The below population data is from The
World Almanac and Book of Facts. (New York: World Almanac Books,
2015) page 717. According to it, the populations of major Nigeria
groups are:
- Hausas: 25 million persons
- Yorubas: 19.4 million persons
- Igbos: 18 million persons
- Fulfulde (they are found in several West African countries for total 11.6 million persons); if nearly half of them live in Nigeria so about 5 million Fulanis live in Nigeria
- Kanuri: 3.8 million persons
- Kanuri central: 3.2 million persons
- Tivi: 2.2 million persons
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| Ozodi |
The other Nigerian tribes, according to
the book, do not have over two million persons; the book ranked
groups with over two million persons, worldwide.
You may ask why I chose to use the
World Almanac data instead of data from Nigeria. Good question. Do
Nigerians keep accurate data? Do Nigerians conduct clean census? All
we are given are cooked figures calculated to make some groups seem
large for political purposes; Nigeria bands around its population as
120 million today, tomorrow 150, another day 170 and even180. It is a
mess, that bizarre country called Nigeria. They cannot get anything
correct.
But that is not our problem right now. The issue at hand is this:
there are about five million Fulanis in Nigeria and this minority
ethnic group rules all Nigeria (Buhari is Fulani).
Five million Fulanis since 1804 ruled
the Hausa states (they appointed emirs in major Hausa towns and
cities and ruled them from their headquarters at Sokoto). Fulanis
ruled Northern Nigeria and have now completed their quest to rule all
of Nigeria with the victory of Mohammadu Buhari as the president of
Nigeria.
Five million people, a minority rules
Nigeria a country of about 140 million people!
What does that make Fulanis? It makes
them politically savvy. They are like the Tutsis of Rwanda and
Burundi. The Tutsis are very few in numbers but for centuries (from,
at least, 1300 AD) have ruled the majority Hutus.
For our present purpose, we have a
situation where a handful of so-called Nigerians rule the majority of
Nigerians.
And such large ethnic groups as Igbos,
who are, at least, 18 million people (Igbos are the third largest
Ethnic group in Africa, behind Hausa, and Yoruba) are now ruled by
minority people, Fulanis!
The amazing thing is that members of
this Fulani tribe are probably the least educated tribe in Nigeria.
Who is going to compare them to the hugely well-educated Yorubas and
decently educated Igbos? How did it come to pass that a bunch of
illiterate Fulanis rule Nigeria?
Just look at Mohammed Buhari, a man
with only shoddy secondary school education (I doubt that the man can
write a good sentence) ruling Yorubas and Igbos; two groups with a
basket full of doctorate degree holders.
What does that make Igbos? It makes
them politically unsophisticated. A handful of Fulanis rule Igbos and
they come to the public square telling the world how they are a
superior people and expect the world to believe them? The world sees
Igbos as not what they claim to be, for if they were the gods they
claim to be a minority people, a mostly illiterate bunch for that
matter cannot rule them.
Nigeria is actually in the situation of
Apartheid South Africa where five million white folks ruled forty
million black folks.
Let me repeat: five million Fulanis
(who probably have Arab blood in them) rule 140 million black people
called Igbos, Yorubas, Kanuris, Tivi, Edo, Efik, Urhobo and other
ethnic Nigerians.
Is this not an outrage? How is it that
a minority tribe, Fulanis, who are not even from Nigeria, who came
from Guinea only a few hundred years ago, are ruling Nigeria?
Is it the case that black folks are
always ruled by people with Caucasian blood in them?
Fulanis are said to be part of Maghreb
Arabs, Arabs who left Arabia (may be around 700 AD) and journeyed
across North Africa until they got to Morocco. Some turned north and
conquered Spain in 711 AD and some turned south to Mauritania,
Senegal, Guinea, and Mali and so on.
Fulanis, Arabs of sorts are ruling
Africans in Nigeria! This is amazing, I say. If Europeans did this to
us we would all be complaining about colonialism but when Arabs
colonize Africans, Africans do not complain.
Well, this Igbo, this African will
complain. I do not want to be ruled by white folks or by Arabs and if
Fulanis are Arabs I do not want them to rule me.
I have begun my war to eliminate the
Fulani rule of Nigeria (they actually want to make all Nigeria their
fiefdom) and rule it in perpetuity!
This war will end only when Fulanis, a
minority group accept ruler-ship by majority Nigerians or there is no
deal, there is no Nigeria. Alaigbo must separate from Nigeria rather
than allow itself to be ruled by Arabized Africans.
Please Igbos do not ever use the word
Biafra in referring to us. Biafra is a village in Portugal. A
Portuguese, during the age of exploration, in the 1400s, gave the
Atlantic Ocean area directly below the lower River Niger the name the
bight of Biafra. That Portuguese sailor probably came from the
village of Biafra and gave the name Bight of Biafra in honor of his
village?
There is no need for Igbo people to
call themselves by a Portuguese name, Biafra. I feel insulted been
referred to by a Portuguese name, Biafra.
So, let us stop hearing that nonsense
called Biafra. Please refer to us as Alaigbo. Forget Ijaws, Efiks and
other groups that were in the so-called Biafra. No ethnic group
should dominate others. Igbos should strive for their independence
and allow other groups to do the same and give up the delusion that
they need to call themselves Biafra so as to have Ijaw, Efik and
others in it. Those groups do not want to be ruled by Igbos and this
Igbos does not want to dominate other ethnic groups.
I want independence for my people.
There must be a Republic of Alaigbo with capital at Owerri. This is
not a negotiable proposition, it is a done deal; if you do not like
it you are free to go jump into the Atlantic Ocean and drown yourself
and I could care less.
Africans self-rule does not mean that
we should allow ourselves to be ruled by half Arabs called Fulanis.
Half Arabs used to rule all of Sudan and abused real Africans in
South Sudan and currently do so to real Africans in Darfur province
of Sudan.
Internal colonialism whereby one
so-called African group dominates others should not be tolerated just
as white rule of Africans should not be tolerated.
I will not tolerate Buhari and his
Arabized Fulani rule of Alaigbo. The subject is not open for debate.
Ozodiobi Osuji
July 10, 2015
Mazi Osuji is from the Unitary Republic
of Alaigbo.
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ReplyDeleteEDO THE LARGEST ETHNIC NATION OF NIGERIA:
ReplyDeletePolitics of numbers: the Wazobia lies:
There was no geographical entity or sovereignty called Nigeria before 1914. Therefore it is unclear when Nigeria came to be colonized by the British imperialists. Also, it is rather fallacious or subjective to analyse the strength of the ethnicity, in terms of population, of one section or tribe in the so-called Nigeria from the colonial and post –colonial era without any recourse to the majestic pre-colonial era of the more established ethnic groups now forcefully situate in Nigeria project. It suffices then to add that the biased yet forcefully imposed Wazobia philosophy of the so-called three major ethnic groups in Nigeria is not a pre-colonial orientation but a colonial on-slaught on the perceived 'stubborn' ethnic groups by the British, which has left sad legacies, even to this present day. Our problems today were cast in our colonial past.
Consequently, there were smaller or rather not so established groups that were politically empowered by the colonial masters-greatly due to their Willy submissiveness. These groups suddenly found themselves with so much power and sought to do whatever it took to continue from where their masters left off.
Today, Nigeria's political history with its multifaceted myriads of social-economic and developmental problems can be traced to the caricature social-political foundation, a legacy established by the British. That is why state creation has become a venture, which seeks to continue the political domination of the rest of the country. There are major ethnic groups in Nigeria as purported and now taught by the Wazobia three- Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba, and as seen in the lumping of other several ethnic groups into geo-political zones.
Now, do the political math; are the Hausa the major tribe in the North-East, North-Central or North-West? What about the Yorubas, are they the only ones in the South-West or the Igbos the only tribe in the South- East?
Again, if there are over 250 spoken languages in Nigeria with a population of over 150 million people, is anyone suggesting that the Wazobia three put together are over a 100 million people? Do the math and you will see it is just a numbers game. It is therefore fallacious to use state creation as a mean of increasing the population of the 'Wazobia three'. The idea now is to create more states in any of the geo-political zones and it would either be; one more for the Hausa (North), Igbo (South-East) or Yoruba (South-west). It is on this formula they share the resources and manpower quota at the expense of justice and fairness. Are we one people in one nation?
Nigerians can no longer endure such ultra-ethno-ideological philosophy of domination because its orientation is colonial and a hindrance to the general development of the entire country. We must not wish away the myriads of problems it has stamped on the overall growth and advancement of the people. Politics of numbers as it were is a colonial mentality and it is seen in; our inability to organize genuine census to determining our actual population, our inability to get competent manpower to run the affairs of government and its functionaries, our inability to make or rather establish firm nationalistic ideologies for growth, poor distribution of educational infrastructure, our inability to sustain the cultural heritage of the people of today's Nigeria… I maintain, the politics of numbers is a Wazobia three lies and should be challenged.
It is no longer a mirage that the level of mistrust has assumed frightening heights in the country amongst the various ethnic groups today.