Benue State Belongs to the Fulani People by Right of Conquest

A Fulani professor, Prof. Umar Labdo Muhammad, of the Faculty of Humanities, Northwest University, Kano says that Benue State belongs to

Prof. Umar Labdo Muhammad

the Fulani by right of conquest because half of the state is part of the Bauchi Emirate, and the other half is part of the Adamawa Emirate. Benue is therefore part and parcel of the Sokoto Caliphate. So no one has the right to expel the Fulani from Benue under any guise.

Umar Labdo Muhammad went on to say that second only to Arabs, perhaps the Fulani are the most benevolent and merciful conquerors in history. If they had applied the Nazi final solution to the natives, or if they had treated them the same way the European settlers treated Red Indians in North America or the Aborigines in Australia, the story would have been different today.