Changing the narrative and postponing the evil day

 

Taking the bull by the horn is what happens when you get to the crunch. If

truth be told, Nigeria has a Fulani problem.

That it is coming to the fore today is perhaps because nobody can stop an idea, whose time has come.

History has it that the Fulanis took over the administration of Northern Nigeria from the Hausas.

All over the world there are histories everywhere. History is a record of past events it does not stop change.

The time to challenge Fulani hegemony has come. In solving a problem, it is believed that identifying the problem is a sure way to start and go far in finding a solution.

Nigerians, possibly minus the Fulanis know we have a Fulani problem. The problem has to do with their lust for power and inordinate attachment to power as of right and not might. Added to that is open defiant grazing.

Grazing goes on in the villages. The difference between the normal grazing in the villages and that of the Fulanis is impunity.

In the village when a grazing and roaming animal tresspasses, it can be corrected but not so Fulani cows. People see Fulani cows as sacred even where they are no Hindus. They see them as sacred and sancrosanct because of the violent nature of the Fulanis who are ready to risk their lives for their cows but not so their victims.

Ordinarily, people like to avoid violent people not because they are cowards but because they see no gain in violence.

This is the situation everywhere. The security forces do not even have answers about, hence we hear of people being invited to Abuja over a dead cow!

Now that the issue has come to a head, revisionists either for lucre or other gains have gone to towm: a traditional ruler has been caught in the act of Kidnapping, those who killed a certain individual are no herdsmen, the Serike is more fluent in Yoruba than the Yorubas.

To what end are these tales? Do we have a Fulani problem? Yes!

In 1979, Alhaji Shehu Shagari was preferred to Alhaji Maitama Sule, for being a Fulani. Isn't that preposterous? What is in the DNA of the Fulani that makes him better than others? A Governorship candidate of Unity Party of Nigeria in 1983 said on Television that only a Sokoto man was good enough to rule Nigeria. Meanwhile, the Presidential candidate of his party was not a Sokoto man. Then, who did he cast his vote for?

The time to correct these views has come, revisionists should not cause distractions. Open grazing should be replaced.

Power should be accessible to all irrespective of ethnic group. No one ethnic group is born to rule.