But hey, Nuhu Ribadu is not Fulani. Even if he is, being from Adamawa, he is a bit distant from the hegemonistic disposition of Northwest Fulanis who are still interested in expanding Usman Dan Fodio’s Jihad. Ribadu on the other hand is refined and does not possess such anachronistic and regressive mentality.
You can see that Tinubu is strategical in shutting out Fulanis from sensitive positions in his government.
Buhari is the last Fulani that would have his kind mentality that would ascend to power in Nigeria.
Lmao…”Ribadu is not Fulani…but even if he is” 🤡
Your divide and rule is dead on arrival. Arewa remains united and politically formidable (all 100+ ethnic groups) as we have always been
If anyone needs comforting, it is Ibo’s that have lost out totally from the Nigeria power equation and have just begun a 16-year journey of irrelevance in the political wilderness.
And you especially, that has finally accepted that your mediocre Peteru is never coming close to Aso Rock, despite your weak, handicapped & delusional pre-election permutations.
Penguin2: Sorry, if you people believe in yourself so much, you would have dared present Ahmed Lawan and know if APC wouldn’t have lost scandalously.
Fortunately unlike easterners, northerners are not emotional, impulsive politicians that would support a weak candidate just to make a needless point. Why would we support a politician that can barely govern his constituency? Why would we tactlessly and unstrategically disturb the delicate North-South power rotation like GEJ did and jeopardize/destroy our political future? Again, we are not tactless easterners.
We wanted power to rotate to the South for the sake of one Nigeria and that stubborn fact wouldn’t change if you struck your head ceaselessly against a sharp rock
Penguin2: The problem you people have with Atiku is because he’s neither an ethnic jingoist nor a religious fundamentalist like Buhari or the Muslim Muslim ticket that Tinubu used to deceive you people.
Accept that Tinubu deceived you guys with Muslim Muslim ticket and you people fell for it.
Yes and that’s why the North is enjoying the best representation under his government and haven’t uttered a whimper of dissatisfaction 🤡
Penguin2: And talking about Vice President Kashim Shettima…. Maybe I need to teach you a little history that Shettima is Kanuri, and the Kanuri are more vicious against Fulani hegemonists than even southerners. Need I remind you that the Kanuri defeated Usman Dan Fodio and halted his Jihad into Maiduguri and the Lake Chad Basin. So, you would be deceiving yourself to think that Shettima will serve the interest of ethnic jingoists and hegemonists.
Lol Shinedu wants to teach me Northern history. What do you know about Arewa? Lmao.
Have you EVER heard anyone from Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, Kaduna, Niger, Bauchi, Gombe, Nasarawa or Adamawa protest the choice of Shetimma?
That is because, while such ethnic differences could be played up by desperate elements in governorship and other local political contests, there is complete cultural and political unity of purpose among far Northerners in national politics
Not just Hausa, Fulani and Kanuri, which are the biggest groups. You can add the Nupe and a hundred other Northern ethnic groups in this united view of national politics. Furthermore, they are all subjects of, and pay allegiance to the Sultan of Sokoto.
Let me further enlighten you that thirty short years ago, the Abiola/Kingibe ticket recorded resounding political success in Hausa/Fulani heartland, including a big win in its heart of hearts, Kano. Ambassador Babagana Kingibe, like Kashim Shettima, is ethnic Kanuri while Asiwaju Tinubu, like M.K.O. Abiola, is ethnic Yoruba. No one in the North protested Kingibe’s appearance on the ticket then; no one is protesting Shettima’s place on the APC ticket now, certainly not on ethnic grounds. Up until 2019, Shettima was in fact Chairman of the Northern States Governors Forum, and he did a swell job of it.
P.S Mind you if Fulani is really your problem, then you have a major headache loading . Remember the powers of Shetimma as VP are actually less than someone like the NSA, a position held by Fulani Ribadu
Penguin2: First, APC had no choice but to concede its ticket to the south. Had Ahmed Lawan gotten it, who would have voted for him? He would have gotten votes in the Northeast and Northwest and then where else? Would Southwest have voted for Lawan? Would Kwara or Kogi have voted for Lawan? Don’t try to claim glory of APC zoning ticket to South; the party had no choice. Anything contrary would have been suicide.
The Northern leadership in the interest of national unity, already had a consensus for power rotation to the south, which aligned with the in-house gentleman’s understanding between the northern and SW blocs in the APC on rotation, and made the emergence of PBAT smooth and seamless with minimal resistance from the North. Don’t forget Gov. Badaru also sacrificed his ambition for Tinubu.
If the North was bent on retaining the Presidency, we would have easily supported Atiku and he would have won effortlessly.
Penguin2: And funny you, and your ilk, to think that you can win Nigerian presidency without Southeast. Goodluck to you, and those you would advise, with that. But I’ll leave you by telling you to add Atiku and Obi’s votes together and know what the result would have been had Obi not been in the race.
If Obi had not been in the race, it would have made absolutely no difference because Obi/SE would still not have won which is the crux of the matter.
It has been done ONCE, TWICE and THRICE by both a northerner and southerner so I don’t know what you’re on about. Any Presidential candidate can win a presidential election without S/East votes and that is an empirical fact
Penguin2: What you are doing is just lamentations. Northern hegemonists felt Obi was too disruptive to be allowed to win the election and that’s why they chose to rig the election for Tinubu, only for Tinubu to turn out being more disruptive than Obi ever promised.
Obi was a tactless IPOB apologist and that automatically disqualified him from any Northern support, hegemony or not. If you call that disruptive then you’re absolutely right.
Nobody rigged the election for Tinubu no matter how much you keep consoling yourself with such fallacy. Arewa deliberately supported and voted for Asiwaju because he was the best candidate by far, which Is why it is certain that even if the election is conducted 200 times, Obi would still lose woefully.
Penguin2: Whatever you think in your head is non of my business. My happiness is that by the time Tinubu is done (if Obi doesn’t recover his mandate in court) a lot of things the north had exclusive preserve of must have been taken away from their mouth. Deal with that.
It is your deeply rooted inferiority complex and selective memory that makes you think the North has exclusive preserve of any position. It’s now a southern Presidency and it is expected that positions would be rotated, just like was done under GEJ when the East was still relevant and occupied top cabinet positions.
Regardless, the North is the currently the most represented in Tinubu’s government and occupy the office of the VP, Speaker, NSA, Service Chiefs and important Presidential Aides and is on track to dominate the coming ministerial list, despite it being a southern Presidency so I wonder what’s “being taken from its mouth” if not that you’re looking for a lamentation partner to massage your current political reality ….Misery loves company.
You should be more worried about being sidelined, ignored, bypassed and irrelevant under a southern Presidency without any prospect of political relevance until 2039.
onuman: You are entertaining only your fellow Islamic extremists of Nigeria and other Parasites of Nigeria who believe that if IPOB takes Biafra out from Nigeria, cheap cash from from crude oil and gas deposits in the Niger Delta region will stop flowing to the remainder of Nigeria without Biafra. You lot don't understand that the richest countries in the world don't have mineral resources. Kontinue with your sponsored videos of people incriminating IPOB. You fool yourself. IPOB motto is No Violence.
Oksman: I can't remember quoting you. Your comment speaks volume of your so called 'intellectual sagacity' Your comments in nairaland most times gives you away as someone suffering from psycho dissonance that needs evaluation. You are privileged to receive my mention. Don't quote me ever again.
Oksman: He's a quota system product as his name reveals, what do you expect?
Of course, you spinelessly referred to me in the third person and unfortunately, I don’t suffer fools gladly.
Generalmystic: You're write rubbish, who doesn't know that Fulani herdsmen are the ones killing and abducting others in Nigeria even here in my state.
Yes and that must be why the killings and abductions of innocent people by Igbo IPOB terrorists in their own land are of less importance to you.
Monsignor22: All the terrorists attacks in Southern Kaduna, Benue, Zamfara and other parts of Nigeria outside the SE that have been attributed to your bush dwelling terrorists/animalistic brothers are also the work of Ipob right?
Keep deflecting, ESN might have their flaws but I'll take them killing any fulani animal trespassing in the SE than any other crimes they commit at this point.
Of course, if you say IPOB/ESN have the sole right to kill, kidnap, slaughter, butcher and kill any Igbo animal stopping them from terrorizing the South East; who am I to condemn their ordinary “flaws”?
goodnessme1: So after leaving They can't try to come back to know if the road is clear for them to continue their evil doing.
So IPOB’s that have been kidnapping, beheading and cannibalising their people especially in recent times, can’t try to kidnap more since it’s still a profitable and delicious venture to them?
Supremos: There's no weapon of sophistry that you and your ilks will deploy to absolve the criminal herdsmen whom Buhari launched against those whom he perceived as enemies of Fulani and Islam. The dynamism of insecurity in the east is encompassing. Their are vestiges of DSS compromise, unknown gunmen, Asari dokubo led Special Force also known as Ebube Agu that are killing innocent people, and the well known herdsmen terrorizing the lengths and breaths of the nation. Of course their are ESN vis-avis unknown gunmen that are confronting Herdsmen, DSS and Asari dokubo boys
Did IPOB/ESN not boast of clearing Igboland of herdsmen? Did they not ban herding and even cow-meat in the East?
It’s like you’ve still not realized that IPOB’s propaganda machine has been weakened beyond repair, that’s why you’re still issuing watery statements to deceive the gullible.
So you don’t know Police record victim testimonies to aid prosecution or were you expecting the camera to be following a mosquito instead?
You’ve blamed DSS, Fulani, Tinubu, Yorubas and everything else for the insecurity in the East, meanwhile all the evidence ALWAYS points to IPOB terrorists.
Rest. Nobody is deceived.
IPOB/ESN Terrorists Speaking Igbo Threaten to Kill Kidnapped Monarchs (Sahara Reporters)
IPOB have not rested this their herdsmen propaganda. Nobody is buying it any longer.
Didn’t they claim their ESN had cleared the bushes of all herdsmen? So what’s this now?
Going by recent happenings in the S/East especially the busting of their various camps and statements of their victims, it is far more plausible that these are kidnap victims of IPOB/ESN terrorists just like these 4 kidnapped young girls testified below:
Kidnapped IPOB/ESN Victims Reveal How They Were Used As Sex Slaves
Akungitit: What are you talking about? The North supported Tinubu not Atiku. Go and look at the results again before you post your IPOB post on Nairaland.
Don’t mind them.
They are attempting to change the narrative to make it look like Tinubu’s emergence wasn’t the desire of the North, but numbers don’t lie
Grayoso: While I am not a fan of Obi, and do not think him fit to be President, I think all pragmatic Nigerians who wish our nation well should thank him for denying PDP the votes that would have seen Atiku emerge President.
Nigerians have short memory but the Northern plots, spearheaded in APC and PDP, to deny a strong and independent minded Southerner becoming President was well organised, well supported and desperate.
We saw this with APC with the way Buhari and his Northern supremacist were happy and willing to destroy their own Party to stop Tinubu emerging the Party's candidate.
Beginning from their deliberate effort to divide and sabotage APC as far back as the needless and totally suicidal self-destructive actions that made the Party lose Edo State.
So much happened in the APC that showed some Northerners have no interest in being loyal to the integrity and efficacy of Political Parties.
Emefiele was even encouraged to attempt to be President in all the confusion and madness Buhari and his crew caused.
The incoherent joke Buhari made the APC saw so many buy Primaries ticket in a shambolic horsetrading charade that indicated factions in the APC were trying to outsmart themselves.
Hardly will you see Political Parties run this disracefully and shambolically anywhere else in the world, let along a ruling Party, but this was what Buhari and his Northern hawks caused because they could not accept that their time is over and that the strongest from the South had the right to contest and win.
PDP was no different with the arrogance and power-drunkeness of Atiku supported by the machinations of Tambuwal etal.
Long and short, the North was desperate to retain power directly, through a PDP Atiku win , or indirectly through a Southern stooge, like Emefiele, as the APC President.
It would have been a disaster and Nigeria will surely not survive a Northern Presidency since Buhari had totally destroyed the nation (security, economy, badly divided citizens etal) and another Northerner, because most mainly only play Conservative, illiberal, non-progressive and expedient politics, would see us finished.
The last 8 years reminded most Nigerians, painfully, that the North is not into developmental politics. .
You’re making false conclusions based on the selfish and desperate antics of Buhari’s cabal.
Did you ever imagine El-Rufai ever standing up to directly oppose PMB like he did during the Naira re-design crisis?
Why do you think that was ?
Of course because it was clear to the discerning that all that nonsense were the antics of the Aso Villa cabal and NOT the collective desire of the North which already had taken a collective position on Tinubu’s emergence, which was also indisputably backed up with concrete winning votes.
Self consolation built on fallacies, upon the final realization of Obi’s non-existent mandate.
Penguin2: Now, the north has been taught a valuable lesson - that they can’t do without the south and now every section of this country must respect the conventional zoning arrangement that ensures that every section of this country feels that they are part of the project that is called Nigeria.
The North was not taught any lesson, you’re pretending to forget that our Northern governors willfully conceded the Presidential ticket to the South, which makes Tinubu’s Presidency a fulfilled agenda.
We were deliberate and intentional about a Tinubu Presidency for two main reasons:
1. The existence of Nigeria as it is. If we had backed a north-north Presidential transition, more southerners would be disillusioned at the concept of “one Nigeria” and would be drawn the ‘gospel’ of burgeoning secessionist forces. IPOB and Oduduwa agitators would have hijacked the sentiment of discontent for their agenda.
2. We knew Atiku neither had capacity nor track record of performance & was only an opportunistic, corrupt politician that couldn’t provide the kind of progressive governance that Nigeria sorely needs. Now we are in pole position for 2031 Presidency and have earned the trust/loyalty of our SW allies who have pledged to reciprocate in due course.
If it was the north’s intention to retain power, we would have voted en-bloc for PDP and the 2 million votes lead Tinubu enjoyed would have been non-existent and Atiku would have won the election.
In raw numbers crunched by TheCable Index, Tinubu beat Atiku in the north-west, scoring 2,652,824 votes compared to his opponent’s 2,197,824. Not only were Atiku’s margins in some of the states narrow, Tinubu took a whopping half a million votes in Kano alone. In fact, Tinubu got 30 percent of his total votes from the north-west alone. That is almost one-third.
Another fallacy is the notion that Obi had any chance to win the North Central. That is a notion that existed solely in the heads of typically politically naive obidients that didn’t realize that Niger, Kogi and Kwara are part of their presumed NC/middle belt, and would always vote alongside the NW. The remaining 3 NC states would always be split across parties. Obi didn’t stand a chance in the NC from the word go.
Furthermore, due to his affiliation & sympathies for IPOB terrorists that he never failed to defend, Obi didn’t stand any chance in the NW & NE either. Ever wondered why he had no choice but to appoint fellow Igbos as Campaign coordinators in core Northern states like Sokoto etc.?
The only region that has been taught and re-taught an important existential lesson is the South East; that any candidate can do without S/Eastern votes and still successfully emerge President. In fact going forward, Presidential candidates might consider Eastern campaigns as an avoidable, unnecessary expense.
This has been proven TWICE by a Northerner (PMB) and now a THIRD time by a fellow Southerner…. and an added lesson about the futility of “nzogbu-nzogbu” politics; that it’s impossible to win Presidential elections without building bridges across the country, as some Obidients erroneously thought before the polls.
SOSinNigeria: Lol, continue deceiving yourself. We all know that a Southern Kaduna Christian being the cheif of defense staff is paining you guys badly. It's your oppressive nature against middle belt people that made them cut ties with you guys. Tinubu is now helping them to cement that wedge permanently
As long as it’s not an Eboe, we welcome our Brother General Chris Musa with open arms. God bless him and we wish him brilliant success.
We are also glad Eboes are extremely pleased with their one HALF appointment (igala-Eboe) under a Southern Presidency, so we encourage dear President Tinubu to continue the beautiful pattern 😎
SOSinNigeria: Lol, continue deceiving yourself. You guys made Customs DG a fulani birthright but Tinubu has ended it by putting a Yoruba man as DG. I don't even think a fulani man will head it again because you have no ports.
This is really pathetic. Have you no shame?
Southern Presidency. Southern CG.
But definitely not Eboe
SOSinNigeria: Fulani IG of police too has been removed and a Yoruba man replaces him. The same cleansing is going on in all the government offices you Fulanis colonized.
Southern Presidency. Southern IGP.
But certainly not Eboe
SOSinNigeria: Left for you, nobody from middle belt, talk more of Christian from Southern Kaduna will be allowed to be chief of Defence staff, but Tinubu did that to humiliate you guys. El Rufai must be going mad wherever he is now
Is the CDS Eboe? If not, we’re good
Whether Christian or Muslim, we are Arewa and celebrate Gen. Musa 💯
Forget Rufai El-bigot
SOSinNigeria: I can bet you that over 90% of Southerners and Middle belt people support Tinubu in what he is doing. If you like talk whatever you like openly to save face but the truth is that Tinubu has completely outsmarted you guys😂😂
Actually, over 90% of Nigerians support President Tinubu and what he is doing, especially the core North who gave him the highest votes and he has reciprocated by giving us the highest number of appointments so far (11/22), including a Fulani National Security Adviser under a Southern Presidency
The remaining disgruntled few percent are the totally outsmarted, irrelevant, sidelined and utterly humiliated Obi manhood seekers with only ONE Eboe appointment despite the Southern Presidency
Tinuba that has appointed many "Northerners" is the same you are claiming he relegated Northerners.
Abeg, where did SGF, NSF, chief of Defense staff, etc from?
From Pluto?
Perhaps, your definition of Norther is Fulani in this context. Speak loud let us understand you clearly.
But unfortunately, NSA is a Fulani. Likewise the chief of air staff.
Of course, he will appoint them.
Though, from my own observation, many didn't support or vote for him looking at the results in NE and NW. They voted for their own. Majority of Tinubu's votes came from Hausa and other ethnic groups. Even Kaduna, Kano and Kastina where Buhari, Gandollar, El rufai (he is not Fula) were political figures, Tinubu lost. It shows, either they voted for their own or they didn't support him.
We all know this but kept quiet because Ti owo omode o ba ti te eku ida, ko le bere iku to pa baba e
But it doesn't mean they will not get key positions and still relate.
They both know how to play the game of takia.
Just to correct your wrong impression, Tinubu came a close second in those KKK states you mentioned with a higher number of votes than he got in his own SW states. That would have been impossible without Fulani votes.
Fulaninigger: Lol you only employ Niger and Chad indigenous for that, but I don't blame them since they will need money to sleep with your various female relatives who are into prostitution, ashawo and escorts in order to afford a plate of indomie and bleaching creams
Since ur father figure are incarcerated in different prisons in Malaysia, Indonesia because of peddling drugs
SOSinNigeria: You people said Nigeria is your estate and you will dominate others. When Buhari was appointing Fulanis to head every post in Nigeria, you claimed it was your birthright. Now, Tinubu is teaching you guys a bitter lesson
Customs boss fulani, but now replaced with Yoruba.
IG of police fulani but now replaced with Yoruba.
Chief of army staff Fulani, replaced with Yoruba. Next is going to be NNPC😂😂
Without politics, you guys are finished.
Bitter lesson?
By giving 50% of his appointments so far to Arewa? As you can see below, northerners are quite happy.
SOSinNigeria: Meanwhile, another fulani man has just been removed as comptroller general of customs and guess what? Another Yoruba man has replaced him
He wasn’t replaced with an Igbo man? Lmao.
With 50% of all Tinubu’s appointments (11/22), we can only say “Sai Godiya” 😎😎
SOSinNigeria: Lol, the opinion of one or two people from Twitter doesn't mean anything. They could even be impostors.
One or two people opinion indeed…when we’ve been consoling them since morning but the tears…😄😂😂