How The Oba Of Iwo Chose To Become 'Emir Of Iwo' (II)
The last act of the Uthman Dan Fodio jihadist invasion, which happened to be the initial entrance into the Southern belt was the land of Kwara. Kwara was and still is majorly a Yoruba state. In the fiery flight of the jihad movement, this place gradually fell to the might of the Fulani warriors. It was at this point that the conquerors established their emirate -the first ever in Yorubaland.
Consequently, the Fulani dominated in the leadership structure in Kwara and subjected the people to their pattern of rulership. It is instructive to note that while it is the aboriginal community of Yorubas that dominated (population-wise), they were yet subject to the ruling class of the emirate. The vestige of this subjugation is still found today as the Ilorin Emirate.
Silently, it seems the conquest desire by the leader of the jihadist is been projected to further accomplishment by the natural descendants of Uthman, who happened to be the first Madi. In view of nationalism, these offspring of the madi might seem just to be for an integrated national being, they, however, still bear within them the sublateral blood that identifies them and demand their loyalty to the principal legacy.
They are Fulanis, they are the descendants and kins of their cherished lord and master, Uthman, and they are meant, by whatever inclination, to answer to the hegemonic call. Their submission to the establishment of Ottoman Empire must stir their commitment to the course to dominate and bring all to subjugation.
The unwritten yet clear tendency of the hegemonist to dominate has been made manifest by their assertions. It's one mandate they have stated with, sometimes subtle judiciousness and sometimes open unambiguousness. The question is how else do we seek to grasp it?
On October 12, 1960, The Parrot Magazine quoted Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of Northern Nigerias as saying: "The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grand father, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the north as willing tool and the south as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us and never allow them to have control over their future."
Many had adduced that the success of the invasion of the jihadist into the southwest somehow caused an infiltration into the Yoruba monolithism, tearing them and contaminating them to a seeming cultural alignment and rather whimsical attachment to the Fulani domination. The reason for this, many claim is obviously out of fear.
The fear seemed to have led to the domination that eventually broke their religious homogeneity. Today, we have a Yoruba that, aside the traditional commitment to the African religion were Christians, been partly Moslem and partly Christian. This dichotomy of the Yoruba nation, religiously, was essentially a consequence of the jihadist infiltration and domination.
The fear theory is once again pushed with the recent onslaught by the fulani herdsmen that have once more boosted their notoriety and has thrown further the restive idea of jihadist subjugation. It is to our fore the many instances where the Fulani herdsmen had left throes of destruction, massacres and defeat on their targets.
The cases in states of Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa, Ekiti, Ondo, Ogun, Kogi, Kaduna, Enugu, Abia, Delta, Edo, etc. where these blazing invaders pilloried and left victimized there hostd, were met with total helplessness, or with challenges just little, impactless and of no significance. Even as noises of condemnation so powerful as coming from the governors were raised, the attacks like an inferno, rustled unrestricted with such audacity.
But indeed it seemed to have an audacity. For the perceived inactions by those who should act and the strong voices of dissent that they gave and which greatly overwhelmed the concerns of the various governors showed how so powerful their audacity was. The IG of Police, Ibrahim Idris and the minister of defence Dan Ali Mansur, where in separate statements said to have euphemistically asked a complaining goveenor to shut and rather receive the blame for his action that justified the heinous murder of his people.
Do not smell foul play. Rather you should be upset that the hegemonic system long established still remains practically unchallenged all the while. The moment to just smell had long been overtaken by the reality that the foul had gone more than expected. Our fear is that the domination had crisscrossed, burning with the orgy of a wildfire and already taken over landscape (and thrones). And you expect me to want you to remain just at the point of smell?
[To be continued ]
Consequently, the Fulani dominated in the leadership structure in Kwara and subjected the people to their pattern of rulership. It is instructive to note that while it is the aboriginal community of Yorubas that dominated (population-wise), they were yet subject to the ruling class of the emirate. The vestige of this subjugation is still found today as the Ilorin Emirate.
Silently, it seems the conquest desire by the leader of the jihadist is been projected to further accomplishment by the natural descendants of Uthman, who happened to be the first Madi. In view of nationalism, these offspring of the madi might seem just to be for an integrated national being, they, however, still bear within them the sublateral blood that identifies them and demand their loyalty to the principal legacy.
They are Fulanis, they are the descendants and kins of their cherished lord and master, Uthman, and they are meant, by whatever inclination, to answer to the hegemonic call. Their submission to the establishment of Ottoman Empire must stir their commitment to the course to dominate and bring all to subjugation.
The unwritten yet clear tendency of the hegemonist to dominate has been made manifest by their assertions. It's one mandate they have stated with, sometimes subtle judiciousness and sometimes open unambiguousness. The question is how else do we seek to grasp it?
On October 12, 1960, The Parrot Magazine quoted Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of Northern Nigerias as saying: "The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grand father, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the north as willing tool and the south as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us and never allow them to have control over their future."
Many had adduced that the success of the invasion of the jihadist into the southwest somehow caused an infiltration into the Yoruba monolithism, tearing them and contaminating them to a seeming cultural alignment and rather whimsical attachment to the Fulani domination. The reason for this, many claim is obviously out of fear.
The fear seemed to have led to the domination that eventually broke their religious homogeneity. Today, we have a Yoruba that, aside the traditional commitment to the African religion were Christians, been partly Moslem and partly Christian. This dichotomy of the Yoruba nation, religiously, was essentially a consequence of the jihadist infiltration and domination.
The fear theory is once again pushed with the recent onslaught by the fulani herdsmen that have once more boosted their notoriety and has thrown further the restive idea of jihadist subjugation. It is to our fore the many instances where the Fulani herdsmen had left throes of destruction, massacres and defeat on their targets.
The cases in states of Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa, Ekiti, Ondo, Ogun, Kogi, Kaduna, Enugu, Abia, Delta, Edo, etc. where these blazing invaders pilloried and left victimized there hostd, were met with total helplessness, or with challenges just little, impactless and of no significance. Even as noises of condemnation so powerful as coming from the governors were raised, the attacks like an inferno, rustled unrestricted with such audacity.
But indeed it seemed to have an audacity. For the perceived inactions by those who should act and the strong voices of dissent that they gave and which greatly overwhelmed the concerns of the various governors showed how so powerful their audacity was. The IG of Police, Ibrahim Idris and the minister of defence Dan Ali Mansur, where in separate statements said to have euphemistically asked a complaining goveenor to shut and rather receive the blame for his action that justified the heinous murder of his people.
Do not smell foul play. Rather you should be upset that the hegemonic system long established still remains practically unchallenged all the while. The moment to just smell had long been overtaken by the reality that the foul had gone more than expected. Our fear is that the domination had crisscrossed, burning with the orgy of a wildfire and already taken over landscape (and thrones). And you expect me to want you to remain just at the point of smell?
[To be continued ]
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