The way hate writers
misinform the ignoramuses about the Hausa/Fulani oligarchy’s maniac to
perpetuate in power, one would be tempted to reason that Hausa/Fulani is
someone with a long beard, always chewing cola-nuts.
When talking about
ethnic politics, particularly the hate campaign against the Hausa/Fulani’s “born
to rule syndrome”, such hate writers forget that every major ethnic group in
Nigeria wears the “born to rule toga” among minorities in their mist. For
instance, the Tivs are the “born to rule in the eyes of the Idomas and the
Igedes; the Igala the same in Kogi; the Northern Kaduna to the Southern Kaduna
and so on and so forth.
Granting Ojukwu’s
Biafra became a reality, the Igbos would have been another “born to rule” in
Biafra as no non-Igbo would have stood the chance of becoming the President of
Biafra through majority votes.
The fact that there has
been inter ethnic wars among various ethnic groups in Nigeria even within the
Igbos fighting themselves as has been with Aguleri and Umuleri in Anambra East
Local Government Area in Anambra State, and others show that the hate campaign
against Hausa/Fulani has gone too far to a fault.
Where politics is a
game of number, the majority is bound to have her way. This reality is often
ignored by those who hate Hausa/Fulani to a fault. Even if the Hausa/Fulani
have been ruling for centuries through the popular votes, it would still be a
matter of majority votes. With the 1999 constitution as amended, the “born to
rule” cannot do so without first having the majority votes and obtaining 25% of
the votes in 2/3 of 36 States. Why do we turn round to castigate the “born to
rule” when we (the non-Hausas/Fulanis) are always instruments to crowning him a
King? Where were the “born to rule” in the 1993, 1999, 2003 and 2011
presidential elections that were won by Southerners: Chief MKO Abiola; Chief
Olusegun Obasanjo (twice); and Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan respectively?
I hold the opinion that
it is high time hate writers stopped this needless campaign of hate against the
Hausa/Fulani, using a manufactured “born to rule” drug to poison the minds of
free thinkers that the North(Hausa/Fulani specifically) wants to perpetuate in
power. Yet these very people kick against zoning and rotational leadership
which they stand more to again.
By Terfa Naswem