Professor Umar Labdo Muhammad of the Faculty of Humanities, Northwest
University, Kano has alleged that Benue State belongs to the Fulani by
right of conquest.
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.
In a post on his Facebook, Muhammad stressed that by extension, Benue
is “part and parcel of Sokoto Caliphate” as such nobody has the right
to expel Fulani from the state.
Muhammad also stated that Fulani are the largest single nation in the
African continent and they have “remained unbeatable throughout their
history.”
The post reads, “Benue State belongs to the Fulani people by right of
conquest. This is because half of the state is part of the Bauchi
Emirate and the other half is part of the Adamawa Emirate. Benue is
therefore part and parcel of the Sokoto Caliphate. So no one has the
right to expel the Fulani from Benue under any guise.
“Second to the Arabs, perhaps the Fulani are the most benevolent and
merciful conquerors in history. If they had applied the Nazi final
solution to the natives, or if they had treated them the same way the
European settlers treated Red Indians in North America or the Aborigines
in Australia, the story would have been different toady.“The Fulani are the largest single nation in West Africa and,
perhaps, on the whole continent and they have remained unbeatable
throughout their history.
“You can hate the Fulani, you can call them all sort of names, you
can blackmail their spineless political leaders, you can conspire to
wipe out the entire Fulani leadership in a single day, you can stage a
coup and “orkarize” (excise) the core Fulani states from Nigeria, you
can hate them to he’ll, but you can never beat them.
“Fulani’s main problem remains their meek, spineless, incompetent
leaders that have lost all sense of responsibility and abandoned their
people. But this problem, thank God, is not insurmountable.
“The Fulani are capable of changing their leaders: traditional,
political, religious and cultural (I mean by cultural those so-called
Fulani socio-cultural organizations that eat fat on the Fulani but
cannot champion their cause or defend their rights). They have done this
in the past and are capable of doing it again.”