North Took Special Exception To Killing Of 16 Muslims, Okpebholo Had To Kneel To Appease Them-Majeed Dahiru

Dr. Majeed Dahiru, a public affairs analyst, confronted what he characterized as selective outrage by Muslim leadership during an interview on Nigeria Info FM, citing multiple incidents where violence against Muslims prompted swift condemnation while attacks on Christians receive dismissive responses.

Dahiru referenced a recent incident in Edo State that sparked widespread anger in the Muslim North. According to the analyst, sixteen northern Muslim hunters were killed after being mistaken for bandits. “The entire Muslim North was up in arms against the state government and its people,” he stated, noting that Governor Okpebholo “had to go and practically kneel down to appease both the families, the state government, and other critical stakeholders in the North.”

He observed that the North treated this as exceptional. “The North took special exception to it,” Dahiru said, before questioning why the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs didn’t characterize it as part of Nigeria’s general security crisis. The analyst suggested the reaction was different because the perpetrators were Southerners and Christians.

Dahiru recalled another case that received significant attention: the killing of a woman named Fatima and her four children by IPOB elements in Anambra State. He noted the Anambra State government went to great lengths to demonstrate accountability, “even when IPOB elements were killing hundreds of Igbo people in Anambra State.”

The analyst also cited an attack on a northern-dominated market in Ibadan years ago. When casualties were predominantly Northerners, he said, a delegation came to Oyo State demanding answers. Northern governors whose people were targeted made the trip, and Southwest governors led by the late Akeredolu “had to take the initiative to rein in their people, made arrests just to pacify the North.”

Drawing these examples together, Dahiru argued that Christian complaints about jihadist groups, bandits, and killer herdsmen deserve equal attention. When such violence reaches what he described as “genocidal proportions,” he said the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs should be concerned that people within their demographic “have gone this level of rogue to the point that Nigeria is battling insecurity that emanates from your own demography.”

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