ASHE Foundation president, Prince Justice Faloye, has called on President Bola Tinubu to reconsider retaining his “Jagaban of Borgu” title amid ongoing killings and kidnappings allegedly linked to members of the Borgu Fulani subgroup across parts of the country.

Faloye made this known in a press statement, emphasising the need to understand global civilizational realities to rectify power sources dependent on external imperialistic forces.

Expressing frustration at the lack of proactive measures by the current government, Faloye noted that before becoming President, Bola Tinubu was crowned as Jagaban of Borgu—a Fulani subgroup—meaning Balogun/Commander-in-Chief of Borgu.

Now, as President, Faloye hinted that the first new terror group under his administration is linked to Borgu Fulani, raising conflict-of-interest concerns as his Yoruba constituency faces armed attacks from Afro-Arabic terrorists who made him their Jagaban,” Faloye stated.

Faloye clarified that this is not to pillory Yoruba, Igbo, or other Indigenous African leaders from the South and Middle Belt, but to understand the stimuli or constraints driving their involvement in arresting their people’s economic and political development.

“It is essential to grasp the global civilizational reality to rectify our power sources, which remain dependent on external imperialistic forces. We must realize we are a conquered people—by weapons—and despite 1960 flag independence, we are still ruled through coloniality of knowledge and power, breeding coloniality of being and economics,” Faloye noted.

He continued: “There are four global civilizations: Western Christian European, Afroasiatic Afro-Arabic Islamic, Asiatic Buddhist, and Indigenous African Ifa-Afa-Iha-Fa. Civilisations comprise shared genetic and cultural origins and values among tribes. We must see the big picture or perish, erased by other civilizations.

“The Northern civilizational power base is visible to most Nigerians, but the ultimate source is Western civilisation, which created Nigeria and still holds the reins. Why were the three 2023 presidential candidates invited to Chatham House, the British foreign affairs hub? Only those agreeing to subsidy removal and devaluation, neoliberal policies designed in the late 1970s by Western slave nations, advanced. These aim to return Blacks to economic and political slavery after 20 years of independence. (Text, excluding headline: The Guardian)