How can the largest tribe in Nigeria be missing where power truly matters? 🇳🇬
The Hausa people widely regarded as one of the most populous ethnic groups in Nigeria currently have no sitting governor in states historically known as Hausa homelands. When you look at the ethnic breakdown of governors across the country, the imbalance becomes obvious.
Number of Nigerian governors by ethnic group 🇳🇬
- Fulani – 9 governors
- Yoruba – 6 governors
- Igbo – 5 governors
- Kanuri – 2 governors
- Ikwerre – 1 governor + 1 FCT minister
- Half-Fulani/Half-Yoruba – 1 governor
- Urhobo – 1 governor
- Ibibio – 1 governor
- Ijaw – 1 governor
- Efik – 1 governor
- Esan – 1 governor
- Nupe – 1 governor
- Ebira – 1 governor
- Jukun – 1 governor
- Tiv – 1 governor
- Marghi – 1 governor
- Mwaghavul – 1 governor
- Mada – 1 governor
Yet Hausa — zero.
Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi, Kaduna these are globally recognised as Hausa civilisation centers. Long before colonial rule, Hausa city-states had established systems of trade, governance, scholarship, and agriculture. Hausa identity shaped the political and commercial history of the region.
Yet today, many Hausa communities feel politically sidelined in their own ancestral territories.
Beyond politics, insecurity has worsened the situation. In many northern states, rural Hausa farming communities have suffered from banditry, displacement, kidnappings, and violent attacks. Families have lost ancestral lands. Villages have been abandoned. There are constant reports of farmers being kidnapped, women assaulted, and ransom demanded from poor households. Many victims are Hausa Muslims themselves. The violence does not spare them.
This is not about promoting hatred against any group. Crime is crime, and criminals must be treated as criminals. But when insecurity consistently devastates Hausa villages, when daughters and wives are abducted, when farmers are chased off their lands and yet political power does not reflect Hausa leadership questions will naturally arise.
Representation matters. Security matters. Political voice matters.
No ethnic group with deep historical roots and large population should feel invisible in decisions affecting land, security, and governance in its own homeland.
The hard question remains:
How did the Hausa become politically absent in states built on Hausa civilisation and how long will this continue?
This is about representation, accountability, and the future of northern Nigeria./George Udom on FB
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