“Do not call a conspiracy what these people call a conspiracy, neither fear ye their fear but sanctify the Lord your God in your heart and Let Him be your only fear”- Isaiah 8:12

In an essay titled “Afenifere: A Syllabus Of Errors” which was written in 1998 and published in Gamji.com, Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi wrote the following:
“Anyone who needs a lesson in how not to be a politician, and how never to win power in Nigeria should study Yoruba politicians.

Unless the Yoruba masses disown Afenifere, this group of degree-bearing political illiterates will lead Yoruba land down its own version of a syllabus of errors, an island unto themselves, hallucinating in their own idiocy and content to remain marginalised citizens in their own country while blaming the North for their self–inflicted woes.

The syllabus of errors remains a black spot on the history of the Catholic Church. Afenifere will be an even blacker spot on the political history of the Yoruba.

Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi’s pedigree speaks mountains of what his political stance would be ab initio. He probably believes, like other Fulani politicians, that the
problems of this country have a lot to do with the shift in power away from the Fulani to individuals like Babangida and Abacha, products of “lower cultures”.

The Fulani of the North, proud of the
history of the Caliphate, remain proud of
the roles played by Fulani leaders of the
political and military establishment in
Nigeria – Ahmadu Bello, Murtala
Mohammed, Aminu Kano, Shehu
Yar’Adua, Shehu Shagari, Jubril Aminu.

They are sad that other Nigerians do not
know the difference in ethnic
background between say, Murtala
Mohammed and Ibrahim Babangida.

They do not understand how a man like
Abacha, born to a cigarette-seller in
Fagge quarters of Kano (and this speaks
mountains of him, how he ruled and
how he died) can be taken as the
quintessential representative of the
Caliphate whose head he disgraced and
whose culture and values he sought to
erode.

So Shinkafi probably believes in the
need for a power-shift: Back to the
Fulani. He may not be alone in this
tendency. Politicians like Mahmud
Waziri, Bamanga Tukur, Jubril Aminu,
even M. D. Yusufu may consciously or
unconsciously have similar views.
To the Fulani, there is nothing like
ceding the presidency or power. If you
want it, you work for it…If you lack the
stomach to dig in and fight, too bad for
you. Southern politicians have always
failed to understand the complexity of
the North and its politics”.

These are interesting words from an
interesting Fulani man. The disdain and
sheer contempt that Emir Sanusi
harbours for non-Fulanis and
southerners and for Afenifere and the
yoruba people, in particular, remains
intact till today. His assertion that
“southern politicians have always failed
to understand the complexity of the
North” is false.

I am making this intervention not out of hate but out of love and compassion for those that have lost their lives at the hands of our adversaries over the last 55 years. I am also mindful of the fact that every single
person that is a member of the ruling class or that has held a position of leadership in this country between 1960 and today, including yours truly, has to take
partial responsibility for the terrible things that our people have experienced over the years…

Despite the fact that we southerners
understand the nature of core Northern
politicians and leaders very well, we
have always chosen to hold our peace,
condone their excesses, carry their
baggage and accept their strange ways
and complicated peculiarities in the
name of national unity.

The truth is that it is Emir Sanusi and his
Fulani people that have misunderstood
southerners all along. We in the south
may be accommodating, tolerant and
generous people but our kindness and
liberal nature must never be mistaken
for stupidity or weakness. That is the
mistake that people like Sanusi often
make with their racist views and
condescending words. He forgets that the
culture and history of most of the
southern empires and kingdoms predates
that of the Fulani caliphate by hundreds
of years.

17 years after Sanusi wrote this piece
about Southerners I have decided to
respond to him by sharing my views
about the core North and its Fulani
leaders. This is especially so because we
have a hardline Fulani conservative at
the helm of affairs in our country today.
Sanusi wrote his views about the South
in 1998 when his fellow Northerner was
Head of State but I choose to write my
views about the North, not when my
fellow Southerner is in power, but rather
when a Northerner is President. I have
not taken offence at Emir Sanusi’s views
about Southerners and I sincerely hope
that he and his people will not take
offence at my views about core
Northerners.

This article will not only be deemed as
being controversial but its contents will
also be keenly contested and scrutinised.
This is because I am going to express
some home truths here which the
majority of our people know to be true
but few are prepared to voice.

I am making this intervention not out of
hate but out of love and compassion for
those that have lost their lives at the
hands of our adversaries over the last 55
years. I am also mindful of the fact that
every single person that is a member of
the ruling class or that has held a
position of leadership in this country
between 1960 and today, including yours
truly, has to take partial responsibility
for the terrible things that our people
have experienced over the years, for the
criminal negligence that we have all
indulged in, for the shameful conspiracy
of silence that we appear to relish and
for the abysmal and pitiable situation
that we have found ourselves in as a
people and as a nation. Those of us who
are members of the ruling elite are all,
in varying degrees, guilty and it is to
partly ameliorate that sense of guilt that
I feel constrained to speak out and
expose the truth.

I am not a racist or tribalist. I deplore
violence and bloodshed. I have no hate
in me for any individual or ethnic group
and I am a firm believer in the view that
all men are equal before God regardless
of the circumstances of their birth, their
creed, their tribe, their nationality or the
colour of their skin. Whilst I hold these
truths to be self-evident, I also believe
that it is incumbent upon those of us who
lay claim to being leaders to always
speak the truth about the history and
unfolding events in our country, no
matter how uncomfortable that truth
may be.

We owe it to ourselves, to posterity and
to God to do so. Let it be said many years
from now after we are all long departed
that within the madness and cacophony
of national anguish, servitude and pain
and during the course of the brutal and
systemic suppression of the freedom and
will of a cheated and broken people,
there were at least a few voices that were
courageous enough to call a spade and
spade and to warn about the grave
dangers and consequences of ignoring
the injustice and wickedness that has
thrived in our country from time
immemorial and from generation to
generation.

Despite all the insults, threats,
misrepresentation and, oftentimes,
slanderous and utterly bizarre
allegations that I, my family and my
loved ones have been subjected to over
the years from ignorant, venal and hate-
filled men, I shall be counted among
those few voices. If nothing else, that is
good enough for me and with that alone
I would have made a meaningful
contribution to my nation’s history and
done my forefathers proud. It is with
this in mind that I urge readers to fasten
their seat belts and consider the
following contribution.

Sinister forces and dark elements from the deeply conservative core north have killed more Middle Belters and Southerners than any other in our country over the last 55 years. Worse still, those sinister forces do not just kill but they also establish their own communities in the land and territory of their victims and forcefully occupy it.

When Cain killed his brother Abel the
bible tells us that God asked him the
following question: he asked “where is
thy brother Abel?” Cain responded in a
defiant manner by asking God the
following question in return: he asked
“am I my brothers keeper?” God
responded by telling Cain that his
brothers blood was crying to Him from
the ground for vengeance. From that
point Cain was afflicted with a terrible
curse which could not be lifted because it
came from the Living God.

Wherever he went, the curse that goes
with shedding his brother’s innocent
blood followed him. This was made
worse by the fact that he refused to
repent or show any remorse for what he
had done. Everything that he did failed
and everywhere he went he was
despised, rejected, feared, hated and
viewed with suspicion by his
compatriots, colleagues and fellow men.

Tragedy and misfortune stalked him and
he ended up being nothing but a
vagabond, a marauder, a parasite and a
wanderer in foreign lands. He became a
byword and a proverb: a herder of goats
and cattle who lived and survived by
guile, doublespeak, stealing, pillaging
and intimidating others. He became the
proverbial leech who made a headway in
life only by benefiting from the sweat,
labour and hard work of his hosts and
benefactors, by sponging off whichever
community gave him succour and by
resorting to violence and bloodshed at
the slightest opportunity and at the drop
of a hat.

He also acquired an obsession with
controlling others and an insatiable lust
for power and the perpetual domination,
suppression and conquest of what he
perceived as “lesser tribes and lesser
people”. Simply put he was a dangerous
predator who sought to milk others dry
and conquer by guile and assimilation.
There are comparisons to be made with
Nigeria here.

Sinister forces and dark elements from
the deeply conservative core north have
killed more Middle Belters and
Southerners than any other in our
country over the last 55 years. Worse
still, those sinister forces do not just kill
but they also establish their own
communities in the land and territory of
their victims and forcefully occupy it.
They have refused to stop doing so and,
to all intents and purposes, they have
developed an insatiable blood lust which
compels them to shed innocent blood at
the slightest whim in order to subjugate
others and to remain in power.

The South, whom our British colonial
masters once referred to as the “rich
wife”, has effectively become the Abel of
Nigeria whilst the conservative core
North, whom they once called the “poor
husband”, has now become the Cain. For
many years the Lord has been asking the
core North what they have done to their
Southern and Middle Belt brothers and
why they keep doing it.

For years the conservative core North
has responded with defiance and anger
and asked God “am I my brother’s
keeper?” The result of this open defiance
and lack of remorse is simple and clear:
it has attracted Gods wrath. Is it any
wonder that Boko Haram now ravages
the core North? Is it any wonder that
every single core Northern leader that
has ever ruled Nigeria since 1960 has
either been killed or died in mysterious
circumstances whilst on the throne or
was removed in a military coup and
then subjected to a number of years in
detention?

Is it any wonder that the core North is
totally dependent on the rest of the
country for its sustenance and economic
survival? Is it any wonder that a UNICEF
report which was released a few years
ago stated that if Nigeria were to ever
break up that the core North would be
the most impoverished, the most
backward, the most unsustainable and
the most barren area in the whole of the
West African sub-region?

Is it any wonder that they were viewed
with so much suspicion by others that
the core northern states were excised
from the country by Major Gideon Orkar
in his 1991 coup broadcast and asked to
re-apply if they wanted to be part of
Nigeria again?

Nigeria’s Boko Haram is now officially the world’s most deadly terrorist organisation whilst what they have described as “the Fulani militants” (aka Nigeria’s Fulani herdsmen) are number four. Is it any wonder that according to the same Global Terror Index report Nigeria is now the “third most terrorised nation in the world”, whilst Iraq and Afghanistan remain the first and second and Syria and Pakistan remain the
fourth and fifth respectively? Given this, is it any wonder that there are loud and increasingly persistent
calls for self-determination in Southern Nigeria?


Is it any wonder that the leading South-Western politician within the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) is secretly complaining and quietly lamenting the fact that he was used in the 2015 elections by the core North simply to put one of their own back in power so that their hegemony could be resurrected and their agenda of perpetual and everlasting Northern rule could be established forever?

Is it any wonder that according to a
survey carried out this year by Global
Terror Index , which was published in the
United Kingdom’s Independent
newspaper, that two of the four most
deadly terrorist organisations in the
world today are based in core northern
Nigeria and are led, funded, peopled and
inspired by core Northern Nigerians?
According to the report, Nigeria’s Boko
Haram is now officially the world’s most
deadly terrorist organisation whilst what
they have described as “the Fulani
militants” (aka Nigeria’s Fulani
herdsmen) are number four. Is it any
wonder that according to the same
Global Terror Index report Nigeria is
now the “third most terrorised nation in
the world”, whilst Iraq and Afghanistan
remain the first and second and Syria
and Pakistan remain the fourth and fifth
respectively? Given this, is it any wonder
that there are loud and increasingly
persistent calls for self-determination in
Southern Nigeria?

Is it any wonder that the core North is
ravaged by poverty, disease, violence,
strife, conflict, stagnation and bareness
more than anywhere else in our
country? Is it any wonder that according
to a 2015 UNICEF report Nigeria has the
“highest number of child brides on the
African continent”, with no less than 23
million child brides in the North?

Is it any wonder that according to the
World Health Organisation Northern
Nigeria has the “highest number of
young girls in the world suffering from
vagina vesicovaginal fistula (VVF)”, a
disease which comes as a consequence of
sexual intercourse with young underage
girls.

Is it any wonder that the core north is
afflicted with a self-serving and
calculating ultra-conservative ruling elite
who keep their own people in perpetual
subjugation, darkness and bondage and
who come from a distant foreign land
called Fouta Jallon in modern-day
Guinea?

Is it any wonder that most core
Northerners name themselves after the
towns and villages that they were born
and raised in rather than after their
families and forefathers? Is it any
wonder that we have a nomadic core
Northern President who finds it difficult
to stay at home?

Is it any wonder that a colourful
personality from one of the core
northern states, who later became a
respected traditional ruler, was an
Islamic fundamentalist in his youth, was
incarcerated for two years for being a
radical jihadist, and was one of those
that inspired and orchestrated the
murder of Gideon Akaluka for
“desecrating the Koran”.

Is it any wonder that a core northern
Nigerian by the name of Omar Farouk
Abdul Mutallab, the notorious
“underwear bomber” who tried to blow
up an American airliner that was filled
with passengers in Detroit, told the FBI
that his “most trusted mentor” and
“favourite uncle” was a well-known and
leading core northern leader? Is it any
wonder that Bishop Matthew Hassan
Kukah, one of the most respected
Northern voices in the country, recently
said “the northern Muslim elite laid the
foundation for Boko Haram”?

source: www.blogs.premiumtimesng.com/?p=169949

If we have 20 kind of SLS and FFK in both divides of (northern & southern) Nigeria, the country will not survive up to the next decade.

If the poster of this kind of heavily tribal article in NL is condoned; then it will be unjust to vilify protagonists of BIAFRA on NL.

OKKO:
If we have 20 kind of SLS and FFK in both divides of (northern & southern) Nigeria, the country will not survive up to the next decade.

If the poster of this kind of heavily tribal article in NL is condoned; then it will be unjust to vilify protagonists of BIAFRA on NL.

tribal, homophobic, anti semitic, racists,
God!!,
I hate this labels,
Many truths this days are given this labels to make the messenger look bad.

Buhari rethink on some announced policies and some of the portfolio appointments that have been made because I hope they don’t become a challenge to us.

I also believe that his refusal to give certain positions to some people, who demanded for such positions, is a welcome development because only the best is good enough for us.

Nigeria must be Junaid Mohammed and Buhari personal property. Born to rule at work again, see mouth.

OKKO:
If we have 20 kind of SLS and FFK in both divides of (northern & southern) Nigeria, the country will not survive up to the next decade.

If the poster of this kind of heavily tribal article in NL is condoned; then it will be unjust to vilify protagonists of BIAFRA on NL.

FFK is only trying to promote disunity between the North & the South, and should, as a matter of fact, be poisoned with polonium so that he can die slow like that defected KGB agent in London.

Ask yourself, Y didn't FFK write this nonsensical write-up while he was the Media & Publicity Director to Ebele Jonathan?

FFK, of all people, lacks the moral justification to accuse or condemn anybody or group in this Country. The bastard is embittered and only looking for relevance from this government.

there is no master race only a Master Religion.

Zoharariel:


FFK is only trying to promote disunity between the North & the South, and should, as a matter of fact, be poisoned with polonium so that he can die slow like that defected KGB agent in London.

Ask yourself, Y didn't FFK write this nonsensical write-up while he was the Media & Publicity Director to Ebele Jonathan?

FFK, of all people, lacks the moral justification to accuse or condemn anybody or group in this Country. The bastard is embittered and only looking for relevance from this government.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WRITEUP ?

Nonsense!!!!

Now let us all blame the Fulanis (or Northerners) for the ills that befell, befalling and will befall Nigeria.
You, your father and your bitches are a big part of this problem which clearly shows it is a problem caused by all.
You and the Sarakis, have been raping and milking Nigeria since independence, living large on our national cake.
Where was this your write up in 2006-2008 when you were sipping the national juice? where was your Northern people wahala last year when you were drumming support for your paymaster who loosed woefully partly due to people like you and stupid write ups like this.

Now after becoming a looser, a bad looser, you are drumming hatred, division, tribalism thinking everyone is dumb.

You guys should wake up...it is over!!!

BTW look through the window EFCC/DSS is at the gate!!!!

Loosers

I dont beat about d bush. dis is nothing but d truth. in as much as i dont like ffk, i cant help but agree with him on this. Give us Biafra, south westerners and northerners are free to enjoy their marriage.

asadike:
I dont beat about d bush. dis is nothing but d truth. in as much as i dont like ffk, i cant help but agree with him on this. Give us Biafra, south westerners and northerners are free to enjoy their marriage.

Exactly!!
Don't mind respondents up there asking why FFK chose to react to the article written by SLS many years ago as if the time of respose makes the information in the article less correct.

Here is the Part 2 of this write up www.nairaland.com/2801066/caliphate-emir-nigerias-master-race