The Benue State Government has
reacted to the claim by Professor Umar Labdo Muhammad of the Faculty of
Humanities, Northwest University, Kano that Benue State belongs to the Fulani
by conquest.
The Professor, in a Facebook post
that went viral on Thursday, had also insisted that no one can expel the Fulani
from Benue.
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.
He said Benue is “part and parcel
of Sokoto Caliphate” as such nobody has the right to expel Fulani from the
state, adding that Fulani are the largest single nation in the African
continent and they have “remained unbeatable throughout their history.”
But reacting in the claim, the
Chief Press Secretary to the Benue State Governor, Terve Akase, demanded that
the professor provide evidence to back up his claims.
According to Akase, it was
unprofessional for the Don to come up with such claims withoutproperly
acquainting himself with enough points to back up his claims.
Akase said he (Prof. Muhammad)
should be able show proof sof ownership of Benue by Fulani in books and also
tell the people what year Benue was conquered.
He said, “Did he [Prof. Muhammad]
provide evidence to his claim?
“Which of the books written by
great men proves what he said? He should also be able to tell us in what century
the Fulani conquered Benue.
“Muhammad should be able to back
up his claims that Benue is Fulani’s conquered land because you don’t just come
up with such claims.”
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Until you people stop weeping and crying, the fulanis will soon conquer you people. That is the message the prof is passing. So you people should wake up to the challenge and stop crying.
ReplyDeleteThe mind set of different nationalities "named Nigeria" is now unfolding.
ReplyDeleteThe prof. Is right by saying his mind and let other ethnics so called " Nigeria" also say their minds... then we all can come to round table and trash our differences and not in concord then can agreed to disagreed that each can go their different ways...
And go in PEACE not in PIECES.