BOOM!!! A COALITION OF INDIGINOUS ETHNIC NATIONALITIES DRAW BATTLE LINES WITH TABITAL PULAAKU OVER ATTACKS ON SEN. BINOS

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 A COALITION OF INDIGENOUS ETHNIC NATIONALITIES OF 

ADAMAWA STATE IN REPLY TO THE PRESS CONFERENCE BY TABITAL PULAAKU INTERNATIONAL (TBI) ON DISTINGUISHED SENATOR BINOS DAUDA YAROE. 

Our attention has been drawn to a press release titled: "Official reaction of Tabital Pulaaku 

International (TBI) to the unfortunate and reckless public statements by Mr Binos Dauda Yaroe Distinguished Senator Representing Adamawa South Senatorial District" 

dated February 24th 2021 and signed by Dr Murtala Aliyu as Chairman, TPI and Dr Ahmad Shehu as Secretary-General TPI. 

We consider the contents of this press release as an attack and threat on the Distinguished Senator 

Reverend Binos Dauda Yaroe and by extension the rest of our kind and indeed anyone who is 

representing his people excellently well as our Distinguished Senator Yaroe has been doing since 

2019. 

We want to place on record that contrary to the allegation by the TPI that Senator Yaroe has not 

"been focusing his attention on development issues and projects that benefit his people, including 

Fulbe whom he represents", Distinguished Senator Reverend Binos Dauda Yaroe has and continues to impact positively on the lives of the people of Adamawa South Senatorial District and beyond. He has so far carried out four (4) free medical outreaches to Demsa, Ganye, Guyuk and Mayo￾Belwa Local Government Areas. 

The people who attended these clinics came from beyond the Southern Senatorial District including Gombe and Taraba States. Some even came from the 

Republic of Cameroon! It must be pointed out that the Fulbe were there in significant numbers especially the most recent one in Mayo Belwa. 

Distinguished Senator Reverend Binos Dauda Yaroe has sunk many motorised boreholes throughout the Senatorial District and brought clean water to his constituents. 

He distributed his own COVID-19 palliatives to his district without discrimination. 

He has reached out to youth and women through empowerment schemes. He continues to 

hold Town Hall Meetings and maintains excellent relations with our Traditional Rulers 

as well as religious Leaders across the board. 

Our Distinguished Senator Reverend Binos Dauda Yaroe is a leader and representative in whom we 

are well pleased. We will not let any persons or organisations rubbish his person and threaten him. 

Thus we find it absolutely necessary to respond to this wicked and underserved attack from Tabital 

Pulaaku International, which it said said it is doing on behalf of the Fulbe. We want, in relation to this 

to make the following points:- 

1. In the contribution of our Distinguished Senator Reverend Binos Dauda Yaroe on the floor of the Senate on the security situation in the Country with which TPI is angry, he prefaced his remarks by 

referring to the statement credited to His Eminence the Sultan of Sokoto that 7 out of every 10 

kidnappers are Fulani. 

The authors of the TPI press release mischievously ignored that fact. The 

Distinguished Senator Reverend Binos Dauda Yaroe simply availed the Senate and Nigerians of the 

experiences of a small part of his Senatorial District. 

The Adamawa South Senatorial has suffered many attacks from TPI kith and kin over the past several years. The home and farm of the Distinguished Senator Reverend Binos Dauda Yaroe were attacked by these same elements. 

Thank God that they were repelled. As things stand now, it is common knowledge that the Fulani are the 

kidnappers. Some of those apprehended for the crimes have said that they are the ones doing these things. And, yes, they said that their bigger kindred have been facilitating these acts. 

It is all over the media. Therefore, the Distinguished Senator did not start this. 

2. The Senator was elected by his people to represent them in the Senate (a national forum for 

governance) to seek the good welfare - which includes their security - of the people he represents. 

Nigerians are being killed, kidnapped, impoverished etc. This increase in the nation's insecurity occasioned a national discourse that included the need to identify and define the threat. Who is killing Nigerians? This has been difficult to do because of fault lines such as ethnicity and religion in the fabric of the nation. These fault lines have barred any rational and reasonable discussions to define Nigerians' killers. The Senate is the most appropriate place for such a discussion or debate 

where words and superior arguments are the ammo used to win the good welfare for the people 

being represented. For the Distinguished Senator to draw inferences from public discussions 

(including eminent persons in the society) and to focus on the threat to Nigeria, is his duty. He did it. 

Now the attempt to isolate and attack the person of the Senator is not only a distraction but an 

attack on the Senate and by extension the nation. 

The Senator should be commended for having the courage to focus on national interests which guarantee the welfare of his people. Identifying the threat to the nation would expose and possibly deter the enemy of the land, save national resources, enable progress. So attackers of the Senator cannot mean well for Nigeria and Nigerians. 

3. The members of Tabital Pulaaku should be ashamed of themselves for defending their tribal people who have turned banditry, kidnapping and terrorism into a major industry. They should concentrate on getting their people to stop these acts and thereby restore the dignity of their tribe which is now suffering disrepute. And they should show what they are doing to that effect.

4. The attempt to show that they know the Distinguished Senator Reverend Binos Dauda Yaroe's 

background is very pathetic. Nothing in all they TPI said is true! We have checked with the Distinguished Senator and we can say this without fear of contradiction. But we take note of the threat inherent in that statement. For the avoidance of doubt and to expose the lies the TPI 

fabricated about Distinguished Senator Reverend Binos Dauda Yaroe portraying him and even his late father as beneficiaries of Fulbe hospitality, we confirm as follows: 

a. Distinguished Senator Reverend Binos Dauda Yaroe did not spend his teenage years in the home of Alhaji Usman Hamman Yero Nyako. He therefore did not and never would have adopted the family name Hamman Yero under any circumstances. 

This claim is a total 

fabrication and utterly false. The surname Yaroe which the Distinguished Senator has used all 

this while is his father's name and pronounced in Yangdang the way it is written. His father was baptised and given the name Dauda. 

b. The late Da Dauda Yaroe did not have a relationship with Alhaji Usman Hamman-Yero to 

warrant his enjoying any financial support from the latter, including any purported soft loans, as claimed. Da Dauda Yaroe did not establish a Church in Mararaba Tola. 

c. Distinguished Senator Reverend Binos Dauda Yaroe was not a lecturer at the defunct College 

of Preliminary Studies, Yola.

 

d. He never worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He never knew or met Professor Jibril Aminu let alone has the Professor facilitated his appointment into any position. 

e. We wonder if the list of persons reeled out by TPI as coming from the Senator's District is intended to intimidate him. Well he is not and neither are we. If they want a list we shall give them this: Distinguished Senator Reverend Binos Dauda Yaroe serves the good people of the largest Senatorial District in Adamawa State and probably one of the largest in Nigeria. He has them behind him and he has God, therefore, he cannot be 

intimidated. 

5. The claim by TPI that the Fulbe have inhabited Mararaba Tola for over 600 years is a fallacy and 

indeed laughable and utterly pathetic. It is revisionism at its worst. You can not lay claim to our 

indigenous lands through barefaced assertions and lies. You must do better than that. In any case, 

as one Hausa man declared recently concerning the Fulbe claiming Kano as theirs, in an audio 

statement that has gone viral, "even if you spend 1000 years here, you will still be settlers among our people whom you met on the land". Talk about biting the fingers that fed you! 

We have read history at the secondary school level and we know when the Fulbe left Futa Toro for 

other parts of West and Central Africa. When did Usman Danfodio start his Jihad? Just 200 years 

ago. 

6. The Press Conference by TPI is sour grapes over the loss at the polls of their candidate Abubakar 

MoAllahyidi to Senator Binos Dauda Yaroe who has achieved more in one year than their preferred 

candidate did in the 4 years he represented or rather misrepresented the Southern Senatorial Zone 

of Adamawa State. 

7. Malam Aminu Sebore who spearheaded the write up is known to publicly abuse some of those 

respected Fulani leaders he is claiming to speak for. The incidence involving H.E. Alhaji Atiku 

Abubakar readily comes to mind. 

8. The Fulbe constitute an insignificant part of the population of Adamawa State as evident by the 

Research undertaken by Nyako which made his administration to import Fulbe into Adamawa State 

to alter the demographics of the State. The peaceful coexistence that the people of Adamawa State 

and the Southern Senatorial District which Distinguished Senator Binos Dauda Yaroe represents, 

has been disrupted by these foreign elements shipped in and resettled in Adamawa State. 

9. The Fulani herdsmen challenge is a national phenomenon and for the TPI to arrogate to itself the 

right to speak for a rogue organisation is conclusive and irrefutable evidence of its complicity in the ongoing nationwide carnage. 

10. The so called rebuttal by TPI is a typical strategy the Fulbe adopt to cow and intimidate their 

perceived opponents. Neither Distinguished Senator Binos Yaroe nor our people against whom this 

threat is directed will be intimidated by these rantings of the accomplices of a murderous horde. 

11. We would advise the TPI to address the mess their kinsmen have created all over the Country 

and certainly not endanger the fragile peace which exists in the Adamawa South Senatorial District. 

We all want peaceful coexistence among the diverse groups in Nigeria, but it must be based on 

mutual respect. 

The TPI has not demonstrated respect in that press release. They will do well to retrace their steps from the dangerous path they have taken. 

SIGNED

1. Numan Federation Foundation _____________ ________________

Mr Daniel Maliki Prince Medan Fwa, mni

2. Chamba Development Association _____________ _____ ___________

Mal. Ahmadu Dama Mr Polyca rp Kaigama

3. Bwatiye Development Association _____________________

Chief Joab Samah

4. Lunguda Development Association _____________________

Mr Andrew Welye

5. Mbula Development Association _____________________

Mr Simon Idi Umaru

6. Yangdang Development Association _____________________

Cornelius Dedan Nyari

7. Kilba Development Association _____________________

Hon James Chafari Ndobari

8. Marghi Development Association _____________________

Engr. Dennis Chinda

9. Yungur Development Association _____________________

Mr Kefas Magaji

10. Kamwe Development Association _____________________

Mr Laya Bitrus

11. Ga’anda Development Association _____________________

Mr Bulus Sabichi

12. Verre Development Association _____________________

Mr Yusuf Thomas

13. Fali Cultural & Community Dev. Ass. _____________________

Mr Joseph L. Galdiya