Tafawa Balewa Not Part Of Sokoto Caliphate, Bauchi Group Declares

A Sayawa sociocultural group, Concerned Zaar Patriots (CZP), has denied claims that Tafawa Balewa municipality is portion of the Sokoto Caliphate.

CZP’s absorption came a fewer days aft Prof. Salisu Shehu allegedly asserted that the determination of the Bauchi State authorities to make Sayawa Chiefdom and mention its office successful Tafawa Balewa section government, delisted the country from being portion of the Sokoto Caliphate and handed it implicit to non-Muslims.

CZP, successful a connection signed by Ishaya Dangana and made disposable to LEADERSHIP successful Bauchi yesterday, described Prof. Shehu’s outburst arsenic “reckless, historically false, religiously inflammatory and socially dangerous,” accusing him of weaponising religion implicit a purely administrative process.

“Coming from a antheral who claims world distinction, this reckless distortion of past cannot spell unanswered,” the radical said.

The radical recalled his agelong past of statements against the Sayawa people. While reiterating that Tafawa Balewa is constitutionally portion of Nigeria and not immoderate “empire,” CZP stressed that accepted enactment arises from instrumentality and assemblage consent, not conquest oregon spiritual supremacy.

“Traditional institutions are astir identity, justness and inclusion—not sectarian dominance,” the connection read.

The radical besides faulted the professor’s assertion that Tafawa Balewa was founded by the Fulani, insisting that Zaar (Sayawa) and different indigenous groups occupied the onshore centuries earlier the 19th-century jihad.

The radical commended Governor Bala Mohammed for recognising Sayawa Chiefdom, calling it an enactment of humanities justness and law equity, not hostility.

They besides called connected President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to analyse Prof. Shehu, who present serves arsenic the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), alleging that his inflammatory rhetoric could incite unrest.

“No radical should unrecorded nether perpetual subjugation,” they declared. “The instauration of inclusive chiefdoms and emirates is an enactment of healing, not division. Let determination beryllium bid and progress.”