As the proposed military invasion of the Niger Republic looms, All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain and former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has urged the Tinubu administration not to get included in the armed conflict for the sake of Nigerians with relatives in that country.

The wife of General Adourahman Tchiani, the head of Niger’s military junta, is actually a Nigerian from Kangiwa in Kebbi State,” he wrote, “while his Emir, the Emir of Dosso in Niger, owes allegiance and pays homage to the Emir of Argungu in Nigeria.” That is how closely the two countries are linked.

The truth is that almost every household in the core north has ancestors from and in Niger.