By: Femi Fani-Kayode<\/p>\n
“Nobody should try to remove Buhari in 2019. All Fulanis in Nigeria today
\nour eyes are open. All of us are behind Buhari.We have seen that they want
\nto destroy the Fulani because of Buhari. We would be ready to follow him
\nand fight it”- Alhaji Bello Abdullahi Bodeji, President of Miyetti Allah
\nCattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), The Sun Newspaper, 3rd
\nFebruary 2018.<\/p>\n
I was tempted to respond to the unveiled threats and the bellicose and This is a long essay but please stay with me till the end because the In a fascinating and provocative interview, the Punch Newspaper (3rd “You say Benue belongs to Fulani by right of conquest. Is such a right Ladbo’s response betrayed the mindset of the quintessential conqueror and Though long, I shall qoute him extensively and fully in order for readers “Don\u2019t talk about original owners. Now that the right of conquest is And this right of conquest is recognised, even by our Supreme Court. One So, don\u2019t talk about that. Who are the original owners? Original! When did So, this Fulani man, when he got to that area and fathered Tiv, there were So, if you are talking about any original owners of the Tiv land, it is Many of the people living in the area they live today migrated to that That is why there is no one to call them settlers today. They killed them That is why there is no one to call them settlers now. But Fulani, we did Why are they not Muslims? Now, the answer is Fulani did not force anyone We call them Maguzawa. That is why the missionaries had the opportunity to Why am I not suprised by these frightful and startling submissions and For Professor Ladbo to essentially claim that “the fact that we Fulani did Worst of all it is not true. It is false and it is historically incorrect. Has this so-called “professor” never heard about the barbarity and Has he never heard of the massacres and mass murders that accompanied the Ignorance is a terrible thing but deceit and historical revisionism is To say that the Fulani were gentle and kind in their conquests of parts of It is like saying that Lucifer loved God and never rebelled against him or The truth is that the history of the caliphate is paved,\u00a0 painted and They utterly humiliated, broke down and destroyed their subjects and took Worse of all they effected a relentless “scortch the earth” policy, burnt That is the history of the caliphate and Fulani conquest and not the rosy This is not hate, it is history.<\/p>\n Sadly Ladbo’s hubristic delusions was not limited to the above.<\/p>\n He went a step further down the abyss of hate and delusion by telling the He said the Fulanis brought literacy to the country and that the Fulani Permit me to share his exact words:<\/p>\n \u201cThose who rule are those that are more civilised and educated. Now, We are the ones who brought literacy here as we have manuscripts, hundreds And that is why the lot fell on our people to lead in this country and we It is not like that. This is a burden and we pay for it. Sardauna was It\u00a0 is not something we are proud of: it is a burden but we have to In 1840 the Yoruba defeated us in Osogbo and sent us packing but you are Our man was already ruling Borno by then, there was no need to attack For these asinine and absurd assertions coming from a depraved and It is also trite history that the Fulani came from Futa Jalon in So when this Kano “Professor” compares the Fulani to “other tribes” in If any tribe or ethnic nationality can be described as modern-day As a matter of fact they have far more in common genetically and in terms They were not originally part of us and neither are they completely To suggest that they were indigenous to the land that was later to be That is the bitter truth and another is as follows. They have also proved that they place far more value on the life of a cow Contrary to what Professor Ladbo would have us believe, the Fulani are not Permit me to end this contribution with an interesting and insightful “I have been reading up on the Fulani. I am now a walking encyclopedia on They conquered the Hausas states (1804-1809) and now they want to conquer When five million white Afrikaners ruled 45 million Africans in South But in the\u00a0 Fulani case folks do not seem to grasp the racist angle to the Fulanis originally lived in Morocco as part of the Maghreb Arabs that Many of those Arabs mixed with Africans and are now called Fulanis. They They used a well-known ruse (which they are now using allover Nigeria) to Their leader, Othman Dan Fodio named himself the Sultan of what he called Apparently Fulanis want to extend their rule all over Nigeria. We must Osuji is absolutely right.<\/p>\n And just in case anyone is still in any doubt about how determined the Last week he told the Nigerian people that ”any ethnic group that fights As we lawyers say, ‘res ipsa loquitor’ (meaning ‘the facts speak for Ahmed Usman Bello, Umar Muhammed Labdo, Bello Abdullahi Bodeji and all May God deliver them from their dangerous and provocative delusions before By: Femi Fani-Kayode “Nobody should try to remove Buhari in 2019. All Fulanis in Nigeria today our eyes are open. All of us are behind Buhari.We have seen that they…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-opinions"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nboastful words of this provincial cattle-rearer and itinerant Fulani
\nherdsman called Bello Abdullahi Bodeji in this contribution but when I
\npicked up the\u00a0saturday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0newspapers I realised that I needed to deal with a
\nfar more insidious and dangerous individual whose views are as abhorrent,
\nfrightful and unacceptable as Nazi Germany’s Adolph Hitler’s ever were.<\/p>\n
\nmessage and information that it seeks to convey is vital. Permit me to
\nbegin.<\/p>\n
\nFebruary 2018) asked one of the greatest advocates, most consistent
\nproponents, most powerful voices and most compelling rising stars of
\nFulani supremacy, hegemony, irrendentism and power, Professor Umar
\nMohammed Ladbo of the Humanities Department of Maitama Sule University,
\nKano, the following question.<\/p>\n
\ngreater than that of the original owners or people who the Fulani met
\nthere?”.<\/p>\n
\nethnic supremacist.<\/p>\n
\nto get a clear picture and vivid glimpse into what can only be described
\nas a diseased mind. He said,<\/p>\n
\nrecognised worldwide. And many of the people, who live presently in
\ndifferent countries, they are there and are living there by the right of
\nconquest.<\/p>\n
\nof my followers on Facebook, who is a lawyer, said he could mention 10
\ncases in which our Supreme Court recognised conquest as one of the basis
\nof getting titles for land.<\/p>\n
\nthey come? We submit that the first father of the Tiv was Mohammed Alla,
\nwho migrated from Katsina, that is why today, you have Katsina Alla! Let
\nthem explain, what is the meaning of Katsina Alla?<\/p>\n
\nother Fulani people there. That was why he came to join his own brothers.<\/p>\n
\nactually the Fulani. And the Fulani are the fathers of the Tiv and the
\nJukun are their mothers.<\/p>\n
\narea. And I also mentioned in my Facebook post that Fulani are very kind
\nand benevolent conquerors because when the Europeans settled in North
\nAmerica, that is, today\u2019s USA and Canada, they massacred all the people.<\/p>\n
\nall and destroyed their means of livelihood. When the Europeans settled in
\nAustralia, they killed the Aborigines.<\/p>\n
\nnot kill anybody. We ruled over the people and some people are asking if
\nit is true that Benue belongs to Fulani?<\/p>\n
\nto embrace Islam. Even today in Kano here, you have people who are not
\nMuslims and they are originally from here.<\/p>\n
\ncome here and convert them to Christianity. You have them in Bauchi and
\neven in Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara and Katsina”. (CONCLUDED).<\/p>\n
\nassertions and this false narrative.<\/p>\n
\nnot kill all those we subjugated and all the indigenous people we defeated
\nin battle, conquered and enslaved is something that Nigerians should be
\ngrateful for” is cruel, demeaning, dishonorable, insulting, disingenious
\nand shameful.<\/p>\n
\nThe fact of the matter is that the Fulani conquerors slaughtered more
\npeople in their series of jihads in northern Nigeria than ANY other
\ninvasion force in the history of Africa.<\/p>\n
\ngenocide committed by Usman Dan Fodio when he offered either “the sword or
\nthe Koran” to those he conquered in the north?<\/p>\n
\nFulani jihads, the destruction of the Habe empire and the establishment of
\nthe Caliphate?<\/p>\n
\neven worse.<\/p>\n
\nnorthern Nigeria and in their quest to establish their caliphate and
\nforcefully spread
\nIslam is a lie from the pit of hell.<\/p>\n
\nthat Hitler’s Nazis showed kindness to the Jews or that the white
\nslave-owners of the pre-civil war “confederate” southern states of the
\nUnited States of America loved their black slaves.<\/p>\n
\ntainted with ethnic cleansing, mass murder, genocide and blood and their
\ncruelty to those that they attacked, conquered and enslaved was legendry.<\/p>\n
\neverything away from them including their dignity, liberty, land,
\nidentity, religion and culture.<\/p>\n
\neverything in sight, raped ALL the women, enslaved ALL the children, took
\nmillions of lives and even slaughtered the animals.<\/p>\n
\npicture that Professor Ladbo and other historical revisionists seek to
\npaint.<\/p>\n
\nsame Punch Newspaper that
\n“the Fulanis are destined to continue leading Nigeria”.<\/p>\n
\ntribe had transcripts dating back to 500 years ago \u201cwhen no other tribe
\nknew how to write\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nFulani happened to be more educated than all other tribes in Nigeria
\nbefore the Europeans came.<\/p>\n
\nof them, which were written between 300 and 500 years ago, when no other
\ntribe knew how to write.<\/p>\n
\nare still leading the people. We are destined to continue leading people;
\nbut I know, if people read this, they will say he is a supremacist or
\nsomething like that, no!<\/p>\n
\nkilled because he was a ruler. If he had not been a ruler, why would he
\nhave been killed? Murtala Mohammed (former Military Head of State) was
\nalso killed. Why? It was because he was a ruler.<\/p>\n
\nshoulder the burden because we are the ones who are qualified for it.<\/p>\n
\ntalking of only one defeat when we conquered the whole of the North
\nincluding Kano and even Benue. We are the owners of Benue by conquest.<\/p>\n
\nthem. We don’t even eat cow meat. It is you Yoruba and Igbo that are ready
\nto die for cow meat. Look we are destined to lead Nigeria for long”
\n(CONCLUDED).<\/p>\n
\ndesperate simpleton who can be\u00a0 better described as a village idiot than a
\nProfessor of Humanities, I have no words other than to say that his views
\nhave no basis in rationality, logic or history.<\/p>\n
\nmodern-day Guinea (from a place called Vulture Mountain) and that their
\nprogenitor, Usman Dan Fodio, did not set foot in what was to later become
\nmodern-day northern Nigeria until 1797 or begin his jihad until 1804.<\/p>\n
\nNigeria “300 to 500 years ago” he is making a grave error because the fact
\nis that at that time the Fulani were not even here!<\/p>\n
\nimmigrants and aliens in Nigeria it is the Fulani. Every other tribe in
\nour nation has been here for centuries, thousands of years and indeed from
\ntime-immemorial but the Fulani are relative newcomers to our geographical
\nspace.<\/p>\n
\nof bloodlines with the Tutsis of Central and East Africa (who also
\noriginally came from Futa Jalon and who are also migrants) than they do
\nwith ANY tribe or ethnic nationality in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\nnegroid. Their blood is mixed with Taurag and Berber blood and they are a
\nproduct of long-term and thousands of years of cross-breeding between the
\nlocal black Africans of Futa Jalon and the Arab, Taurag and Berber traders
\nthat plied that route.<\/p>\n
\nknown as “Nigeria” or even “northern Nigeria” before the mid-1800’s is
\nsimply not true and it is historically incorrect.<\/p>\n
\nThe last three years have proved that the Fulani know far more about
\ncow-herding and cattle-rearing than they do about nation-building and
\ngovernance.<\/p>\n
\nthan that of a human being. What on earth could be more backward,
\nprimitive, uncivilised uneducated, illiterate, condemnable and
\nreprehensible than that?<\/p>\n
\nmore educated than others, they are not more literate than others, they
\nwere not educated before others, they are not born to rule, they are not
\ndestined to lead, they have no understanding of collective and
\nall-inclusive leadership in a multi-religious, multi-racial,
\nmulti-cultural nation and, as long as Jesus is on the throne, they will
\nnot lead or rule Nigeria forever.<\/p>\n
\nextract from Professor Ozodi Thomas Osuji’s well-researched and seminal
\nessay titled ‘The Fulanis Quest To Rule West Africa’. He wrote,<\/p>\n
\nthem. I have accepted that they want to rule all of Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\nall of Nigeria. That six million Fulanis in Nigeria (and 13 million in all
\nWest Africa) want to rule 150 million Nigerians is amazing!<\/p>\n
\nAfrica we described their behavior as racist.<\/p>\n
\nwhole bizarre thing where the most uneducated group in Nigeria wants to
\nrule the most educated folks in Nigeria, such as the Edos, Ijaws, Efiks,
\nIgbos and Yorubas.<\/p>\n
\nconquered the Iberian Peninsula, Spain and Portugal in 711 A.D. and swept
\ninto France in 732 A.D. before the Franks (Germans…Arabs still call
\nGermans Franks) under their leader, Charles Martel, the Hammer of God,
\nstopped them at Tours, near Paris, at the famous battle of Poitier.<\/p>\n
\ndrifted south and eventually settled around Senegal and Guinea. Fulanis
\ndrifted into Northern Nigeria in the eighteenth century (1700s).<\/p>\n
\nget Hausas to attack them and used that pretext to attack and conquer
\nHausa states.<\/p>\n
\nthe Sokoto Caliphate and appointed his relatives the Emirs (Chiefs) of
\nmajor Hausa towns.<\/p>\n
\ncheck the diabolical intention of the Fulanis, a minority Arab group that
\nwants to rule the majority of Africans in Nigeria, just as a minority
\nwhite group wanted to rule the majority of Africans in South Africa. This
\nmust be stopped. Democracy requires that it be stopped”. (CONCLUDED).<\/p>\n
\nFulani are to hold on to power in Nigeria they should consider the words
\nof Alhaji Ahmad Usman Bello, the National Chairman of the Fulbe (Fulani)
\nDevelopment Association (FULDAN).<\/p>\n
\nthe Fulani will be doing so at their own peril. No-one can defeat the
\nFulani in Nigeria”.<\/p>\n
\nthemselves’).<\/p>\n
\nthose that share their reckless views forget that hubris comes before
\nnemesis and that pride comes before a fall.<\/p>\n
\nit is too late.<\/p>\n