Come home, Atiku Abubakar come home

Long before the nationality controversy, attempts were made to get former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, to return to his ancestral home in Wurno, Sokoto State, The NEXT EDITION can authoritatively report today.

Relations, community leaders and political associates said they knew about Mr. Abubakar’s ancestral connections with Wurno many years ago.

They also said subtle moves have been made to get the former vice president to establish contacts with his family members back in Wurno.

Mr. Abubakar’s origin became a major controversy shortly after he challenged the outcome of February’s presidential election which he contested on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Born in Jada, Adamawa State on November 26, 1946, Mr. Abubakar is being stigmatised because at the time of his birth, Jada was not a part of Nigeria.

Promoters of the birther controversy have insisted the former Vice President is a Cameroonian and not a citizen of Nigeria by birth.

They also claimed that his father, Garba Abubakar is from Jada, a community that was administered by the United Nations in 1946.

But weeks of investigations by this newspaper have shown the former Vice President is a blue-blooded Nigerian, having the ancestry of both his father and mother from prominent families in the country.

Mr. Abubakar, said to have been named after his paternal great grandfather, is originally from Sidingo, a village in Wurno Local Government of Sokoto State.

His grandfather was said to have migrated to Jada in present day Adamawa State shortly after colonial troops captured the Sokoto Caliphate and the alternate Caliphate of Wurno.

During the period aptly described by historians and top hierarchy of the Caliphate as the “Great Exodus,” thousands were said to have left Sokoto and Wurno, the two most important Caliphate towns at the time.

The grandfather of the former Vice President, Abdulkadir Abubakar, was said to have been one of those who migrated from Wurno during the exodus...

Source: https://www.nextedition.com.ng/investigation-untold-story-of-atiku-abubakars-ancestry-links-with-sokoto-caliphate-part-ii