THE NORTH HOLDS NIGERIA’S FATE IN ITS HANDS — AND THE QURAN TELLS YOU EXACTLY WHAT TO DO WITH

THE NORTH HOLDS NIGERIA’S FATE IN ITS HANDS — AND THE QURAN TELLS YOU EXACTLY WHAT TO DO WITH 

A Plea to the Conscience of Muslim Northern Nigeria

By Kio Amachree, President, Worldview International

I. THE WEIGHT OF THE NORTH

There is a Hausa proverb that every elder in Kano, Sokoto, Kaduna, and Maiduguri knows by heart:

“Rua ba su yami banza.”

Water does not go bitter without a cause.

Nigeria’s bitterness today did not happen by accident. It has a cause. It has a name. And in 2027, it falls to the North — the seat of the Caliphate, the home of Sharia, the fortress of Islam in West Africa — to name that cause openly and act upon it. Without the North, Bola Ahmed Tinubu cannot be re-elected. He knows it. His handlers know it. And now, the North must decide: will it trade its conscience for a second term of a man the Holy Quran itself condemns?

I am a Christian. I am a man of Ijaw and Kalabari royal lineage. I am not a northerner. But I am a Nigerian who loves this country more than its current rulers do, and I speak to you today not as a partisan, but as a man who has known your greatest leaders personally, who studied at Eton College alongside the legacy of the Sardauna of Sokoto, and who watched that legacy of honour and Islamic principle be systematically dishonoured by the rise of Bola Tinubu.

II. WHAT THE NORTH IS ENDURING

Before we speak of Tinubu’s character, let us first speak of your suffering — because the North’s suffering is the foundation of this plea.

In just the first half of 2025, at least 2,266 people were killed by insurgents and armed bandits across northern Nigeria — surpassing the total number of casualties for the entire year of 2024.  In the Northwest alone, 2,938 people were kidnapped in a single year, accounting for over 60 percent of all kidnapping incidents reported across the entire country.  In November 2025, over 400 people — the majority of them schoolchildren — were abducted across four northern states in a single surge of mass kidnappings, eclipsing even the horror of Chibok in 2014.  In February 2026, armed militants slaughtered at least 162 residents of two Muslim-majority villages in Kwara State after those communities refused to submit to extremist demands — their homes burned, their families destroyed, their blood crying out for justice that has not come. 

The Hausa people have a saying that cuts to the truth of this moment with surgical precision:

“Hakki da ka rena shi kan soni maka ido.”

The grass which you disregard will injure your eye.

For too long, the North has disregarded the danger growing in its own fields while a President in Abuja distributes ministerial offices, contracts, and security council positions overwhelmingly to Yoruba sons of Lagos. The grass has grown high. It is now injuring your eye. Your children are being taken. Your mosques are being attacked. Your farmers cannot tend their land. The recurring features of these attacks — indiscriminate killings, kidnappings for ransom, and weak state responses — demand urgent and comprehensive action that has simply not been forthcoming. 

This is the government that asks you for another five years.

III. A MAN WITHOUT ROOTS — WHAT THE HAUSA KNOW ABOUT SUCH MEN

In Hausa culture, a man’s lineage is not vanity — it is character. It is accountability. It is the invisible chain that binds a person to consequence, to community, to truth.

Your elders teach: “Kogon da ya manta da asalinsa zai bushe.”

The river that forgets its source will dry up.

Now consider this: Who is Bola Ahmed Tinubu — truly?

What remain obscured by clouds of controversy are the place of Tinubu’s birth, by what name he was initially known before he adopted his current name — since it is on record that the Tinubu family in Lagos disowned him — who his biological parents were, and why he assumed his current identity.  He has offered himself to a DNA test to prove paternity, which is not the answer of a confident man — it is the desperation of a man who knows the questions will not stop.

He does not know — or will not say — his true name. He does not know — or will not say — who his mother was. He does not know — or will not say — his true date of birth. His date of birth has been a subject of controversy, with his Wikipedia page edited to show birth years ranging from 1932 to 1954 in a single day — the page eventually locked by administrators to prevent further alteration. 

A Hausa man of honour would stop here and say:

“Na dumka riga babu wuya, wonda ya yanka wuya shi sa ma kainshi.”

I have sewn a garment without a collar; let whoever cuts a collar for it wear it himself.

If the cap fits — wear it. Tinubu has sewn himself an identity without seams. He has constructed a life from borrowed cloth. And the North, which prizes nothing more highly than lineage, ancestry, and the honour of one’s fathers, is being asked to place this man at the head of its future. This is not a small thing. This is an abomination to everything the Hausa understand about manhood, nobility, and trustworthiness.

IV. THE QURAN SPEAKS — AND IT SPEAKS DIRECTLY

I have studied the Holy Quran carefully before writing these words, because I wanted to give you not opinion but divine authority.

On the matter of narcotics — and it is now established fact, confirmed by United States federal court records, that Tinubu forfeited $460,000 to the United States government in connection with a drug trafficking investigation in the Northern District of Illinois in 1993 — Allah is unambiguous.

The Holy Quran declares in Surah Al-Ma’idah (5:90-91):

“O you who believe! Intoxicants, gambling, altars and arrows of chance are impurities that are the handiwork of the Devil — so stay away from them, so that you may succeed. The Devil only wants to cause between you animosity and hatred through intoxicants and gambling, and to avert you from the remembrance of Allah and from prayer. So will you not desist?”

The Quran makes clear that intoxicants — which Islamic scholars unanimously extend to narcotics — are not merely forbidden for consumption, but are a “detestable act of Satan,” because they sow seeds of enmity and prevent one from the remembrance of Allah.  The harm caused by drugs is regarded by Islamic scholars as worse than that caused by ordinary intoxicants, because drugs destroy moral values entirely, corrupt wealth, damage the interests of the state and individuals, and fuel criminal acts against people and property. 

This is the man who seeks your vote. A man who participated in narcotics trafficking — in white heroin specifically — now stands at the gate of the Muslim North claiming to be a believer, claiming the mantle of the faith, wrapping himself in the green of Islam while his past is documented in federal court in Chicago.

The Quran further declares in Surah Al-Baqarah (2:205):

“And when he turns away, he strives throughout the land to spread corruption therein and destroy crops and descendants. And Allah does not love corruption.”

The Quran warns that when unworthy people seize positions of authority, their inner darkness makes them act in insidious ways — stunting society’s growth and destroying what flourished before, with their misconceptions, their egos, and their lack of nobility becoming a severe blow to an entire people across generations. 

Does this not describe precisely what you are witnessing? Your crops — your oil revenues, your federal allocations — flow south. Your descendants — your children — are being kidnapped in their hundreds. Your land is under siege. And the man responsible asks you to crown him for a second time.

Then there is the matter of tribalism — which is Tinubu’s most powerful political weapon, and which the Quran destroys with devastating finality.

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) declared: “He is not one of us who calls to tribalism. He is not one of us who fights for the sake of tribalism. He is not one of us who dies following the way of tribalism.” 

The Quran states: “O Mankind, We created you from a single pair of a male and female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know each other. Verily the most honoured of you in the sight of Allah is he who is the most righteous” — meaning that in Islam, tribal superiority is not only false, it is a form of ignorance that Islam came specifically to destroy. 

Tinubu has built his entire political architecture on tribal loyalty. Every significant appointment flows to Yoruba loyalists. Every major contract rewards his kinsmen. Islamic scholarship is unequivocal: what Islam condemns as ‘asabiyyah — tribalism — is the feeling that one’s own group is superior to all others, accompanied by disdain for others and the use of power to exclude them. Such prejudice and sectarianism, scholars warn, are acts that lead toward kufr and carry the fear of one losing his faith entirely. 

A man who governs Nigeria as though it were a Yoruba fiefdom — who rewards tribe over merit, clan over competence — is not practicing Islam. He is practicing the ignorance of the Jahiliyyah that the Prophet came to end.

V. THE SARDAUNA WOULD NOT HAVE RECEIVED HIM

I say this with full knowledge of what I am saying, and I say it as someone who, through Eton College, encountered the towering legacy of Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto — perhaps the greatest northern leader of the modern era, a man of such honour, such Islamic integrity, such fierce northern pride, that he chose to govern his people from Kaduna rather than rule all of Nigeria from Lagos. He was admired at Eton. He was mourned at Eton. He hosted teachers and students in the North and gave them a vision of what Islamic governance rooted in character and dignity truly looks like.

I say to you plainly: the Sardauna of Sokoto would not have received Bola Tinubu in his court. A man whose real name is unknown. Whose mother is unknown. Whose date of birth is uncertain. Whose wealth flowed from narcotics. Whose political style is ethnic supremacy. The Sardauna would have turned him away at the gate — and rightly so.

The Hausa understand:

“Da kuka’n kura, da bacewar akuya duka daya ne.”

The cry of the hyena and the disappearance of the goat are one and the same.

When Tinubu speaks of a united Nigeria, your security continues to disappear. The connection is not coincidence. It is cause and effect.

VI. THE CORRUPTION THE QURAN CANNOT FORGIVE IN A LEADER

In Islam, fighting corruption is not the task of governments alone — it is a collective obligation, a fardh kifāyah, upon the entire Ummah. As the Quran commands: “And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression” (5:2). 

The Islamic tradition teaches that corruption is not merely a social ill but a spiritual disease that erodes justice and faith itself. Imam Ali (peace be upon him) said: “The corruption of the people lies in the corruption of their leaders, and the reform of the people lies in the reform of their leaders.” 

Tinubu is ranked among the most corrupt figures in global accountability rankings. He presides over a government that awarded the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway — a project worth hundreds of billions of naira — to a company connected to Gilbert Chagoury, a man convicted of money laundering in Switzerland and denied a United States visa on terrorism-related grounds. This is the economic architecture of the presidency that seeks your vote.

The Hausa elders would ask: “Ramin mugunta a gina shi gajere.”

If you must dig a pit of evil, dig it shallow — because the deeper you dig, the more certain you are to fall into it yourself.

Tinubu has dug deep. And the North, if it gives him another five years, will find itself buried in that same pit.

VII. THE NORTH’S MOMENT

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: “By Allah, you must enjoin good and forbid evil, and hold against the hand of the unjust ruler and force him toward the truth, or you must limit him to the truth.”  The Prophet further said: “Allah does not punish individuals for the sins of the community until they see the evil spreading among themselves, and while they have the power to stop it, do not do so.” 

You have the power to stop it. The 2027 election is that power, concentrated into one moment. Without the North, Tinubu cannot be re-elected. This is not tribal politics. This is not a southern man telling the North what to do. This is a Nigerian — a Christian Nigerian who respects your faith — reminding you of what your own faith already demands of you.

The North must look at its kidnapped children, its burned mosques, its impoverished farmers, its blood-soaked soil, and ask: Has this man earned another day of our loyalty?

There is one final Hausa proverb I leave you with:

“Gaskiya ta fi kwabo.”

Truth is worth more than money.

Tinubu has spent enormous sums buying political endorsements across the North. Northern groups parade and declare their support. Cheques change hands. Positions are promised. But your elders taught you — before he arrived with his money — that truth outweighs every coin.

The truth is this: a man without a known name, without a known mother, without a confirmed date of birth, with $460,000 forfeited to the United States government for drug trafficking, who governs Nigeria as though it belongs to one tribe — this man is not a Muslim president. He is, as the Holy Quran describes, a spreader of corruption on the land. And those who vote for him knowing what they know will share in that corruption before Allah.

Reject him. Save Nigeria. Save yourselves. Save your children.

It is the only thing the North can do.

Wallahi — by Allah — the time is now.

Kio Amachree is President of Worldview International, a Stockholm-based civic and advocacy platform. He is an Old Etonian, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and a member of the Amachree Royal Dynasty of the Kalabari Kingdom. His father, Chief Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree QC, was Nigeria’s first Solicitor-General and the first African Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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