By Abdu Labaran
Malumfashi
23-8-2025
The press statement issued by the Hausa Ethnic Stakeholders Forum (HESFO), Sokoto state branch, ATTRIBUTED the removal of Hausa Language and its replacement with Fulfulde at Shehu Shagari University of Education, Sokoto, to the governor of the state and the Sultan of Sokoto.
It is the belief of the forum that the Governor, His
Excellency Alhaji Ahmed Aliyu and the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Alhaji
Sa’ad Abubakar 111, are behind this retrogressive decision because of their
Fulani background. The two are not even the best of friends. I therefore, beg
to disagree with the conclusion of HESPO.
This is not the making of the governor of the state, or the
Sultan of Sokoto. The writing on the wall shows that it is the handwork of the
Federal Government. JAMB (UTME) is conducted by the federal ministry of
education, which is in turn under the federal government.
It is like when the immediate President, Malam Muhammadu
Buhari was the number one citizen in the country, he was accused of being
behind the Fulani bandits. But the banditry is even worse now than it was
during his time. And he is not even alive, he has been dead now for couple of
months.
Since he assumed office as the president of Nigeria,
Tinubu’s other preoccupation, apart from amassing illegally acquired money, is
to undermine the Hausa ethnic group, majority of whom are Muslims. It is also
an open secret that his wife, the so called First Lady, PASTOR Senator Remi
Tinubu, is a staunch opponent of Islam, who does everything within her power to
protect and help the opponents and traducers of Islam.
A directive was recently given to states in the North West
to return the CRK as a course of study in their schools. But similar directive
was NOT given to states in the South to reintroduce IRK as a course of study in
their schools. By the way, some people have not forgotten the time when Nyson
Wike, as Governor of Rivers State, said the State as a no-go area for Muslims,
declaring that Rivers is a ‘CRISTIAN STATE, MUSLIMS ARE NOT WELCOME’.
The presidency even hires followers of traditional religions
to castigate Muslims, and campaign for Muslims to revert to the pre Islamic
practices in Northern Nigeria. A number of ‘open letters to the president’ were
written with the aim of achieving that ungodly purpose.
The replacement of Hausa with Fulfulde in Shehu Shagari
University of Education, Sokoto is another ploy to pitch the Hausa against the
Fulani, as they successfully did in the banditry issue. Unless of course, the
governor of Sokoto and the Sultan are also responsible for the raging banditry
in the North West. An ABSURD thinking.
Some people, who want suspicion to be warded away from them,
alleged that the banditry started because of the fight between farmers (Hausas)
and nomads (Fulani) over grazing routes. But the two need one another, as has
been the practice over the ages. The Hausa farmer needs to Fulani herder to
‘fertilise’ his farming land with the dung of his animals during the off
farming season. On the other hand, the Fulani herder needs the Hausa farmer to
provide his animals with feeding stalks when the rains have seized in the
Northern part of the country. It is a kind of symbiotic relationship between
the two over the years.
Actually, the conflict appears to have started after the
entrance of a third party into the farming business. The third party wants and
appears to have everything; the farmland and the money (mainly acquired
illegally from government coppers). The third party therefore acquired
(forcefully and legally) farmlands, including grazing routes, using the
stupendous resources at its disposal to become farmers, in or out of government
service. The subsistence farmer was forced to convert the grazing route into his
small farm, too.
However, the aim of the Tinubu regime is to kill two birds
with one stone. It hopes to pitch the Hausa against the Fulani on the one hand,
and on the other, the regime hopes to also pitch Muslims against Muslims. So
emerges another cycle of senseless enmity.
The regime will then extend the replacement of Hausa with
Fulfulde in most of the tertiary institutions in the Northern states where the
Fulanis are the political and traditional leaders, like Katsina and Kano
states.
The present regime has also shown its contempt for the North
by trying to destroy the traditional institutions in the area. In virtually all
Northern states, there is a move to create more emirates, by breaking the
existing ones. The moves are at the instance of the states’s Houses of
Assembly, based on alleged requests from the people of the area, who felt
‘dominated’.
But no such requests were received by lawmakers in the
Southern Houses of Assembly to warrant moving motions for the creation of more
emirates in the area, suggesting that the people are satisfied with the
existing arrangement, and do not feel dominated.
It is hoped that the HESPO’s press statement is a sponsored
red herring aimed at averting suspicion from the Tinubu regime, as was employed
through those questionable ‘open letters’.
May God not let the enemies of Islam succeed in their evil
machination of pitching the Hausa against the Fulfulde again. May their lot be
abject failure at every turn.
Malumfashi wrote from Malumfashi
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