It is poverty ridden and wretched. I have been to the North and it was a very depressing experience. The finest capital in the north is not even up to my village. Take a trip to East and you will understand the amount of squalor the Northerners are living in. A village in the east is heaven to a Northerner. You are not in any position to call the Igbos names.
You should be grateful to the Igbos and Southerners. We all know that the North can never survive alone. The North without the South will be worse than Chad or Niger. The North is responsible for the backwardness of this country. The North contributes nothing to this country. The only thing the North does is to loot our treasury and murder Igbos and other tribes. Like I said, I feel pity for you.
You are from the worst region anybody can think of and when you see a tribe that with only 20 pounds and now doing extremely well, it depresses you. If that article had been written by a Yoruba or even by someone from the Niger Delta, I wouldn’t have bothered myself replying but coming from an Hausa man, it’s very amusing. Do everybody a favour and go back to school and tell your people that the country doesn’t need them. My only regret is that Gideon Orkar’s coup failed. He would have solved the Northern problem. Bunch of illiterates!
Re: Adamawa, Peace at Last?
Writing in his Sunday column, Bark Byte, Garba Deen Muhammad attempted to scratch on the surface of the Adamawa political imbroglio and was quick in reaching a casual conclusion which was perhaps naïve and a show of possible ignorance.
Baba Mai-Mangoro,- as Admiral Murtala Nyako, the executive Governor of Adamawa state as fondly called- is a project embraced by many people of his state without much haggle and aggressive marketing by its promoters. This is largely so, considering the difficulties the state went through in the eight years of plundering, vandalisation and general misrule by the former state operators and their sponsors.
Adamawa state was the only state in contemporary Nigeria to produce a vice president who first won an election as a governor before becoming the number 2 man in the country. This implies that having campaigned for some time across the length and breadth of the state, he must have come face to face with the problems of the people and proffered possible solutions should he was elected as governor. Therefore, as Vice President and having left behind his elected deputy sitting as the state governor, the people of Adamawa state were united in the hope that the state would witness tremendous developmental progress within a short time. But alas! The rest is history.
The people of Adamawa only saw development in states with no influence at the centre as powerful as theirs as it happened in Bauchi, Kaduna, Sokoto etc. As development eluded them, so they came together to straighten things up and they rallied behind the mango farmer. The general belief has been that here comes an accomplished man in all his chosen careers in life. As a naval officer, he attained the exalted rank of Admiral and occupied the peak command position of Chief of Naval Staff. In the military-political set-up, he served in various capacities including being a military governor, Deputy Chief of Defence Staff and member, Armed Forces Ruling Council. Even in retirement, Nyako became a successful farmer, a pace setter in mechanized agriculture in Nigeria.
It is therefore the belief of many people of Adamawa and their well wishers in Nigeria that Nyako will no doubt provide an excellent leadership of courage, experience and selfless service that will lift the state and its people from the sorry state they found themselves.
One year on, feelers from Adamawa state are that although the project is on track and Nyako is living up to the expectations of the people and the state is for the first time in the period of the fourth republic experiencing purposeful governance, no wonder his wide support from the grass roots and his general acceptance in the state. Unfortunately, some of the coalition members within and outside the ruling PDP who came together to achieve the feat have turned against the government having realized that it wouldn’t be business as usual. The coalition that came together to uproot the structures of a sitting vice president were not united in their intents and purposes. While some did so purely in the interest of the state and its people, some joined the coalition in the hope of replacing the former cartel with a new set of oppressors and continue with the old order. It is sad that these elements among whom a former ambassador business mogul together with an old political war horse who was trusted in political leadership would gang up with the uprooted structure and keep fanning the flame of crisis between the state house of assembly and the state executive.
As long as the political intrigues of Adamawa state are reduced to Nyako’s political associates and aides, the undercurrent of the state political imbroglio may not be understood. The roles played by these associates and aids must be appreciated in the context of the circumstances enumerated above. Bello Tukur has played a key role in the election campaign that brought this government to power. He mobilised his political machinery effectively in the first and second elections, being one of the politicians in Adamawa with a formidable political structure. And in governance, he is bringing his wealth of experience as the immediate past and indeed longest serving deputy governor to bear in the running of the government as the Chief of Staff to the governor. The enmity Tukur faces today is as a result of his resistance to frivolous and sometimes fraudulent proposals forwarded to the state government by people within and out side the government to which he always advises the governor appropriately taking in to consideration the interest of the state first.
Nyako’s adversaries who are daily working hard to de-stabilize his government should know that their actions are worse than the deeds of the deposed former rulers of the state, for de-stabilizing Nyako will be risking the derailment of the whole developmental process now on going in the state. It is quite unfortunate that one of these latter day adversaries was heard urging the members of the State House of Assembly to, as a matter of urgency, facilitate the return of this old man to his farm.
The people of Adamawa state having gone through hard times in the past must come together and see to the success of this new re-birth. And Garba Deen should help in this regard as a true patriot.
Sani Mohammed, Wuse Abuja.
Re: Re: Grave Visits, prayers et al
On Monday, 8/4/08, Isa Mukhtar wrote: It would be good for you to realise that the views of NASRIDEEN ALBANI or even the MIGHTY (as some of you see him) IBN TAYMIYYA is not synonymous to true Islamic teachings.
Please endeavour to read what was said of IBN TAYMIYYA’s GRAVE and how it spread bounties to its visitors in UQUD DURRIYYA BY IBN ABDUL HADI. SEE ALSO WHAT HE (IBN TAYMIYYA) said on the grave of our RASUL (SAWA) in his BLASPHAMOUS MINHAJ SUNNA.
Regards
Isa Muktar, Tsamiyar Boka, Kano
Appreciation
It is only a heartless companion that will not appreciate your effort. I have gone through ur column in Sunday Trust of 27/07/08. May ALLAH reward u 4 ur comment.
Thanks
April 7th, 2009 at 3:41 am
After reading your article on Charles Seludo, I felt pity for you and other northerners who think alike. It is painful that you are reminding the Igbos of certain things which they have been struggling to forget: that an average Igbo man started with 20 pounds in 1970. The northerners having clinged to power for the better part of the existence of Nigeria should be ashamed of themselves for what they have done to this giant. You have reduced the nation to a country of beggers and you dare open your dirty mouth to insult those who are trying to repair the damage. The Igbos I must assure you are survivalists and you cannot take that away from them, so if I were you, I would get close to an Igbo man and learn from his survival instincts, rather than killing myself with envy and jealousy. If you want to see the magic wand an Igboman can wave, make him the president or give him an oppurtunity to create his own country. Let me tell you for the final time that whatever the Igboman has, he got out of hardwok, self determination and the courage to endure pain. I live in France, I work tirelessly night and day, I send money back to my home town to construct a building for me and when I get bact there you start getting jealous and I ask what kind of people are these Hausa goats. I want to use this chance once more to tell you that the Igbos of today are not the same with those of 1969, so don,t try no shit. We will be better prepared next time you come with you dagger and koboko.