{"id":67932,"date":"2019-07-24T21:28:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T20:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=67932"},"modified":"2019-07-24T21:28:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T20:28:21","slug":"the-imperative-of-defeating-fulani-hegemony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/the-imperative-of-defeating-fulani-hegemony\/","title":{"rendered":"The imperative of defeating Fulani hegemony"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
Tochukwu Ezukanma<\/div>\n
\n
\nA widely circulated video shows the then leader of the Hausa\/Fulani
\ndominated Northern People\u2019s Congress (NPC) and the premier of the
\ndefunct Northern Nigeria, the late Sardauna of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello, in
\na 1960 newspaper interview, saying, \u201cThe new nation called Nigeria
\nshould be the estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must
\nruthlessly prevent the change of power. We use the minorities in the
\nnorth as willing tools, and the south as conquered territory, and never
\nallow them to rule over us and never allow them to rule over their
\nfuture\u201d.\u00a0 His statement was disgustingly hegemonic. It was a nauseating
\nexpos\u00e9 of Fulani stratagem for absolute domination of Nigeria.<\/p>\n

The estate of Ahmadu Bello\u2019s great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio, was
\nlimited to parts of northern Nigeria that Dan Fodio and his band of
\nFulani freebooters defeated and Islamized in their 19th Century jihad
\nagainst Hausa and other tribal kingdoms. After Dan Fodio\u2019s conquests,
\nhis followers continued the jihad, and would have taken it all the way
\nto the Atlantic Ocean. In another instance, Ahmadu Bello said that: it
\nwas the British that interrupted the jihad to the Atlantic Ocean. As
\nsuch, once the British leaves, they will continue their jihad, and
\nultimately, dip the Koran into the Atlantic Ocean. President Mohammadu
\nBuhari is a Fulani fanatical Moslem and unabashed irredentist. Not
\nsurprisingly, his presidency has emboldened and empowered the Fulani,
\nand provided them the enabling environment to advance Ahmadu Bello\u2019s
\ndictum. So, unlike, at no time, since the British interrupted their
\nreligious thrust towards the Atlantic, the Fulani are heartened,
\ndetermined and poised to continue their jihad. It is imperative that the
\nother peoples of Nigeria, especially, the Igbo and Yoruba defeat the
\nFulani planned 21st Century jihad.<\/p>\n

Thus far, many Igbo and Yoruba leaders have not demonstrated the
\ncommitment and resolve needed to defeat the spear-head of the jihad: the
\nkiller herdsmen. In his first term, President Buhari, in his toxic
\nnepotism, was totally indifference to the federal character in his
\npolitical appointments; disproportionately, he appointed the Fulani to
\nhead the most powerful security agencies. His brazen anti-Igbo bias in
\nthese appointments elicited the usual Igbo outcry of marginalization.
\nSecondly, the Igbo and Igbo communities have suffered enormously from
\nhis administration tacit support for Fulani herdsmen\u2019s murderous binges
\nacross parts of Nigeria. Therefore, the Buhari presidency is
\nantithetical to Igbo political interests. Paradoxically, most Igbo
\ngovernors campaigned for his re-election. .<\/p>\n

According to villagers living in parts of Ondo State, Fulani herdsmen
\nhad taken over their area, and converted the Ondo State Government
\nforest reserve in Odigbo Local Government Area into a militia camp. They
\ninsist that the herdsmen terrorizing the area reside in the forest and
\ntheir other hide-outs tucked deep in the bush. They graze their cows by
\nthe road, and then, strike to kill and\/or kidnap, and run back into the
\nbush. It is a narrative corroborated by different newspaper accounts. In
\naddition, newspaper reports and eyewitness accounts buttressed
\nwidespread allegation that Mrs. Funke Olakurum, the daughter of the
\nleader of Afenifere, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, was killed by herdsmen that
\nsneaked out from the bush to kill and kidnap along the Benin\/Ore road.
\nLamentably, for unfathomable reasons, some Yoruba leaders are holding
\nbriefs for the killer herdsmen.<\/p>\n

Contrary to overwhelming evidence, the Ondo State government denied the
\npresence of Fulani herdsmen in its forest reserve. A government
\nspokesman dismissed it, \u201cIt is a lie; herdsmen are not in the reserve\u201d.
\nAnd, in his desperation to exculpate the herdsmen from the murder of
\nMrs. Funke Olakurum, the foremost Yoruba political leader, Ahmed Tinubu,
\nsaid, \u201cI will ask where are the cows\u201d. It was an insincere and
\nhypocritical question that incensed many Nigerians. To insinuate that
\nthe only discernible feature of Fulani herdsmen is a throng of cows is
\nhogwash.<\/p>\n

The killer herdsmen kill and rape, torch and raze down entire
\ncommunities, and seize, occupy and rename villages. Their excessive
\nbrutality and criminality debunk the pretext that their concerns are
\nlimited to grazing routes and space; they have a hidden agenda: total
\nsubjugation of the peoples of Nigeria. These herdsmen are not renegades
\nor lawless adventurers randomly kidnapping, killing and stealing. They
\nare the foot soldiers of an orchestrated Fulani expansionism, with the
\nprecise goal, as articulated by Ahmadu Bello in the video, to take over
\nNigeria politically, economically, and religiously. The master-minds of
\nthis irredentist design have the resources, resolve and ruthlessness to
\nattain their goals. The other ethnic groups of Nigeria, especially, the
\nIgbo and Yoruba must forestall their nightmarish design. It demands our
\norganizing, training and arming ourselves to engage Fulani hegemony fire
\nfor fire. It is only after they have been beaten to a bloody retreat
\nthat the absurdity of their planned 21st Century jihad will crystallize
\nto them.<\/p>\n

It is horrifying to image the triumph of a Fulani jihad in 21st Century
\nNigeria. It will reduce us to a defeated, broken and battered lot, on
\nour knees and in trepidation of our new masters, watching helplessly, as
\nthe triumphant jihadists gleeful dip their Korans into the Atlantic
\nOcean.<\/p>\n

Tochukwu Ezukanma writes from Lagos, Nigeria.
\nmaciln18@yahoo.com<\/a>
\n0803 529 2908<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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