As we still hold very strongly that Mr M.D. Abubakar Acting Inspector-General of Police does not have the moral force to police Nigeria having earlier been indicted by the Justice Niki Tobi Panel of Inquiry, President Jonathan should get ready some security personnel to chase out these divisive elements from wherever they are planning to meet for this ignominious conference whose sole aim by our reckoning is to break up Nigeria.
Using *Cockroach Approach/Strategy or Crab Approach/Strategy to address national emergencies will further polarise Nigeria...Will someone be a patriot and stop the planned all- Nigerian Muslim Conference billed to take place in Abuja between the 14th and 15th of April, 2012 as such unpatriotic conference will further put fault lines on the wall of the House of Nigeria.
The Nigerian nation is heading towards a dangerous precipice at this time such that having been divided along ethnic lines as Arewa Consultative Forum, Ohaneze Ndigbo, Afenifere, Egbesu, Middle Belt Forum, South - South Leadership Conference, etc, etc; we cannot afford to consciously put more fault lines on the fabrics of the nation. Nigerians need to come together and invest in things that will unite them than investing in things that will further divide them.
We were shocked to learn about this conference just yesterday and are convinced beyond every shadow of doubt that this conference will set a bad precedence as soon after it Christians and members of other faiths and hues will also want to hold their own conference to discuss their roles in the Nigerian Federation.
Although the current constitution is not a perfect one, it has got satisfactory roles for the Government of Nigeria and all Nigerians. The whole idea of a separate conference for Muslims and not for all Nigerians to discuss national issues is self-serving and not in the best interest of the country. And no patriotic Nigerian should identify with such a sectional and faith-based conference.
Also, we were shocked beyond our bone marrow to observe that the media in Nigeria are already addressing public office holders and elected politicians based on their faith in such divisive and demeaning expressions as “Muslim Governors”, “Muslim Ministers”, “Muslim Legislators”, etc. In other words, as it concerns Christians also, Nigerians who embrace the Christian Faith will now be addressed as “Christian Senators”, “Christian Governors”, “Christian Ministers” and as it concerns members of the Fourth Estate, they too will now be referred to as “Christian Journalists”, “Muslim Journalist!” This is satanic journalism at its worst. The rot, ignorance, illiteracy, stupidity, greed, lack of patriotism, laziness, lack of in depth analysis in the press in Nigeria is such that as the nation is very sick right now, the media in Nigeria is more than very sick! But the Fourth Estate is supposed to be a purifying agency of society?
Imagine introducing Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State at an official gathering as “the Muslim Governor”! How embarrassing and demeaning that will be as such foolish term has no place in the Nigerian constitution. Also, imagine addressing President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as a “Christian President”...can anyone see how that will reduce the exalted office of the President? The irregularities of the last elections notwithstanding, elected officers were voted in by Nigerians; hence by our reckoning, they are not serving any faith, but the Nigerian Federation and its people - again, their looting tendency, notwithstanding.
We are even convinced beyond every shadow of doubt that there is no such thing as the “Muslim Sultan”, “the Muslim Emirs”, but the Sultan of Sokoto who ought to be the father of all Nigerians domiciled right now in Sokoto State. Similarly, the Emir of Kano ought to see himself in that light which by our reckoning, both the Sultan and all the Emirs should see themselves as nationalists and fathers of all.
But in a country where people occupy offices without thinking of the exaltedness of such offices, they are often blinded by sectional interest, which explains the reasons why the Oligarchic North created the Boko Haram monsters in the first place to make the so-called Christian/Southern Government unpopular! And that politically motivated malignity has been hijacked by the international jihadists to the embarrassment of their creators who are now running from pillar to post like a headless chicken and out of panic, seek a way of killing what has now become like the Frankenstein Monster.
Pray, what are they going to discuss at the so-called all-Nigerian Muslim confab that cannot be discussed collectively and nationally in a Pan-Nigerian Conference/Summit; All Nigerian Summit/Conference on the State of the Nation? For so long, we have been waiting for the Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar III and the Emir of Kano Alhaji Ado Bayero to take the lead in summoning a Summit/Conference of all - Nigerian Traditional Rulers; All - Nigerian Traditional Rulers Conference, but they prefer to be at the background behaving like babies surreptitiously pushing for sectional agenda. What a shame!
Are they going to discuss how Nigeria under a Christian President is not working? But the Nigerian nation was under developed by the locust Muslim Heads of State! Are they going to discuss how the Muslims in Nigeria can gang up and wrest power from a Christian President/the Southern Christians in 2015, or are they going to plot on how to use the Muslim outfits which pass for the Nigerian Armed Forces, the Nigeria Police, Customs and Excise, Immigration, etc, to plan a coup? Again, as we have been warning since, Jonathan must not be overconfident, nor MUST he be complacent. A word is enough for the wise.
Still, are they going to plot how to use the Muslim - dominated Civil Service to cause cyber terrorism and destroy valuable official documents? Again and again, we cannot warn Jonathan here enough. Or are they going to discuss how they will defeat Boko Haram, their monsters...but it’s too late having become internationalised-what Nigerians will be witnessing from now on are more and more terrorist groups springing up from the North, sometimes fighting each other and eventually go after their creators who are currently in Government wining and dining with Jonathan - they can as well be found in palaces all over the North.
Ludicrously and stupidly too, Jonathan was at an occasion in Sokoto State recently to commission the first model Almajiris boarding primary school - also Known as the Tsangaya Model Boarding School, where some of the future terrorists will be groomed. We learn the Islamic Development Bank is involved in a similar education project. Yes, when you have a President who always gives the impression he has not seen or touched the nation’s Bible - the constitution, what will reign supreme in a country under such a President is anarchy as is currently the case in Jonathan’s.
The Northern Oligarchic class having through Alfas and Imams thoroughly brain-washed the children of the Talakawas left them with Islamic education to protect their group political interest through violence by keeping them as canon fodders, with the hope that the Talakawas having been drugged with religion will remain perpetually subservient to this morally and spiritually bankrupt class, so will never, ever rise against them and their children who are western trained!
Again, we ask, will the confab discuss the introduction of Sharia in the South, making Southern Muslims to start agitating for it as soon as they return to their Sates?
Were it not poverty of ideas occasioned by Nigerians’ characteristic greed, what in fact, should have been planned long ago in the midst of the grave threat to national security is INTER-FAITH SUMMIT/CONFERENCE ON THE STATE OF THE NATION or INTER-FAITH DIALOGUE ON THE STATE OF THE NATION.
To the shame of Gowon, Shagari, Buhari, Babangida, Shonekan Abdulsalami Abubakar, Obasanjo let it be recorded for posterity that when the House of Nigeria was on fire they did not show leadership. It took our editorials using unprintable words on some of them to jolt them up from their comfort zones. Some of these ‘baby elders’ have their families - children and businesses on this side of the Atlantic, so why bother if the House of Nigeria falls?
The whole vision of the Islamic Conference in Abuja is not only thoroughly divisive, but a divide and rule strategy to further split Nigeria and it is high time the Moslem supreme and spiritual leadership in Nigeria which had been held by the Sultan of Sokoto from time immemorial be democratised.
If the same North is calling for power shift after having held onto it for close to forty years, it is now high time someone from amongst the Southern Muslims became the supreme and spiritual leader of all the Muslims in Nigeria, failing which we call on the Nigerian Muslims in the South to set appropriate machinery in place to elect their own supreme and spiritual leader. Now is the time to put a stop to this Northern arrogance and their divide and rule ignominy.
As we still hold very strongly M.D. Abubakar Acting Inspector-General of Police does not have the moral force to police Nigeria having earlier been indicted by the Justice Niki Tobi Panel of Inquiry, President Jonathan should get ready some security personnel to chase out these divisive elements from wherever they are planning to meet for this ignominious conference whose sole aim by our reckoning is to break up Nigeria.
Any federal officer, elected representative of the people of Nigeria, traditional ruler planning to attend the so-called All-Nigerian Muslim Conference cannot be a true Nigerian, but a fool who is feeding on the sweat of the nation’s taxpayers. Whatever happens to the hand shake across the Niger?
***Cockroach walks in the dark in a corner of the room, whilst a crab is crooked. In a nutshell, the conference is a dodgy one and must be stopped by the Jonathan Government.