, State House Artillery
3 Maj. Kamaru Koyejo Hamzat (N/14656) Commanding Officer, State House Military Intelligence
4 Maj. TS Adeola (N/12860) Commanding Officer, State House Armament
5 Lt. A. Aminu (N/18578) Second-in- Command, State House Armament

Mr. President has also approved the appointments of two (2) additional Special Advisers, and two (2) Senior Assistants, namely:

S/N NAME APPOINTMENTS
1 Hadiza Bala Usman Special Adviser, Policy Coordination
2 Hannatu Musa Musawa Special Adviser, Culture and Entertainment Economy
3 Sen. Abdullahi Abubakar Gumel Senior Special Assistant , National Assembly Matters (Senate)
4 Hon. (Barr) Olarewaju Kunle Ibrahim Senior Special Assistant, National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives)

Finally, the President has approved the appointment of Adeniyi Bashir Adewale as the Ag. Comptroller General of Customs.

It is to be noted that the appointed Service Chiefs, the Inspector-General of Police and the Comptroller General of Customs are to act in their positions, pending their confirmation in accordance with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Willie Bassey
Director, Information
For: Secretary to the Government of the Federation

DMerciful:
North is not a nationality but about half of Nigeria with so many nationality. So why did he pick Igbos as reference to South? Are they the only nationality in the South?


No matter how you guys hate on Igbos, we will succeed above you!

That’s why I termed it northernphobia. Phobia entails resentment against a particular region or tribe. However, as always with some of you guys, you don’t see the wrong in you but with others so I am not surprised you are defending. Continue with your victim mindset that you are being hated. If you feel that way, so be it. You and your kinds that reason like that, will always be beneath other respected Igbos and Nigerias at large.

DMerciful:
He said Southerner but you just can't hide your Igbophobia

It wasn’t northernphobia when the poster asserted that the NSA position shouldn’t be given to the north, but it’s an igbophobia when another poster asserted that the position shouldn’t be given to Igbo.

Low self esteem Dey worry una.

Meanwhile, BAT will appoint whosoever he believes is capable of doing the job for him, go hang una selves if you don’t agree, ipob terrorist

APC is a really a strong party. I expect the SW to be home to APC with the emergence of tinibu.
Obviously, PDP isn’t as strong as it used to be in the south. However, it is still stronger in the whole of northern Nigeria. As a matter of fact, PDP is stronger in 2023 in the north compared to 2019.
The LP has taken over the SE and I see it continuing that way. LP has zero candidate from SS, it’s still under the control of PDP. However, I expect APC to penetrate SS more than ever before.

As it is presently, APC is the party to beat. PDP is more likely to uproot APC than any other party. Performance of Tinibu will determine if the nation will vote for him come 2027. I verdict is I see tinibu becoming the best Nigerian president since democracy.

Additionally, you senators, reps etc in the APC that are feeling being neglected by the ruling party, the mostly likely party to be defected is still the PDP. 80% of northern politicians will decamp to PDP if need be and few to NNPP. The same I would say in the SW and SS. Only the SE will most likely consider the LP as the first option. There’s no denying that some restructing in terms of leadership change is needed and harmony needs to the brought in in the PDP to position it for 2027.

nsiba:
The cultural and ethnic melding of Northern Nigeria’s Hausa and the Fulani people is so deep, so labyrinthine, so time-honored, and so unexampled that a fictitious ethnic category called the “Hausa-Fulani” was invented by Nigeria’s southern press to describe the emergent ethnic alchemy it has produced.


Northern intellectuals resented the label at first. For example, the late Dr. Yusufu Bala Usman, the famously iconoclastic professor of history at the Ahmadu Bello University who was ethnically Fulani and who was the scion of the Katsina and Kano royal families, condemned the hyphenation of Hausa and Fulani as both ill-willed and ignorant.

But several Northern Nigerian elites of Hausa and Fulani filiation have now enthusiastically embraced it. President Muhammadu Buhari, for instance, told the Weekly Trust in 1999 that he loved the hyphenated Hausa-Fulani identity that the southern press invented because it encapsulates the complexity of his own identity. His father is Fulani while his mother is half Kanuri and half Hausa.

More than that, though, Buhari is culturally and linguistically Hausa. Like most people in Nigeria’s northwest who trace patrilineal bloodline to the Fulani (including most of the emirs), he doesn’t speak a lick of Fulfulde (as the language of the Fulani is called in Nigeria) and is completely divorced from the culture of the “unmingled” Fulani who now live mostly in Nigeria’s northeast and in the bushes elsewhere in the country.

Over the years, the northern political elite not only used the common Islamic heritage of the Hausa and the Fulani people as an instrument to construct and cement the notion of an undivided and indivisible Hausa-Fulani identity, they also encouraged other parts of the country to see them as one, undifferentiated people.

In time, the rest of the country came to regard the Hausa and the Fulani as indistinguishable. A popular quip among the Yoruba says, “Gambari pa Fulani ko lejo ninu,” which roughly translates as “If a Hausa person kills a Fulani person, there is no case,” implying that the Hausa and the Fulani are homogenous people whose internal strife are no more than evanescent, resolvable sibling squabble.

But the emergence and unabating intensification of kidnapping for ransom and other forms of rural and urban banditry in the Northwest where most of the villains are Fulani and most of the victims are Hausa are rupturing the centuries-old ethnic harmony between the Hausa and the Fulani that Nigerians had taken for granted.

In response to the rural and urban banditry by mostly Fulani brigands against Hausa people, Hausa people have formed vigilante groups called yan sakai or yan banga for self-defense, but Fulani people say the yan banga self-defense groups often indiscriminately murder innocent Fulani people who are not even remotely connected with abductions and murders.

This has provoked an endless cycle of recriminations and retaliatory violence between Hausa and Fulani people and is threatening the age-old, Islam-inspired ethnic fusion between them.

This has been going on for years under the radar of the national and international media until BBC’s BBC Africa Eye brought it to the forefront of global attention in its Jul 24, 2022, documentary titled “The Bandit Warlords of Zamfara.” The documentary showed that although the Hausa and the Fulani share a common culture, religion, heritage, and language, they are, for the most part, divided and rarely mix in rural areas. They fight over land, water, and food.

Self-confessed Fulani bandits told the BBC that Hausa people enjoy preferential treatments in government jobs, that Fulani people face discrimination in the formal sector in northern Nigeria, and that kidnapping, banditry, and indiscriminate mass murders were the only way they could call attention to their neglect.

Following the documentary, which so unsettled the Nigerian government that local TV stations that rebroadcast it were fined, there has been an open discussion, particularly in Arewa social media circles, of hitherto culturally taboo subjects such as whether Usman Dan Fodio whose jihad inaugurated the current Fulani ruling families in much of Muslim northern Nigeria was a Hausa-hating Fulani ethnic supremacist.

Islam had been centuries old and already deeply entrenched in Hausa land before Usman Dan Fodio’s nineteenth-century jihad, which many historians have called a “Fulani war.” The well-regarded seventeenth-century Songhai Muslim scholar by the name of Ahmad Baba, for instance, had recognized Hausa land as a bastion of Islam.

In a 1613 essay titled, “Al-kashf wa-l-bayān li-aṣnāfmajlūb al-Sūdān” (translated into English as “The Exposition and Explanation Concerning the Varieties of Transported Black Africans”), he wrote that “the people of Kano, some of Zakzak [Zaria], the people of Katsina, the people of Gobir, and all of the Songhay” lived under ideal Islamic rule and could never be enslaved by other Muslims.

About 200 years later, when Dan Fodio decided to “reform” the Islam he met in Hausa land, he repudiated the Islam that the Hausa people had practiced. In his 1806 treatise titled "Bayan Wujub Al-Hijra, Ala L-Ibad,” Dan Fodio rebutted Ahmad Baba’s thesis by asserting that what was true of Hausa land when Ahmad Baba wrote, “might not necessarily be true at all other times, since every scholar relates what he sees in his own days.” Dan Fodio’s son, Muhammad Bello, also wrote Infaq al-mansur in 1813, exactly 200 years after Ahmad Baba, and contested the notion that Hausa land was ruled by Islamic precepts.

Now, in everyday dialogic engagements on social media, in the marketplace, and in the streets, Hausa and Fulani people are openly talking about the jihad and its decidedly ethnic character. Hausa people are asking why all the emirs that emerged from the jihad, except for that of Bauchi, were Fulani. (Emirs in Borgu in Kwara and Niger states are not the product of the jihad and are not Fulani.)

These questions are especially important because the Fulani emirs who dislodged Hausa Muslim rulers have been doing exactly what the Hausa Muslim rulers were accused of by Fulani jihadists—keeping multiple wives and concubines, oppressing everyday folks called the talakawa, believing and partaking in fortunetelling, etc. Besides, in Islam, leadership isn’t hereditary, so Hausa people are asking why a supposedly Islamic jihad has entrenched Fulani ethnic monarchies to the exclusion of the native Hausa populations.

These debates aren’t new, of course. For example, in a June 30, 2000, article titled “The Fulani Factor in Nigerian Politics” published in the Weekly Trust, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (who later became the emir of Kano on June 8, 2014, and was dethroned on March 9, 2020) caused a stir among not just other Nigerians but also among Hausa people when he said although the Fulani in northern Nigeria have lost their language and culture to the Hausa, they still cherish the irreproducible cultural and genetic distinctiveness that their ethnic identity imbues them with.


He isolated Nigerian leaders of putative Fulani line of descent—Ahmadu Bello, Shehu Shagari, Murtala Mohammed, and Muhammadu Buhari—whom he said even their “greatest enemies” respect because they supposedly embodied incomparable and uniquely Fulani values (even when they are/were not culturally Fulani).

He pointed out that the same could not be said of “other prominent non-Fulani contemporaries of these great men,” including military Head of State Ibrahim Babangida, who is Hausa, and Sani Abacha, who was Kanuri but born and raised in Kano. Sanusi then said the Fulani are “culturally programmed, generation after generation, to imbibe the best spirits of what makes good leadership, to a far greater extent than competing cultures.”

Garba Shehu, now a spokesperson for President Muhammadu Buhari, who is ethnically Hausa from Jigawa, was incensed. In a response titled “Sanusi’s Racist Rubbish” on July 7, 2000, Shehu wrote: “When I read Sanusi L. Sanusi’s article ‘The Fulani Factor in Nigerian Politics’…I came away with the feeling that the writer wanted to do one of two things: to either be ridiculous or to insult all of us who are not Fulani with some racist crap.”

Shehu invalidated Sanusi’s ethnic supremacist notion of a Fulani culture that makes Fulani people such good, just leaders by calling attention to the atrocities that were perpetuated against Hausa people by Fulani emirs—or what he called the “well-documented acts of brigandage” by the “Fulani oligarchy”— which instigated the emergence of the Northern Elements Progressives Union (NEPU).

“Where was he when the late Sa’adu Zungur, Aminu Kano, and company fought Fulani rulers who forced Hausa peasants to work the emirs’ farms, snatched wives, plundered what was kept in their trust, and appropriated/mismanaged farmlands and other resources belonging to their subjects?” Shehu wrote.

These sorts of emotive brickbats between everyday Hausa and Fulani people are escalating and becoming mainstream in the aftermath of the bloodstained conflict between Hausa farmers and Fulani herders. In fact, there are now calls, from both Hausa and Fulani interlocutors, for the reformation of the emirate system to strip emirship of its exclusivity to people of Fulani ancestry.

I think these are transitory, spur-of-the-moment tensile pushes and pulls that may soon abate, but it’s astonishing that it’s even happening.

You have to quote the author of this piece, farooq kperoogi

PDP is dead is the SE. congratulations to the people of SE. but that is all where it ends.

Rivers, Akwbm, Delta, Edo and Bayelsa are stil Pdp with no LP governor is SS.
PDP is well alive and awoken in the North.
Is good that you be specific in your assertion. Nigeria doesn’t end in the SE or north.
LP has taken over in the SE.
LP is almost non existent in north and SW
APC is still majority in the SW with two PDP governors. However, I expect APC to be more stronger than ever in SW with Tinibu at the helm of affairs.

dustmalik:
I have met indigenous Fulanis from Michika. I've them as friends. You always claim to know what's happening in Adamawa, but I am very sure you are not even from there. Why don't you stick to what you know?

This is not true. I am higgi by tribe (from same Michika). We don’t have fulanis as indigenes, but rather settlers. Michika is 95% higgi while 5% marghi

garfield1:
Tinubu winning katsina.your namu namu no work.stop being ashamw of atiku and support him openly

Stop the lies. Atiku won katsina

garfield1:
He is beating him in kebbi,sokoto,katsina,jigawa

If wishes were horses

garfield1:
At least he is beating atiku and lp

Aside Kano, no state that Tinibu will win Atiku in NW

garfield1:
Obi is matching atiku up north

Continue consoling yourself

forgiveness:
Including Yobe. Those are sure bankers.

Yes including Yobe. However, the margin he will get in the 3 states i earlier highlighted will be more than what he will get in Yobe

Johnthum:
Rented crowd as usual 💯

Ok okoro

forgiveness:
I think thus is Saraki strong hold. He is expected to get reasonable amounts of votee here for Atiku but holistically speaking, Tinubu will win the election because the current governor performed and the clerics are conversing for Tinubu.

My point exactly. I support Atiku and I can see the amount of effort Saraki has put into garnering votes for Atiku. However, Kwara and Kogi together with Borno are the 3 northern strongholds of Tinibu. He is easily winning these 3 states.

Some of the early pictures before the program begins. NE for Atiku

Peppysco:
You're neither here nor there. It will take the pope to really console you by the time you begin to see the results of the election next week.

What is this🤣🤣

Tinibu will win Kwara state no doubt, but I am really impressed by the massive campaign of Saraki for Atiku. The failings of the APC govt also helped made selling PDP much easier

garfield1:
Jigawa just like katsina is 50% 50%.but since apc is in power,I'll slightly give it to apc

Katsina isn’t 50 50. PDP will equally win Katsina, you sure know that

garfield1:
If atiku wins,it will still be narrow like this

That is my point. But you allocated more to Tinibu than Atiku in your analysis, which to me doesn’t reflect the reality. Atiku will win Jigawa but the margin might not be too wide

garfield1:
Jigawa results

Apc 40%
Pdp 37%
Nnpp 20%
Lp 3%

Anything that suits you, cook it up. APC will get votes in Jigawa no doubt, but Atiku is winning

Recover Nigeria with Atiku

Z

garfield1:
The surest states for tinubu up north is borno,kwara,yobe,zamfara,kogi,kebbi accordingly...no one is sure of kaduna..atiku will win north probably but it will be narrowly.

I agree with you. Funny enough, I see tinibu winning Sokoto while Atiku wining Zamfara. These are just mere permutations however.

garfield1:
Tinubu will clear zamfara

The only Northwest state that Tinibu might edge Atiku is Kaduna. That even isn’t sure…. No doubt Tinibu will get significant votes in the north, but Atiku will win him overall. However, winning north doesn’t guarantee the presidency, how well will both do in SS and SE, it’s highly unpredictable. SE falls for Obi, SS I don’t know. We will see

9jii:
Since the internet makes you loose the grip of reality no nonsense is too much for you to believe.

Honestly I am tired of thier delusion. It’s like the disconnect thier brain from thier mouth when they want to talk so that they can speak the nonsense happily

DaddyFreeze2020:
Obasanjo is against Atiku and Tinubu because he knows them more than the Nigerians supporting them now.

He knows how much Atiku stole as Vice President and how much Tinubu stole as Governor of Lagos State.

He doesn't want Nigerians to keep suffering in the hands of rogues and thieves

8years of Obasanjo rule. He couldn’t fix power issue., we had worse roads then than now, corruption was equally and well alive as it is now, ASUU had strikes furring his time. What stopped him from keeping Nigerians away from suffering and fixing all these issues? He introduced yardua and Jonathan.basically, he had a hand in the presidency from 1999 to 2015. Yet non of the issues were eliminated. So what makes you think Obasanjo is a good judge?

As Twitter by Shehu Sani, Obj is against the two giant politicians due to thier strong will against his 3rd term presidential ambition

Reader530:
I am from Yobe. Atiku will win in the developed local government and Tinubu interior

What is the word on the street for the contesting aspirants? How do you think Yobe people will vote and whom do you think will get the highest votes in Yobe