WHO ARE THE REAL NORTHERNERS? -By- Dr Davidson Rotshak Lar, JP
*Davidson Rotshak Lar,* a cleric & Superintendent of Police in the Nigeria Police Force died one year after posting about this Article ________________ *We have been innundated with the word North. Northern Elders, Arewa Consultative Forum, Northern Governors Forum etc.* But really we are asking , "who are these Northerners?" Let us borrow a bit from History. *When Obasanjo as President gave Non Fulanis sensitive positions in his regime, the sultan of Sokoto went with some Fulani Irredentists like Ango Abdullahi, and confronted him, and made allegations that the North was being marginalized. Baffled , Obasanjo Querried them, "Are Non Fulanis in the North, not Northerners?" The sultan said,* "NO, they are not."✔️ *Gen Obasanjo nodded his head to learn what he probably* had not known before. *So we ask, "Who really are these Northerners?"* *We have not finished excavation of the historical precedences on this Pyhrric qu...