Who believes the lie that there are more people in the North than in the South?

Everything turns upside down in Nigeria. Logic
becomes illogical. Wisdom becomes
foolishness. Two plus two becomes seven.
Hospitals become mortuaries. Stealing is not
corruption. Education is a sin. In Nigeria, so
many things fly in the face of simple
commonsense.
One major example is the ridiculous idea that,
by some inexplicable freak of nature, more
people live in the arid less-developed Northern
part of Nigeria than in the wet, coastal, more-
developed South.
Insult to intelligence
The larger
population
of the
North is an
elephant in
the
Nigerian
living-
room.
According
to the last
disputed
census of
2006, there
are 75 million Nigerians living in the North and
65 million in the South. This is balderdash! As
long as we continue to accept such blatant lie,
there can be no true democracy in Nigeria.
Electoral results must continue to be falsified to
conform to it. As long as we continue to
entertain such outright falsehood, we shall
continue to be subjected to a “born to rule”
mentality on the part of some mischievous
Northern politicians.
The assertion that there are more people in the
North than in the South is an insult to
intelligence and commonsense. All over West
Africa, the coastal states are more densely and
highly populated than the arid desert
hinterlands. Nobody has been able to come up
with a reasonable reason why Nigeria would be
the only exception to this rule. Most of the
people in Egypt live on a strip along the Nile
River. But in Nigeria, we are meant to believe
most of the people live in the desert.
Some make the case that Northern polygamy
leads to more births. If so, why are there only
30 million people in Saudi Arabia, a country
more than twice the size of Nigeria? The Saudis
are also polygamous. If there are so many more
live-births in the North than in the South, this
should be reflected in children immunization
programs: but it is not.
Everything we know about demographics
contradicts the inflated population of the North
relative to the South. The economic
opportunities in the South far outweigh those in
the North. That means economic migration is
bound to be southward and not northward. The
states with the highest internally generated
revenues all come from the South; while eight
of the last ten are from the North. No Northern
state features in the top ten.
Mythical Kano
The North regularly trots up Kano as the largest
state of the federation, but there is no doubt
that this is also pure fiction. There is no way
that there can be more people in Kano State
than in Lagos State or even Oyo State. Let me
be even more categorical. Kano cannot be as
populous as Ibadan. Kano cannot even have half
the population of Lagos.
We were told Kano State was bigger in
population than Lagos State. Then Jigawa State
was carved out of Kano in 1991. But lo and
behold, the remaining rump of Kano was still
bigger than Lagos. In 1991, we were told there
were 5.8 million people in Kano State, while 5.7
million were in Lagos. In 2006, Kano was
awarded a population of 9.4 million; more than
Lagos which was given 9.1 million.
In the meantime, Jigawa was awarded 4.3
million people in 2006. If this were to be
believed, it would mean Kano (including Jigawa)
had outpaced Lagos by more than four million
people by 2006. That is impossible. Moreover,
Kano was awarded 44 local government areas;
Jigawa 27 and Lagos only 20.
Why any right-thinking person would believe
Kano State has more people than Lagos State is
beyond me. For years, the total amount of
internally generated revenue in Kano was less
than 6 billion naira a year. In the last year or so,
it is now averaging 20 billion. But get this: the
internally generated revenue in Lagos is 219
billion naira. So why would people be moving to
Kano instead of Lagos? Where are the jobs in
Kano to attract them relative to Lagos?
Why would more people keep moving to Kano
where there is insurgency; from Maitasine to
Boko Haram, relative to Lagos where there is
none? The answer is simple. The large
population of Kano relative to Lagos is bogus. It
is pure fiction! If there were more people in
Kano than in Lagos, it would show up, for
example, in waste-generation. How much waste
does Kano produce relative to Lagos? The
answer is only a fraction.
How many houses and physical structures are
there in Kano relative to Lagos? There is no
comparison. Google satellite maps show a
concentration of people and houses in Kano city
centre. Everywhere else is sparsely populated.
This is not the case with Lagos. It is not the case
with Ibadan. It is not the case with Aba. If there
are so many people up North, where are the
people? Where do they live? Which vehicles
take them from A to B? How many of these
vehicles are in Kano relative to Lagos? Only a
fraction!
Magical Zamfara
Precisely because we have accepted the lie of
Northern population supremacy over the South,
Attahiru Jega and his INEC cohorts decided to
sneak further falsehood past us. Having
discovered far more double-registration of
voters in the North than in the South, INEC still
went ahead to create additional polling units,
allocating a disproportionate number of these
to the North. However, the very audacity of
INEC in the attempted perpetration of this fraud
has brought to light certain anomalies in the
2011 elections, especially as it relates to the
North-West.
INEC’s recent cleanup exercise of the voters
register is a big indictment of the North. INEC
discovered that there are far more double-
registration of voters in the North than in the
South. The greatest fraud in this regard is
committed in the North-West, and the most
fraudulent state in the country turns out to be
Zamfara.
Sokoto and Zamfara states border the Republic
of Niger. Niger Republic is 19 times bigger than
Sokoto and Zamfara put together in land area.
And yet, we are meant to believe that in 2006,
Sokoto and Zamfara had a combined total
population of 6.9 million; more than half of
Niger Republic’s population of 12.9 million.
Zamfara’s fictitious population in the 2006
census was 3.2 million. Nevertheless, INEC
registered 2 million voters for Zamfara for the
2011 elections. That means 62.5% of the
people in Zamfara registered to vote. (This is
roughly equal to the 64% of people who
registered to vote in the 2012 elections in the
United States; a country of far higher voter-
awareness and socialisation). This is fraud of
the highest order for the simple reason that
62.5% of the population of Zamfara cannot be
eligible to vote.
The voting age in Nigeria is 18 years. According
to U.N. demographics, 44% of Nigerians are
below the age of 15. This means under no
circumstances can 50% of the population
anywhere in Nigeria be said to have registered
to vote in any election. It is not surprising
therefore that although INEC registered 2
million voters for the 2011 elections in
Zamfara, the same INEC discovered in its clean-
up exercise this year that 1.1 million of those
voters (over 50%) were fraudulent; the result of
double registration.
Voodoo results
That means only 914,886 of the names on the
Zamfara register could be verified as not
pertaining to double registration. (This does not
tell us how many of the remaining names are
fictitious). But then get this: according to INEC
records, 927,219 people voted in Zamfara in
the 2011 presidential election; mostly for
Buhari. That means more votes were cast in
Zamfara than the total number of legitimately-
registered voters, according to the revelation of
INEC’s clean-up exercise.
Let us put this in stark terms. It means,
according to INEC, over 100% of the Zamfara
electorate voted in 2011. What malarkey! By
the time we factor in the fictitious names that
must have been in the register, we can see that
the figures coming out of Zamfara have nothing
whatsoever to do with reality. In Zamfara, there
is procedural inflation of figures pertaining to
population and elections.
This gives us an idea of how fraudulent the
North-West of Nigeria is with regard to
population and electoral figures. This is not to
say that manipulation and falsification of
figures is not standard operational procedure in
other states of the federation, but INEC
revealed that it is most exaggerated in the
North in general and in the North-West in
particular.
It is not surprising therefore that, in the 2011
presidential election, there were 10.6 million
“voters” from the North-West alone; twice the
number of voters from either the South-West
(4.6 million) or the South-East (5 million). This
is preposterous, and is nothing but one big lie!
Back to Jega
It is on this
fictitious
super-
structure of
a larger
population
in the
North
relative to
the South
that Jega’s
INEC based
its
outrageous
allocation of 21,000 additional polling booths to
the North, relative to 8,000 to the South.
In defense of this regional-chauvinism, Hakeem
Baba-Ahmad added insult to injury by saying:
“Jega admitted that many states in the south
did not even deserve the number of units they
got, but for the inclusion of the principle of
fairness and equity. In other words, if INEC had
been strict in sharing out the units in
accordance with voting population and
geography, the north would have received even
more.” What poppycock!
In what appears to be the triumph of
commonsense and logic, the Senate has
advised Jega to suspend the allocation of new
polling units until after the 2015 general
elections. That should be the end of the matter.
People who don’t understand how the Nigerian
political system works feel Jega can ignore this
advice. He cannot! The legislative branch of the
government has oversight powers over the
executive branch. Such a directive from the
legislature to an arm of the government is not
subject to debate. It must be obeyed otherwise
Jega will be sanctioned.

Total madness.

I tell you my brother!

Accept is the keyword or back out,3days ago am told some people in the bus the same idealogy about northern is not populated than southern states.1 northern man was argueing but i explain to him with tangible Ibadan as an example. Ibadan is bigger in population than kano even let do the head count of northern in ibadan from age 10-55yrs and compares to people of south living in kano ......

Broda dnt say so...compare childbirth in kano and it is d second largest in nija.population count also testified to it. At times it is not by the size but what it contains...eg Lagos

oh my 9ja... Simply remember that God loves u....

Of course, I believe the popn of north is higher than that of the south if all the cattle and goats, which are always enumerated during census, are included. Lol!

Of course, I believe the popn of north is higher than that of the south if all the cattle and goats, which are always enumerated during census, are included. Lol!

Spacetrotter wrote:

Of course, I believe the popn of north is higher than that of the south if all the cattle and goats, which are always enumerated during census, are included. Lol!

hahahahaha!funny guy.

Census ke!