By WILLY EYA (willyeya@yahoo.com)
President, Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Shettima Yerima has said that all hands must be on deck to save Nigeria from disintegration. He believes that so many things are going wrong in the country because President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration is indifferent to the plight of the citizens. In this interview, he speaks on various issues including the 2015 general election. Excerpts…
From what happened last year, what are your reflections on the New Year?
There was nothing to write home about the year that just ended. Last year, there was no doubt that we had a lot of challenges. There was so much of insecurity in the country. The problem was because of negligence on the part of government. In fact, before now, the government would have known that the insecurity situation would one day come to be in Nigeria. From my intelligence gathering both in the pre and post election period, there were clear indications that the insecurity challenge would come. The situation came principally because the government lacked the political will to address the issues at stake. I foresee disaster in 2015 when Nigeria would conduct her general elections. It would be worse than what we had in 2011 general elections. It is obvious that government lacks the ability to address the insecurity issue in the country. Things are running out of hand. Today, most of those in government are part of the Boko Haram sect. To some extent, some of them are part of the sect because the government is not paying any attention to security issues.
It is really disturbing and very unfortunate that this whole thing is happening in the northern part of the country and by extension Nigeria at large. We are all worried and if you look at the situation of things in Nigeria, you would know that our generation is in trouble. Even the yet unborn generation of Nigeria is going to inherit a lot of trouble. One would have expected that in the 21st century Nigeria that we would have gone further than the security challenge the nation is facing. By now, we ought to have been thinking of things that are more developmental. We should now be thinking of a Nigeria that is free for everybody where things work and people can go about their business without fear. But with the way things are in Nigeria, it is obvious that the doom’s day is ahead. It gives a lot of us sleepless nights and it keeps us thinking.
One can imagine the kind of money going into security. Most of the government officials have taken their own part of the cake. They believe that the more deaths and crisis, the more government votes money to security and the more they would get their own share. Nobody cares about the roots of the issue so that it can be addressed once and for all. To that extent, even President Goodluck Jonathan who happens to be a witness to the whole issue admitted that really, there are Boko Haram members in his government. It is no longer news that he said it himself. And if there are Boko Haram members in your government, what then are you doing as a government and President of the country? Is that a joke when it is threatening the lives of over 150 million Nigerians? Is it funny that people are dying everyday in the country? I feel that the way we are going, if care is not taken, we might wake up one day and the story that Nigeria would disintegrate may come to pass. This is because apart from insecurity in the country, there is also the issue of religion and ethnicity coming into play. This is because the more you have casualty in the southern part of the country, the more you also have casualty in the northern part of the country. It is only God that is helping us, if not, what is happening in the northern part of the country is enough to break the country. If it happens in some other countries in Africa, the whole place would have been ablaze by now.
So, do we continue to fold our hands and think that God would come down to provide solutions to our problems as a country? One day, God too would be tired and say my children, I am tired; you are not the only children I have. If it happens, before you know it, everybody would have been six feet down. Last year was nothing to write home about and I do not want to pre-empt this year but it appears from all indications too, there is more danger ahead. Politicians now make all sorts of utterances and get away with it. Yes, we are in a democracy but democracy is not about madness. If you want to say something, be constructive in what you say. You do not say things to overheat the polity or simply because you want to make a point which in most cases are for selfish interests. Now we have a lot of challenges.
The issue of ethnicity has become so obvious today that people do not see themselves as Nigerians any longer. The issue of religion also has become more challenging despite our efforts for people to play low on it. It is very glaring that the issue of religion is glaringly becoming stronger by the day. This is coupled with the threats we are getting from other countries in Africa. I am afraid that if Nigeria falls into that calamity, we would not survive it. If what is happening in Mali today happens in Nigeria, there would be trouble. It should open our eyes to what could happen because if rebels in Mali are attracting this kind of attention from the whole world, you can imagine what would happen if it were Nigeria. Mali is a very small country but look at how they held the whole world to ransom. Everybody is busy looking for water to put out that fire because if not, even the entire West Africa may be consumed. If that happens, it would become a serious challenge to developed nations because managing the refugees would be too much for them and the economy would begin to crash.
Do you think that some people are making profit from the insecurity situation in the country? I ask this question because you earlier said that some people do not want the insecurity situation particularly in the North to stop.
That is exactly what I am saying. How do you justify the security votes to some state governors? They make so much money from the vote without accounting for it. Some of them want the situation to continue so that they can claim to be spending the money to fight insecurity in their states. I am afraid that some of them can even send their thugs to mastermind insecurity somewhere and they would claim to spend huge sums of money there. Their main allocation is what attracts the attention of the people but in the case of security vote, they spend it any how they like. Even those at the federal level also see the security votes as an avenue to make money. Recently, Boko Haram said they want to have dialogue in Saudi Arabia and they made mention of names but when I heard that, I said it was a fraud and I have been justified. People would just sit down and form a story and tell the government to dish out money in the name of somebody mediating. Between them and Boko Haram, over $400 million was given out last time. At some occasions, even $20,000 to $200,000 was given out simply because somebody wants to mediate and the same time nobody has come out openly at any time to say he is Boko Haram. People would just be talking on the internet and government would just be dishing out money.
Government would be squandering Nigerian taxpayers money. The issue of poverty is no more news even with the resources that we have. People are dying in Nigeria of poverty and hunger daily. Opportunities are not there for people to work. The political class has subjected the people to unimaginable poverty and hardship. And for how long would this continue. Over and over, we keep talking about the past, we do not talk about the present.
I thought the past would have been a lesson to us to forge ahead. Now, we make references to the past as better days. I never supported military administration but I must confess that today I feel that the military is far better than what we are seeing today. After all our struggles including some of us putting our lives on the line to chase the military away, today, some rascals that were never part of the struggle have acquired so much power. The progressives and socialists who fought to entrench democracy were not interested in power then and some rascals just came and hijacked power to oppress the people. The people who are enjoying political power in Nigeria today never knew how democracy came to the nation. They never made any sacrifice and as a result, even with the power they have today, they do not add value to the lives of the people. The life of an ordinary person is nothing to them. If a hundred people die, they say it is only just one hundred people. In other developed countries, they cannot afford to lose one person. They know the value of lives. In Nigeria today, we do not attach value to our human resources and lives of the people. All over the world, human resources are considered paramount but in Nigeria, they look at it as a secondary issue.
As a youth leader in the northern part of the country, what is your take on the recent attack on the Emir of Kano, one of the most revered royal fathers in the country?
The attack on the Emir is a clear indication that we are in danger in the country. It is shocking that such a first class royal father was attacked in broad daylight. For the great Ado Bayero to be attacked just like that, it means all hands must be on deck in this country. Often times, the story has always been that a son of nobody has died but now the threat has gone to our leaders. Going to attack a man like Ado Bayero means that nobody is safe any longer. But the attack was condemnable and one begins to wonder how the emir was attacked. It is confusing. Who is masterminding such an attack or whose interest was such an attack? Was that attack meant to send more chaos in the country? God forbid, if something has happened to the Emir of Kano, perhaps Nigeria would have been burning by now. Everybody would have been consumed in it.
The tension in the northern part of the country would have been very high and what would have happened in the South? Do you think people in the south would just fold their hands? This means that after going to mosques and churches to put bomb to cause religious crises and it did not work, the attack of very prominent people is now the new strategy. If not that God intervened, the Emir was their target. If you look at all the scenario, you would notice that even those who claim to have power and protection of the police and other security agencies are not safe. It is either everybody including the high and mighty comes low for us to find a solution to it or all of us would be consumed by the crisis of insecurity in the country. When we talk, people assume that we are too sentimental or too hard in our positions but the fact is that we feel that Nigeria is home for all.
If Nigeria is the home for all, we cannot keep quiet because there is no better place like Nigeria. There is no place to show our patriotism and say this is the nation called our own. This is why some of us are so passionate about Nigeria. Some people do not think that what is happening to a common man could happen to anybody. The way the country is going, if you think you can steal money and go abroad, you must be joking because the moment they discover that you do not have money again, they would chase you away and if you come home, you would be lynched. Measures must be taken now. Corruption is so high in the country and it is worse now than during the era of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. This is because few people now corner the public’s money and squander it with all impunity. It is only in Nigeria that people do things with all impunity and nobody cares to ask questions.
In President Jonathan’s administration, money has been cornered to few local politicians that do not even know what to do with the money or what the problems of the nation are about. Some of them, if you ask them of their constituencies, they do not even know. And if you bring somebody who do not know anything about a place, you do not expect him to perform. What the political class does now is to support somebody who does not know anything so that he would not know what they are doing. If not, there are genuine people in this country but the political class would not allow them to come up. I am talking about people who can move the country to the next level.
If you bring somebody who does not see beyond his nose, then there is a problem. Look at Jonathan’s cabinet, how many intelligent people have you seen there? Some of them, if you listen to their English or their attitude, one would almost run mad and one begins to wonder what kind of school they went to. I think the National Assembly should rise up to an occasion where if somebody says I went to this and that school, they should be able to go and ascertain the veracity of his claim.
We should not assume that everything a politician in authority says is true. When you sit down with some of them one on one, you would discover they are empty. These are people who did not suffer during the period of dictatorship and they are imposed on the people as leaders whereas some of them are common rascals. They do not have respect for the people. The primary responsibility of any government is the provision of welfare and security of lives and property of the people. But in the case of Nigeria, the reverse is the case. It is not about the welfare of the people but about the interest of those who found themselves in power.
An average Nigerian does not really count to the political class and for how long would this continue? Do we continue to fold our hands and allow the country to be consumed? We rather talk because silence is a crime in an unjust society. Often times I do not talk about where I come from but Nigeria as my primary constituency.
If we see ourselves as Nigerians, then we must be patriotic. About one year ago, there was the issue of fuel subsidy and we thought that it was the end of it but before we knew it, we dabbled into trouble. Nigerians are still paying more than what they were paying in the past for fuel and they are still suffering. Despite the sacrifices of Nigerians during that subsidy crisis, they still did not respect the views of the people. A committee was put in place and it came up with very powerful recommendations but till today, nobody has heard anything about the report of that committee again. All these going about arranging Farouk Lawan on one hand and Femi Otedola on the other is a joke. I understand that Otedola is their agent because it seems government is trying to protect him. The magic was to make sure that they sabotage the report by that committee. It is not about Otedola or Farouk Lawan but simply because they wanted to sabotage that effort, they brought Otedola on board to frame up and do all that magic for Lawan who eventually fall as a victim. But now if you are talking about prosecuting the receiver, what about the giver? All of them committed the same offence. The way they are going, it is obvious that they want to kill the report of that Farouk Lawan committee. The noise about arresting Lawan now is not the issue but implementing the details of the report. We would not allow the government to kill the report. We are ready to mobilize over 10 million Nigerians to ensure that the report is not killed as they are planning. So, we cannot be distracted by the talk about arresting or prosecuting Lawan. The report is the key to us.
What is your take on the increasing tension over the 2015 general election?
I have my fears. I was surprised yesterday going through the internet and I saw a story about El-Rufai, a senior brother and somebody I respect so much. He was quoted as making blasphemous statements by even mentioning Jesus Christ. If the story is true, it is very disappointing of him. Such a statement can cause a big damage to the country. It is only that we have a government that does not care about anything, if not, El-Rufai could have been called to order. If he were a Christian that made that statement, it would have been a different thing but this is a Muslim making such an inflammatory statement. It is disappointing of a man in the caliber of El-Rufai. I am a Muslim but I do not think that anybody has a right to talk about any other person’s religion.
If leaders begin to talk that way and governments keep quiet, then there is a problem. I do not have any sympathy for this government but I differ with El-Rufai on that. Is he trying to create more tension in Nigeria? Before the election, some leaders made such a statement that if they do not come to power, there would be problem and you saw what happened. It is not good for leaders to make such inflammatory statements. Nobody is above the law. I pray that all these kind of statements would not lead to more instability in the country.
you yerima is as useless as the stupid emir. who cares ?
BASTARDS.
Yerima, point of correction: If the Emir of Kano had died,nothing would have happened. There may be pockets of disorder here and there in Northern Nigeria. Otherwise nothing will happen in the South. The Notherners just don’t realise how fed-up the Southerners are with them and there unending problems.
Oakmann, Yerima is talking nonesense. Heaven will not fall had Emir died. The northerners due to their stupidity and intellectually brankrupt would have engaged in killing sourtherners, burning churches and cause problems in the north. The sourtherners will also retaliate. When they do those attrocites and get out of it are over. Do me, I do u.
They refused to educate this kids and keen. The impact only islam into their block head. They send them to beg on the streets and enaged them in religious sentiments. Now it is their turn. This is what they planted and they have to harvest it.
What does he mean? Who is incharge of security in this country. They north are leading in Police, Army, SSS, NSO, Immigration, Prison< Navy and airforce and yet they cannot man the security of the nation.
His people who have been ruling this country for 3 decade once proclaim that they will make the country ungovernable. It is hitting them and they are crying foul.
Those in government he mentioned to be part of the terrorist are from the North. The judges trying them are from the north and yet, nobody have got a severe jail term. It is hitting them hard and why are they crying.
They did not witness the civil war. This war is in their doorstep, it is not left for them to fight it out and win. They started it, and they have to quench it otherwsie it wil consume them. The economy of the north is grounded. No responsible person willing to invest in north. so u cannot eat your cake and have it.
Emir is not bigger than those who lost their life in church, or in other public places. So if he died, the country will not cease to exist. We will overcome it and after sometimes, life continues.
Yerima should stop making inflamentry statement. Northing will happen if the Emir passed away.
@Efula Umuna, I salute your courage to speak the truth. God bless you indeed.
My brother, you have said it all. Nothing!!!, i repeat will have happened had it been the Emir perished in the assassination attempt on him and his subjects. It will just be like all other barbaric killings of christian, and other citizens as witness in the past agents of darkness.
Thank you for saying the whole truth! If Nigeria would have gone up in smoke had the Emir being killed, then Nigeria should have been hit by a major earthquake for the attempt made on the Emir’s life!
Of course, nothing will happen if he had been killed! He is no different fro the innocent children and women who have been slaughtered by these murderers and perhaps, the Emir should use the attempt on his life to speak against violence, corruption and the evil that has descended on the Northern part of Nigeria.
A house divided against itself cannot stand!
Shettima says: “If Nigeria is made home to all…”"
But north’s military rulers through creating undue large number of states in the north made Nigeria not to be home to all. No body will agree to make a home in a country where inequity rules; in a country where north through its excess large number of political representatives commands our nation’s political process. Nigeria can only be home to all after a constitutional conference – sovereign or not – is organised for the nationalities that make up Nigeria to agree on how the nations want to be structured and governed.
Exactly! Life would have resumed the next day. Emir is just one person and Southerners do not give a hoot about him!
What i know is,all d leaders of d north shuld think twice and stop dis killings of innocent people.i say innocent people.wheather u are a christian or a muslim.but sometime if d leader is affected in such a problem.they will b saying another thing istead of talking about d solution.may God help nigeria.AMEN.
yerima u are very stupid!hw could u even tink dat naija would ve gone up in flames had ur emir died,who is bayero?what has he done about thousands of innocent peeps dat u canibals murdered?infact u are so backward in thought so go and quack!
This Yerima is talking nonsense, so your Emire is worthier than those thousands of men and women killed in the church fellowship, including our youth corpers and that of UN staffs by B/H. The insecurity as alleged by your dump head began with the carnage recorded during OBJ regime in Jos and Kaduna before Yaradua inherited his through B/H via Maidugiri. So which government are you now reffering to as the brain behind the insurgency? You better express good points rather than being fanatical, bloody illiterate.
These interview was factual and comphrehensive on the political realities of Nigeria but unfortunately this country is a bussybody society by been judgemental of very simple issues, upon reasonable aspect of the interview only the emir of kano matter interesting bussybody people of which yerima just established fact that the insecurity will take another dimention if the emir was kill in the attacked simple as A B C. These often attitudes of Nigerian on social media confirmed that our education is a disasters of 21st century.
i wonder if dis people really read dis interview properly dis man is makin sence but i cant believe dat dis is d same man dat went 2 court 2 legalize child abuse in oder 4 him 2 mary 13 yrs old girl sm time ago, well he shouldn’t have tried 2 compare emir 2 thousands of soul dat was wasted by his minions and dis same yerima is d genasis of sharia in nigeria, his reputation proceeded him an infemy.
This not Senator yerima, the former governor please.
While the senator you re referring to is Ahmad Rufa’i Sani (Yeriman Bakura), This person who grants the interview is Shettima Yerima.
While Yerima can be used as name in Northeast, It is often a traditional title given to the children of the reigning Emirs in the Northwest.
can’t imagine a set of pple all d tym thnkn dey @ any tym can hold d natn 2 ransom and dey r havn a field day my questn is do dey own d country n its fullness? how can d death of a single individual unleash mayhem? n dis a lida who’s talkn dis trash
Yerima you are just brainless. And all what you said about Nigeria is for you, childrem and great grand children yet unborn.
aboki will always remain aboki even if he went to oxford university of london with first class in all the subjects there he will remain an aboki!!!
Terrorist Yerima go and enjoy your 13 year old wife.
‘FIRE CONSUMES HIM THAT SPIT IT’. YERIMA OR WHT DO U CALL YORSEF, IF ADO BAYERO HAD DIED, NOTHIN WOULD AV HAPPENED. HE JUST ORDINARY HUMAN BEING LIKE MYSEF. SO KP UR STINKING MOUTH SHOT.
These useless muslim mallam always believe that they OWN this country.ALL the Emirs in the muslim North can die this afternoon and NOTHING will happen in the South.I can bet with you on this.Trust me.
so the man yerima is trying to remind us not to forget so soon, that they were ever ready to kill and destroy once they were affected.I advise that u people should borrow a new live, remember that other part of the country hv lost so many people through bokos without descending on u to pull u down. nigeria must survive.
Yerima, some of the nonsense you are talking about proves that the evil that men do lives with them.
Since the senseless killings of innocent people began in the north, what have the emir done to stop it???
The so called emir set the ball rolling and his subjects want to score the goals, and just narrowing missed him.
This is his second chance to call all the killers to order.
BUT, for your information, if they had killed him, only Nta and some Nigerian newspapers will carry the news and NOTHING will hapen.
Think before talk.
And so therefore, I declare yerima to be arrested for spiting fire on the entire nation because of one traditional leader…
Where are u yerima when innocent Christians and many ordinary Nigerians were bombs and slaughtered like animal?
NOTHING WILL HAPPING WHY BECAUSE YOU NORTHERN NIGERIA WANT ONE NIGERIA BECAUSE OF OIL,SO FORGET ABOUT THAT YOU DON’T HAVE UPTION, SO CLOSE YOUR SMELLING MOUTH ,YOU STUPID !!
@London boy, you can as well be posting in your native dialect, we shall still understand it. You have been warned and told previously that your grammar na pepper, you no dey hear?
This Yerima is talking nonsense, so your Emire is worthier than those thousands of men and women killed in the church fellowship, including our youth corpers and that of UN staffs by B/H. The insecurity as alleged by your dump head began with the carnage recorded during OBJ regime in Jos and Kaduna before Yaradua inherited his through B/H via Maidugiri. So which government are you now reffering to as the brain behind the insurgency? You better express good points rather than being fanatical, bloody illiterate.
THE GOD ALMIGHTY CREATED ALL OF US EQUAL AND THE CONSTITUTION SAYS THAT ALL IS EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW, SO WHY SHOULD THE DEATH OF ONE MAN CAUSE THE DEATH OF OTHER INNOCENT ONES AND NOT THE PERPETRATORS OF SUCH EVIL ?.AS A YOUTH LEADER, YOU SHOULD SCALE YOUR WORDS TO AVOID BEING SEEN AS ANOTHER OF THEM.
If the Emir had died the northern Nigeria would have been on flames,not the entire nation.
Please the amalgamation of the northern and southern Nigeria is an error let there be a soverein national conference to discuss how we can go our separate ways.
Enough of these waste of human lives.may Nigeria scatter before 2015 may Abuja the fct be desolate by 31/12/2014 AMEN
Once a fool always a fool. God bless our country Nigeria so that the like of Yerima will never hold any political office in his life’s time.
Had the Emir died, he would be interred under 24 hours. Thereafter, life goes on. Heaven will not fall if anybody dies. This is Nigeria.
Yerima should stop overheating the polity because nothing would have hapend if the emire had died. But if the blody housas had tried to misbehave in the south, we would have given them some V.I.P TREATMENT
yerima you are such a big fool on planet, who is emire? is he more than those innocent souls that died? how dare you open your wide nonsense mouth and said that Nigerian could have been burning now had it been your so called emire was kill… watch your mouth you son of vagabond,
Though I do not wish the man death, but any body who is causing problem in this land will die by the Power in the BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST…AMEN…
NIGERIA WILL DEY KANPE. IT IS YOUR PROBLEM IN THE NORTH BECAUSE SOME OF YOU CREATED BOKO HARAM. THEY ARE JUST DOING WHAT YOU ALL SENT THEM TO DO. KILL AND DESTROY PROPERTIES. YOU ALL WANT THE NORTH TO BE UNGOVERNABLE.MANY OF YOU THE RULERS ARE JUST ONE STEP AHEAD OF THE BH OR THE HOODLUMS. GOODLUCK TO YOU ALL AND DEAL WITH IT.
Nigeria will never go up in flame for any one. Greedy bastards do we know what he got himself into behind close doors. Nigeria is not going up in flames for Boko Haram killing Igbo’s and Yoruba’s.
Why should we go up in flames for silly cows.
Victor(phc) why do you think London boy should start writing his comment in his dialet?. If he can’t write in English Language, he can’t also write in his dialet.
My fellow Niger pple, make una leave that fool called yerima, You know when you see a fat person, you would think that he has something upstairs but when he speaks you find out that he has nothing to show. look yerima we are not afraid of your treat, if your Emir dies he would be bury like Abacha and nothing will happen, even a fly will not cough, so go and suck your mother’s breast before you talk to public.
Irrelevant,stupid,idiotic fool,this is 2013 not 1968.nothing would have happened.
Yerima, you are free to ur opinion. Indeed some of ur observations are not far from been correct but you claim to be a true Nigeria, why leading the northern youth, this alone definately would always northernise ur statements and doings as this is part of the constitution guiding you. No wonder ur assumption that Nigeria would have caught fire if Bayero had been killed. Yes there would have been confusion in Kano for a while ‘shikenan’. I am born and bred up in the North and lucky to survive all the mishaps. Just imagin what has become of Victor Moses whom at 11 the north rendered him an orphan. Today after much pressure he is in our Nigeria jersey flying high. The word nemesis exist, so go tell ur northern leaders and those it may concern to repent or u will see worst attacks on ur leaders by no other persons but ur beloved brothers and nothing shall come of it.
Dont judge this man please. He never said anything wrong.
All ibos are arm robbers and criminal what you are looking for GOD will not give you bcs of you bigot sentiment and senseless statement made by your young bastards that is why an Igbo can never rule Nigeria even militarily no way .
Yerrima, u are an empty educated illiterate. Who is Emir? Engage ur brain in gear b4 putting it in motion. Mind what u say because one thing leads to anoda. If emir dies, u will go with him.Chekina!
you will remain a gardner all the days of ur life
this yerima is a big fool! If he died, notin would have hapened. Fool
Joseph Ganja or so, u are unclassified Idiot. A cursed fool
The whole nig should scater! Every tribe should go nd carry their own bordden, every day torking torking. The u tink all those theifs re listening 2 u.
This is a record, for the first time in this forum every one agreed on the same thing, even kola amodu and owerri did not attack each other and azumi gana did not insult anybody, even free advertisers did not show face. mr yerima, I don’t know if this should be a curse or a blessing for you…
joseph gardner, I have cursed your tribe with the fulani cattle rearers. they are ready to kill you anytime.
Yerima or what did you call your name you are a big fool and a stupid idiot man. MKO was murder, Ken Sarowiwa and 9 Ogoins was kill ,Bola Ige , Gani Fawehinmi, etc. and thousands of poor Nigerias kill by your so call boko haram and nothing has happen .
joseph gardner you’re a moron with a still brain. your tribe will be washed away
Read btw lines b/4 you comment, better stil we keep shut if we have nothing 2 say and stop been regional in thinking that is what defines matured mind. Luk, we xtain shld’nt be religious only in names but also in practice, we’re not 2 return evil 4 evil no matter what, instead love those that hate us. But anytime i browse thru our comment here i would be disturbed bcos we’re always on different page with the teachings of christ in our coment. As 4 igbos, Culturally & religionally igbos are known 2 be the most balanced, productive regardles of any dificulties & resp set of pple in nigeria but 2day i dont know why we igbo youth cant be detached 4m uncutural things, i’m saying our coment here depicts our norms. They is a says that he whom join issues with an insane(mad) person definitely something is wrong with his psych.. Pls let us not deviate 4m what we’re knowned for. We shld pray 4 our enemy and 4give them that’s what is expected of us not insults/abusive words.
Yerima is merely expressing his mind after a time out from brukutu joint.
Frankly speaking, the North have really showed they have no thinking faculty.They created Boko Haram and sponsored their activities but little did they know that they’re destroying their economy and endanger their lives. What they’ve allowed or used themselves to do will take them 10 years or more to recover.THE NORTH SHOULD KNOW THAT ALL THE BLOOD OF THE IBOS THEY KILLED WILL HUNT THEM AND THEIR CHILDREN FOR LIFE. ONE IGBO MAN ( TRADER ) KILLED WORTH MORE THAN 50 BUHARIS, ATIKUS, BABANGIDAS AND ABDUSALAMIS PUT TOGETHER.
if he dies Nigeria will remain united..is he better than others your Northern Leaders should be held responsible for BOKO HARAM..
please and please, victor and the insider leave London boy alone. after-all his name is not an indigenous birth certificate of London. mind you guys China people have their language and hardly you get ten out of one million people that speaks English, so please allow the boy to be. on the theme of d day. yerima lack focus, he was about to play a good leader by condemning El-Rufai about his comment about Jesus, i thank God we christian don’t fight for our God.remember if it’s the opposite all the Muslim will issue dead warrant to who ever that speaks against their Muhammad, and if seen they must behead him. and as well advised him how to speak as a leader, but monkey is always monkey which always use his own mouth to sale out himself. after advising El-Rufai he still use his monkey mouth to sale himself out. what will happen? is it not the same defenseless southerners you people will kill? shame on you yerima. youth leader my foot.
Yerima blood sucker u will be d next target of ur brodas boko haram and dey wont miss d target
I sympathize with non-muslim Nigerians wherever found. Since Othman dan Fodio gallantly slashed the throats of thousands of women, children, the aged, the sick, and the ‘non-muslims’ from the North through the middlebelt of the country, daring the south/west, muslims did swear the sword will not rust until the Atlantic Ocean is conquered through bloodletting. The Biafran war was an initiation of the muslims, co opting the middlebelt as stooges to add more blood since othman’s bloody sword couldn’t reach that end yet. The boko haram champions want sharia. Is there any muslim in Nigeria(west, south, east, north, etc.) that does not want same? Therefore, ALL MUSLIMS ARE BOKO HARAM SECT. All muslims seek means and ways to kill the non-muslims under so many covers with no end in view. If there is a good muslim in Nigeria, ask same to publicly denounce sharia, the architect deign against the non-muslims, that muslim will not see the light of the day.
Yerima is a double-tongued member of the boko haram. And so is the emir, sultan, sambo, all the heads in the police, central bank, NSO, Immigration, army, navy, airforce, civil service, etc. who are muslims. The MDAs testify to our faces that muslims have hijacked the country.
Where muslims rule peace is a gone issue. Can anyone give an example of a country with muslims forming 2% of the total population that is not restive? Nigeria has about 40% of its population muslims!!!!
The muslims must know that PLATEAU people killed by them shall never be free. The blood-drop of the Plateau person worth more than of all the muslims pulled together!!!!!!
What is wrong with Yerima comment now? U guys re really funny, am. Sure u don’t know him , he never take side in any national issues, he is one of best in northern part of dis country, pls some time we should keep sentiment aside and let us try and move the country 4ward . Yerima still remain the best, u re free 2 criticise his opinion but not abuses is about interlectuals.
The comments here show that the level of HATRED and tension in Nigeria is at “FLASH-POINT” and this should be a source of concern to ALL!!Yerima SPOKE WELL.He spoke more as a PATRIOTIC NIGERIAN than as a religious or ethnic bigot,but most of my people here seem too blinded by their fury/pain to recognize it.Therein lies the problem.Let us Christian brethren overcome this pain and hatred and encourage any muslim who speaks patriotically about a Nigeria where ALL FAITHS live in peace and harmony!Yerima condemned the corruption and impunity of our leaders and rather than support that,the ONLY THING most of you could talk about is the Emir of Kanos importance or lack thereof???LET US EMULATE CHRIST IF WE ARE TRULY CHRISTIANS!!Enough of the hatred!ENOUGH of the vengeance talk!Yerima well spoken!!!
Yerima! Yerima! U northerners are reaping wot u sow n u’re here in d media complaining even wen u hav not harvested enof of d evil politicl turblence u northrner leaders sowed in dis country, it is d will of God d@ d enemy nations of d Isrealites d@ came 2geda 2 destroy dem are divided against each other 2 destroy demselves instead of their targetted enemy (d Israelites). It has realy downd on u now d@ d northrn leaders’ conspiracy 2 hit up d polity &make d govt ungovernable 4 Jonathan has really turnd 2 oda syd of d coin. Yerima, u’re crying 2 early, wait patiently! D tym of ur mourning is truly @ hand & u wil not hav any 2 console u, d armies of destruction u northrnrs trained from d foundation of Nigeria wit d name alamajiri are @ ur doorsteps 2 hurt ur soul & spirit, Yerima: tym of harvest is not d best tym 2 cry. Nevadless, if d emir had died nothing would hav happened, hence oda prominent Nigerians d@ died of d insurgence including a house of representative membr who came 2 profer sucour d northrn plight, Yerima, b4 u hit up d northrn polity again wit ur ill-advised sense, go bak a bit & look @ d retrospect, den take d stastics of d prominent southrn traders n govt workers d@ were consumed by d insurgency of ur army (d bokoharam), yet we southrnrs neva raise dust or retaliated & we’re still pleading wit u northernrs 2 allow Nigeria be having known d level of ur ignorance & illitracy. Yerima u northrnrs still hav an ample opportunity 2 call urselves 2 oda. A wise word spoken often 2 ignorants should make them.
Yerima shld watch his tongue! Everybody in Nigeria cant be destroyed if anything had happened to the Emir! He was attacked by his own pple under the name Boko Haram and we all know the tribe that dominates that evil group! So Yerima shld stop insinuating rubbish,Nigeria’s existence is not premised on one single individual,and so its disintegration cant come becos of any attack on one person! God is the One holding this nation together,if not,we wld have been wiped off the surface of the earth.
yerima nothing wud av happened nd pls stop making provocative statements coz it help in d present nigerian situation
MY BROTHER YERIMA LISTEN TO THIS BECAUSE IT WILL GO A LONG WAY TO HELP U.1. GOD CAN NEVER BE TIED OF HIS CHILDREN.2. THOSE WHO DO NOT WISH THE COUNTRY WELL COME 2015 WILL NOT SEE 2015. 3. LET EVERY PEACE LOVING NIGERIA MIND HIS OR HER OWN RELIGION.NO RELIGION SHOULD CLAIM SUPERIORITY OVER THE ORDER.4 .BEFORE THE COMING OF G. E . J . INTO POWER THINGS HAVE ALREADY GONE SOUR.LET NOBODY BLAME G .E . J .FOR WHAT WE ARE PASSING THROUGH TODAY. 5. G .E . J . WAS DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED AND NOT SELECTED.TODAY HE IS OUR NO. ONE CITIZEN AND SHOULD BE ACCORDED THAT RESPECT.THAT THE EMIR NARROWLY ESCAPED DEATH BY SOME UNKNOWN GUNMEN IS ANOTHER SERIOUS MATTER.UP TILL THIS MOMENT NOTHING HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT THE MATTER LEAVES MUCH TO BE DESIRED.NIGERIA POLICE.SSS,JTF TELL US WHO ATTACKED OUR ROYAL FATHER.ABOVE ALL WE THE CHRISTIANS SUFFER MORE IN THIS OUR COUNTRY NIGERIA.MY ONLY CONSOLATION IS THAT IN GODS CASE THERE IS NO APPEAL.WHATEVER ANY BODY SOWS THAT HE MUST REAP.
I plead with my country men & women who contribute in this social media to be circumspect in their utterances.How can we desire peace while we insult one another’s sensitivities.I lost two of my uncles during the war but I still thank God for the life of Emir Ado Bayero for saving yet another of my uncle whom he hid from attackers that have come to fish them out from his palace where they sort refuge,so please my fellow southerners some northerners are so good just as we have bad & good elements in the south so we have good & bad people from the north.I think time has come for people like Shettima to be more outspoken in condeming some northern politicians who may want to use politics to achieve their selfish interest,after all what ordinary nigerian need is comfortable life not where the president come from.God bless Nigeria and make us great and united.Let us forgive one another.
The problem has been and will continue until the north in deeds and in words realized that Nigeria is not part of north rather it is the north that is part of Nigeria. It is very unfortunate that a youth leader that supposed be the hope of new north is equally neck deep in the old wrong belief that northern region is bigger than Nigeria itself.Yes Bayero is a royal father and his death will make way for a Sanusi and nothing more after all the Sultan is still alive.If we can’t be one let us try being neighbours.
Yerima’s innuendos on political and economic issue are laughable. There goes the problem with Northern Nigeria and Nigeria as a whole. Yerima;s parenthetic and defamatory explanations goes to tell Southern Nigeria and NIGERIANS that the North is our problem. They install insensitive and parochial and inept leaders who do not know their left from right , what more solution to our nation’s problem. The North always blame others for their laziness, backwardness and naive nature. If the Emir had died, they would definitely attack Igbos and their properties in the North. It will afford them to loot Igbo properties and yet they claim to be children of Allah through Moslem/Islam. Northern leaders are not sincere and unpatriotic to Nigeria.
If a prominent man like that Emir of Kano died there would be confusion in the country, why people said nothing would happen is because where in democracy but we thank God for saving his life.
Yerima or whatever you call yourself l think it is right time you people should stop all this nasty comments Emir of Kano is now Nigeria you better go and start looking for ten year girl you will MARRY shameless man b/cos that’s what you knows best to do, but let me tell you, people like you suppose to be in jail by now thanks to considerate and gentle behavior of Mr President.
You started sharia during the tenure of Obasanjo in order to curse coarse in the country and now l don’t know weather you are one of the sponsors of BOKO HARAM be careful about comments you made no matter who you think you are
dogs eating dogs who cares? a person that dug a hole must fall inside the hole
Yerima, be warned, you the northern leaders instituted boko haram now the innocent blood they wasted are fighting back, and now let me tell you in case if you don’t know, you may be the next target and more are coming to you northern leaders untill you call yourselves together condemn boko haram activities & stop them, appease the victims by apologizing to their familys & Nigeria and ask God for mercy or else all the northern leaders that should speak out & condemn boko haram that did not do it that time must be visited with the same attack.
The only section i found to be well spoken in his interview is where he criticised El-Rufai for his stupid comments about our Lord Jesus Christ. He also spoke well about the corrupt Politicians….but where he said Nigeria would have gonen up in flames if the emir of Kano had died,…kai! the aboki man goofed in that area o. Malam Yerima, gaskiya nothing would have happened walahi!. The emir would have been buried the same day and Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanisu would have been crowned the new Emir of Kano, shikena! Mallam Yerima seems intelligent but no matter the type of suit a monkey wears, he will always be a monkey..Yerima Shettima remains an aboki for life..second base jare!
Was the election that produced you as the Northern youth leader made known to the youths in that zone? I wonder someone like u calling himself youth leader be saying, if emir of kano had died Nigeria would have been on fire. Who the hell is the emir? Pls, go n tell this to ur almajires who on the shout of allah akubar, they will flock out in their thousands and start fighting, even without knowing what it was shouted for, since it is a slogan that come out and fight for allah. Foolish Yerima. Why did this reporter interviewed this man? You no get work abi?
YERIMA, YERIMA, how courageous you are, to openly admit to what president Jonathan said long ago that his government has been infiltrated by members of Boko Haram.There was fury in the land over this statement, with some people, especially the Northerners, calling Jonathan names of various unprintabilitiies that he is not telling the truth. Now, Yerima has opened up and it is true the almost all Northern leaders are members of Boko Haram.The shooting of the highly respected Emir of Kano by the same men they armed to kill the innocents people in their region is God’s doing. Remember this my fellow Christians: In the Bible book of Lev. chapter 18: verses 2-4, we are warned not do as the Egyptians do, nor do as the Canaanites in the land God has promised us. This is why I completely share the views of Akins, Oma and Chris in this Yerima’s madness. As for Joseph, I want to tell you my man that, an Ibo man will certainly rule Nigeria in a very near future, just as Obama rules America, even twice, to the dismay of the many josephs in America. When you take the position of Mr. Femi from USA in this Yerimadness , one is bound to discover really, that the North is the problem of the Northerners and Nigerians by implication. The North ruled Nigeria and themselves for over 35years of our 52 years independence. During military rule, all our resources were at the disposal of the North and they used them as they like. Take for instance the PETROLEUM TRUST FUND, General Buhari used all the oil money for the North to the detriment of the South, especially the oil producing regions. Babangida and Abacha took over in succession and squandered our national resources without developing their region. Who, then. is to be blamed if there is stack backwardness in the North, compared to the rest of the Country? Brethren, let us learn to respect our Royal fathers because, they are being manipulated by their political leaders. However, there is no need for Yerima to cry more than the bereaved. If you want nuclear bomb, put it in your backyard. If you want to ride on the back of a lion, you must remember that you may one day end up in its stomach. So Boko Haram is the socio-political monster built by the Northern politicians and may be, some Emirs. They must be prepared to receive back the arrows sent to the innocent Christians in their region. This is the will of God, not man.
Haha…Imagin Yerima a Northern Youth Leader. You can imagin where such leader is leading chains of baberians and Alamajiris illitrates, what do you expect from him. He’s calling people rascalls and one begins to question who is really th rascall ?? Yerima or Honurable members of he house …. I dey laugh ..I just dey laugh
Yarima u said it all thank God he did not die but i wish him death if he had hand in bh issue or had not done what he should have done to stop this madnes
it amazes me wen i hear a group of pple make dese kinds of baseless comments about nig go in flames bcos of d death of 1 indvdual, what hz d death of ado bayero, who is undoubtedly an upright trdtnal ruler, got 2 do with d whole country goin in flames? pple like yerima, a youth lida @ dat, should desist 4rm makn dese types of comments drby heatn up d polity