Yankin Kudancin Najeriya

Kudancin Najeriya ya kasance wata mamaya da Birtaniyya a yankunan gabar tekun Najeriyar a wannan zamani da aka kafa a shekara ta 1900 daga tarayyar Niger Coast Protectorate tare da wasu yankuna da Kamfanin Royal Niger Company ya yi hayar a karkashin Lokoja a kan kogin Niger.

Daga baya aka kara yankin Legas a shekarar 1906,kuma a hukumance an sake masa suna da Mallaka da Kare Kudancin Najeriya .A cikin 1914,Kudancin Najeriya ya hade da Arewacin Najeriya Protectorate don samar da mulkin mallaka guda daya na Najeriya.An yi hadakar ne saboda dalilai na tattalin arziki kuma gwamnatin mulkin mallaka ta nemi yin amfani da rarar rarar kasafin kudin da aka samu a Kudancin Najeriya wajen magance wannan gibin.

Sir Frederick Lugard,wanda ya karbi mukamin gwamna na hukumomin tsaro biyu a 1912,shi ne ke da alhakin kula da hadewar,kuma ya zama gwamna na farko na sabuwar yankin da aka hade.Lugard ya kafa cibiyoyi na tsakiya da yawa don daidaita tsarin haɗin kai.An kafa Sakatariya ta Tsakiya a Legas,wacce ita ce wurin gwamnati,kuma an kafa Majalisar Najeriya (daga baya Majalisar Dokoki),don samar da taron wakilan da aka zabo daga larduna.An hade wasu ayyuka a fadin jihohin Arewa da Kudancin kasar saboda muhimmancinsu na kasa-soja,baitul-mali,bincike,mukamai da telegraph,layin dogo,bincike,ayyukan kiwon lafiya,sassan shari’a da shari’a- kuma an sanya su karkashin kulawar Sakatariyar Tsakiya ta Legas.

Tsarin hadewar ya samu rauni ne sakamakon dagewar ra’ayoyin yankuna daban-daban kan gudanar da mulki tsakanin Lardunan Arewa da na Kudu,da masu kishin Najeriya a Legas.Yayin da masu mulkin mallaka na kudancin kasar suka yi maraba da hadewar a matsayin wata dama ta fadada masarautu,takwarorinsu na lardin Arewa sun yi imanin cewa yana da illa ga muradun yankunan da suke gudanarwa saboda koma bayan da suke da shi,kuma aikinsu ne su bijirewa ci gaban tasirin kudu.da al'adu zuwa arewa.Su kuma ‘yan kudu,ba su yi sha’awar rungumar tsawaita dokar da tun farko aka yi wa arewa zuwa kudu ba.