…he belongs proudly to the historic Emirate of Keffi in present-day Nasarawa State, his ancestral roots extend to the ancient civilisation of Kanem-Borno, one of Africa’s oldest and most enduring centres of political organisation, Islamic scholarship, and commercial enterprise. The Borno and Kanuri heritage has for cent…

…many Ilorin indigenes, my younger sister's husband being an example, have distant Borgu ancestral roots, even if they are now, for all practical purposes, Yoruba people, and therefore may have some emotional investment in the emergence of a Borgu person as governor. But the fact that many prominent and not-so-prominent…