PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI: HIS HEART IS WITH HIS FULANI PEOPLE.

ICHEOKU says actually blames those novitiate Nigerians who were expecting something different from President Muhammadu Buhari, a Fulani first and Nigerian second, inexplicable president of Nigeria. A man with such a storied pro Fulani credentials dating way back in his days as Lt Colonel in the Nigerian army that fought the Biafran civil war and continuing till the present. Yet some Nigerians are living in denial and wishing that what is not there could magically assume a form and effervesce to reality. It is only in Nigeria that holograms are mistaken for real people and expected to perform like humans with blood in their veins and brain in their cranial cavity. As for ICHEOKU and other rightly  thinking Nigerians, we are not surprised by the president's current antics, particularly his soft heart for the Fulani people. Rather, we would have been surprised had the president been any different or acting any differently and in any other way, short of his current Fulanization of Nigeria escapade. 

Simply put, there is no reasonable basis for any right thinking Nigerian to, based on the president's storied antecedents and precedents, justify any such expectation that President Muhammadu Buhari would be a fair minded Nigerian president; who is not biased for his Fulani roots. This is a man who never left Nigerians in doubt as to where his true loyalty lies and had consistently proved and showed it whenever the opportunity  arose. Therefore, nobody and no Nigerian should now blame him for trying to unifying his  Fulani people of Niger Republic with their Fulani kits and kins of Northwestern Nigeria into one formidable power bloc and whatever arranged political unit he desires or will craft out sometime later in the future. Fulani United globalization bug seemed to have bitten the president and his mission has now apparently changed from leading Nigeria towards attaining greatness to organizing a strong Fulani caliphate which will be competitively relevant in the affairs of the world, particularly in Nigeria and Africa in general.

This is a man who as then Head of State, locked up in a maximum security prison a Vice President while placing the Fulani president in a luxurious home arrest, simply because he is a Fulani and better than the rest. Here is a president who as then Head of State, while prosecuting his supposed War Against Indiscipline and locking up politicians in long prison sentences for corruption, allowed his Fulani ADC Jokolo, to clear 53 suitcases loaded with currency and other valuables belonging to his Fulani father and then Emir of Gwandu from the customs and without consequence or paying necessary import duties or undergoing normal routine Custom's clearance of imported goods. Here is a president who as then Head of State, sided and sponsored a Fulani man from Niger Republic Ide Oumaru for the Secretary General of then Organization of African Unity and against his fellow Nigerian country man and then already Acting Secretary General Peter Onu. Any Nigerian who would expect such a man, who could take such audacious Fulani action, to suddenly become more Nigerian, needs to have his or her head examined. 

Here is a man who then as a "bloody" civilian led a twenty vehicle convoy to Agodi Ibadan to protest to then Governor Lam Adesina that "your people are killing my people", arising from a Fulani crash with local indigenes. Then he continued threatening the lives of baboons and dogs and even took some lives of baboon and dogs; and was planning to take more lives of baboon and dogs until Goodluck Jonathan conceded an election which was otherwise heavily rigged by Fulani people for their Fulani great uncle and now President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari. These disposable baboons and dogs are definitely not of Fulani stock, otherwise he would not have made them an endangered specie. That thousands of Fulani from Niger Republic and Chad were bused in during the last presidential election to boost the voters in Kano, Bauchi and other Fulani border communities of Northern Nigeria is a fact. That thousands of underage Fulani almajiris voted in that election was also a fact. 

The present Inspector General of Police as then police commissioner in Kano oversaw the mouth numbing rigging that witnessed a 100% voter turnout in Kano. The first of its kind in any part of the world, where no registered person died, relocated, traveled, was indisposed, in hospital, incarcerated was unable to vote; but it happened in Kano State under another crazed-out Fulani Governor Kwankwanso and they broke out for their Fulani big brother and uncle President Muhammadu Buhari. The IGP was handsomely rewarded with the coveted position of the IGP for his brazen audacity during the election in Kano State which also saw the resident Electoral Commissioner burnt to death alongside his family to prevent his threatened exposure of what took place in that election.

Then add the Fulani INEC chairman Jega who skewed the election for the Fulani desired outcome and of course the Fulani heads of NSA, Defense etc, whose all goal was to engineer a power shift back to the North, despite serving under the pleasure of an incumbent Southerner who appointed them to office. But atypical of the Fulani people, their loyalty is first to the Fulani tribe before any other thing comes a distant second. So without an organized Fulani consensus to elect President Muhammadu Buhari president and conspiracy against then incumbent Goodluck Jonathan, there would not have been a President Muhammadu Buhari today. Understandably, a grateful president who knows that he owes so much to his Fulani brothers for his presidency, decided to go all out of his way to show them much love. His gratitude and appreciation for the honor of having made him president, saw him rewarding his Fulani foot soldiers, who midwifed and made possible his presidency against all odds, with the headship of practically every security agencies in the country as well as other very juicy parastatals. 

When you add his first trip abroad which was to the citadel of Fulani in Africa, Agadez, Niger Republic, to pay homage to his roots and to show where his heart really lies, then the picture of his unalloyed loyalty gets clearer. He got away with that and now his Fulani brothers herdsmen are running amok throughout the country without reprisals and being protected by their big uncle in Aso Rock. His latest mantra is that seven Fulani lives are worth more than 73 Tiv lives and the Fulani axe men's brigandage and spilling of blood is continuing, unabated and unchecked in the country; simply because their big brother or rather great uncle is in Aso Rock. That done, he ordered the minister of Transport to build a railroad from Daura to Niger Republic while depriving the entire Southeast of Nigeria such infrastructural development. The same man had a 1000 kilometer of pipeline constructed and completed, bringing crude oil from Niger Republic to Kaduna refinery, since becoming president. His latest Fulani project is the refinery he is now proposing to build at the tip of Katsina State that will be fed with crude oil from Niger Republic. 

ICHEOKU completely and fully understands that people tends to gravitate towards their father's lineage and President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria should not be an exception or expected to otherwise be any different. His biological father, Mallam Muhammadu Buhari Sr, a duck seller, was from Agadez, Niger Republic. According to his story, it was during  one of his business trips to sell his ducks in Daura that he was lovestruck with the president's mother and the rest they say became history. But that is not without saying that a child cannot take the citizenship of his or her mother as well; but Nigerians should cut the president some slacks and put on the president's lenses in order to see why the president's heart is somewhere other than in Nigeria and his love for his kindred in Niger Republic is profound. His father's people are his people; and even ICHEOKU would be so similarly smitten if the president; a man who has now become the most successful son of Niger Republic who achieved greatness by becoming president of the most populous country in Africa. That definitely is a milestone and every culture celebrates their successful stories. 

So Nigerians, please stop, cease and desist, from castigating the president's overtures to his people across the border up North as blood is thicker than water. Fulani existed as a people long before the British created the contraption called Nigeria and still remains indissoluble. He shares the same DNA with them and maintains other cultural affinities with the Fulani people and his heart, lies with them and the president is eminently entitled to so do. Therefore, let Nigerians show some understanding instead of the current reproach and if they are still mad, to next time, vote for a real Nigerian for Nigerian president because foreigners will always identify with their own people. Even Joseph identified with his Israeli people; as well as Moses who left his epicurean heights in Pharaoh's Egypt to be with his people and even killed an Egyptian in defense of his Jewish own people. Then President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, left his heart in Kenyan, despite being the president of the most powerful country in the world. Yes, it is the heart and most times, it controls all of our actions and President Muhammadu Buhari is just a victim of his heart.