President Bola Tinubu, governors and traditional rulers across the country are set to grace the Kwararafa Development Assembly in Abuja on Wednesday.
The Governor of Taraba State, Agbu Kefas is the Convener of the event while His Royal Majesty, the Aku Uka of Wukari, the custodian of the Kwararafa throne, is the chief host.
SKY POST can report that the Kwararafa Confederacy is one of the great unwritten chapters of African political history as it reigned supreme between the fourteenth and the eighteenth centuries and are the peoples who inhabited the Niger-Benue confluence the Jukun, the Idoma, the Igala, the Nupe, the Ebira, the Tarok, the Alago, the Eggon, the Kuteb and others.
The tribes were bound together in a political formation powerful enough to challenge the Hausa city-states and the Bornu Empire.
This is documented. It is in the Kano Chronicle.
Speaking to journalists ahead of the event, Alhaji Ahmadu Oga Aliyu Onawo Andoma of Doma who is the Chairman, Central Planning Committee Kwararafa Peoples Assembly 2026 Kwararafa Development Forum, said that in the Nigeria of today, the descendants of this confederacy, numbering tens of millions across at least 22 states, across 5 of the six geopolitical zones, have never once assembled under a single roof to say: ‘we remember who we are, and we know what we want to become. That is what the 19th of September will be.’
“On that Saturday, we will deliver five things:
First, we will premiere a documentary that tells the Kwararafa story as it has never been told. Filmed across five states, drawing on the latest scholarship and the living memories of our elders.
“The world will see this for the first time at the Transcorp Hilton. Second, we will unveil the Kwararafa Handbook a written record of who we are: our history, our peoples, our economic assets, our development priorities. We will present the first copies to the President of Nigeria and the Aku Uka of Wukari.
“Third, we will assemble over 150 of our most senior traditional rulers under one roof: paramount rulers, first-class chiefs, and traditional council heads from every Kwararafa nationality. I want you to absorb the significance of that number. When did 150 traditional rulers from a single civilisational family last sit together in one hall in this country? I submit that the answer is: NEVER.
“Fourth, we will present the Kwararafa Development Agenda to the President of the Federal Republic. This is not a petition. It is a policy document. It says: this is what we have, this is what we need, and this is what we are prepared to contribute to the Nigerian project.
“Fifth, we will issue the Abuja Declaration a communiqué that speaks to our position on the questions that define Nigeria today: unity, security, economic equity, and the place of our peoples in the federation.
“The Kwararafa story is a Nigerian story, and it is your story to tell. The event will be broadcast live on NTA Television and will be livestreamed across all major digital platforms.
“Nigeria’s strength has always been its diversity. But diversity without organisation is merely dispersion. What the Kwararafa Development Forum represents is the decision of a great family of peoples scattered across 22 states, speaking dozens of languages, practising different faiths to organise themselves around a common heritage and a shared future.”
