Who will save The North now? tribute to sir Ahmadu

[JiboNura]

Following the debate started by my compatriot,"Nigeria: the unhappy marriage of the quadruple", I feel obliged to revisit my previous write up, which was published by some Nigerian dailies. The piece represents my grudge about the contemporary Nigeria. Eminent Ladies and Gentlemen of the house, happy reading.[/colour][/quote]




Who Will Save the North Now? ::) ??? : :o

By

Jibo Nura





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Tribute to Sir, Ahmadu Bello- the Sardauna of Sokoto and premier of Northern Nigeria.(1910 - 15th January 1966).

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Today is exactly thirty-seven years and seven month after the Northern Nigeria has lost its illustrious and intrepid son, the oak tree (Gamji) that endured and survived the most unfavourable conditions.

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Chikakken dan Arewa, Gamji dan kwarai;the father of northerners, who sacrificed his energy, skills and leadership ability to the upliftment of Northern Nigerians; he converted and shared his vast experience both at national and international level to the unification of Nigeria under the banner of federalism; His transgience and pragmatic understanding of life served as an emissary between the North and its counterparts.

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Sardauna not only saw the North through but also left an indelible mark that northerners would ever live to remember and cherish the immortalize legacies of this bona fide child of Nigeria.

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If Sardauna were alive, he would have seen how north is being discredited by its treacherous sons, who have destroyed the grand design of Ahmadu Bellos one north, one people, one destiny. He would have seen how his development projects are being compromised with personal ego, as the vituperations of our present leaders who have dismissed all claims about genuine leadership model. Were Gamji alive, he would have seen the legendary North being turned into a dumping ground, rendered helpless without any hope.

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Therefore, the above, is an opening eulogy of today's discourse about the trouble before the North, especially in this present democratic dispensation. It has become imperative, to pick a vantage that would make us understand the political exigencies of the moment. For the North has already lost bearing, since the death of its great messiah. And this is not unconnected with our present day leaders' refusal to follow the modus operandi of Sir, Ahmadu Bello of the blessed memory.

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However, the contemporary political epoch has revealed categorically, the uncompromising attitude of Northern Nigeria as a people. What happened in the just concluded election are enough pointers to tell that the northerners are now in serious political, economic and educational predicaments. We may not come to term with this reality until a comprehensive package of the northern political cankerworms witnessed nation-wide is opened up.

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The issues:

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The persistent outcry about the marginalisation of the North in the scheme of things has its real basis and significance from the disintegration of the people, which constitutes this entity, called Nort. It is true that the already perceived problems by some group of northern intelligentsia and other technocrats have started unfolding gradually. What we are witnessing today is a direct dividend of our lack of togetherness, love, sincerity and truth for one another. When Governor Attahiru Bafarawa in his address on the occasion of the second anniversary celebrations of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), the umbrella of the north, held in Kaduna on 28th March 2002 said that "As the 2003 elections are drawing closer, we must put our heads together and set aside our political, social, religious and economic and other differences, speak and act together and mutually present a consensus candidate that has the genuine interest of the North at heart, irrespective of faith or party affiliations. We should be under no illusion; nor should we allow the mistake of the past to repeat itself. We must never mortgage the North again for the pleasure of a few individuals who do not have our interest at heart. We must strive to live by the examples of Sir, Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto and premier of Northern region.

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But what happened afterwards? This clarion call by his excellency governor Bafarawa was outrightly rejected and put into a dust bin by some mischievous elements who do not believe in the onerous task of the North. And even Bafarawa himself seemed not to have meant what he said. For instance, the North had unanimously embraced major General Muhammadu Buhari as its popular candidate and also a candidate for the masses. He was given an absolute support, except those few individuals who hold grudge against him, simply because circumstance(s) warranted to their detention during Buhari's military regime. They failed to pardon him. Instead, they came in different forms under different party affiliations just to disrupt the political platform on which the North was initially designed. Perhaps, the only exception among them was Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi, who in spite of all what had happened between him and Buhari remained forgiving.

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It is an irrefutable fact that Nigerian politics is divided along religious, ethnic and regional enclaves. For example, the Yorubas in Nigeria have never voted based on justice and fairness. Their own politics is always ethnicised; even religion is secondary to ethnicity in terms of elections among Yoruba Nation. Once you are a Yoruba, they would give you bloc votes. If for instance, you go to Southwest, you would find out that the predominant party is AD, if you go to South-south and Southeast they are dominated by PDP. It is only when you come to the North that you would see AD, PDP and ANPP waxing together! Therefore, it is high time for the "unpardonables" to understand this.

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Even though, it is too late for the North at this time to come out of these mess but that doesn't mean we cannot come back to the drawing board. The fact that Buhari has been allegedly defeated, we shouldn't succumb to national aggression. All hands must be on deck. Let us forget about personal sentiments and/or resentments and face the task ahead. I understand that why Buhari could not win the support of some of the Northern ruling class, especially the retired generals was because of the personal grudges that had its genesis since from their military days. A sad story indeed, which I wouldn't like narrating, however, Buhari did not lose the election. For, this was a man that doesn't have political structure before, but in less than two years he got it. And within a short time frame he has proved to the world that he could pull leg with the incumbent. Though, if not because of betrayal and insincerity within the Northern political elites, without a single vote from the southwest, the North can produce a president in this country based on our population and landmass.

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The real problems:

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The selective application of justice and priorities in the development of the southern part of this country at the expense of the North would continue to mar our situation. When one compares the developmental projects that are done in the South to the ones that are in the North, the gap is very wide that it is even a mirage on whether the North will ever catch up. Recently, President Obasanjo commissioned a new power thermal station in his own state-Ogun, a multi billion Naira project. And don't forget that since 1993, the southwest had been enjoying the highest percentage of electricity in this country. Over 60% of the households of southwest had access to national grid compared to the National average of 33.6%. With the Jigawa, Kebbi, Sokoto, Katsina and Taraba having less than 10% accessibility.

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Nonetheless, this disparity in electricity distribution was ascertained by NEPA weekly allocation report published in the National Newspapers in 1993. Where the southwest zone received 38%, Southeast and South-south received 16.63%, while the entire North received 27.2%. My friend Ujudud Sheriff captured the Obasanjo's agenda well in his Tuesday column titled ;Agenda for Northern Governors (Daily trust, 10th June 2003) that over N10b was spent on the dualisation and rehabilitation of Lagos bar beach, which he (Ujudud) doubts very much if such money was expended in the North by the Federal government from Obasanjo's inception to date. Again, when his Excellency, my own state governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Saminu Turaki was crying about the unprecedented marginalisation of the North and Jigawa in particular, I feel relieved, because this was what they failed to understand since. It is now that they start realizing that OBJ has wore a Yoruba dress- set to implement the Yoruba agenda. The governor in his interview with the Sunday Vanguard of June 15th 2003 said, "Throughout the period of Obasanjo's first democratic regime, there were no sign of federal government presence in Jigawa state. Managing directors at federal level, zero. New federal roads, zero. Federal institutions, zero. Directors, zero.

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But one cardinal question here is that what makes the North suffer all these? The answer to this is simple. Like I said, it is our lack of togetherness that had made us sown what we are reaping.

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This is one thing that Sardauna would never allow to happen if he were alive. Whenever it was a matter of regional importance, the Sardauna together with the Joseph Tarkas, Tafawa Balewas and the Aminu Kanos. And his other close associates like Justice Mamman Nasir, Mr. Micheal Audu Buba, Sunday Awoniyi, Pastor David Lot, Sir, Kashim Ibrahim, all put their heads together and worked as indomitable teams to put North at the loftiest of height. Sardauna could only differ in ideology with his friends and colleagues but anything that had to do with northern regional demands, he never comprised. The unjustified retirement of northern key military officers, all in Obasanjo's quest to subdue the power of the region militarily, is due to the governments fear of uncertainty and revolt from the North. He painstakingly eliminated them from the system so as to allow him become the only C in C and a lone ranger in the business of transforming Nigeria and North in particular into an artificial bondage.

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Honestly speaking, non-of the problems of the North that is most disturbing than the situation of its nineteen state Governors. It is unfortunate, that they have no sympathy for their people. The dangerous and foxy decisions taken by them at the state council meeting about the increase in fuel price and the invidious local government reforms, has revealed clearly, their inhuman stance on the masses. It is true that the Nigerian masses do not know how the per capita oil is distributed, nor do they experience any subsidy from Niger Delta to Shani in Borno state. They haven't a slightest idea on the sharing of the National oil cake. It is therefore ironical for the governors and the government to accede to the increase in the fuel price with about half of its former price. This has greater negative effect to our economic savvy. The insidious local government restructuring, by the key players in government, is going to be detrimental to the integral part of the North. The North, based on its population and landmass, has been privileged with the highest number of local governments in the country. For the government, therefore, to take a drastic measure on them by phasing out their present structure from the National system is tantamount to breach of trust and illegitimacy. They should know that these local governments are created and guided by certain laws in the constitution.

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Besides, most of the people in the country and North in particular do not know about the existence of any government other than the local governments. What the government and the nineteen governors did in this regard is just like killing a mosquito with a sledgehammer. For, they didn't hear peoples' prejudice about it. If at all they are honest, they should have given room for referendum, so as to allow the people to decide what they think is best for them. Were Sardauna alive, he wouldn't have allowed such a thing to happen to the North. He would have fought it to his last breath. As Paul Mamza had it that" if Sardauna were alive, he would have queried the miscalculations of the northern political elites. He would not have allowed the systematic weeding of the northerners occupying strategic positions. He would have prevented a situation where northerners were engaged in a fight with each other. He would have faulted the erroneous methodologies that paved way for institutional degeneration of the North. He would have viewed the concept of power shift as the equivalent of a political regicide. He would have stopped the course of a limited philosophical perception and the prevarication of the northern people in the modern times. The heavily corrupted leaders that made it a way of life to secure a misbegotten wealth cornered away from the public accounts would have bemused a returning Sardauna. He would have thanked Almighty Allah for an early recall".

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The main thrust in Dr. Paul's assertion is to instil a patriotic commitment in the minds of the northerners, because he has seen how the North and its people have rotten away. At the grass root level, you will find out that northerners are not in the forefront in terms of education, which is the most apparent and pervasive problem of our people. The North is really educationally backward. An average class northerner (whether of the working class or a farmer), who has the means, cannot afford to send his children to school. Instead, he prefers them to be roaming about the streets begging, or else, they would resolve to casual labour like selling petrol by the roadside. And our leaders both traditional and modern are so reluctant that they can't come out and promulgate a law that would either prevent such ill-equipped attitude or force the parents to send their children to school. This in turn has greater negative effect to our socio-economic etiquettes. Go to the south and see how the parents are running helter-skelter just to raise money that they would sponsor their children to school. That's why you see them dominating the commanding heights of our educational sectors. This reminds me of a chat with a medical pal of mine, hear him: Do you know that if we are to compare the number of medical schools that are offering medicine between the North and South, we only have five. A.B.U Zaria, Bayero University Kano, University of Maiduguri, Sokoto and Jos. Whereas in the South almost all the universities are offering medicine. And by implication, we only have four if we are to be specific. Since Bayero University has not been fully accredited due to ethnicity and because most of the accreditors are Yorubas. I quite agree with my friend's preview. However, if we are to compare the educational disparity between the North and South in terms of statistical analysis and performance, we would find that they have about seven private universities in the South we don't have any in the North. With the regards to the performance of our students in the S.S.C.E and U.M.E, it has always been a matter of grave concern. Many students have had high failure rates particularly in the key subjects of English and Mathematics with these rates in some states reaching as high as 97%. Also the U.M.E results for entry into universities are generally poor and do not correlate with the result of the S.S.C.E conducted by WAEC and NECO. This has serious implications for the manpower needs of the northern states and the redressing of the educational imbalance between these states and the rest of the country. For instance, according to JAMB, the U.M.E 2000 statistics on applications by the entire northern states recorded 13.82% grand total. This percentage was not up to the percentage applicants from Imo and Anambra states, who have contributed 80,250 candidates garnering 19.55% of the national total.

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Therefore, if we are to go on discussing our problems vis-?-vis educational, political and by extension social and economic, time and space will not allow us to say them within this column. As such, let us see if there are remedies.

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Solutions:

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Virtually, the North has few solutions to its enormous problems.

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First, we must come back to the drawing board and map out a cogent strategy to empower our people educationally. We must campaign massively for the education of our children. The nineteen northern governors should come together and enact laws that will force parents to send their children back to school. Adult and mass education should be taken seriously. Where children between the ages of 5-16, must compulsorily acquire both primary and secondary education, which is synonymous to a Lebanese, Palestinian and Jordanian child, whom at the age of 18 must serve their country militarily. In doing this, proper monitoring and evaluations ? should be ensured at all levels. The governors should also create an enabling environment both at the state and at the local government level, which would allow education to thrive economically and socially, by building up adult and mass education centres at rural and urban areas, as they were done before, so that education would encompass all and sundry. Primary and post primary schools should be rehabilitated and equipped so as to alleviate the lack of teaching facilities. Competent teachers should also be given utmost priorities via the constant payments of their salaries. Once you give your child education, then you have empowered him economically, politically, socially and otherwise.

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Secondly, the North through the Arewa Consultative Forum should try and checkmate Obasanjo's discriminatory attitude between the North and South, albeit, there seems to be clash of ideologies within the ACF, but I still believe that we can make it. The ACF should know that OBJ is now out to betray justice.

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Lastly, the nineteen Northern state governors should please take it up as an ample responsibility to ensure the fear of God and refrain from taking unscrupulous decision on the Northern region. They should also refrain from milking public funds, so as to allow them work towards the development of the north with justice, equity and fairness. And all hands must be on deck from the top to the grass root. Unless these are done, the North would continue to have a serious effect of minimising the effectiveness of the participation of its people in the political, social and economic activities of Nigeria. And sooner or later, our children would begin to wonder with nostalgia as to who will save the North?[/quote]

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[Anonymous]

allah ne kawai!
just pray to God! ???

aisab

[Hausanicious]

This post was really touching deep inside me. As I was going thru it I felt like crying.

Amma Na only God who can save North

[ummita]

This post was really touching deep inside me. As I was going thru it I felt like crying.

THANK GOD U DIDNT, STRONG MEN DNT CRY

[Ibro2g]

A tear from men, tears from women, even more tears from children.
Arewa is at a dead end, soon to be extinct. I must thank you Jibo, for bringing up what we refrain in fear, the truth we avoid for the cause of the only thing we seem to have in comon now: Selfishness.


We once spoke of why Arewa republic are so reluctant not just on acquiring education, but also in using it. Waziri spoke of the health hazards we live in despite our past and present level of knoledge and intelligence. Amin spoke of the ACF, like Jibo and Gogganaka, found impossibilities in it.

Well... ...our entire leadership is a sad story. It may amaze you if I claim our reluctance is only deliberate.

Before the coming of the white man, and his government, the hausa kingdoms or emirates had what we still inherit. The only aclaimed superiors were the emirs and his nobles. No one could match up to thier standards, like living standards or wealth, infrastructure or even wives. Who ever tries to catch up by a fraction of a percent, will be cut down. The nobles superiority decieved them into enjoying the pain of Arewa republica. In those days, if one's family is a noble, he's assured a sound future, carreer, and position. If one's family isn't, then only the grace of God will turn your fortune. The
kings were assured of an exalted position, with all the goodies in life of thier then, life.(except for rare cases of revolts)They rested in pleasure and have no time to develope the peoples welfare, or health, or even economy because they found pleasure in seeing the suffering in the inferior masses. Infact, success wasn't rated according to standard of living, rather, by military force, conquered teritory and fear! (Tirr)

Things have'nt changed much in our times. The nobles who still think they have to be someone, or people who fell since I or my father is or was someone, I have to be, or my son has to be a somebody, even if I/my son cannot or could only give minute contribution to the society. Walla! Here is the problem.


This has made us, the Arewa comunity into believing in superiority. Everyone wants to be something or someone, and his son also has to be someone, without carrying anyone along. This is the root of our selfish problems. We once discussed (cant remember when) about the power cycle in Nigeria. The same set of people are ruling and the same rich is becoming richer, this I'm afraid is inherited. Adamu Ciroma has been a minister for someones life span now.....in short, the people ruling nigeria since 1960 are still ruling it today under
the same inheritabce, and selfishness.

The few who manage to brake the gap, neglect all that they left behind, like the rich already, who never look back to the populace.

Arewa has suffered that much from its genesis till date. The only difference was the days of Gamji, the late Sir Ahmadu Bello (Allah ya ji kanshi, amin) whom was a saviour, a legend, a miracle and a prayer. We had the opportunity to be alive in his wrists, shine above anyone and florish like Arewa would never have. But then he got hit by one of us. The premier was brutaly murdered along with his wife in his home by an "Arewa".

This action brought us back to our reluctant cursed self again. This is what Arewa is still today.

The ACF is supposed to be another miracle of the premier's nature and dream. To elevate and promote Arewa standards, principles and interests. How it'll do it, is even more simpler. But instead, as the ACF is fed with the wrong fruits of the North, its silence and brilliant appearance on the headlines has been the most effective proof that of its existence. The average dan Arewa doesn't even know of it.


I think the ACF just might be our hero though, with the right
people guided with the right principles, and the right hearts. But in a small time if we continue like this, we will be crushed, and then it'll be too late to even point fingers which is all we do today.
What we need is not to be pointing fingers, but working together with a united initiative, pushing forward the little that we could, the little that is left of us, and vaccinating our minds from the ill will of selfishness and "neglect".


Neglect...Ignorance if I may say has become the fuel to our
extinction. I'm proud though, that this is about the third post on this forum distinctively about Arewa. This indicates the awareness of our pain, this is helping us out of our reluctance. I thank Kanoonline, I thank God Almighty.
Arewa republic, its people are so scared of facing its problems, they had rather neglect it. And when you speak to most people about it, all they say is "Its sad, thats why I dont want to hear it!". They dont want to hear thier problems how could they ever solve it? I'm afraid Arewa doesnt have much of a future if we remain ignorant, deaf and dumb to our ever rising problems. Preety soon after this our lost generation if things go the way they are, their wouldn't be
any Arewa....silence of the wind.


But as most of you might say, identifying a problem is one thing, solving it is another. Its quite unfortunate though, I hope we dont run away from our unsolved problems, I hope we dont ignore them, coz they would not go away.....or one day we will. I hope to see the day we prove my statement wrong.

[Anonymous]

Isn't it time the north stopped crying to be Saved? Why does the North always have to depend on the south e.x Oil? Why are you guys so scared of being lost? Shouldn't the north try to do for itself than always try to rule Nigeria?Isn't it time you Northerners decide to create your own states kano, sokoto, bauchi into a country? The truth is that your ancestry is more tied to The republic of Niger not the ethnic groups of Yoruba, Ibo and what you have it in southern Nigeria. I believe Nigeria must/should split so that you northerners can depend on yourselves and we southerners can also do for ourselves

[Muhammad]

Salam
I am a Northerner who more or less agrees with rew. Mallam Jibo its true the earlier northern leaders like Sardauna, Makaman Bida, Inuwa Wada, Musa Yaradua .................. really loved the north .
But along the line came people like Babangida and Abacha. These have really made us look foolish in the eyes of other nigerians because they have looted so much and contributed so little. The North needs to saved from the evils of these type of northerners.
In response to your question, who will save the north now? the answer is not that simple but i guess its a combination of the old group, Yahya Gusau, Liman chiroma, Sunday Awoniyi, Magaji Dambatta and the Buhari, Elrufai, Marwa, Adamu Muazu and  Shekarau  lot.
This is by no means an exclusive group its just a sample and i believe with the right intention, the NORTH WILL BE SAVED.  

[Maqari]

           MK ULTRA A BRAIN CONTROLL METHOD !
I must admit that  the last two posts before mine are the most distructive theories ive layed my eyes opon in ages! its unbelievable that a Nigerian will in the 21rst century seek refuge in such idologies, its even of a greater discomfort that such premitive ideas will exist in the minds of people who possess the ability to recieve and coprehend data, Amin and (in perticular)Rew, if u are at the very least aware of history any history old or recent u will find that your points above lack trace of any consideration of it,there exists many pre revolution sympthoms one of them is stimulants, when the chinese oppression reached its apex and the chinese ware ready to arise, the british flooded china with so much opium that the intire nation was intoxicated into submission but yet the chinese arised defeating both the drug and the oppressors, in the Moroccan revolution the french tryed thesame mechanism only they did it with hashish , so did the CIA  with crack in the 60s, another sympthom is dissection of thought and and disposition of unity, the gearmans ware made so terrified of the communist parties that they ware ready to build a physical barrage dividing their own country into two cutting many families in half ,from after the world  and at the birth of the cold war untill the year 1989 when the wall was finally destroyed, both south and north korea still suffer a great deal from such devisions,the colonisation of the African continent itself was not totally possible untill after the eventual division of it at the berlin conference ,the fear of economical and political crisis is what amplifies and fuels theories like yours not an intellectual and effective thinking if devolopment peace and stability is what u seek  u will then find your theory in contradiction of your goals,this is just a cowardly lazy quick solution without any consideration of consiquencies, your thought is not even ORIGINAL but a recyclage of past thoughts from the likes of Ojukwu it was tryed and completely failed instead resulted in a civil war, i can grasp the stimulant of your theory as PETROL but isnt this the very cause of the distress throughout the middle east ? there is no single clan or tribe in nigeria that rakes the benefits of your natural resources alone this credit goes to few individuals representing many different tribes these individuals are your main problem, and if by all means u think that the division of your nation will mean that the south will then peacefully sit on wealth and live happily ever after then u need to pay a recent visit to reality !!!! i do not favor any tribe religion or part of Nigeria on the other, let this be known, but i do favor nigeria as a whole than anything,im forced to acknowledge that you are not necessarily processing your ideas rather a suggestive thinking is causing your prospective to take form, escapism being the easiest solution for you, the avrage hausa fulani or any other tribe in the north does not suffer any less than the avrage yoruba igbo of the south, they share thesame struggle and oppressor  have thesame problems and are being exploited by thesame entities, to try and isolate a sector will be just an dishonourable attempt to escape responsibility thus liking it to a certain groop, tribalism is thesame as racism and xenophobia all three being major ingredients in conter-development ideologies,what many third world citezent fail to realise is: untill the masses take an indifinite responsibility and reclaim their nations in a collective manner then your natural resources means nothing and would only go to assist the growth of whatever state or corporate organisation holds the strings attached to your puppet leaders, as for the line:
"The truth is that your ancestry is more tied to The republic of Niger not the ethnic groups of Yoruba, Ibo and what you have it in southern Nigeria. I believe Nigeria must/should split so that you northerners can depend on yourselves and we southerners can also do for ourselves "
i should refrain from any comments on this for i believe that doing so will be a waste of my intellect and time, but i do have one simple question: pre slavery and colinisation where does the " republic of niger" end and the (in your words) the federal republic of yoruba and igbo starts ? its really unbelievable that some one can still even allow such thoughts tresspass his mental landscape !!! i will not conclude without further considering places where division stands as a key solution to the oppression of certain groups in examples like chechenia and Tibet  but study the history of these places you will find that they all ware once an indipendent sectors that ware occupied by superior powers with the means of arms and such, provide me with an account where such event took place in nigeria, in which case i will then by all means support the federal republic of "Yoruba Igbo and Co."and if this division you seek is solely based on tribalism will u then include the republic of benin into the south or is it tottaly financial ? just curious

[Muhammad]

Salam
MaQari
You wrote a lot but said NOTHING, in regards to what i posted.
In what way, if any, do you see my saying Abacha and Babangida are corrupt being destructive? Unless you dont believe they have STOLEN from Nigeria which is a pity.
Also, it is Ok to disagree with the list of people i provided who can save the North. But what is your proposition in this regard?  Perhaps you want people like Jerry Boy, Al Mustapha and .................. well you know them better than i do.
I stated before and will state again that its the combination of the people i mentioned and many others that will restore the glory of the North. And this will be "achieved only by leaders" with the right intention.
Kapish!

[Maqari]

"Amin and (in perticular)Rew, if u are at the very least aware of history any history old or recent u will find that your points above lack trace of any consideration of it,"
i precisely pointed out that my main focus was Rew i included you because you announced your agreement with his point without pin-pointing a specific detail, thus placing your self on my accurate line of verbal fire, and if you couldnt grasp the point im trying to make above then i really dont think i can be of any assistance to you, i will proceed to comment on your words:"I stated before and will state again that its the combination of the people i mentioned and many others that will restore the glory of the North. And this will be "achieved only by leaders" with the right intention.
Kapish! "
although this statement is not as severe as the one by rew they tend to share few things in common such as escapism, to cast the heavy load of responsibility on few caracters is inaurgurably an act of escapism i will dare announce loud and clear NO i disagree with you, to restore any past glory you need a strong present you need participation of the massess not just few caracters, the collective action of the new generation if we can sustain the growth of  conciousness is what will bring glory not just to the north but to Nigeria as a whole .

[Muhammad]

Salam
Maqari you goofed again. I mean i have no right to question your intelligence but i have ample evidence to suggest your not comprehending what my saying ?what "many others" mean. Many as we all know, is relative. It may mean millions or just dozens. So to accuse me of not including the masses in my list of emancipators of the North is WRONG in every respect.
You said
" to cast the heavy load of responsibility on FEW caracters is inaurgurably an act of escapism i will dare announce loud and clear NO i disagree with you, to restore any past glory you need a strong present you need participation of the MASSES not just FEW caracters, the collective action of the new generation if we can sustain the growth of ?conciousness is what will bring glory not just to the north but to Nigeria as a whole ."
Forgive me for capitalizing something you said. But the point here is "MANY..." people, what i said will save the north, is the opposite of FEW, what you thought i meant will save the north.
Again, MASSES, are just a group of people that may or may not be MANY. In NIgeria's case they are MANY and its obvious from my write up that i said "MANY OTHERS" will play a part in saving the north. Do the math.
I dont intend to go into the SPIRIT and LETTERING of one's argument because i am not that type of person but it is CLEAR beyond REASONABLE doubt that you did not fully digest what I proposed.
Before i leave, i must conceed that my joining issues with rew is what you condemned. But here again I said MORE OR LESS, can be interpreted so many way and you chose the obvious one. WRONG move Maqari. MY more or less tend to agree with rew argument about how the northen leaders have squandered both the opportunity and the resources needed to save the North. Question here is
Do you dispute that?

................................................ and lest i forget, i stand to be corrected.
CIAO.

[Maqari]

Amin although i take a tremendous pride in my ability to comprehend matters and intellectual integrity do not allow this factor goad you into forming a defensive barrier that does not allow effective reasoning , my focus of argument was the division of my nation wich i thought u was pro of, after seing and reading other posts by you i came opon a conclusion to delete such thoughts,so lets focus on the object rather than dabble with small details such as the logistics of the words "MANY" and "MASSESS" as for the list of people you provided i have no right to question or approve of their legitimacy for im not even familiar with the names you enlisted, this a result of my own negligence,i detest misunderstandings in an intellectual duet of any kind,and i apologize for subjecting you to such, furthermore apologize for my active perticipation in it ONE  

[JiboNura]

Isn't it time the north stopped crying to be Saved? Why does the North always have to depend on the south e.x Oil? Why are you guys so scared of being lost? Shouldn't the north try to do for itself than always try to rule Nigeria?Isn't it time you Northerners decide to create your own states kano, sokoto, bauchi into a country? The truth is that your ancestry is more tied to The republic of Niger not the ethnic groups of Yoruba, Ibo and what you have it in southern Nigeria. I believe Nigeria must/should split so that you northerners can depend on yourselves and we southerners can also do for ourselves

A RIGHT OF REPLY:
Mr. Rew’s vivisections of the North calls for an imperative clarification of his soliloquize surreptitious intentions to ridicule the people of the North about “oil”. But such a utopian accusation is only meant for people like Rew, who specialize in sonorous outburst-especially when they want to play to the gallery.

To me, this ‘oil of a thing’ has paved way for us to open a Pandorax Box so that in the end everybody can see clearly the lethargic luggage it contains. I therefore want to take Mr. Rew and any other that thinks like him on the following points.

One: That the south always boast to the north about oil, and that northerners are always afraid of secession, is just a harlequin paradox, belonging to unlucky punks, who invigorate the quandary inflicted in a premature perdition that manifest in the Nigeria’s political situation.

To put this point across, the honorable reader should know that without the north the south might not stand on its feet. For instance, they accuse us of lack of petrol and/or oil endowment but we supply them with meat. They curse the north of this natural relegation, but in the end we see them gallivanting with tomatoes, and pepper, that sold for N10 and even N20 per one, especially at Ajegunle, Surulere, Ketu and mile 12 in Lagos. What balderdash!

Two: That the North should secede and leave the south alone, and that we should join our brothers in Niger Republic, is a nice thing to do.

But I want Mr. Rew to tread back into history and quickly intimate me on the origin of Oduduwa-the king.

However, one of the major calamities that will definitely befall on the South if we agree to part ways; is how it’s going to accommodate its large number of people that are living under northern patronage. That very day, EXODUS!  EXODUS!  EXODUS!

Perhaps, these are some of the reasons why the north doesn’t want to leave the south alone until it’s prepared. Otherwise, we would have allowed it to go its own way since.

Though, through out my write-up, I did not mention any name about those ‘so called’ Nigeria’s’ political actors. The piece was purely written just to reawaken the North from its slumber! In fact, I vehemently descended on my people. Then came Mr. Rew telling us all sort of things.

At this juncture, I have no choice than to use the Yoruba adage that ‘Na wetin dey make Cray-fish bend’?

After all, everything we say today about our region is just the product of circumstance. We say it because some people have already said it. Ours is not different from the Abraham Adesanya’s who said “ I consider myself first a Yoruba man before a Nigerian”. His very good friend Justice Adewale Thompson also said “Any Yoruba man who don’t vote for Obasanjo is a bastard, bogus anti-Yoruba”.

Ironically, these two personalities, have today come out shamelessly condemning the person that they had sleeplessly and tirelessly worked for. It is quite irresponsible for them to say that “Obasanjo has betrayed our mandate”. But little wonder, this is the most common thing among ‘Yoruba Nation’. You may not know this if you are not one of them. If so, pray to your ‘god’ Mr. Rew.

Finally, we can see that the whole entity called Nigeria is just a ‘QUD PRO QUO OF A SORT’. And I want to assure you that in the whole of Nigeria the Hausa/Fulani people who were once referred to as the ‘Tutsis’ of Nigeria by one of your think-tank fellow, are the most upright and peace loving people. In politics, they are the best. Quote me anywhere that Kano people are the best in terms of refined politics in Nigeria. It is unfortunate that you have taken me along this line but I had wanted  you to see my other side. I therefore urge you to see my Lugard’s Dual Mandate and Leadership Experimentalism in Nigeria. I pasted it here at http://www.kanoonline.com
, you can give it a look. Let me know your view on it but do not take us to the road to Kigali.
Have a nice time.
Nura.