A READOUT OF THE MEETING OF GOVERNORS AND TRADITIONAL RULERS OF NORTHERN NIGERIA

Basil Okoh

MaTaZ ArIsInG
Dallas, Texas

The meeting of the 19 governors of Northern states in Nigeria jointly held with the traditional rulers of the north appear to have southern politicians and international watchers scratching their heads for answers to the deepening security challenges in the north. The security of the north is really the excuse, not the reason to hold such a meeting.

Security challenges are really not the bother of northern governors and emirs and therefore not of any serious consideration for thIS meeting. So there was no long dwelling on the security meltdown in the north and no lead paper on the matter. In fact security was a distraction. The urgent concern is how to confront the threat of President Trump and the US armed forces and prevent the north from military devastation and the political consequences that it may bring following a possible US military action. The challenge is how not to allow America disrupt the feudal system that has served the Fulani hegemony.

Between the traditional rulers and the governors of the north is situated the fundament, powers and influences undergirding the dissonance in the north. If you removed everyone who were at that meeting, the north will make progress faster than anywhere in Africa. And so before you begin to throw curses and hatred, note the following facts:

1. Every emir in northern Nigeria, every Muslim leader from the biggest city, Kano, to the remotest village is a Fulani and most of them are related by blood. The Shehu of Borno is the only major Muslim leader not of Fulani stock. The other Chiefs in the Middle Belt, the Christian dominated areas, depend on the Fulani emirs for validation and provisions.
2. All the governors of Northern Nigeria are Fulani except for the few in the Middle Belt, Borno and Christian dominated states. There are no Hausa governors anywhere in Nigeria even as they form majority 45% of the population of the entire North.
3. The governors and the emirs form the political and religious leadership in northern Nigeria. The Sultan of Sokoto Saad Abubakar is the head of the Muslim Umma and the Emir of Kano, Lamido Sannusi is the head of the Sufi and Saalafi groups in the entire West Africa. Every Sunni Islamist group or Mujahedeen submits to and take instructions from these political and religious leaders. This is why terrorism and banditry should never be a security challenge in northern Nigeria if the political and religious leaders get serious. Get the drift?
4. Between them also is founded the entire network of Islamist terror groups: Ansaru, ISWAP, Boko Haram, Lakurawa etc. They confer their blessings on these groups to conduct jihad, so they have overriding control of these groups. No Jihadi will go into the field without the permission and blessing of the sword by the “amir”.
5. Note also that all these Jihadi groups in Nigeria are members of Sunni Islam which is the dominant and establishment Muslim group in Nigeria. There are no Shia terror or Jihadi groups in Nigeria.

All these point to the fact that the meeting between the traditional rulers and governors of the north are not what they announce it to be. As always, this meeting is deeply political and the communique issued at the end of the meeting will in no way reflect what transpired at that meeting. Northern meetings are always invariably deeply political and this was not different. A few facts escaped into their communique, well hidden from public notice.

A. This meeting was called to claim and affirm ownership of the land and people’s of the entire North. Let the South not be fooled, this meeting is the Fulani affirmation of ownership and control of northern Nigeria, including the territories of the so-addressed Christian Northern Nigeria.

B. This meeting affirmed that all minerals and economic assets found in the north belong only to the north and not to the nation called Nigeria, hence the directive issued directly to the governors of the north to give orders on the exploitation of minerals in the northern states.

The meeting confirms the determination of the leadership of the north to enforce security and political suzerainty over and across the north and preserving the status quo, without ceding any control to the federal government of Nigeria or any external force.
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