Professor Umar Labdo Muhammad of
the Faculty of Humanities, Northwest University, Kano has alleged that Benue
State belongs to the Fulani by right of conquest.
The University Don predicated his
claim on the fact that half of Benue State is part of the Bauchi Emirate and
also half of the Adamawa Emirate.
In a post on his Facebook,
Muhammad stressed that by extension, Benue is “part and parcel of Sokoto
Caliphate” as such nobody has the right to expel Fulani from the state.
Muhammad also stated that Fulani
are the largest single nation in the African continent and they have “remained
unbeatable throughout their history.”
The post reads, “Benue State
belongs to the Fulani people by right of conquest. This is because half of the
state is part of the Bauchi Emirate and the other half is part of the Adamawa
Emirate. Benue is therefore part and parcel of the Sokoto Caliphate. So no one
has the right to expel the Fulani from Benue under any guise.
“Second to the Arabs, perhaps the
Fulani are the most benevolent and merciful conquerors in history. If they had
applied the Nazi final solution to the natives, or if they had treated them the
same way the European settlers treated Red Indians in North America or the
Aborigines in Australia, the story would have been different toady.
“The Fulani are the largest
single nation in West Africa and, perhaps, on the whole continent and they have
remained unbeatable throughout their history.
“You can hate the Fulani, you can
call them all sort of names, you can blackmail their spineless political
leaders, you can conspire to wipe out the entire Fulani leadership in a single
day, you can stage a coup and “orkarize” (excise) the core Fulani states from
Nigeria, you can hate them to he’ll, but you can never beat them.
“Fulani’s main problem remains
their meek, spineless, incompetent leaders that have lost all sense of
responsibility and abandoned their people. But this problem, thank God, is not insurmountable.
“The Fulani are capable of
changing their leaders: traditional, political, religious and cultural (I mean
by cultural those so-called Fulani socio-cultural organizations that eat fat on
the Fulani but cannot champion their cause or defend their rights). They have
done this in the past and are capable of doing it again.”
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Well Mr Prof. I have never read in history that the Tiv Nation is a conquered one! May be someone wants to rewrite history. I serve in Benue (NYSC). We read the history during orientation. This is new and I will like you to verify your claims. And do not try to reinvent Fulani hegemony,it can not be!
ReplyDeleteRUBBISH TALK !!!
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised that a 31st century professor could be thinking like an idiot.
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