Northern-Nigeria Perspective

THE WORST TOOL OF AREWA: HOW TINUBU MANIPULATES A REGION THROUGH ITS ELECTED WEAKLINGS AND RELIGIOUS CONFUSION By Dahiru Yusuf Yabo The tragedy of Arewa today is not that it lacks numbers, intellect, or faith — it is that it has too many elected idiots and spiritually confused elites who have traded the soul of the North for crumbs from the southern table. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, an astute strategist and political survivor, has not conquered the North through superior ideas or vision, but through the manipulation of its internal contradictions. He understands the weakness of Arewa’s political class — the greed of its officeholders, the fear of its clergy, and the gullibility of its self-acclaimed intellectuals. He knows that while the North has numerical dominance, it lacks unified consciousness. Its politicians fight for personal survival, not collective dignity. They preach unity in public and negotiate betrayal in private. The same men who were expected to defend the region’s i...

AREWA FLAWS: AN ENEMY WE MADE By Dahiru Yusuf Yabo     Introduction: A Region in Decline Arewa—Northern Nigeria —once the epicenter of political power and military dominance, is now the tragic portrait of strategic betrayal and internal collapse. The decay is not a mystery, and the culprits are not hiding. They attend our naming ceremonies. They sit on our emirs' front rows. They preach in our mosques. And we, the people, vote them in. We have turned our own ballots into bullets—not aimed at enemies, but at our future. The greatest irony of the Arewa condition is simple: the enemy we cry about is the one we built, the one we fed, the one we elected.   The Architecture of Our Undoing 1. Political Power, Wasted Decades Northern Nigeria has produced more presidents, military rulers, ministers, and legislators than any other region. Yet: Poverty in Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi, Yobe, Jigawa, and Katsina is record-breaking. Our children still roam barefoot, clutching rusty bowls, b...

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These days it is commonly discussed at virtually every political forum of the need to draft former President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2027 presidential elections as a most viable solution to the current political imbroglio facing the country. Vanguard Newspapers carried the issue conspicuously today. Whether this move will be a solution or by itself will be introducing another problem to our transitional politics is not what I am concerned with in this article. My concern here, beyond his suitability, is President Jonathan’s eligibility. Is President Jonathan legally eligible to contest another 4-year term in office? I think before this matter is taken any further, both by its agitators and by former President Jonathan himself, the legal question must have to be conclusively resolved.  2. As it is presently, there is the Justice Oniyangi’s FCT’s High Court judgment of March 2013 that explicitly cleared former President Jonathan to contest another term. There is, however, al...

My special regards to my humble Master and so also a Godfather Sir.  Virtually on the very day that my father carried me to GSS YOLA on the 7th day of February 1972, I came across three unforgettable COINCIDENCES:- 1. As my Dad was leading us to the Vice Principal's office you were descending from the staircase and as you greeted, he handed me over to you for continuous guidance and care, there and then he drove his way back to Katagum in then, Bauchi Province. After you've accredited and housed me in Wazirawa, you witnessed some strange discomfort on my face. To boost my morale you took me to your house 🏡 on your Vespa Scooter 🛵 for the lunch, there I mate with your younger brother (Umaru) and your Stewart (Dauda), served with a plate of Semovita and Karkashi soup 🍽️ 🍲 for the very first time in my life, cause to me it was a new discovery on the side of Eatery. 2. You then gave me Your Photo album to have some glance and to my Joyous and Greatest surprise, I say your pictu...

Mr. Chairman, please allow me to join you in extending a warm welcome to our distinguished guests from the federal government. As the title of this programme indicates, it is an interactive session between the delegation of senior leaders of the Bola Tinubu administration and ourselves; representatives of the key civil society organisations of the people of Northern Nigeria. I recall that it was on the 17th of October, 2022 that this same group in this same hall held an interactive session with the then presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, among other candidates. In that meeting, we presented to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a written address containing details of the issues of urgent concern to the people of Northern Nigeria.  In turn, he gave us his own written document containing details of the issues he believed were of concern to the North and how he intended to address them.  But we did not stop there. The ACF, as is its tradition, prepared an extended memorandum giving fur...