Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has apologised over his statement that he would never support a Fulani man to become the president of Nigeria. He is a Nigerian politician and governor of Kano State. In 2011, Kwankwaso and Ganduje was elected for a second term in office under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). It is estimated that between 12 and 13 million Fulani are nomadic or semi-nomadic herders of cattle, goats, and sheep, who travel across large areas in West Africa to provide grazing land for their livestock. Unlike some Nigerian politicians, whose hirelings, lust and obsessive greed prevent them to seek the good of the society, governor Makinde has toed the right path. The working group is regularly invited bystate and national policymakersto provide recommendations on a range of issues, from inclusive governance and electoral violence tocommunal conflicts between pastoralists and farming communities. A Fulani herder in Togo. Bola Tinubu declared president-elect of Nigeria as opposition parties cry foul, Australian Defence Force personnel and aircraft will be involved in the evacuation of residents from remote communities in the NTexperiencing significant flooding, Keep up with the latest ASX and business news. In 2018, he again emerged as the APC's governorship candidate. His spell with the government began under the transition government of General Abdulsalami Abubakar, where he served as an adviser in the Transition government. Explaining how the suspects were arrested, CSP Moshood said, Concerned by the recent unfortunate sectarian crisis in Kafanchan and neighbouring communities in Kaduna state where so many lives were lost and properties worth millions of naira destroyed, and the need to put a final stop to the crisis, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris constituted a Joint Tactical Operations Squad. Constitution of Nigeria, Seventh Schedule List of current state governors edit State Governors by Political Party Affiliation APC PDP APGA The current party affiliation of the 36 state governors is: 21 All Progressive Congress (APC) 14 People's Democratic Party (PDP) 1 All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Notes[ edit] The Fulani people are the largest nomadic tribal, or ethnic, group in the world, and are diffused across much of northern Africa the Fulani constitute an ethnic minority in every country they occupy. For Aristotle, the different ways of organizing the life of the Polis exist not so that people can live together (as they do this by their very nature), but so that they can live well. Opera News furthermore does not condone the use of our platform for the purposes encouraging/endorsing hate speech, violation of human rights and/or utterances of a defamatory nature. Using the Catholic social teaching we have shown that you must hold people accountable, he said. Peter Obi, an outsider popular with younger voters, garnered 6.1 million votes. Nigerian electoral law says a candidate can win by getting more votes than their rivals, provided they get 25 per cent of the vote in at least two-thirds of the 36 states and the federal capital Abuja, which Mr Tinubu did. It is a shocking development as Nigerian governors seeking to represent their people in the senate are being defeated by opposition party candidates even in their strongholds. According to Akintoye, the British empowered the Fulani over other tribes in 1960 during independence. In this article, I will be sharing with you 4 Current Nigerian governors that are Fulani by tribe: Abdullahi Umar Ganduje was born on 25th December,1945 in Ganduje village of Dawakin Tofa local government area of Kano State. The Squad known as Operation Harmony comprised the Police Mobile Squad, Counter Terrorism Unit, Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Intelligence Response Team, SIB, Explosive Ordinance Department, IGP Monitoring Unit, Police K9 (Sniffer Dog Section), Police Air Wing and Police Medical Team with headquarters in Kafanchan. In 2003, Ganduje was appointed special Adviser (Political) to the Hon. In February 2020, the U.S. government entered into a trilateral agreement with Nigeria and Jersey to repatriate over $300 million in additional money that Bagudu played a role in stealing during the Abacha regime. USIP helps governors and state peacebuilding institutions to establish inclusive, cooperative strategies that prevent and resolve violent conflicts; ensure that policies focus on citizens needs; stem the potential for all forms of violence; and allow communities to play meaningful roles in the transition process. He is a Nigerian politician and governor of Kano State. Despite his northern upbringing, Nasir El-Rufai has always said he is Nigerian first before being Fulani. The Pillar brings you a primer on the history of a complex situation, which has become deadly across much of Nigeria. EL-Rufai was born in Daudawa of Faskari Local Government Area in Katsina State. Mr Obi's campaign attracted young people and urban, more educated voters fed up with corrupt politics of the past, the two parties that have represented it since the end of military rule in 1999, and old men who have tended to dominate them. News ), Opera News is a free to use platform and the views and opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author and do not represent, reflect or express the views of Opera News. Worst still, the specie of persons holding offices as governors of the Northern States have shown that they absolutely care less about the provisions of the constitution and have devoted their times to pursue primordial ethno-religious sentiments. Opportunists, such as politicians, use these factors to their own advantage, but if you go to the root, you discover it is little or nothing to do with religion, the archbishop said. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. But the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom said in 2020 that experts and practitioners continue to debate the extent to which religious ideology plays a direct role in driving violence involving Fulani communities and individuals in west and central Africa., Still, the USCIRF said the violence is aggravating religious tensions in countries like Nigeria and the Central African Republic.. The communiqu. In 2019, the Network of Nigerian Facilitators (NNF) helped Kaduna and Plateau state peacebuilding institutions orchestrate a peace agreement to resolve a long-standing, cross-border violent conflict between Aten, Fulani and Takad communities in both states. In many northern Nigerian states they do not allow the teaching of Christianity, yet the government employs and pays Imams to teach in schools. In 2021, amid deepening public mistrust, the working group harnessed its collective experience and relationships to advance high-level dialogue between major civic groups working for peace across the country and the Nigerian government. In the 9 March 2019 Kebbi State gubernatorial election Bagudu polled 673,717 votes, while his rival Sen. Isah Galaudu of PDP polled 106,633 votes. Ganduje started his career as a politician when he joined the now defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) during the second republic. They are very right to do that. It turned out that the Northern governors lied because these suspected killers are Nigerians of Fulani extraction. Although Nigeria lays claim to practicing constitutional democracy but the democratic institutions are undermined deliberately by members of the political class to such a dysfunctional level that sane persons whose places of habitation are in the advanced civilisations often wonder why such a potentially great nation state like Nigeria has been sabotaged to a level that life in it has become so meaningless, insecured, short and brutish almost to a level that Thomas Hobbes talked about in his dreaded STATE OF NATURE. Confucius, the philosopher who lived between 551-479 BCE was credited as emphatically telling those who are elected by their people to govern their administrative and political affairs that: If your desire is for good, the people will be good.. However, some former governors in the country, who are also very relevant in the nation's political space, made the list of candidates who won senatorial elections in their respective states to represent their people in the Nigerian senate, at the next Legislative tenure, the tenth (10th) senate to be precise. He thereafter became the flagbearer of the All Progressive Congress(APC) after winning the Party's Gubernatorial primaries. Umahi, who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, scored a total of 28,378 votes to defeat his rivals, Linus Okorie of the Labour Party, who scored 25,496 votes . Buhari, first elected in 2015, is completing his second term in office, the constitutional maximum, and is to hand power to his elected successor in May an extension of democracy that Buhari has said he wants to ensure as part of his legacy to the country. He obtained his WASCE in 1976 and proceeded to the North East College of Art and Science between and 1977 and 1979 for his Advanced Level Certificate. Hausa people are estimated to make up 30 percent of the country's. Ganduje was trained in Islamic Knowledge at the Quranic and Islamiyya school at his village Ganduje. Amid deepening distrust in government and institutions, Nigeria has significant work to do in improving national, state and local security and governance ahead of national and state elections in 2023. In a communiqu issued at the end of the meeting, the governors including MACBAN officials reiterated that the security and welfare of the people of Nigeria remained the primary purpose of government as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution as amended. It is serious. Some Nigerians viewed El-Rufai's claims as controversial. In October 2020, a video clip of Ganduje receiving wads of dollars in what appears to be bribe payment by contractors was published by an online medium Daily Nigerian. Nigerias federal system gives governors great responsibilities in addressing the issues driving the countrys multiple conflicts, including farmer-herder violence, deepening regional divides, armed banditry and the Boko Haram insurgency. If the content contained herein violates any of your rights, including those of copyright, and/or violates any the above mentioned factors, you are requested to immediately notify us using via the following email address operanews-external(at)opera.com and/or report the article using the available reporting functionality built into our Platform. Publications There have always been clashes at the frontier between agricultural and grazing lands. 08-31-2021. The resulting peace agreement, signed in December 2020, signified their commitment to begin a peace process guided by the state peacebuilding institutions with support from the NNF and USIP. 2 Reply THEWILL NEWS MEDIA. The 17 suspects according to the Force Public relations Officer, CSP Jimoh Moshood were arrested for inciting public disturbance, disturbance of public peace, causing mischief by fire, culpable homicide, theft and unlawful possession of prohibited firearms. But the growth in agriculture in recent decades has cut off access to many traditional cattle migration routes and sources of water, which the Fulani say were once understood by custom to be protected spaces. He went on to win the governorship election, with over one million votes to defeat the incumbent Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero the candidate of the People's Democratic Party. Updates? In Nigeria, the Fulani [] The Fulani are only partially African and only partly negroid. "There are laid down procedures for aggrieved parties or candidates to follow when they are dissatisfied about the outcome of an election," it said in a statement. Arab nations reach out to Syria for first time in a decade: Is this earthquake diplomacy? The influence of Islam on kinship patterns is evident in the general preference for cousin and other intralineage marriages. The Latest @ USIP: Whats at Stake in Nigerias Elections? Fast forward to contemporary Nigeria and take analytic view of how the political class conducts the affairs of state especially in the current dispensation, it is clear that those parading around as governors are deficient in leadership skills and qualities that were generously prescribed by the aforementioned illustrious ancient philosophers. Minister of Defence, Federal Republic of Nigeria. The study posits that the phenomenon of Fulani herdsmen militancy is an explicit illustration of the identity conflicts, which is fallout of the contradictions of socioeconomic relations among the various groups in Central Nigeria. Any/all written content and images displayed are provided by the blogger/author, appear herein as submitted by the blogger/author and are unedited by Opera News. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Ndagoso blamed government inaction for continued attacks, and said the language of religious conflict was a convenient but simplistic account of the violence. Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi won Saturday, February 25 parliamentary election, to represent Ebonyi South Senatorial zone in the Nigerian senate next legislative tenure. USIP conducts research on governance and security to better advise Nigerian policymakers in their response to these challenges. Andrea Morris. Alternate titles: Foulah, Fulbe, Fule, Peul. LAST week, the Bauchi State governor, Mr. Bala Mohammed, said that Fulani herdsmen from Chad, Niger and other neighbouring countries would benefit from the National Livestock Transformation Plan being championed by the Federal Government to put herdsmen and their livestock in designated . The violence has moved further south in recent years, with the Pentecost attack - if it was perpetrated by Fulani terrorists - being one of the southern-most acts of Fulani terrorism. They are the product of cross-breeding between the Taurags, Berbers and Arabs of North Africa on the one hand and the local black . We hope that with electronic voting the transmission of results will be safer and therefore people will come out en masse to vote. The Police had earlier arrested armed Fulani herdsmen in Enugu accused of leading the invasion of some communities in Enugu state and the killing of scores of Nigerians. Bola Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos state, will take over leadership of a country grappling with Islamist insurgencies in the north-east, armed attacks, killings and kidnappings, conflict between livestock herders and farmers, cash, fuel and power shortages, and perennial corruption that opponents said Muhammadu Buhari's party has failed to stamp outdespite promises to do so. The Fulani Hausa come mostly from the northwest of Africa and can be found in Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Chad, Niger, and other African countries. In 1994, he got promoted and redeployed as Principal Administrative Officer in the Cabinet Secretariat of the Presidency. He also had a stint as a News Reporter with the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN). The election was also marred by violence in places, although not yet on the scale of previous events. The mainly Muslim Fulani herders and largely Christian farmers have clashed for decades over increasingly scarce land and resources, particularly in Nigeria's religiously mixed central states. Pope Francis promised prayers Monday for victims, and the Diocese of Ondo said June 5 that the situation has left the community devastated., We turn to God to console the families of those whose lives were lost in this distressing incident, and we pray for the departed souls to rest in peace, the diocesan statement said, while urging Catholics to remain calm, be law abiding and pray for peace and normalcy to return to our community, state and country.. That meant results had to be collated manually inside ward and local government counting centres as in previous polls, which observer missions also criticised as the result of poor planning. The video making the rounds showing the equivalent of the Western Nigeria Security Network (Amotekun Corps) in Katsina, obtaining the approval of the Federal Government to bear arms is fraught with great dangers. But whilst presenting their communiqu, these Northern governors displayed the most ludicrous approach towards ending the seemingly unending security threats in the North posed by the rampaging Fulani marauders. "The results being declared at the National Collation centre have been heavily doctored and manipulated and do not reflect the wishes of Nigerians expressed at the polls," they said in a joint statement. Zam, a strong disciple of the former governor of the state, George Akume, polled 143,151 votes to defeat Ortom who scored 106,882 while Labour Party candidate, Mike Gbillah scored 51,950. Ganduje became the Deputy Governor of Kano State following their victory in the 1999 gubernatorial elections. This is more so, given that the bandits have an unchecked access to sophisticated weapons. We wanted to build one, they didnt allow it. The Fulani oligarchy noticed this and decided to draft him to do their bidding in Imo State. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. His Fulani father who lived on a pension of three pounds a month died while the young Nasir was 8. FULANIS OWNS NIGERIA We must make Nigeria a Fulani nation and that's final. Be the first to get hottest news from our Editor-in-Chief, Check your email and confirm your subscription. A weakening economy, rising insecurity and violent conflicts threaten progress made in its democratic development. The Sword decides. - The World, Pakistans Twin Crises: The Dangerous Convergence of a Collapsing Economy and Surging Terrorism - Foreign Affairs, Former US envoy: Ukraine may try to retake Crimea 'diplomatically' - NHK Japan, China and Myanmar resume work on Muse-Kyaukphyu railway - Frontier Myanmar. Content created and supplied by: AdoyiGreporter (via Opera Abubakar Atiku Bagudu is the current Governor of Kebbi State, he was born on 26th of December 1961. On April 21, 2007, Bala Mohammed was elected as the Senator representing Bauchi South Senatorial District under the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP). But Olayemi Adeyemi, Owos delegate to Nigerias House of Representatives, told reporters Sunday that: Fulani herdsman are believed to be responsible for thousands of death in Nigerias Middle Belt, mostly in terror attacks committed against Christian farming communities. The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Ogun East, Gbenga Daniel, has won the senatorial election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ogun State on Saturday. Much of Nigeria was under British colonial rule before Nigerian independence. Violence flared up in the early 2000s, when Fulani herdsman attacked farming communities they accused of stealing their cattle and blocking their routes. He was elected Senator for the Kebbi Central constituency of Kebbi State, Nigeria in a by-election after Senator Adamu Aliero was appointed Minister of the Federal Capital Territory in December 2008. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. Nigeria 2023 Election: Reasons why Peter Obi lost presidential poll. The INEC had promised to upload results from each polling unit to its website, but most units were unable to do so immediately, and thousands of results had yet to be uploaded. All those cabinet ministers-: that of FCT, Education, Finance and many others holding top rated national offices under the government of President Muhammadu Buhari are FULANI GIDA. our governors came together to bring amotekun n it will b so hard for the fg to give them problem unlike BSS that was formed in one backyard Re: Amotekun Battles Fulani Herdsmen In Kishi Forest. Nigeria's presidency says dozens of people have been killed in violence between farmers and herders in the country's central Nasarawa state. He is a leading member of the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) and served as the Minister of Federal Capital Territory during President Goodluck Jonathan's tenure. As many as 13 million Fulani people live in Nigeria, an estimated 6% of the countrys population but not all of them are nomadic herders. In Nigeria's 2015 general elections, he contested for the Governorship seat in Kebbi State and won under the platform of the APC. 1914 fraud nickname Nigeria is Yugoslavia of Africa in which Arewa East Republic is one of the six sovereign states. . President Muhammadu Buhari condemned Sundays killings and has - as he has in the past - ordered a manhunt for the perpetrators of the attack. They speak Fula languages as well as Hausa, English, French and Arabic. El-Rufai proceeded to Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where he obtained a bachelors degree (First Class Honors) in Quantity Surveying. You're Surrounded By Fulani Terrorists. In 2021, the NNF helped conduct USIP research to better understand the drivers and dynamics of communal conflicts across Nigeria. The state government cannot look on while its citizens are being terrorised and murdered with impunity. The Force PRO gave a breakdown of arms and ammunition recovered from the suspects saying, A total number of 29 assorted firearms and ammunition were recovered from their possession. While claiming to be protecting the Uthman Dan Fodio heritage of free open grazing in Nigeria and the entire West Africa subregion, the group asked the Delta State governor to disown the. Nigeria was counting ballots on Sunday, a day after a historically tight election among three frontrunners competing for the presidency of Africa's most populous nation. The study observes that Fulani militancy has negated human security and resulted in dire humanitarian consequences . He attended Barewa College, Zaria where he graduated as the best student in 1976, wining the Barewa Old Boys Association Academic Achievement Trophy. 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