NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 9th - Sunday 15th June 2025
RISALA
Nigeria today is contending with much more than insecurity; there is already a war raging. As the indigenous ethnic nationalities have done nothing to warrant attack from anyone, they do not believe that any war is being waged against them. Unfortunately, one does not need to provoke a fight before it is launched against them. All it needs is to have something attractive, and desperate people would launch a war to take it. The ongoing war in Nigeria is stoked by the 1903 ideology of Risala.
On 20th March 1903, the British forces defeated the Caliphate and put a halt to the territorial expansionist ambition of the Fulani. Muhammadu Attahiru II, the 13th Sultan of Sokoto, was selected on the date of that defeat and sworn in the next day by the British colonial administration, under the hand of Lord Lugard. The Fulanis conceded to British rule but were persuaded that their defeat by the British was merely an interruption to their expansionist campaign begun by Uthman Dan Fodio. They were to resume the campaign whenever the British departed.
Risala is a Fulani ideological code to remember the British defeat suffered by the Sultanate on 20-21 March 1903, resist British suzerainty or that of other ethnic groups, and deepen Fulani rule. Risala is an Arabic word that means ‘’letter”, “treatise”, or “message”. The Fulanis were forced to enter a treaty with the British who dismantled the Sokoto Caliphate and placed them officially in northern Nigeria.
While the indigenous ethnic nationalities of Nigeria are deliberately being distracted with diversionary nomenclatures such as “bandits,” “herdsmen,” “insurgents,” and “Boko Haram,” who are merely foot soldiers, there is an array of politicians, intellectuals, business magnates, and bureaucrats of the Fulani ethnic stock who deploy their official status and positions to advance the same cause of the 1903 Risala. It is their unwritten policy, passed from generation to generation. The goal is to make Nigeria an Islamic society under Fulani leadership. If that cannot be achieved peacefully, then it will be achieved by war. That war began in Nigeria with the onslaught of Boko Haram and ISWAP, and is being sustained by other terrorist groups called by such euphemistic names as “herdsmen,” “bandits,” etc.
Unfortunately, the indigenous ethnic nationalities who are meant to resist this agenda assume that what is going on is just politics. That is the sad conception of the current president of the country, the politicians of other indigenous ethnic nationalities, their traditional rulers, bureaucrats, as well as the religious leaders. They see no existential threat in the ongoing war.
The 1903 Risala was clarified by Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto, when he said, shortly after the Independence of Nigeria, that “The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grandfather Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us and never allow them to have control over their future.” (https://www.thisdaylive.com/2021/07/25/manifestations-of-a-divisive-manifesto/) The clause, “we must ruthlessly prevent a change of power” explains the violence and manipulations that have accompanied elections and governance in Nigeria.
In recent times, the notion of power at all costs was accentuated by Dr. Aliyu Tilde, who, in a widely rejoined article, apparently excused the Fulani as a trapped monster who must “fight back with all the tools at its disposal,” such as by “Looting, killings, rapes, whatever can be employed to revenge or to acquire” (https://dailynigerian.com/fulani-the-unfinished-work/). To such apologists of ethnic domination, the ambition of Uthman dan Fodio to build a society based on Islam, under Fulani leadership, remains incomplete. If not achieved peacefully, it has to be by war.
How did anyone “betray” forest-dwelling Fulanis? By refusing for their lives to be structured on Islam under Fulani leadership? Is that a reason to “loot, kill, rape, whatever can be employed”? That is the ideology driving the conflict in Nigeria.
The current Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad M. Abubakar III, is quoted to have said, at Harvard University, a few years ago: "I do not recognize any Nigerian constitution and the only constitution I recognize is the Koran” (https://dailypost.ng/2019/12/29/insecurity-reorganise-your-security-chiefs-if-you-are-sincere-ncef-tells-president-buhari/). The repudiation of the constitution of Nigeria in favour of the Koran is a clear indication that a society based on Fulani Islam and rulership is preferable to the Sultan. By “Constitution” he meant democracy, and by “Koran,” he referred to Sharia ideology. In other words, some citizens of Nigeria do not believe in democracy, which guarantees freedom of choice, freedom of worship, and freedom of expression. They would rather subscribe to a religiously intolerant and discriminatory ideology.
How their proposed Islamic society under Fulani leadership will operate can best be seen in how Hausaland was run after the Fulanis destroyed the Habe dynasty and imposed Fulani Emirs over the Hausa people. Today, the Hausas hardly hold any political post in their own land. Fulanis make up the entire gamut of politicians, from councillors to chairmen of LGAs, governors, senators, members of the House of Representatives, and of course, the presidency, including bureaucrats, clerics and traditional rulers at all strata of society. This model is meant to run nationwide, before Nigeria can have ‘peace.’
In some of the previous prayer calls, it was pointed out that the negro race (i.e. indigenous ethnic nationalities) is seriously challenged by a corrupt and compromising leadership which includes traditional rulers, bureaucrats, politicians and religious leaders. With the experience of the Hausa people in perspective, it is easy to tell what awaits the traditional rulers and other leaders from the indigenous ethnic nationalities. At present, those leaders are tragically playing deaf and dumb because their nest is feathered from the Federation account.
It should be clear that if the Fulanis succeed in their aim, traditional rulers like the Ooni of Ife, Alaafin of Oyo, Oba of Benin, Obi of Onitsha, Amayanabo of the Kalabari kingdom, the Ohinoyi of Ebiraland, Tor Tiv, Gbong Gwom Jos, and all the other kings should be ready to vacate their palaces for Fulani emirs. Apparently, the reality of what lies ahead is not yet clear to these royal highnesses, so they still hobnob with those determined to supplant them. They should ask Afonja of Ilorin about the consequences of his alliance with Alimi; ditto Abdulsalam Bagimbane in Hausa land with Uthman dan Fodio.
To understand what their fate would be a few years down the road, the councillors, chairmen, governors, senators, members of the House of Representatives, as well as members of the State houses of assembly, should study the model of leadership in Hausaland after the Fulani took over their land. Imagine a future with Fulanis as governors of Anambra, Lagos, and Bayelsa states... A recent research publication by the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law states that over 950 locations in the Southeast have already been taken over by “Fulani herdsmen.”
The intention of the Fulani is not hidden. They make no pretense about it. Ahmadu Bello spelled it out succinctly, and Buhari emphasized it in Benue State over the people’s claim of attachment to ancestral land. He told them bluntly through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity: “You can only have ancestral attachment [to land] when you are alive. If you are talking about ancestral attachment, if you are dead, how does the attachment matter?" That declaration was summarised in the public domain as, “your land, or your life” - the traditional language of armed robbers.
The potential fate of the Christian religious leaders is perhaps the easiest to predict. Once the efforts to supplant democracy with Sharia bear their required fruit, the cathedrals will become mosques. Already, a model has been provided in the shutdown of the Aso Villa Chapel since the inception of the Muslim-Muslim ticket. If the Chapel in the Presidency can be shut down to prevent Sunday worship service, no cathedral in the country would be sacrosanct.
While the negroid Fulanis have made their position clear, and are already executing their agenda, the leaders of other ethnic groups are yet to demonstrate any willingness to respond. The major hindrance to credible resistance appears to be the greed of those leaders and the docility of their followers. While the leaders play deaf and dumb, the followers only grumble and complain. Any generation in which its men are not willing to fight ends up in slavery; their women ravished and their children made commodities in the slave market. The dream of the Fulani for “Daulan Dan Fodio” (the Republic of Dan Fodio) has become a nightmare to Nigerians.
Nigeria cannot continue to operate a Caliphate-imposed 1999 Constitution (as amended) and hope to have peace and progress. In a previous prayer bulletin, it was pointed out that this problem can be resolved without battle if citizens begin to demand the renegotiation of Nigeria and revert to the 1963 constitution, on which Nigeria became a Republic. That is the quickest way to get a new constitution. Appropriate amendments should be made to reflect current realities and plug any loopholes that could be manipulated by irredentists. Further negotiations by the ethnic nationalities can then continue. This way, the crisis will be under control.
God bless Nigeria.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Ps. 124
Thank God for restricting the evil conspiracies to turn Nigeria into a fiefdom of an immigrant ethnic stock.
2. Rom. 2:2-4
Pray that God in His mercy would save the souls of those conspiring against Nigeria, if they are willing to repent and turn from their evil ways.
3. Lam. 3:37; Is. 7:7
By the authority of the word of God and the blood of Jesus, nullify every word, utterance, incantation, decree, or agreement that Nigeria should become a fiefdom of the Fulanis.
4. 2 Thes. 1:6
Execute the judgement that is written in the word of God on everyone involved in the conspiracies that have resulted in bloodshed, kidnappings, and all forms of insecurity in Nigeria.
5. 1 Jn. 3:8
Take authority over Satan and all his forces that are operating in Nigeria. Bind all those forces of darkness and destroy their works in the name of Jesus Christ.
6. Lev. 25:10
As Nigeria approaches the 50th anniversary of FESTAC ’77, proclaim liberty to Nigeria and Nigerians, and mercy from God for that idolatry. Proclaim liberty for all internally displaced persons (IDPs) and all externally displaced persons (EDPs) to return to their homelands.
7. Jer. 44:7-10
Cancel any arrangement to hold any other idolatrous festivals in Nigeria. Dissociate Nigeria from such programs, and hand the organizers over to God for divine rebuke.
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