" Ilorin now passed into the hands of foreigners, the fulanis who had been invited there as friends and allies.
These being more astute than the yorubas, having studied their weak points and observed their misrule, planned to grasp the whole kingdom into their hands by playing one chief against another and weakening the whole.
Their more generous treatment of fallen foes and artful method of conciliating a power they could not openly crush, marked them out as a superior people in the art of government"

Culled from the book. THE HISTORY OF THE YORUBA