The PDP presidential candidate debunked notions that he was Cameroonian by birth and thus not qualified to contest the election of 23 February, 2019.
Atiku was born in Jada in 1946, in present day Adamawa state, but then part of Northern Cameroon
He said he was born by Nigerian parents and therefore “a citizen of Nigeria by birth.”
This was part of his response to the All Progressives Congress, APC, petition before the Presidential election tribunal.
According to the former Vice President, his father, Garba Atiku Abdulkadir was a Nigerian by birth who hailed from Wurmo in present day Sokoto State.
He further revealed that his mother, Aisha Kande was also a Nigerian who hailed from Dutse in present day Jigawa State.
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The APC wants to open wounds that are yet to heal. The argument of Atiku's citizenship will open up the debate about the legality of Nigeria itself. Its the 1914 almagamation binding? Did British receive legal powers from tribal territories to force the almagamation? Caution. -- Mazi Chima Amadi Ph.D
ReplyDeleteMazi or maxi chima is, unfortunately historiographical poor, with no knowledge of the most basic meaning of ‘state constitutional formation.’ Against this background, we question his PhD. That is, if it was honestly earned. The proof is not only in the content of this senseless quote you put up there. But in him not even knowing where, when and how to use Britain or British. That is enough insult to PhD holders and candidates. I’m ashamed that people take pride in copying and pasting just anything to everything because they think it makes sense. No critical review of its meaning at all. Like who asks a dumb question like this? Colonial amalgam and legal powers from tribal territories? Which country, colony, region, in history ever asked to be colonized in the first place? Well, it is interesting to see that you are the one bringing up this quote here and pushing your support for Atiku. You forgot what your coward role model nnamdi said about this? Are you not on par with him on this issue? You guys Sarr just confused!
DeleteYou didn't even answer the question up there. Did Britain got the tribal territories consent before the forceful marriage called Nigeria? Tell me more about the Northern and southern protectorate. I want to read from you about the early conquest of the whites to the locals. Tell us what happened when they got to the Eastern region. I want to read from you how the great Benin fell and their artefacts stolen.
DeleteTJ shut up.are you claiming to be well informed than the president and his legal team? ITK!.Talking rubbish from both sides of your mouth.knowing more than the colonial master.
Deleteatiaku frimpong alcamerooni is not even smart,your boss got time to respond.lol.when jubrin saga was on,you all believed NK..now table is "turnin on its own" you complaiming.hypocrite!.
buhari is class after all.
Anon 10:09 there wasn't any need for the insults or do they? Engage me on discussion here, preferably a superior rejoinder than this rascality you are exhibiting here.
DeleteAnon 09:07 I am still waiting for your rejoinder. Please don't deny me this wisdom on this part of history I want to learn from you. Please I beg you with all you hold dear, no fall my hands and the people waiting to read from your knowledge.
Delete*Let me get my glasses as I wait your arrival*
Do we need to be confused or blind folded with all these? This is not the solution to the challenges my dear country is facing
ReplyDeleteGood for him
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ReplyDeleteWhy's he claiming Adamawa instead of Sokoto.
ReplyDeleteWhy is tinubu claiming Lagos instead of Osun state?
DeleteChai, Tinubu is from Osun??
DeleteNa wahhhhhhhh
If you like let your mum come from Congo and your dad from Malawi and your maternal grandmum from Sudan and your martanal grandpa from Libya ,your paternal grandma from Ghana and maternal grandpa from togo and you from Nigeria,Atiku I don't care..all I care for is how that country can be fixed!!!I wish Ghana will accept to colonize us.
ReplyDeleteI wish you weren't funny. I am struggling not to laugh.
DeleteAtiku has time, he owe no one any apologies, he has held several positions n Nigeria yet he is nòt a Nigerian. Buhari that has destroyed this country has anyone ostrasized him.
ReplyDeleteLike you all said, Atiku has held several positions in Nigeria yet he’s not a Nigerian. Let’s say Buhari has held several positions in Nigeria yet he doesn’t have a waec. Make sense?
ReplyDeleteGetting closer to let's get Nigeria working again.thank you Lord
ReplyDeleteThe law of attraction says like attracts like, which explains why Muhammadu Buhari is a magnet for mediocrities. Almost all his appointees are, like him, underwhelming, intellectually incurious rubes. It’s no wonder that even the lawyers he assembled to defend his unprecedentedly audacious electoral robbery are also risible dolts.
ReplyDeleteTake, for example, Festus Keyamo, Buhari’s reelection campaign spokesman and one of the lawyers defending his stolen mandate. In the run-up to the presidential election, Keyamo took self-righteous umbrage at scientific polls that predicted that Buhari would lose the election, and his point of attack against the polls was that pollsters merely sampled a little over a thousand Nigerians even though Nigeria’s population is close to 200 million! He wondered why neither he nor anyone he knew had been polled!
Apparently, Keyamo has no earthly clue that scientific opinion polls base their snapshots and predictions on something called sampling and that 1,000 is a fair sample to make predictive statements about potential voting behaviors. Gallup, which has accurately predicted American presidential elections since 1944—except in 1948, 1976, 2004 and 2016—polls no more than 1,000 people. You don’t poll every member of a population to make generalizable predictions about the population in research.
ReplyDeleteEvery first-year Nigerian university student learns about random sampling in introductory research methods classes. But a self-important lawyer who is defending presidential electoral fraud is clueless about this.
It isn’t only research illiteracy that plagues members of Buhari’s legal team. They are also constitutional and historical illiterates. Their constitutional and historical illiteracy is instantiated by their claim that PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar should never have been allowed to run for president because he “is not a citizen of Nigeria by birth” since he was born in what was called British Cameroons, which later became the Sardauna Province of Northern Nigeria in 1961.
Many lawyers have already pointed out the scorn-worthy constitutional illiteracy that that sort of reasoning evinces. The Nigerian constitution unambiguously accords the same rights and privileges to people born in British Northern Cameroon as it does to those born in the defunct Southern Nigeria Protectorate and the defunct Northern Nigeria Protectorate.
In any case, Atiku’s paternal and maternal forebears migrated from what is now Sokoto and Jigawa states respectively to what later became British Northern Cameroon. The Nigerian constitution recognizes anyone who is descended from any of the ethnic groups that are indigenous to what is now Nigeria as a Nigerian. Atiku’s paternal forebear came to the Jada area of what was later British Northern Cameroon from Wurno in present-day Sokoto State, which has historically been inhabited by Fulani and Hausa people. By our patrilineal traditions of descent, Atiku isn’t even truly native to Jada; he is from Wurno.
For the sake of argument, let’s assume that Atiku’s ancestors had always lived in British Northern Cameroon. Well, Buhari’s lawyers betrayed historical illiteracy in thinking that British Cameroons is and has always been synonymous with modern Cameroon. In the 19th century, the German Empire, like other avaricious European powers, expropriated a huge swathe of land in west and central Africa, which it called “Kamerun.” However, in the aftermath of the First World War (which is actually more properly a First European War), Germany was dispossessed of Kamerun along with other lands it had exploited.
In 1922, the League of Nations divvied up Kamerun between Britain and France. France renamed its own portion of the territory “Cameroun” and Britain renamed its own “Northern Cameroon” and “Southern Cameroon.” The two territories are non-contiguous. Britain retained control of Northern Cameroon and Southern Cameroon in 1946, the year Atiku was born, after the United Nations, which replaced the League of Nations in 1945, reclassified the Cameroons as “UN Trust territories.”
On February 11, 1961, “subjects” of British Northern Cameroon, which had been governed by the same British colonizers that governed Nigeria, voted to join newly independent Nigeria. In other words, an independent British Northern Cameroon never existed at any point in history, and no one was ever its “citizen.” So which country do Buhari’s nescient lawyers expect people born in British Northern Cameroon to go and be president of? Or do they expect them to be stateless—or be second-class citizens in Nigeria— because of the historical accident of once being governed as British Northern Cameroon?
Such a good read.... Sometimes I am tempted to question the degrees awarded to Keyamo and his likes.
DeletePeople born in British Northern Cameroon were never part of French Cameroun, which became independent in January 1960. They were even different from British Southern Cameroon, which voted to become part of French Cameroun the same day that British Northern Cameroon voted to be integrated to independent Nigeria. In fact, both northern and southern Cameroons were administered from Nigeria, a reason a prominent pre-independence Nigerian political party was called the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons.
ReplyDeleteIt’s transparent that Buhari’s lawyers are merely clutching at straws to salvage their client’s indefensibly reprehensible electoral heist. When a theft is as blatant and as easily detectable as Buhari’s, you can’t invoke the resources of knowledge and logic to defend it. When Atiku’s legal team first pointed out that INEC’s own data, stored on its server, showed that Buhari lost the election to Atiku by nearly two million votes, Buhari’s lawyers—and supporters— made fun of the claim.
However, they stopped laughing when they were confronted with overwhelming evidence. They went from laughing to claiming that Atiku’s agents had “hacked” into INEC’s server to gain access to— and “manipulate”— it, and even called for the arrest of members of the Atiku team. Meanwhile, INEC, which got hundreds of millions of naira to maintain a server and train staff to operate it, was told to say that it did not have any election results on its server.
Well, how can Atiku’s agents “hack” into and even “manipulate” data on a server that has no record of election results? Let us, for now, not even ask what INEC did with the hundreds of millions of naira it budgeted for a server to house election results. Where does it keep the record of the last election? Why is it reluctant to give its record of the results, if it has any, to the Atiku team even when the election tribunal says it should? This is downright conscienceless villainy.
Now that Atiku has enlisted the expert intervention of Microsoft and IBM to authenticate his claim that the electronic record of the presidential election stored on INEC’s server is inconsistent with the results the compromised and morally putrid chairman of INEC announced, there is panic in the Presidential Villa, and Buhari’s ignorant lawyers are engaging in comical, illiterate rhetorical antics for the sole purpose of diversion.
From the body language and utterances of the presidency and its spokesmen, it is irrefutable correct to say Atiku won that election but I am afraid, for there is no hope in the judicial system over this matter. Atiku may end up like another MKO Abiola whose mandate was stolen and denied.
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