A SPECIAL ANALYSIS ON THE NIGERIAN POLITY FROM 1914 - TILL THE PRESENT
“Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to every one his due”
Justinian I
The Message of the Almighty God to the Caliphate delusionists and their cronies, North and South of Nigeria.
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Like Ndigbo in the Nigerian Federation...2019: What time will it be on Ndigbo's Political Calendar?
THE HORRIBLE STATE OF THE CIVIL SERVICE IN NIGERIA
Mr Danladi Irmiya Kifasi, Head of NOTHING WORKS of the Federation.
BABA NOT MY BUSINESS (NMB) DANLADI IRMIYA KIFASI, Head of the Federal Blackout & NO WATER Secretariat of Nigeria...this is tantamount to encouraging economic sabotage...No water at the time of writing this piece, no power supply in Blocks A, B, C, D & E at the nation's heart of governance - the Federal Secretariat and this care-free boy doesn't just care a hoot! No salaries...November salaries were paid just in January 2015...the nation's Civil Service is a mere Gossip Arena and retail outlet for merchandising. Workers stroll in to work at whatever time they like, waka about and leave after such gossips. They spend 3-4 hours inside traffic every morning before they can get to work and also, 3-4 hours in the eveining before getting to their homes. No stationery, other writing materials and such things like computers similar Government Departments in the West take for granted are hardly available as workers have to quarrel over the use of the few that ministers, permanent secretaries and directors have grudgingly provided, whilst they pocket the money meant for providing office facilities and equipment. You will be surprised to learn civil servants don't have pens with which to write, as they don't pay them their salaries as and when due, they just can't afford such, so resort to borrowing pens before they can write! The civil service of a nation is the soul of governance and the pivot on which its wheel rotates, but Kifashi doesn't just care. Isn't the nation better off without this NOT MY BUSINESS HEAD OF SERVICE? In fact, the Nigerian nation under Jonathan is stagnated! Fela, make you enter sing o jare: "Everything dey disorganise...pata pata...dey disorganise...pata pata.....O-R-D-E-R!
My dear Compatriots,
There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
*Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar Act 4, scene 3, 218–224
As the nation moves closer and closer each day to the new date of the General Elections 2015 recently resheduled by INEC to now take place on March 28, 2015, I consider it once again my utmost duty to draw the attention of the generality of our people to what I consider in my mind as a worrisome fact that Ndigbo have not ruled Nigeria for the past 49 years out of her now going to 55 years of existence as a sovereign nation. Under the prevailing reality of our socio-political life, should I desire an answer to one question from you my fellow compatriots, home and in the Diaspora, just one question, worth recording for posterity and future historians, that one question will be: "Why have Ndigbo not ruled Nigeria since 1966 when the only occupier of that hallowed and exalted office was Major-General Johnson Thomas Umunakwe, a former railway desk clerk?
In these times of national exigency, I shall not delve into the veracity or other wise of whether JTU rightly earned and actually deserved that exalted seat or conned his way into it by brushing aside Bukar Zanna Dipcharima, Nigeria's erstwhile Minister of Commerce and Industry under Ahmadu Bello's stooge Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Nigeria's first Prime Minister who was a mere agent of the architect of NIGERIAGHANISTAN, Ahmadu Bello the titular Sardauna of Sokoto who was everywhere promoting caliphateism, arabism, islamism which today express themselves in Bokoharamism.
Weak-minded Tafa who sheepishly and slavishly carried Bello's Bokoharamistic plannogramme in his pockets wherever he went once exploded in a manner that exposed his own fears, anxieties, frustrations and the extreme fears of the caliphate thus: "the southern tribes who are now pouring into the north in ever increasing numbers...do not mix with the northern people in social matters and we...look upon them as invaders. Since 1914 the Brirish government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country, but the Nigerian people themselves are historically different in their backgrounds, in their religious beliefs and customs, and do not show themselves any sign of willingness to unite. So what it comes to is that Nigerian unity is only a British intention in the country."
HOW IRONSI BECAME HEAD OF STATE
And in another epoch, Usman Aliyu Shehu Shagari, another arch agent of the so-called Sokoto Caliphate would sneeringly allude to Ironsi's 'unmerited one-man' ascendancy onto the the leadership ladder of Nigeria as its Head of State giving hint he had used khaki power to clear away the Caliphate's annointed one Alhaji Bukar Zanna Dipcharima who had earlier been pencilled by the owner of the Nigeria Caliphate, arrogant Bello, forgetting that the same Dipcharima led a delegation of some eminent Nigerians to pledge their loyalty and co-operation to the the new HoS, Ironsi.
Shagari, in his Book: Beckoned to Serve wrote: “…....….At about 7.00 am, I returned to Dipcharima’s residence to meet with some NPC ministers who had gathered there. Dipcharima was then the most senior NPC minister available. We received the latest reports on the situation, first from Alhaji Maitama Sule, Minister of Mines and Power, who had visited the PM’s residence by bicycle! We then heard from Alhaji Ibrahim Tako Galadima, the acting Minister of Defence, who had brought along with him Chief Fani-Kayode.
Chief Fani-Kayode said he had been fetched from Ibadan early that morning by rebels and locked up at the Federal Guard Officers Mess in Dodan Barracks, where the mutineers initially made their headquarters. Disguised in army uniform, loyal troops handed him over to Alhaji Galadima, who had called in at the barracks, which was a stone’s throw of his residence…………….The acting Minister of Defence assured us that Major-General Ironsi was doing his best to arrest the situation.
Maitama Sule and I were separately detailed to explore with our absent NPC and NCNC colleagues the possibility of naming someone to stand in for the PM. I was consulting with NCNC ministers at Dr. Mbadiwe’s residence when we heard that the Northern and Western premiers, Sir Ahmadu Bello and Chief Akintola respectively, had been assassinated. Hence I rushed back to Dipcharima’s residence, where I found my colleagues in a state of shock and desperation.
However, we decided to recognize Dipcharima, a Kanuri from Bornu, as our interim leader; and to ask the acting President, Dr. Orizu (President Azikiwe was away on leave), to appoint Dipcharima acting Prime Minister. We also summoned Major General Ironsi and gave him full authority to use every force at his disposal to suppress the rebellion. He moved his headquarters temporarily to the police headquarters at moloney street to facilitate easy communication with army units in the regions.
While at Dipcharima’s residence, we contacted the British High Commission and requested for military assistance in the event that our loyal troops should require any. The response was positive, but the British insisted that the request must be written by the PM; or, in his absence, by a properly appointed deputy. We, therefore, drove to the residence of Dr. Orizu, and requested him to appoint Dipcharima acting prime minister. Dr. Orizu requested to see our NCNC colleagues to confirm whether they supported our proposition, and they joined us soon afterwards. They had apparently been caucusing at Dr. Mbadiwe’s residence. He (Mbadiwe) was their choice of acting Prime Minister. This was naturally unacceptable to us since the NPC was the major governing party.
While we were at Orizu’s residence, Major-General Ironsi, who had seemingly secured Lagos, came in with some armed escorts. He requested for a tete-a-tete with Orizu. The two had a 40 minutes discussion in another room, while we waited anxiously in the sitting room, with the armed soldiers standing and staring at us. When Major-General Ironsi finally emerged, he talked to Dipcharima sotto voce; and then drove off with his troops. Dr. Orizu then joined us, regretted his inability in the circumstances to oblige our request. He suggested we all return to our homes and wait until we were required. All efforts to get any clarification failed, and we left in utter desperation.
I was about to break the Ramadan fast on Sunday 16th January, when all ministers were asked to report to the Cabinet Office at 6.30 pm. The whole premises was surrounded by soldiers in battle order that some of us initially hesitated to enter. In the Cabinet chamber were Major General Ironsi, Bukar Dipcharima and Ibrahim Tako Galadima. There were no officials present.
Major General Ironsi admitted to us that he had been unable to suppress the rebellion, which he said was getting out of hand. He stated that the mutineers were in control of Kaduna, Kano and Ibadan, and had killed two regional premiers, Sir Ahmadu Bello and Chief Akintola. They had also murdered a number of his best officers, including Brigadiers Maimalari and Samuel Adesujo Ademulegun, the Commander 1st Brigade Headquarters in Kaduna. Ironsi was full of emotion and even shed some tears. When we asked him about the whereabouts of Sir ABubakar and Chief Okotie-Eboh, he said he still did not know but averred efforts were being made to locate them. At this stage Mbadiwe broke down and kept crying: “Please where is the Prime Minister?”
When we reminded Major-General Ironsi if he needed to avail himself of the British pledge of assistance, he replied it was too late as the army was pressing him to assume power. Indeed, he confessed his personal reluctance to take over because of his ignorance of government; but insisted the boys were adamant and anxiously waiting outside. He advised it would be in our interest, and that of the country, to temporarily cede power to him to avert disaster. Accordingly, we acceded to his request since we had no better alternative. Ironsi then insisted that the understanding be written.
Surprisingly, there was no stationery to write the agreement; and all the offices were locked while no official was around. Alhaji AGF Abdulrazaq the Minister of State for the Railways (former NPC legal adviser), managed to secure a scrap paper on which he drafted a statement, which we endorsed. That was the so called voluntary hand-over of power by the Balewa Government to Major General Ironsi! It was agreed that the statement would be typed and Dipcharima would sign it on our behalf. We were then advised to return home and await further instructions. I only got to break my Ramadan fast around 9:30 pm.
Later at 11.50 pm, Dr. Orizu made a terse nationwide broadcast, announcing the cabinet’s voluntary decision to transfer power to the armed forces. Major General Ironsi then made his own broadcast, accepting the “invitation”. He suspended certain parts of the constitution; set up a national military government, with the office of military governors in each region; and briefly outlined the policy intentions of his regime. Nigeria’s first democratic experiment was effectively over. And although the mutiny had by then practically collapsed, military rule had arrived. It was a fact.
The following morning, 17 January, Alhaji Kam Salem, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police (then also doubling for the Inspector-General, Mr. Louis Orok Edet, while on vacation), called at my residence to confide that both the PM and Chief Okotie-Eboh had been confirmed killed. He then hinted that Major General Ironsi was still negotiating with the rebels in Kaduna, led by Major Patrick Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu”
If the claim of Shagari can be taken seriously, therefore, it can be argued that in the almost 55 years of Nigeria's existence as a nation, no Igbo person has ever ruled Nigeria. But the nation's children including this writer, especially from the then elementary schools to now primary schools are being lied to that Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe was the first President of Nigeria, when in fact, his position was merely ceremonial, and I will yet not agree with pseudo-intellectuals that have taken over the nation's socio-political space looking for amala that as Governor-General Nnamdi Azikiwe was really ruling Nigeria as that post was merely that of a caretaker in nature for the then colonial Government - Her Majesty's!
WHO INITIATED THE PARDONING OF CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO AND HIS POLITICAL ASSOCIATES: IRONSI, GOWON OR OJUKWU?
None of them as the reproduced letter by Chief Obafemi Awolowo to Ironsi shows. Ojukwu attempted to claim credit, but Gowon in debunking that claim gave the world the impression that the amnesty granted Awo and his colleagues was his initiative, whereas, the contrary was the case as shown below. Chief Awolowo personally wrote to Major-General Ironsi, and on the death of the then Supreme Commander, the letter was passed onto Gowon:
Obafemi Awolowo’s Letter from Prison to Major General Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing for His Release and That of His Colleagues
(Dated 28th March 1966)
CONFIDENTIAL
To: The Supreme Commander and Head of the Federal Military Government, Lagos.
Thro: The Director of Prisons, Prisons Headquarters Office, Private Mail Bag 12522, Lagos.
Sir:
Prerogative Of Mercy:
Section 101 (1) (A) of the Constitution of The Federation Act 1963
1. I am writing this petition for FREE PARDON under Section 101(1) (a) of the Constitution of the Federation Act 1963, on behalf of myself and some of my colleagues whose names are set out in the Annexe hereto.
2. Before I go further, I would like to stress that the reasons which I advance in support of this petition, in my own behalf, basically hold good for my said colleagues. For they share the same political beliefs with me, and have intense and unquenchable loyalty for the ideals espoused by the Party which I have the honour to lead.
3. There are many grounds which could be submitted for your consideration in support of this petition. But I venture to think that SEVEN of them are enough and it is to these that I confine myself.
(a)In the course of my evidence during my trial, I stated that my Party favoured and was actively working for alliance with the N.C.N.C. as a means, among other things, of solving what I described as ‘the problem of Nigeria’, and strengthening the unity of the Federation. In October 1963 (that is about a month after my conviction and while my appeal to the Supreme Court was still pending), a Peace Committee headed by the Chief Justice of the Federation, Sir Adetokunbo Ademola, made overtures to me through my friend Alhaji W. A. Elias to the effect that if I abandoned my intention to enter into alliance with the N.C.N.C. which, according to the Committee, was an Ibo Organisation, and agreed to dissolve the Action Group and, in co-operation with Chief Akintola (now deceased), form an all-embracing Yoruba political party which I would lead and which would go into alliance with the N.P.C., I would be released from prison before the end of that year. I turned down these terms because I was of the considered opinion that their acceptance would further widen and exacerbate inter-tribal differences, and gravely undermine the unity of the Federation. TODAY, THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT, OF WHICH YOU ARE THE HEAD, LEAVES NO ONE IN ANY DOUBT THAT IT STANDS FOR NIGERIAN UNITY. BUT IT MUST BE EMPHASISED, IN THIS CONNECTION, THAT IF I HAD PRIZED MY PERSONAL FREEDOM ABOVE THE UNITY OF NIGERIA, I WOULD HAVE BEEN SET FREE IN 1963. IN THAT EVENT, THIS PETITION WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN NECESSARY, AND THE WORK OF CONSOLIDATING THE UNITY OF THE COUNTRY TO WHICH YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES NOW SET YOUR HANDS MIGHT HAVE BEEN MADE EXTREMELY MORE INTRACTABLE AND IRKSOME. As recently as 20th December, 1965, identical peace terms (the only variant being that the alliance with the N.C.N.C. which was now a reality should be broken) were made to me here, in Calabar Prison, by a delegation representing another Peace Committee headed by the self-same Chief Justice of the Federation and purporting to have the blessing of the Prime Minister, with the unequivocal promise that if I accepted the terms my release would follow almost immediately. I rejected the terms for the reasons which I have outlined above.
****(b) One of the monsters which menaced the public life of this country up to 14th January, this year is OPPORTUNISM with its attendant evils of jobbery, venality, corruption, and unabashed self-interest. From all accounts, you are inflexibly resolved to destroy this monster. That was precisely what my colleagues and I had tried to do before we were rendered hors de combat since 29th May, 1962. On two different occasions I was offered, first the post of Deputy Prime Minister (before May 1962), and second that of Deputy Governor-General (in August 1962), if I would agree to fold up the Opposition and join in a National Government. I declined the two offers because they were designed exclusively to gratify my self-interest, with no thought of fostering any political moral principle which could benefit the people of Nigeria. The learned Judge who presided over the Treasonable Felony Trial, commented unfavourably on my non-acceptance of one of these posts and held that my action lent weight to the case of the Prosecution against me. I must say, however, that in all conscience, I felt and still feel that a truly public-spirited person should accept public office not for what he can get for himself — such as the profit and glamour of office — but for the opportunity which it offers him of serving his people to the best of his ability, by promoting their welfare and happiness. To me, the two aforementioned posts were sinecures, and were intended to immobilise my talents and stultify the role of watch-dog which the people of Nigeria looked upon me to play on their behalf, at that juncture in our political evolution.
(c) This leads me to the third ground. From newspaper reports, it would appear that you and your colleagues — like all well-meaning Nigerians are anxious that on the termination of the present military rule, Nigeria should become a flourishing democracy. Now, democracy is a political doctrine which is very intimately dear to my heart.
It was to the end that it might be accepted as a way of life in all parts of the Federation that I campaigned most vigorously and relentlessly in the Northern Provinces of Nigeria, from 1957 to 1962, to the implacable annoyance of some of my political adversaries. It was to the end that this doctrine might survive the severe onslaught of opportunist and mercenary politics that I refused to succumb to the temptation of the National Government. Many views — some of them well-considered and respectable — have been expressed about the value or disvalue of opposition as a feature of public life in a newly emergent African State. Speaking for my party, I submit that the Opposition which I led did, to all intents and purposes, justify its existence and was acclaimed by the masses of our people as essential and indispensable to rapid- national growth.
This was so, because it was unexceptionably constructive. The abrogation of the Anglo-Nigeria Defence Pact was one of the feathers in its cap. Some of the policies which the Government of the day later adopted — such as the creation of a Federal Ministry of Agriculture and the introduction of drastic measures to correct our balance of payments deficit — were among those persistently and constructively urged by the Opposition inside and outside Parliament. The point I wish to emphasise here is that it was not out of spite or hatred for any one that I chose to remain in Opposition instead of joining the much-talked-of National Government. I did so in order to serve our people to the best of my ability in the position in which their votes had placed my Party, and to ensure that the young plant of democracy grows into a sturdy flourishing tree in Nigeria.
(d) Since the declaration of emergency in the Western Region on 29th May,1962, political tension has existed in Western Nigeria. My conviction on 11th September, 1963, together with the surrounding bizarre circumstances, has led not only to the heightening of that tension in Western Nigeria but also to its profuse and irrepressible percolation to the other parts of the Federation. The result is that it can be said, without much fear of contradiction, that today the majority of our people are passionately concerned about and fervently solicitous for the release of myself and my colleagues. The work of reconstruction on which you and your colleagues have embarked demands that all the citizens of Nigeria in their respective callings should give of their maximum best. A state of psychological tension, however much it may be brought under control or repressed, does not and cannot conduce to maximum efficiency. In spite of themselves, people labouring under emotions which this kind of tension automatically generates are bound to make avoidable mistakes which in their turn have adverse effects on national progress. It is, therefore, in the national interest that this tension should be relaxed, if possible, without further delay.
(e) A petition of this kind is, by its very nature, bound to be replete with self-adulation. I hope and trust that, in the circumstances, this is excusable. It is in this hope and trust that I assert that my colleagues and I have the qualifications and capacity to render invaluable services to our people and fatherland. Every day that we spend in prison, therefore, must be regarded as TWENTY-FOUR UNFORGIVING HOURS OF TRULY VALUABLE SERVICES LOST TO OUR YOUNG COUNTRY. Even my most inveterate enemies have given the following testimony about me: ‘AWOLOWO HAS STILL A GREAT DEAL TO GIVE TO THIS COUNTRY.’ No country however advanced and civilized can afford to waste any of its talents, be they ever so small. Nigeria is too young to bury some of her talents as she was compelled to do under the old regime. It is within your power to restore my colleagues and me to a position where our fatherland can again rejoice at the contributions which we are capable of making to its progress, welfare and happiness.
(f) Nigeria is now SIXTY-SIX MONTHS old as an independent State. The final phase in the struggle for Nigeria’s independence was initiated by my Party in the historic Self-Government motion moved by Chief Anthony Enahoro and supported by me on 31st March, 1953. IT SHOULD BE REGARDED AS MORE THAN IRONICAL, AND AS PALPABLY TRAGIC, THAT TWO OF THE ARCHITECTS OF THAT INDEPENDENCE AND, INDEED, THE PACE-SETTERS AND ACCELERATORS OF ITS FINAL PHASE SHOULD BE UNFREE IN A FREE NIGERIA. In precise terms, I have spent FORTY-SIX out of the SIXTY-SIX MONTHS of independence in one form of confinement or another. I happened to know that the leaders of the old civilian regime, in spite of themselves, did not feel quite easy in their conscience about the plight into which they had manoeuvred me in the scheme of things; and I dare to express the hope and belief that you, personally view my present confinement with concern and disapproval.
(g) It is usual — almost invariably the case — on the accession of a revolutionary regime, for political prisoners and, indeed, other prisoners of some note, to be released as a mark of disapproval of some of the doings of the old regime, or in token of the new dawn of freedom which comes in the wake of the new regime. It would be invidious to quote unspecific instances. But in the case of my colleagues and myself, by courageously and adamantly opposing the evils which your regime now denounces in the former civilian administration, I think we are perfectly justified if we expect you to regard us as being in tune with your yearnings and aspirations for Nigeria, and therefore entitled to our personal freedoms under your dispensation.
4. In view of the foregoing reasons which clearly demonstrate:
(i) that I have always and, under trying circumstances, steadfastly and unyieldingly
(a) stood for the UNITY OF NIGERIA,
(b)been opposed to POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM with its attendant evils, (c)fostered the growth of DEMOCRACY in Nigeria;
(ii) that my incarceration:
(a) has led to the heightening of political tension among Nigerians, which tension can only be relaxed by my release, (b)has deprived our fatherland of invaluable services such as we have rendered before, and can still render now and in future, in greater measure; and
(iii) that the evils which my colleagues and I condemned and valiantly refused to compromise with in the old civilian government are what you now quite rightly denounce, and are taking active steps to remove in order to pave the way for national and beneficial reconstruction, I most sincerely appeal to you to be good enough to exercise, in favour of myself and my colleagues, the prerogative of mercy vested in you by Section 10 (I) (i) (a) of the Constitution of the Federation Act 1963, by granting me as well as each of my colleagues A FREE PARDON. If you do, your action will be most warmly, heartily, and popularly applauded at home and abroad, and you will go down to history as soldier, statesmen, and humanitarian.
Yours truly,
OBAFEMI AWOLOWO.
MY YEARS OF CAMPAIGNING FOR NDIGBO PRESIDENTIAL PROJECT
Having spent years to conscientise the Igbos on the need for sustained campaign in their Presidential vision/project/quest and had often been told by them they were waiting for the break up of the country or some of them had told me: "They say Ndigbo na second class citizens in Nigeria or some would condemn themselves outrightly: "Because of the war, no Igbo person will ever rule Nigeria...they no go let us." Whereas, others had said to me: "We are just waiting for the trumpet sound: TO THY TENT O ISRAEL!"
Apart from giving up on Nigeria by some Igbos, those who attempt weakly to pursue the Ndigbo Presidential vision which often turns out to be a matter for the highest bidder for such Igbos to surrender such a noble quest for a mess of pottage and sometimes the timing had always been very wrong! For example, when Olu Obasanjo was gearing up for a second term, Dr Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme stupidly hurled himself against Obasanjo's High Speed Rail (OHSR) and as I had predicted to a Senior Media Assistant of his who was a former Columnist at Champion, Ekwueme was crushed into pieces by OBJ's fast moving train, and also as predicted, Alex has ever since been merely gasping for a political breath, his recent feeble attempt of hidding behind the back of that Ijaw high priest Edwin Clark to bark at the Hausa-Fulanis, notwithstanding.
The wife of this Ekwueme's aide worked with me at the Daily Times and on being told by her that Chief was planning to run against Obasanjo, I sent her to her husband, letting it be known to him that it was foolishness for Ekwueme to contemplate such an unstrategic move as I was calculating then that Ekwueme working closely with Obasanjo, had both of them understood the complexity of Nigerian politics sufficiently, mark the word "sufficiently", they would have teamed up with the Middle Belters in what I call TRIANGULAR OR PYRAMIDAL ALLIANCE to break the back bone of and strangle hold of the Hausa and Fulani people on Nigerian politics permanently.
But by Ekwueme's stupidity and bad belle politicking, that opportunity was unfortunately missed. And I had again hoped had Goodluck Ebele Jonathan also, understood just the A, B, C of Nigerian politics, instead of listening to Edwin Clark and such rogues as Asari Dokubo and Government Tompolo and weaned himself from Obasanjo before the time, Jonathan, Olu Obasanjo and BADMark would have worked together to permanently fracture the political spinal cord of the Hausa-Fulanis by extricating the Middle Belt from the so-called ONE MONOLITHIC NORTH with its now expired slogan of NORTH NA NORTH! And then go ahead to create a Yoruba monarchical institution - THE OBA OF ILORIN.
Still on Chief Ekwueme's foolishness: His senior aide and I were on the phone talking for upward of four hours with he saying to me: "John, If I did not know you well, I would have said they had settled you...John, don't you want the Igbos to rule Nigeria?" John, You are generally known all over the country to be a man of principles and integrity, but this time, you have disappointed me". But I continued to harp on my message to Chief through this his senior aide that, "I do wish Ndigbo to rule Nigeria, hence I have been in the vanguard of prodding them on always to take their rightful place in the Nigerian Federation, but this time, tell Chief the timing is wrong, adding I used to think Alex was a clever, wise man and a political strategist."
I warned Ekwueme through this aide of his that if he did not bury his ambition of contesting against Obasanjo, he would finish himself politically. And what is more; further worsened the seeming bad blood and high suspicion between the Yorubas and Ndigbo. Fellow compatriots, have I been vindicated or not? Just while you make up your mind to answer my question: "Where is Ekwueme today in Nigeria, politically? Answer: FINISHED! Of a truth, arrays of Degrees are not equal to wisdom!
In December of last year 2014, an Igbo fellow, one of those trying to use the Biafra platform to climb as is now the case - such that all you now need to do to fast track your movement to Abuja to join the Chop-Chop Party (CCP) is to wake up one morning and all of a sudden start hollering "ethnic cleansing!" "Ethnic cleasing....if so and so do not happen, I will make the country ungovernable", and before you know it, you are in Abuja as a member of one funny national committee or another, always constituted by the people of the Rock to divert attention from key national issues, decided to punish me because I chose to rubbish his Biafran vision telling him loud and clear: BIAFRA IS DEAD and thereafter, advise him to start contributing to the Nigerian nation from his little corner.
When this fellow was later engaged by me to do our Corporation Tax here in the UK, he decided the punishment fit for me for opposing his dear Biafran Chop-Chop Project (BCCP) was to delay the work until very late and he did just that and during Christmas period when all had closed shops here in the UK for the Christmas, decided to return the work to me on December 26, 2014 without offering me any reason why he was no longer doing it - the name of this dunderhead is Christian! I gave him the work on the 6th of December, 2014. Another Nigerian was introduced to me late December of last year by a Nigerian compatriot from Kogi, this fellow too has remained ungetatable ever since. Do you think the attitude of Nigerians/Africans over here is radically different from that of those back in the country/continent?
You are very, very wrong if you think or have been thinking so. It is worse here I can tell you - the mindset is basically poorer here, no wonder they don't make any difference to the nation and the continent on their return. They in fact, come/return home not as a people humbled by the marvels of the West and now East that they had seen and enjoyed, hoping to replicate same back home, but as arrongant-been tos (ABTs), speaking in guttural incomprehensible accents/voices as they attempt to foolishly ape the accents of the people of their host countries, the very people whom they could not even mix with whilst on this side of the Atlantic.
If then you have been wondering why Africans, despite their resources; why the lot of all persons of African ancestry is the same all over the world, wherever they are or can be found; why Africans are the poorest, wherever they are found in any place on the surface of the earth including multi-cultural environments, then I have just given you a hint as above. In the midst of Africans - I mean all persons of African ancestry - in every corner of the globe, where they are domiciled, poverty indeed, does crow like the mishievous village cock, who delights in becoming a nuisance to the villagers by always crowing indiscriminately and out of purposeless wickedness.
The problem with Africans is neither anthropological nor biological, but what I had identified over twenty-six years ago as: MIND DISEASE (mindset, attitude, spiritual bankruptcy, greed, outlook, perception, world view, philosophy, psychological inadequacy, low-self esteem, psyco-complexes, pride, arrogance, intolerance, bigmanism, self-centredness, indolence, non-challance, etc, etc). These explain the reason why I have chosen as my workshop, studio, laboratory and workplace, the Nigerian mind, the African mind and the mind of the whole of humanity, where I desire to work at all times. Although, man may have advanced technologically in the 21st Century, spiritually he has journeyed back to the medieval era!
And on top of this mind disease, in swallowing up the two FOREIGN RELIGIONS (Christianity and Islam) which ought to be entirely PRIVATE, we are not careful to use Christianity, particularly to organise, build and develop the country/continent as Western Europe and America had done, people are using with all emphasis the TWO FOREIGN RELIGIONS: ISLAM to kill their own brothers and sisters including women, defenceless children and the very vulnerable, whilst CHRISTIANITY is being used by African pulpit rogues, now proud jet, university and castle owners, bought and built with money they had used voodoo/magical powers to hoodwink their brothers and sisters into parting with.
The way I have seen it from my vantage point over the years is that you go into their churches rich - NOT the Churches of Jesus Christ, let me make that distiction here - but return home poorer! So where goeth all the promised miracles? Who then are the most liars, politicians or these men and women of mammon? Perhaps, I should say the parts of the Koran and the Bible persons of African ancestry read contain spiritual and moral leprosy, hence they become conscienceless after reading these portions. And to worsen things, they have found the tithes and offerings of the Brethren are not enough, hence they now court politicians and team up with them to steal from public treasuries together, thus becoming infected also, with what I call political leprosy - CORRUPTION!
Again I repeat here: O YOU FOOLISH AFRICANS!
On the question of the Igbo presidential project which for justice's sake I had shown interest over the years, I have come to three inevitable conclusions:
(1.) The Igbos have played themselves out of the mainstream of Nigerian politics;
(2.) The Igbos have been played out of the mainstream of Nigerian politics by a vested interest group bent on ruling Nigeria TILL THY KINGDOM COME together with political Esaus in and around the country;
(3.) The Igbos themselves have by their unprincipled stance and ungovernable love for money, allowed themselves to be played out of the mainstream of Nigerian politics in exchange for pecuniary benefits, instead of insisting on their rights as bonafide citizens, and as a major ethnic nationality within the Nigerian Federation and more, instead of insisting on principles!
A recent example illustrates the inherent disunity amongst Ndigbo: When Mujahedeen Buhari expressed interest to visit the Igbo elders through the Igbo pressure group association - Ohaneze Ndigbo, they could not agree amongst themselves as to the venue as a group said Parallelist Buhari should be received at the Ohaneze Ndigbo secretariat, and one very greedy fellow was everywhere hollering Buhari should come to his private residence!
The inherent disunity amongst the Igbos has always been blamed on the so-called republican nature of Ndigbo. I beg to disagree here. In my dissection of the Igbo psychology, these character traits of the Ndigbo amongst many have been identified: their unparalleled love of money; crass arrogance; superiority complex; all-knowing; inability to work as a team; inability to submit to constituted authorities - every Igbo person wants to be king owning what I call a "feel-good kingdom" often referred to as AUTONOMOUS community, this explains why you have many of such so-called autonomous communities in Igboland, more than anywhere in the country, accompanied by such funny and hurriedly created non-existent titles which make a deep person sympathises with such buffoonery; the Igbos place higher premium on money more than any ethnic groupings in Nigeria, hence they tend to think money is the measure of values. All Ndigbo have given the whole the impression that they are a cash and carry people! The list is inexhaustive, but these are enough to make Ndigbo reflect on their lots in Nigeria!
On the other hand, the Igbos are a very determined people, very determined and possitively aggressive, they have got a bull dog tenacity of purpose - when they set their hearts and minds on something they never come back until they get it; the Igbos are a very well travelled people such that anywhere they keep off from, then that place is unihabitable; they have the inbuilt capacity to get honey from the rock and their investments giftings are such that they can sell ice to the Eskimos and porks to any human being on the surface of the earth; they are highly skilled and very innovative - they are in fact, and without apologies to anyone, the Israelites and Japanese of Nigeria, thus a wise nation cannot afford to ignore this group of people - and a foolish nation like Nigeria can only do so at its peril. The nation and the entire African race are the poorer/worse for it when this energy of a people is deliberately ignored just for political reasons.
Also, it should be said here that their unparalleled dynamism and hardwork have been a cause of serious worry for some drones around them and these constantly lead them into conflict with such neighbours of theirs. And if given the right environment, these very determined Nigerians have the scientific intelligence and determination to walk to the moon without any technological device. The list here again is endless.
When Orji Kalu came up with his so-called Njiko, I did write in one of my articles that such effort was one of just mere fire-fly and would like an effervescent fizzled out in a matter of seconds and I have been proved right. Orji was here in the United Kingdom with his band of fellow wayfarers, got a place in one of the Committee rooms at the Parliament building and before you know it, that ego-boosting trip of his and his obsequious band was sensationalised with screaming headlines in the Nigerian newspapers that he addressed the British Parliament! I countered such lies from here immediately as in that gathering that you had more people on the the so-called high table than in the audience, I can still remember that it was Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz MP, Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee and one other MP that were in attendance. Britain knows the type of people she invites to address her Parliament - and since record began, such people are not many that had been so honoured by Britain! Britain is NOT Nigeria.
HOW BUHARI IGNORED THE GOLDEN RULE/ETHIC OF RECIPROCITY IN THE CHOICE OF A RUNNING MATE
Were Buhari a Statesman; were Buhari a politician; were Buhari a leader; were Buhari a strategist; were Buhari a deep man; were Buhari a thinker/'philosopher; were Buhari a sensitive and justice-loving human being; were Buhari a man who has respect for universal altruism; were Buhari a wide-reading man, he would have realised that Jesus on the question of justice/fair-play says: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you", Luke 6:31."
Governed by this principle of justice and what is more, were Muhammadu Buhari a man with a will of his own, capable of thinking for and by himself, and not being marionetted and puppeted by Babasala of Isale Eko politics one Bola Ahmed Tinubu who now swims inside obscene and ill-gotten wealth and appearing constantly holding Muhammadu and Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbanjo (O3), two of his many political urchins by the ears and dragging them from one campaign ground to another with these two very reluctant political urchins of his staggering onto the podium as if they are always dancing to Abami-eda's "...ZOMBIE WAY NA ONE WAY...AJORO JAJORO...O ZOMBIE WAY NA ONE WAY...AJORO JAJORO-O-O-O-O-O-O...TELLAM TO GO QUENCH, TELLAM TO DIE....with "O3" not able to tell the difference between a crusade ground and a campaign ground, always smiling like a tilapia in a village pond and appearing to be saying silently to himself: "Na mi be dis? Daddy G.O. talkam-o-o-o-o and Parallelist Buhari standing on the podium inflexibly without life like a very tall cotton tree at the village square that was struck by a merciless thunder since nineteen-krididi, a Buhari would have chosen an Igbo person as his running mate! This silent sentinel seems to think whilst on the podium that he is perpetually at a parade ground during a march past ready to take salute from dem boys!
Muhammadu: Left...right...left! Bola: Left...right...left! Osinbajo: Left...right...left....O-R...D-E-R! Left-right-left! And then echoes of International thief-thief...International B...International thief-thief!
Since 1999, after the Generals backed by Arewa king makers returned the nation to the highly garrissoned democracy, Olusegun Obasanjo a Yoruba man representing the South West geo-political zone had taken a shot in the presidency completing two terms, but had a spanner thrown onto the wheel of his third term stupidity by Nigerians, followed by Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, a representative of the Hausa-Fulanis, an agent of the Sokoto Caliphate who died in the International Headquarters of the Sokoto Caliphate - Saudi Arabia, where all strings are pulled on how to govern Nigeria the Arab's/Islamic/Sharia's way; a Niger Delta person is going for his second term, and lamentably Ndigbo, a major ethnic nationality is no where near the threshold of the Presidency in Abuja. What a shame!
With the current politcal arrangement that has been deliberately skewed to favour the Hausa-Fulanis and the Yorubas, my reckoning is that which ever pathway - whether the GOODLUCK JONATHAN/MOHAMMED NAMADI SAMBO or MUHAMMADU BUHARI/OLULEKE OSINBAJO, it will as from the next dispensation which will begin on May 29th, 2015 take Ndigbo 13 years to sniff the corridor of the Presidency through the Jonathan/Sambo Pathway, and 17 years through the Buhari/Osinbajo pathway for the Igbos to go near the corridor of power and holdsway at the centre in their OWN country!
If we take my analysis and above back to 1999, and if miracle will happen through either pathway, it would take Ndigbo between 29 years through the Jonathan/Sambo pathway and 33 years through the Buhari/Osinbajo to smell power at the centre in their own country. Again, what a shame! But is this fair?
Now, follow me backward past 1999 to 1966, the year the first and the last Igbo Umunakwe Agui Ironsi ruled Nigeria which from my political Arithmetic is now 49 years and then help me add this number to the two pathways above and you would have 78 years using the JS:Pathway and through the BO:Pathway you will have 82 years before an Igbo person will rule Nigeria. Again I ask: IS THIS FAIR?
Don't forget, Igbo is a major ethnic nationality within the Nigerian Federation. Nigerians, whether Christians or Muslims like to pride themselves as good Christians or Muslims - but if the adherent of these two foreign religions, one of which has become an alcohol in the spirit of the likes of Abubakar Shekau and his fellow monsters including their creators, both in Nigeria and in Saudi Arabia and in all the the Islamic nations involved in the bestiality of blood-letting of fellow human beigns, fellow Nigerians and fellow persons of African ancestry - are really lovers/promoters of peace and peaceful co-existence, I ask again: IS THIS FAIR?
Hang on a minute. Are Nigerians, indeed Africa, all persons of African ancestry, wherever domiciled currently in the world, and the entire world ready for the danger that lies ahead in this gross injustice against Ndigbo?
Going by the prevailing reality, either pathway to Aso Rock to realise the Igbo vision of ruling Nigeria may be a mirage for reasons I had adduced above, but not absolutely impossible. But is this fair?
HERE ARE MY FORMULAE FOR THE QUEST FOR NDIGBO PRESIDENTIAL VISION
NDIGBO PRESIDENTIAL QUEST FORMULAE
Jonathan/Sambo pathway:
1st J:Spw29=(M) (bni)
2nd J:Spw78=(M) (bni)
M=mirage
bni=but not impossible.
Buhari/Osinbajo pathway:
1st B:Opw33=(M) (bni)
2nd B:Opw82=(M) (bni)
Despite my years of trying to conscientise my compatriots of the Igbo ethnic nationality to aim at total integration by seeking power at the centre and fight vigorously for their human and constitutional rights in their own country, they prefer to play Esau and join forces with the highest bidder! What a shame!
In most cases they would say to me: "We dey wait make dey country divide and everybody go find their own way...Ojukwu foresaw wetin dey happen now...na Yoruba people disappoint us...wetin Yoruba people do to us, we no go forget...they join hand with Hausa to kill our people."
At times of grave national frustrations, anxiety, worry and emergency they had turned round to blame me:
"We say make we divide this country and John say NO! Make we wait and see how things go go." At other times they would say to me: "If we say make we divide this country, make onikaluku find him Papa house, John go say NO, make we no talk so. We go wait to see. Wetin concern me. Me na tanda I dey tanda dey see as things go move..."
HOW ABOUT THE EFFORTS OF CHEKWAS OKORIE OF THE UNITED PROGRESSIVE PARTY (UPP)?
No harm in clowning, but Chekwas Okorie is just another political almajiri who would soon stretch his political bowl to ask whoever emerges as the President of Nigeria in the next dispensation for any political appointment mouthing INCLUSIVITY/UNITY GOVERNMENT, Your Excellency. If we have such a jester/comedian in Okorie clowning about the place and up to the hill for a fawning homage to the card-tearing man-boy-elder-boy-infantile old man who always revels in infantile radicalism, it won't be a bad idea to savour the comic relief such clownishness offers in the midst of the nation's ever eruptive polity.
WHY ARE THERE FEW IGBO SENIOR MILITARY, POLICE AND PARA-MILITARY OFFICERS IN THE NIGERIAN FEDERATION AFTER THE CIVIL WAR?
Through out the greater part of the 1990s, Ike Nwachukwu was the ONLY Igbo military officer of the rank of Major-General! Addressing a group of Corps members in 1990 amongst whom was this writer at the Akpakpava office of the State Headquarters of the National Youth Service Corps Secretatriat in the then Bendel State, the then Major-General Nwachukwu almost shed tears in revealing to the nation's future leaders serving their fatherland for the compulsory one year national service about the fact that as at that time, he was the ONLY senior Igbo person of that rank.
I dare say that Omar Ike Sanda Nwachukwu ONLY rose to that rank, even though I know him to be a very intelligent, hardworking, studious and an excellent officer, all these superlative virtues including his oratorical prowess delivered in posh English accent notwithstanding, he was allowed to move to that rank at the time by the Oligarchic class, simply because he is Omar, for Sanda Nwachukwu is also, of Fulani stock, his mother being a Fulani from Katsina.
Again, I ask: IS THIS FAIR?
Whilst the Hausa-Fulanis and the North generally could boast of many sub/under-Generals such as Brigadier-Generals, Major-Generals, Lt. Generals and full rank Generals, the Yorubas/South West too with one known full General in the person of Olu Obasanjo, you could stand on the roof top and count the number of sub-Generals of Igbo extraction after almost 55 years of Nigeria's existence as a sovereign nation and unarguably, NO FULL RANK GENERAL serving or retired or dead!
Again, I ask: IS THIS FAIR?
THE NATION'S RULERS AT A GLANCE FROM 1960-DATE
- Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (Hausa-Fulani/North, Muslim), 1 October 1960 – 15 January 1966
- Major-General J.T.U. Agui Ironsi (Igbo/East, Christian), 16 January 1966 – 19 July 1966.
- General "Jack" Yakubu Gowon (Ngas: but Hausa-Fulani agent, Christian, but an agent of the Sokoto Caliphate), 1 August 1966 – 29 July 1975.
- General Murtala Ramat Muhammad (Hausa-Fulani, North, Muslim), July 30, 1975 – February 13, 1976.
- General Olusegun Obasanjo (Yoruba/South West, Christian and then an agent of the Oligarchic North - Hausa/Fulani), 13 February 1976 – 30 September 1979.
- Alhaji Aliyu Usman Shehu Shagari (Hausa-Fulani/North, Muslim), October 1, 1979 – December 31, 1983
- Major - General Muhammadu Buhari (Hausa-Fulani/North, Muslim), 31 December 1983 – 27 August 1985.
- General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (Kanuri:Hausa-Fulanis' agent/North, Muslim), August 27, 1985 – August 27, 1993.
***INTERLUDE
(THE SO-CALLED INTERIM NATIONAL GOVERNMENT)
- General Sani Abacha (Kanuri: Hausa-Fulanis' agent/North, Muslim), November 17, 1993 – June 8, 1998.
- General AbdulSalami Alhaji Abubakar, (Hausa: Hausa-Fulani/North, Muslim), 9 June 1998 – 29 May 1999
- Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (Yoruba/South West, Christian-tried to be his own man and was punished with the introduction of Sharia in 12 Northern States/ and an agent of the Oligarchic North), 29 May 1999 – 29 May 2007.
- Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua (Fulani: Hausa-Fulani/North, Muslim), 29 May 2007 – 5 May 2010.
- Dr Ebele Nnamdi Jonathan Goodluck (Ijaw/Niger Delta-South-South, Christian), 6 May 2010-Date.
INTERLUDE PERIODS
CEREMONIAL/CARETAKER ADMINISTRATIONS
- Dr. Nnamdi Ebele Benjamin Azikiwe, November 16, 1960 – October 1, 1963 (Indigenous Governor-General of Nigeria), October 1, 1963 – January 16, 1966 (Figurehead President).
- Prince Abyssinia Akweke Nwafor Orizu, acting President of Nigeria in office October/November 1965 – January 1966
- Chief Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan, 26 August 1993 – 17 November 1993, mere puppet, whilst the ING nonsense lasted.
A reduction of the foregoing historical facts to figures would reveal that in the last 55 years of Nigeria's existence as a sovereign nation, the Hausa-Fulanis have produced 9 persons as their representatives at the centre who had at various times ruled Nigeria - out of which 8 are Muslims and one a Christian in the person of General Yakubu Gowon who was a mere puppet in the hands of the Oligarchic North (Hausa/Fulanis/Descendants of Uthman Dan Fodio) who in the first place brought him to power instead of Brigadier Babafemi Ogundipe. And in the inauguration of NIGERIAGHANISTAN in 1969, Gowon, a Christian was in fact, the one used to launch NIGERIANISTAN with him sending on the instruction of the Oligarchic afficionados; Sheikh Abubakar Gumi and others to represent Nigeria at the first OIC meet on September 25th, 1969 in Rabat, The Kingdom of Morocco, and later Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida enlisting Nigeria as a full member in 1986, and Sani Abacha smuggling Nigeria into the Dark Club, otherwise known as the Developing -8 or D-8 for short.
NIGERIA: A NATION WITHOUT A CONSTITUTION
Nigerians and their pseudo-scholars and naive constitutional lawyers like to deceive themselves that their country - Nigeria is a secular State as an entrenched provision in the nation's Political Bible, otherwise known and herein referred to as THE CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA!
If truth must be told, Nigeria is a nation with a zero constitution - in other words, Nigeria is a constitutionless country, or better still, a nation without a constitution. Can any of my comaptriot help tell Ben Nwabueze, this is what I have written. Tell Mr Nwabueze that it will be recorded for posterity that alongside other Nigerians they foisted this masterplan of the Oligarchic class on Nigerians on how to islamise Nigeria and subsequently entrench Sharia in the nation's body politics.
So what ignorant Nigerians together with those who imposed on the nation that toilet paper call constitution, is in fact, THE OLIGARCHIC MASTERPLAN or OLIGARCHIC/AREWA/GAMJI PLAN OF ACTION or THE OLIGARCHIC/AREWA/GAMJI PLANNOGRAMME. Or better still, THE OLIGARCHIC or THE HAUSA-FULANI SHARIA PLAN OF ACTION OR SHARIA ACTION PLAN (SAP).
The so-called CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA was begotten in corruption, so it's a body of deceitful/corrupt codes which encourages and supports corruption and offers a hidding place for the very corrupt, looters and pluderers of of our common resources and their collaborators, I mean the hawks, wild donkeys of the desert, vultures, locusts, worms and dragons in and around the world!
NIGERIA HAS NO BUSINESS BEING A MEMBER OF THE OIC AND D-8
ABOUT OIC & D-8
I dare say that these two Islamic organizations have continued to suffer identity crisis since inception. Each time I criticise them and query the reasonableness of Nigeria, a supposed secular State being part of them, they metamorphose into something more accommodating as to watering down their vision of being organizations solely for Muslim nations, in which Nigeria, a SECULAR STATE has no business belonging to them. Below is what I got when I visted their official sites on February 26th, 2015 between 18:00-19:47, UK time! Before it was clearly spelt out in the mission statement of the two Muslim nations's organisations in their denotative, rather than their connotative meanings. But whatever be their current visions and global posturing, a leopard is a leopard which will forever exhibit their charateristic leoparditude!
OIC
The Organization is the collective voice of the Muslim world and ensuring to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony among various people of the world. The Organization was established upon a decision of the historical summit which took place in Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco on 12th Rajab 1389 Hijra (25 September 1969) as a result of criminal arson of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
Idea Behind D-8 Establishment
The idea of cooperation among major Muslim developing countries was mooted by Dr. Necmettin Erbakan, the then Prime Minister of Turkey, during a Seminar on “Cooperation in Development” which was held in Istanbul in October 1996. The group envisioned cooperation among countries stretching from South East Asia to Africa. Representatives from Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria and Pakistan attended the Seminar. This conference was the first step towards the establishment of D-8 and it was only after a series of preparatory meetings that D-8 was set up officially and began its activities with the Istanbul Declaration issued at the end of the summit of Heads of State and Government held in Istanbul on June 15, 1997.
But where was Parallelist Yemi Osibanjo and other of his Christian ilks since 1969 and beginning from the decades I was like John the Baptist the lone voice crying against SHARIA CREEP in Nigeria's body politics and all of our national values and standards?
At this jucture, I'd like to ask:
- What then is Nigeria?
- Who owns Nigeria?
- Who is a Nigerian?
- What does it mean to be a Nigerian?
- What does it mean to be a Nigerian within the Nigerian Federation?
- Have Nigerians gods in their country?
- Should Nigerians have gods/lords/masters in their own country?
- Have Nigerians internal colonizers, if yes, who are they?
- Who are the financiers of these internal colonizers
- Is there a hidden agenda to islamise Nigeria and its values?
- Is there a SHARIA CREEP in Nigeria's body politics?
- How much influence does Arabism have on Nigeria's polity and its values?
- Is there what I call THE CALIPHATE DELUSION in Nigeria?
- Was the Asaba Massacre of October 7, 1967 in which over 700 male civilians including children, some aged just 12 carried out by the men of the then 2nd Division under the arrogant Major-General Ibrahim Harruna, General Officer Commanding on the alleged instructions of Col. Murtala Muhammed and actually perpetrated by the then Major Ibrahim Taiwo and others, both of whom were to later die tragically in the Buka Suka Dimka-led coup of February 13, 1976, part of the Caliphate's agenda for ethnic cleansing in order to establish emirates and subsequently entrench Sharia in all the States of the Federation?
- Is Boko Haram today using the same method of ethnic cleasing which Murtala Muhammed, Major Ibrahim Taiwo and Haruna used on July 4, 1967 to kill over 700 able bodied men and boys or not?
- Between 1960 - Date, how much have the Caliphate through its agents or directly received from Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations in the Islamization of Nigeria Project and subsequently enlist her in the League of Arab Nations and then changing its official name THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA to ARAB REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA?
- How many militant Muslim associations are there in the whole of Nigeria and who/which Arab nations fund(s) them including Muslim societies in the nation's higher institutions of learning?
- Within the Nigerian Federation, is there Arewa/Gamji gang up against other Nigerians or not?
- Is Nigeria being governed by the mafias or law?
- How much influence do cultism, Ogboni, AMORC, Ogbe, De Lawrence have on the governance of Nigeria, its judiciary and socio-political values?
- Is there a thing to be called the National Assembly of Nigeria?
- Who owns the armed forces/the police/the para-military organisations in Nigeria?
- Are there indeed any institutions to be called: Nigeria Army, Nigeria Air Force, Nigeria Navy, Nigeria Police, Nigeria Immigration, etc.
- Are the Generals just members of a professional club/association or a mafia group?
- Boko Haram: Who created and owns these monsters?
- Just who who owns the cattle the Bororos take round the country to graze leading to constant conflicts between them and farmers, consequent upon actual death amongst both parties? Can the Sultan of Sokoto step forward and tell the nation who are the actual owners of all the cattle the herdsmen are taking round the country to graze thereby causing fatal WAHALA everywhere they go for the so-called grazing without being prosecuted since nineteen krididi?
- Is there already what I call PASTORAL JIHADISM in Nigeria and who has armed the herdsmen to kill, maim and destroy...and are today's Bororos really cattle rearers or hired jihadists on a killing spree to grab lands as one Uthman Dan Fodio did between 1804-1815?
- To what extent has Arabism taken over Nigeria's educational institutions, values, national consciousness and standards?
In diagnosing the perpetual dominance of the Hausa-Fulanis age-long claim of having the divine right to rule Nigeria all because one Uthman Dan Fodio and the other bandits took unawares the dark-skinned people of the Upper Niger in the present day North of Nigeria, went about in their orgiastic, bestial murderousness, killing, maiming and destroying all they owned and afterwards displaced, robbed them and forcefully took their wives, land in the name of jihad, save Jos area, but including Ilorin, which incidentally formed the so-called jihadi routes and constitutes the so-called Sokoto Caliphate and carried out their murderous exploits, forcefully converting them to a foreign religion Islam from their natural ways, which they as strangers regarded as idolatry.
As an international scholar, I have not come across anywhere in all history/research, where it was said the Arabs in the 7th Century in the cause of their bestial invasion of Africa transported land from Saudi Arabia and all of the Arabian Peninsula including the Gulf States and the surrounding Mediterranean to the North of Africa, occupied today by the semi-Arabs who cannot yet tell themselves and the world who they really are, whether Africans or Arabs as virtually all the supposed North African States sit at African Union meetings with such embarrassing and funny official names as the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arab Republic of Libya, all because of petro-dollar from the Arab nations!
Equally throughout my born years no one ever told me, my generation of Nigerians including the previous generations of Nigeria that the large expanse of land in the Upper and Lower Niger that the land therein was brought or imported from Mecca to the geographical area known as Nigeria since 1914, such that any intellectually challenged persons or group of people have to lay claim to it, thereby deluding themselves as having the divine right to rule Nigeria perpetually, turning the rest of the people of Nigeria to slaves in their own country.
Let the message go forth therefore, today that henceforth, I aint gonna have any one turn me around in my country any more; let this message equally go forth to all nursing and entertaining such warped/deluded thinking right now that similarly, no Nigerian's gonna have themselves turned around any more; let this message be trumpeted everywhere - in Sambisa Forest, on the mountains, hills and valleys; on the Rock and everywhere that no Nigerian's gonna be a slave in their country any more. Therefore, Arewa beware!
Can all Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora join me and declare loud and clear: This Arewa tyranny over the rest of the country must stop! This Gamji tyranny over the rest of their compatriots must stop! The CALIPHATE DELUSION in Nigeria must stop, and stop it MUST! It MUST stop for the simple fact that the Bible does not say: Uthman Dan Fodio created the heavens and the earth including all the land within the geographical entity called Nigeria - all of its total area of 923,768 km2 (356,669 sq mi). And it is hoped the Arewaites are reading the signs on the wall.
This is what the Bible says: "The North and the South thou hast created them." Psalm 89:12. Therefore, the North and the South and all Nigerians, home and abroad shall rejoice in the name of the Almighty God, their Creator.
Similarly, it must hereby be corrected that no Mungo Park discovered the River Niger and its confluence in Lokoja as generations of young Nigerians have been made to swallow up all of these lies. No nation in Africa including all their physical features were discovered by any strangers, either from the West or from the East. In all of creation only God the Creator of the universe had called forth into being what was originally not, and land was one such thing - therefore, let all of Uthman Dan Fodio's descendants including the Hausa-Fulanis and their cronies who are always crying for their "toy" henceforth be informed that Uthman Dan Fodio never had any inputs in the creation of the world, nor Mungo Park, both could not have been because they were the created creatures of the Creator, whom a Greater-Than cannot be conceived!
In 1914, a colonial agent Lord Lugard merged together the two two-halves of the Niger area - Upper the Lower Niger to form the present day Nigeria, yet in the caliphate delusion of the descendants of Uthman Dan Fodio and their Hausa-Fulani collaborators together with their cronies, North and South, they still have this rubbish mindset claiming Nigeria as their inherited big estate from that stranger called Uthman Dan Fodio who all those years should have been tried posthumously at the International Court of Justice for land robbery and unparalleled crimes against humanity for killing and forcefully driving indigenous people from off their lands. Pray, what is the difference betwen Uthman Dan Fodio and Adolf Hitler?
The simple question to the descendants of Uthman Dan Fodio and their Hausa-Fulani collaborators, did Uthman bring any land from anywhere on his head to the Upper part of Nigeria? If their answer is NO, then all such bankrupt elements laying claim to their ownership of Nigeria must keep quiet henceforth, and remain quite over their stupid claim of owning Nigeria and are seriously warned to desist from troubling Nigeria and Nigerians any further. What is Nigeria? Nigeria is simply a geographical entity inhabited by all of the people called Nigerians living in the Upper and Lower Niger Areas. Who then owns Nigeria? Answer: Nigerians, of course!
Thus, will the Yorubas of Nigeria step forward now and muster the courage to install the OBA OF ILORIN with a befitting palace and all the entitlements of a frontline king? The vision of OBA OF ILORIN: IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
This nonsense MUST stop, and stopt it MUST!
On the question of the ownership of NIGERIA, it is my candid submission that Nigeria belongs to Nigerians and not to Arewaites or the Arabs or any Arab nations who in their delusions of grandeur passionately crave for the islamification of Nigeria and Africa, and the introduction of Sharia, afterwards. And if it is the question of religion, all persons of African ancestry, not ONLY Nigerians can do without either of Islam or Christianity. Africans had their own indigenous ways of life and governance, including religions, before the unfortunate chance encounters with the East and the West. And I dare say there was no such thing as using religion to exploit, main, kill and destroy on the scale islamists amongst whom are the very monstrous Boko Haram who have now graduated to become Boko Haram International (BHI) are doing.
Meanwhile, let someone help tell the Nigerian security agencies to keep sleeping and keep doubting that ISIL is in Nigeria already. This gross display of ignorance and zero intelligence only confirm what I keep telling them they don't have a full grasp and understanding of what is at stake - Trans-national terrorism and extremism! But will they now wake up from their slumber and provide adequate security in and around national critical infrastructure including the national museum and other places, forbiding any unauthorised persons in uniform to access such places, the five-star hotels, the Dome of shame inclusive.
Just how did my Nigeria degenerate into this bestial malady and medievalism? Let us replace these two FOREIGN RELIGIONS - Christianity and Islam with African 'religion' to be known and called AFRICANITY.
MEASURING THE INJUSTICES DONE AGAINST NDIGBO USING ROTARY INTERNATIONAL'S FOUR-WAY TEST
In the early 1930s Herbert J. Taylor assigned himself the onerous task of saving the Club Aluminum Products distribution company from bankruptcy.
He thus explained:
“ The first job was to set policies for the company that would reflect the high ethics and morals God would want in any business. If the people who worked for Club Aluminum were to think right, I knew they would do right. What we needed was a simple, easily remembered guide to right conduct - a sort of ethical yardstick- which all of us in the company could memorize and apply to what we thought, said and did.
I searched through many books for the answer to our need, but the right phrases eluded me, so I did what I often do when I have a problem I can't answer myself: I turn to the One who has all the answers. I leaned over my desk, rested my head in my hands and prayed. After a few moments, I looked up and reached for a white paper card. Then I wrote down the twenty-four words that had come to me:
Is it the truth?
Is it fair to all concerned?
Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
I called it "The Four-Way Test" of the things we think, say or do."
NOW LET US APPLY THE FOUR-WAY TEST TO THE HAUSA-FULANIS/ARABISM'S CONTINUED DOMINATION OF THE NIGERIAN POLITY OVER THE YEARS COUPLED WITH THE FACT THAT NDIGBO HAVE NOT RULED NIGERIA FOR THE LAST 49 YEARS:
Of the things we think, say or do
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Therefore, against the back drop of Taylor's ethical code, was Muhammadu Buhari an arch jihadist and trusted Khalifa for the Oligarchic Hausa-Fulani right in allowing Parallelist Bola Ahmed Tinubu-General, Area Father-General of Isale Eko, the could-have-been Toronto Graduate and the Lagos gang of the hollering executive mobs of the Arewa Property Consortium (APC) to impose on him a Yoruba opportunistic-caretaker-running mate in the person of Parallelist Yemi Osinbajo who needs a few lessons in concentration? This is a gross display of unparalleled and unpardonable insensitivity in a multicultural-multi-lingual polity such as Nigeria. It smacks off gross disregard and disrespect for Ndigbo and tantamount to saying to the whole of Igbo people: "You are inconsequential within the Nigerian political calculus!"
Shame therefore, to the band of good-for-nothing vested inerest who have continued to sell Ndigbo cheap for mammon/filthy lucre who excitedly announced recently that the Igbos had contributed N45 million of the so-called N54 million of the General Muhammadu Buhari 's Campaign fund. Imagine what developments the N45 million would have brought to the whole of the East; as I write, many young Igbos are out of schools because of fees; as I write, the Eastern network of the nation's trunk "A" roads are full of craters with fatal accidents on daily basis; as I write, pregnant women in various autonomous communities are dying at homes, in makeshift hospitals set up by quacks because they cannot afford hospital bills; as I write, many young Igbos, very hardworking in every sense of the word have taken to a life of crimes for lack of a few change to help them realize their visions/talents having waited for these self-styled "saviours" for many, many years to do something about their situations.
Those who say Nigeria has already got a formidable Opposition need to go on a political pilgrimage to Ikenne and afterwards enrol in the Obafemi Awolowo Ideological Institute (OAIII), Ikenne, Ogun State. Yes, this is how Awo should be immortalised in furtherance of Awoism and not in a feel-good annual memorial lecture to assemble on yearly basis all those bankrupt elements who in the first place prevented him from ruling Nigeria. Nor should Obafemi Awolowo be immortalised in such Leadership Awards nonsense! I know that at the moment nothing of the sort of such institute exists, but all I'm saying is Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe and other first generation of the nation's leaders, especially its founding fathers must not be immortalised in any of such feel-good ceremonies, but in the hearts, minds, spirits, souls and bodies of this generation of Nigerians and all persons of African ancestry through national documentaries, books, films, dramas/plays, monuments, etc. Obafemi Awolowo University, my Alma mater can kick start the above suggested institute to be known as The Obafemi Awolowo Ideological Institute for the Study of Democracy and Good Governance (OAISDGG) or simply Obafemi Awolowo Centre for the Study of Democracy and Good Governance (OACSDGG). The Alumni of the University, both in Nigeria and in the Diaspora will be willing to launch and finance the Institute to be based at the University Campus in Ile-Ife or Ikenne or any other place deemed appropriate, if this idea goes down well with Great Ife authorities. The same suggestion is hereby extended with respect to to Zik and others.
The pseudo-scholars and intellectuals that have hastily concluded Nigeria has already got a formidable Opposition need a few lessons in CONVICTION AND CONSCIENTIOUS OPPOSITION & CONSENSUS AND VENGEFUL/VINDICTIVE OPPOSITION. Also, These pseudo-scholars need one or two lessons in POLITICAL GANGSTERISM, INFANTILE RADICALISM, VENGEFUL RADICALISM, BUTTER AND BREAD ACTIVISM (BABA) as distinct from CONVINCTION AND CONSCIENTIOUS ACTIVISM (CACA) or BELLY FORCE ACTIVISM (BFA). These pseudo-amala and brain-damaged intellectuals including the hollering executive mobs that dot the Rivers of Blood need to know that BOLEKAJAISM and AGBEROISM do not a democracy make. Bolekajaism and Agberoism are two good examples of VERBAL TERRORISM or MOUTH TERRORISM. Thus, the Alariwo Proselytizing Congress (APC) is simply a gathering of bitter politicians (GBPs), better still a Congress of Disgruntled Politicians (CDPs) or Congress of Bitter Politicians (CBPs) or Assembly of Bitter Politicians (ABPs) or Association of Bitter Politicians (ABPs), who will soon return to PDP, if they were offered a mere plate of Amala worth just $5 million.
Assuming the Poverty Distribution Party (PDP) returns themselves to power, watch your "Saviours" who have mistaken gansterism and infantile radicalism for political activism sramble for political appointments - ministerial, ambassadorial, board appointments, etc, mouthing INCLUSIVITY...calling for GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY (GNU) or UNITY GOVERNMENT (UG) in short! But just where now is Femi Fani-Kayode who only yesterday was hurling mud at your clueless President Jonathan who is now doing elections stunt in BAY - Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, when all we are saying of equal importance is to bring back our beautiful Angels - the Chibok girls. I'd hasten to warn that whilst Jonathan and his boys jump kadogo-kadogo about the place, let them not leave Abuja, Bauchi, Jos, Kano, Kaduna, etc unmanned. There must be in place a 24/7 patrol of all the trunk "A" network of roads, and other national critical infrastructure, especially in the North to forestall the digging and planting of bombs therein as this strategy will be a common headache in the coming days, weeks, months and years.
They say Osinbajo is an intellectual, but which kind intellectual e be? Would he was in the vineyard attending to His Father's business instead of always staggering to campaign grounds as a man who glued ear-phones to his two-two ears listening to Fela Anikulapo Kuti's ZOMBIE WAY NA ONE WAY, whilst he really is on his way to a HOLY GHOST CONFERENCE! A patriotic intellectual would have pointed it out to the greedy elements who merely have asked him to take custody of the Vice Presidential Candidate-General for the Area Father-General to return afterwards and take back his 'inheritance' in a manner that covertly suggests AFTER HIM, NO BE YOU-O, BUT NA ME, that danger lies ahead as a major ethnic nationality like Ndigbo have been deliberately and carefully displaced from the mainstream Nigerian politics/power equation by the ever-power hungry Hausa-Fulani/descendants of Uthman Dan Fodio, hence this needs redressing at least, and for a start, by nominating an Igbo person as APC's Vice Presidential Candidate.
Eyin eyan wa, eku oro NA ME, NO BE YOU-O!
Now that these dunderheads don't yet have the brains to understand the political permutation of the Hausa-Fulanis and the descendants of Uthman Dan Fodio, I say make them open their ears make I tell them:
2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS: ALL ABOUT POWER AND NOT ANY RENAISSANCE AND SERVICES TO THE NIGERIAN PEOPLE
The March elections vis a vis the current heightened power struggle and high wired politicking are not about governance, nor service to Nigerians, nor are they about promoting and encouraging the growth of democracy nor about Nigeria and the rule of law , but about North and South; the return of power to the power-hungry North; about Hausa-Fulanis and the descendants of Uthman Dan Fodio and Nigeria; about the Generals and bloody civilians; about the military and the Nigerian civilian populace; about the military and Nigeria; about the armed forces and the police; about the containment or confirmation of the place of the Ijaw ethnic nationality within the Nigerian Federation; about the Niger Deltans and the rest of Nigerians; about who owns the oil in the Niger Delta - (the Government and the People of the Federal Republic of Nigeria or the Niger Deltans?); about the stupidity and the greed of the Christians in Nigeria; about the mammonization of the gospel and a warning to all the clergy in Nigeria that God and Caesar have never been a good mix; about when Jesus Christ visited the Church in Nigeria, he was told all the pastors, without exception, were at one political meeting or another; about exposing the so-called men and women of God in Nigeria that they are the real pathological and congenital liars and and like Jacob of old, the greatest deceivers, the most gullible and most corrupt people in Nigeria; it is about how the Christians in Nigeria have allowed themselves to be used, scattered , dumped and put asunder; it is about the person used by the Oligarchic North to put the Church in Nigeria asunder - one Yemi Osinbajo; it is about shattered dreams; broken promises and blasted hopes; it is about an agent of the Oligarchic North Caliph Buhari and the rest of Nigeria; it is about an arch exponent of Arabism and Islamism in Nigeria including all persons of African ancestry and the complete superimposition of caliphateism/Arewaism/Gamjism over Ndigboism -
THE VICTORS AND THE VANQUISHED
- So whilst yet Gowon is alive let him be told there are victors and the vanquished afterall - the victors are those who hold unto power perpetually; the victor is a General Gowon promoted over the head of an Ogundipe; the victors are those majors/junior officers promoted over the heads of their superior officers in the name of administrative ranks as against combatant or professional ranks just because they participated in coups; the victor is an Abdulsalami promoted over the heads of a Diya and others because of his birth place in the Nigerian Federation and for being an agent of the Hausa-Fulanis/descendants of Uthman Dan Fodio; the victors are the haves as opposed to the have-nots; the victors are the Generals who now live on hills, look down on the people from their hilltop mansions and scorn and spit on them inside their valleys; the victors are the Generals who have looted all that belong to the people of Nigeria and are now swimming in obscene wealth; the victors are all those who are trading for their Excellencies, such that no one in that country as it is currently, can fight corruption or probe the purposeless locusts in high places with their loots in foreign banks; the victor is a St. Muhammadu Buhari borrowing N27 million from a very stupidly generous bank manager to gamble with plus an equally very stupidly generous management and shareholders not querying such carefully orchestrated economic sabotage by a very pious/accountable Buhari; the victors are the children and grand children of their Excellencies who already boast of owning billions of pounds just by virtue of being Generals'/politicians' children, while yet in their teens, whereas their class mates who were writing their exams and term papers for them when in schools, colleges, universities spend six years roaming the streests for non-existent jobs; the victors are lecturers impoverishing their students through plagiarised handouts which they sell to them between N1, 500-N2, 000; the victors are their excellencies, royal highnesses and former federal officers seizing grazing lands from the herdsmen and coverting them into their personal economic activities and carrying out other personal development projects thereon without the needed Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), and afterwards introduced the grazing routes bill which they hope to use it to establish emirate in every State of the Federation - here's a bill to be killed on arrival as long distance grazing has exceeded its used by date, so the nation should in the 21st be talking about sedentary economic pastoralism and not normadic/subsistent pastoralism, sparking the now very frequent clashes between the pastoralists/Bororos and farmers in and around the country resulting in avoidable deaths; the victors are the Generals who drove away traditional farmers from their fadamas and built mega dams to dam the waters serving the whole of the North and by extension, all Nigerians and then built massive irrigation projects to water their private agricultural activities (highly mechanised farms) on all the flood plains up North, a situation which has provoked intractable floodings/erosions in and around the country and displacing millions of hapless Nigerians from their homes and farmlands; the victors are those highly placed persons - civilians and military who together with multinational lumberers/loggers have depleted the rainforests, thereby exposing all the soil in Southern Nigeria to uncontrollable erosions, South Eastern being the worst hit; the victors are the jet owners including the now men of Mammon who now can be found at political meetings more than in their Father's Business and always moving from one State House/Aso Rock to another on courtesy calls on Governors; the victors are those who have converted "My Father's House" into a House of Merchandise and Political Mecca offering prayers to and claiming to give blessings to politicians/dodgy business men and women and afterwards, turn round to call them liars; the victors are those who can afford three-square meals at the expense of the toiling masses of Nigeria; the victors are those who jet to the West and elsewhere when they have just headaches; the victcors are those who go on health and religious tourisms at the expense of the tax payers; the victors are those who go to Dubai to do their weddings and travel the nations on shopping sprees at the expense of the poor people of Nigeria; the victors are those who have 11-14 jets in their fleets; the victors are the Bororos shepherding the flock of their Excellencies and emirs for a token in and around the country, especially in the South destroying farmers' crops and killing them afterwards as part of the ongoing jihad being waged by Boko Haram through the Janjaweed-ethnic cleansing-style, whilst the Sultan of Sokoto Sa'adu Muhammadu Abubakar( III) and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of MACBAN - Mayaki Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, other emirs and their Excellencies the proud owners of these cattle turn the other way with the perpetrators of such malady and fatalistic orgy never smell even detention for a second; the victors are their Excellencies' children involved in money laundry, but never and can never be jailed even though caught; the victors are the proud owners of oil wells - both military and their bloody civilian collaborators who boast of making over $500 million a day from just an oil well; the victors are the oil thieves - the illegal bunkerers, both local and foreign and executive pipe lines vandals; the victor is that General who in the '90s was the ONLY one importing Byrites into the country despite the fact that there was a ban on importation of Byrites into Nigeria; the victors are the second-hand generator sellers and torch sellers and their Chinese collaborators who will never allow steady power to run our homes, industry and small businesses; the victors are their Excellencies/Board Chairpersons/Directors-General who have banked workers' salaries and pensions in their private accounts in order to receive interests up front, go on religious tourism and endless shopping sprees in nations of the world, whilst workers/civil servants are not paid salaries for upward of three - 11 months with their family members dying of hunger and ailments of the minor sort, with President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the Head of Service, Nigeria Labour Congress, NANS and the nation's Bread and Butter Activists (BABAs) and the newsroom politicians (NRPs)/Bola Ahmed Tinubu's/APC's amanuenses who pass for journalists doing nothing as their Excellencies use workers' salaries to campaign; the victor is that His Excellency's daughter who when doing her national service on the Rock was on a commissioner's salary; the victors are the rogues, vultures and worms in the Dome of Shame who fix their salaries by themselves with no independnt authority vetting them; the victors are those executive robbers and local government chairpersons and the nation's fragrance cohorts, their so-called First Ladies blowing sirens every day to disturb economic activities, whilst none of those cars are manufactured in Nigeria; the victors are the fragrance cohorts daily on the roads without any purpose just to show off and disturb economic activities; the victor is the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation Mr Danladi Irmiya Kifasi, BABA NOT MY BUSINESS who just can't be bothered about the power outage and lack of water at the Federal Secretariat in Blocks A, B, C, D & E since 2014, etc, etc, etc, etc.
THE FEDERAL CHARLATAN COMMSSION OTHERWISE STATUTORILY KNOWN AS THE FEDERAL CHARACTER COMMISSION OF NIGERIA AND NDIGBO
IT is annoying and embarrassing to hear the Hausa-Fulanis and the Yorubas who have hijacked every space within the Nigerian Federation such as the armed forces, the police, customs and excise, immigration, the presidency, for example, from Ibrahim Babangida till date the Presidency spokespersons have always been Yorubas, excepting the Ima Niboro interlude; political appointments; jobs in public establishments, university admissions, ministerial and ambassadorial appointments; the socio-cultural and economic life of the nation being the ones always running to the streets to holler "ethnic cleansing", when in reality this is not the case. The least is by no means exhaustive.
The so-called FCC is supposed to ensure equality and equal representations in all spheres of the nation's life, but this is not the case, rather the so-called FCC has chosen to consciously and deliberately put Ndigbo and the ethnic minorities North and South, especially Southern minorities in a worrisome disadvantage. Even whilst in Nigeria, I had said the FCC was not fit for purpose and equally not fit for purpose is the Code of Conduct Bureau, which I had for the upteenth time called for their scrapping.
Since the birth of Nigeria, as this article is primarily about Ndigbo, I'd like to ask all justice and peace-loving Nigerians: How many Generals of Igbo ethnic nationality, serving and retired has the nation so far got; how many Inspectors-General of Police serving and retired; Customs officers; Comptrollers of Customs; in Immigrations; Navy; Air Force; other para-military; how many Igbos have been Ministers of Defence, Agriculture, Water Resources, Foreign Affairs, Interior, National Security Advisers, Transport; Chief of Defence Staff; Chief of Army Staff; Commanders-in-Chief?
Why have the Presidency spokespersons been coming from only the Yoruba ethnic nationality to the disregard of the rest of the nation?
How many Igbos have been and currently serving as ambassadors in frontline countries such as the USA, UK, Germany, Russia, etc?
What is the current number of the Igbos in the civil service, in the armed forces, police, the Navy; Customs, etc?
In a given administration since the time of Gowon - how many Ndigbo have been ministers, permanent secretaries, ambassadors, directors, board apointments, etc?
How many directors of Igbo extraction, permanent secretaries in the present administration compared with Hausa/Fulanis and the Yorubas; how many Igbos in Federal universities through the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board compared to Hausa/Fulanis and Yorubas and how many on Federal Government scholarships compared to others?
How many armed forces and police barracks in the Eastern States of Nigeria compared with Northern and South Western States, how many arsenals and underground missiles in the South East compared to a region above. By the way, why do we have the latter ONLY in a particular region of Nigeria, a situation which deliberately places other regions at a grave disavantage in the event of grave national emergency?
What is the total yearly grants/subventions that go to the whole of South East compared to the the South West, North Central, North East and North West?
How many Federal universities, Federal Research Institutes, Air Ports, etc compared to South West and and each of the three Northern regions?
Why is it that Ndigbo do not have as many Generals - full ranks/sub or under - and the one or two that arrive(s) on the scene are quickly hounded out of services - from my Observatory here in the UK, I can see that the rate at which Igbo officers are forced out of service is faster than any of Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba?
HOW IRONSI BECAME HEAD OF STATE AND THE REAL REASON WHY HE WAS KILLED, NOT BECAUSE OF DECREE NO.34 OR HIS FAILURE TO DEAL RUTHLESSLY WITH KADUNA NZEOGWU AND THE OTHER REVOLUTIONARIES, BUT AS COULD BE GLEANED FROM THE EXCERPT BELOW:
According to Shagari in Beckoned to Serve: “…....….At about 7.00 am, I returned to Dipcharima’s residence to meet with some NPC ministers who had gathered there. Dipcharima was then the most senior NPC minister available. We received the latest reports on the situation, first from Alhaji Maitama Sule, Minister of Mines and Power, who had visited the PM’s residence by bicycle! We then heard from Alhaji Ibrahim Tako Galadima, the acting Minister of Defence, who had brought along with him Chief Fani-Kayode.
Chief Fani-Kayode said he had been fetched from Ibadan early that morning by rebels and locked up at the Federal Guard Officers Mess in Dodan Barracks, where the mutineers initially made their headquarters. Disguised in army uniform, loyal troops handed him over to Alhaji Galadima, who had called in at the barracks, which was a stone’s throw of his residence…………….The acting Minister of Defence assured us that Major-General Ironsi was doing his best to arrest the situation.
Maitama Sule and I were separately detailed to explore with our absent NPC and NCNC colleagues the possibility of naming someone to stand in for the PM. I was consulting with NCNC ministers at Dr. Mbadiwe’s residence when we heard that the Northern and Western premiers, Sir Ahmadu Bello and Chief Akintola respectively, had been assassinated. Hence I rushed back to Dipcharima’s residence, where I found my colleagues in a state of shock and desperation.
However, we decided to recognize Dipcharima, a Kanuri from Bornu, as our interim leader; and to ask the acting President, Dr. Orizu (President Azikiwe was away on leave), to appoint Dipcharima acting Prime Minister. We also summoned Major General Ironsi and gave him full authority to use every force at his disposal to suppress the rebellion. He moved his headquarters temporarily to the police headquarters at moloney street to facilitate easy communication with army units in the regions.
While at Dipcharima’s residence, we contacted the British High Commission and requested for military assistance in the event that our loyal troops should require any. The response was positive, but the British insisted that the request must be written by the PM; or, in his absence, by a properly appointed deputy. We, therefore, drove to the residence of Dr. Orizu, and requested him to appoint Dipcharima acting prime minister. Dr. Orizu requested to see our NCNC colleagues to confirm whether they supported our proposition, and they joined us soon afterwards. They had apparently been caucusing at Dr. Mbadiwe’s residence. He (Mbadiwe) was their choice of acting Prime Minister. This was naturally unacceptable to us since the NPC was the major governing party.
While we were at Orizu’s residence, Major-General Ironsi, who had seemingly secured Lagos, came in with some armed escorts. He requested for a tete-a-tete with Orizu. The two had a 40 minutes discussion in another room, while we waited anxiously in the sitting room, with the armed soldiers standing and staring at us. When Major-General Ironsi finally emerged, he talked to Dipcharima sotto voce; and then drove off with his troops. Dr. Orizu then joined us, regretted his inability in the circumstances to oblige our request. He suggested we all return to our homes and wait until we were required. All efforts to get any clarification failed, and we left in utter desperation.
I was about to break the Ramadan fast on Sunday 16th January, when all ministers were asked to report to the Cabinet Office at 6.30 pm. The whole premises was surrounded by soldiers in battle order that some of us initially hesitated to enter. In the Cabinet chamber were Major General Ironsi, Bukar Dipcharima and Ibrahim Tako Galadima. There were no officials present.
Major General Ironsi admitted to us that he had been unable to suppress the rebellion, which he said was getting out of hand. He stated that the mutineers were in control of Kaduna, Kano and Ibadan, and had killed two regional premiers, Sir Ahmadu Bello and Chief Akintola. They had also murdered a number of his best officers, including Brigadiers Maimalari and Samuel Adesujo Ademulegun, the Commander 1st Brigade Headquarters in Kaduna. Ironsi was full of emotion and even shed some tears. When we asked him about the whereabouts of Sir ABubakar and Chief Okotie-Eboh, he said he still did not know but averred efforts were being made to locate them. At this stage Mbadiwe broke down and kept crying: “Please where is the Prime Minister?”
When we reminded Major-General Ironsi if he needed to avail himself of the British pledge of assistance, he replied it was too late as the army was pressing him to assume power. Indeed, he confessed his personal reluctance to take over because of his ignorance of government; but insisted the boys were adamant and anxiously waiting outside. He advised it would be in our interest, and that of the country, to temporarily cede power to him to avert disaster. Accordingly, we acceded to his request since we had no better alternative. Ironsi then insisted that the understanding be written.
Surprisingly, there was no stationery to write the agreement; and all the offices were locked while no official was around. Alhaji AGF Abdulrazaq the Minister of State for the Railways (former NPC legal adviser), managed to secure a scrap paper on which he drafted a statement, which we endorsed. That was the so called voluntary hand-over of power by the Balewa Government to Major General Ironsi! It was agreed that the statement would be typed and Dipcharima would sign it on our behalf. We were then advised to return home and await further instructions. I only got to break my Ramadan fast around 9:30 pm.
Later at 11.50 pm, Dr. Orizu made a terse nationwide broadcast, announcing the cabinet’s voluntary decision to transfer power to the armed forces. Major General Ironsi then made his own broadcast, accepting the “invitation”. He suspended certain parts of the constitution; set up a national military government, with the office of military governors in each region; and briefly outlined the policy intentions of his regime. Nigeria’s first democratic experiment was effectively over. And although the mutiny had by then practically collapsed, military rule had arrived. It was a fact.
The following morning, 17 January, Alhaji Kam Salem, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police (then also doubling for the Inspector-General, Mr. Louis Orok Edet, while on vacation), called at my residence to confide that both the PM and Chief Okotie-Eboh had been confirmed killed. He then hinted that Major General Ironsi was still negotiating with the rebels in Kaduna, led by Major Patrick Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu”
Ironsi was the 'sheep' who strayed into a den full of the Oligarchic wolves, hence he was devoured by the wolves on arrival!
JUST WHO WAS ZANNA BUKAR DIPCHARIMA?
ZANNA Bukar Dipcharima was born in the Bornu province of Northern Nigeria in 1917; hailed from the Kanuri ethnic nationality; was educated at the Maiduguri middle school and at Katsina Higher College, where he later became a teacher, from 1938 to 1946; taught at various schools in Northern Nigeria, from 1949 to 1954; served as manager at John Holt; elected to the Federal House of Representative as a member of Northern People Congress for Bornu Central; served from 1956 to 1957 as parliamentary secretary to the the minister of transport, becoming first minister of state and then federal minister of commerce and industry in 1957 and was later the leading member in the Federal Cabinet meetings following the death of the Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa in January, 1966.
On Ironsi's assumption of office, Dipcharima led the NPC Government in Lagos to pledge support to the military administration of Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi.
IGBO: LAND OF GIANTS
O Ndigbo, why have thou so retreated as to now take the back seat. Thou once wert in the front rank in all things Nigerian, leading in education, in the military, science, technology, politics, etc?
O Igbo, land of giants: In the beginning it was not always so that thou playeth ostrich in thy fatherland, but ever in the front rank leading!
Ndigbo! Ndigbo! Ndigbo! Why have thou so fallen and rolled down into VALLEY OF SECOND CLASS CITIZENS in your own country?
O Ndigbo, behold thy children:
- Olaudah Equiano
- Great Zik of Africa
- Nwafor Orizu
- Christopher Okigbo
- Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu
- Elder Ojukwu
- Emeka Odumegu Ojukwu
- Chinua Achebe
- Kenneth Dike
- Chinweizu
- Chike Obi
- Mbonu Ojike
- Michael Okpara
- Ben Enwonwu
- Alvan Ikoku
- S.G. Ikoku
- Dora Ifudu
- Dora Akinluyi
- Flora Nwakpa (Nee Nwakuche)
- Nelly Uchendu
- Phil Emeagwali
- K.O Mbadiwe
- Cardinal Francis Arinze
- Cyprian Ekwensi
- Emeka Anyaoku
- Justice Chukwudifu Oputa
- Celestine Ukwu
- Mike Okpala
- Jaja Nwachukwu
- Alex Ekwueme
- Ume Ezeoke
- Eni Njoku, etc, etc.
*List not in any special order.
THE BOKOHARAMIZATION OF THE WEALTH OF THE NATION
The overall object of all islamists sects world wide whether Boko Haram, ISIL, Al-Shaabab, Al-qaeda, etc are basically the same and funding virtually comes locally, internationally from Arab nations, both States and individuals and through criminal activities of kidnapping, holding people hostage, raiding banks, collections through charities and banks, capturing oil installations, etc.
The whole vision of extremism worldwide is global jihad and then the globalization of Sharia, hence the islamists' ideology can be located at:
- Religio-spiritual level
- Political
- Ideological
- Social
- Land grabbing ( through declaration of Caliphate over perceived conquered territories as in Ilorin, also using settlership rubbish as in the creation of Jos North Central Local Government Council by Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, establishment of emirate through the Fulani Bororos whom they have enlisted in the pursuit of the Nigeriaghanistan Jihad, the constant frictions between the herdsmen and the farmers in and around the country are part of the game plan in the islamification of Nigeria and the entrenchment of Sharia in and around the country. The Bororos of modern day Nigeria are not subsistent pastoralists any more, but jihadists who have been well armed and trained to use modern sophisticated weapons to kill any farmer or anyone who interfers with their land grabbing exploit. My article on the PASTORAL RESOLVE headed by General Muhammadu Buhari in which I was instrumental to its formation is on the way.
- Wealth Acquisition/Distribution
- (Economic/Financial cum wealth distribution which places muslims and muslim nations above all; ownership of real estate and property - Western Europe must be very careful here as financial and property jihad are currently going on in Europe with the buying up of everything - property/real estate, critical national infrastructure, such as statdia by Arab merchants from the Middle East,
- Cultural (music, arts, national/global dress code)
- Linguistic
- Decimating the Christian population in Nigeria
- Population: Putting the North's Population above that of the South. A case in point is the sacking by Nigeria's Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa of the British citizen J. Warren Buffet who oversaw the conduct of the 1962 Population Census after the results of that census population had been announced and published, having Southern population more than the North's, as it actually should be as the Rainforest South has clustered settlements, whereas the arid North has scattered settlements. The census was re-conducted in 1963 and the Northern population, an arid zone of the country, was deliberately and unashamedly pushed up to have more population and ever since this chicanery has continued - as one with a great knowledge of geography, this statistical Sharia/Bokoharamism/arewaism and Gamjism defies all geographical logic.
- Militarism: Military/Para-military level and since the Hausa-Fulanis appear to be losing control over the so-called Nigeria armed forces, Boko Haram (BH) and Boko Haram International (BHI), amongst others have been created as a parallel army and have continued to be upgraded. So Amaechi's parallel Government must be taken seriously. Have they not always been using the likes of Parallelists Rotimi Amaechi, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, two dodgy politrickcians who lack the basic understanding of what is afoot to achieve their set objectives in the gradual Islamification and Shariazation of Nigeria?
- Policing
- Educational: (Don't forget the irreparable damage Jibril Aminu did to the education sector in Nigeria; the so-called Quota System; the so-called "Southern rush" for education" leading to the scrapping of Satellite campuses, etc, etc.
- Agricultural: (Agro/food production/intensive livestock farming - the Yakubu Gowon's stupid policy of Greening the North of the 70s leading to the construction of mega dams such as Tiga and Challawa Gorge Dams and massive irrigation projects which hampered adequate flow of water downstream, to the South, but which even though backfired in leading to desertification, desiccation of the river systems all over the North, the near extinction of traditional agriculture/farming in the North have subsequently placed Northern Nigeria above the South agriculturally including food production
- Resource Control
- Dominating the civil service: Through giving more quotas to the Hausa/Fulanis and the North generally, through secondment of a junior officer back to their States of origin, where they are given rapid promotions and afterwards returned to the Federal Civil Service within a two-year period and be elevated to the position of Directors, whilst their mates of Southern Nigerian origin will still be on entry level, but will be the ones to be doing all the thinking, paper works, while these so-called Directors whom I'd like to call HEREDITARY PRIVILEGE DIRECTORS merely append their signatures! This method MUST stop!
- Philosophycal
- Sociological
- Morality
- World view which must always be Islamic, etc.
In a major work, I shall expatiate on all of the above levels which are by no means exhaustive. But in this article I will explain the gradual distribution/redistribution of wealth through the ideology of Bokoharamism by the Hausa-Fulani/descendants of Uthman Dan Fodio and their cronies. Let me hasten to remind Nigerians that the nation's educational system/values were dumbed down, slowed down and almost halted using the Hausa-Fulani such as Professor Jibril Aminu and his other fellow jihadists who had been Ministers of education - remember the "South's mad rush for education" which saw to the scrapping of Sattelite Campuses in another dispensation?
The Bokoharimization of the nation's economy, wealth creation/distribution and redistribution of wealth to favour the Hausa-Fulanis and Muslims in Nigeria are part of the overall agenda of the islamification of Nigeria including the establishement of Islamic Bank using such agents Sanusi Lamido Sanusi...remember the N100 million gifts to the victims of bomb blasts in Kano which as a Civil Servant, he did that with arrogance and crass impunity with nobody querying him, nor did the Apex Legislative Assembly, I mean your so-called National Assembly which in itself is amongst the many chapters of Boko Haram including Apo Village. I shall reveal the various chapters of Boko Haram that abound in a piece now in draft in my analysis of the security situation in Nigeria and show how wide spread these chapters are.
I will want Nigerians to open wide their eyes to see who are the nation's wealthiest people, none, repeat, none of such people sweated before they came about such sudden and obscene wealth and are now being ranked amongst the wealthiest in Africa and in the world. The type of wealth in Nigeria is one I have referred to as WEALTH WITHOUT SWEATING - so why do you then expect Nigerians, especially younger generations to get their wealth through sweating - working very hard; with such kind of obscene wealth in the hands of the Generals and thier civilian fronts/cronies who are trading for them, why would any soldier allow himself to be taken to the war front to get killed in the ongoing war on terror in the North East of Nigeria; with the wealth getting without sweating, why does anyone expect young people and children in Nigeria to get serious with thier academic works when there are seeing people acquiring wealth without working for it, more so why would they read for their various exams to pass their exams, be they public or institutional or private when they can be given figures by unsrupulous JAMB officials with the middle men and women called ADMISSIONS FACILITATORS OR FACILATORS for short just by giving sums of money ranging from N500, 000 and above? But who are these middle men and women, Dibu Ojerinde, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau and Mrs Viola Adaku Onwuliri?
The wealth of the nation has been bokoharamised to favour the Hausa-fulanis/descendants of Uthman Dan Fodio, Muslims generally, their cronies both in the North and South of Nigeria. Although the resources come from the South, but check out who has the most wealth in Nigeria - it's either the Hausa-Fulanis, Uthman Dan Fodio's Children, Muslims in the North and South, mostly members of the Oligarchic class, Kaduna Mafia, former military members of the Lantang Mafia/Middle Belt Axis, Oligarchic cronies, and those errand boys without integrity trading for former military rulers, their civilian counterparts, in and around the country - hence for anyone talking about probing any of these former ruler-rogues is just a deception and mere waste of time as you will find nothing in their names. So what do your former rulers do for a living - consulting for international organizations such as the UN, ECOWAS, AU, NATO, UNESCO, etc as other world leaders do, just how do they maintain their obscene mansions on the hills, by the seas/ocean, exotic areas, including all those in nations of the world?
NDIGBO, THIS IS YOUR ONLY COUNTRY. YOU MUST THEREFORE, BURY THE PAST, MOVE ON TO BUILD BRIDGES AND EMBARK ON A PROPER HANDSHAKE ACROSS THE NIGER
Cassius:
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
Julius Caesar (I, ii, 140-141)
Since the civil war ended, it looks to me many Igbos are yet to bury the past and move on. If one has not lost (a) dear one(s), they will not know the nagging pains following such losses which keep coming and coming, no matter how much you try to close the door of your heart. Even your sleep is occasionally disturbed when they appear to you in dreams. Having been there, and having also lost my kinsmen and distant relations in the war, I know and feel the heartbeat of Ndigbo, but if we don't forget such unpleasant past, we shall be in danger of losing the future and all its glories. And it is my candid plea here that we must all learn to bury this very ugliness in the ash heap of history, so we don't live together in the House of Nigeria with one another in bitterness and hatred.
In nation building, you cannot desire peace and harmony for the commonwealth without correspondingly experiencing a lack of peace at some point; albeit, temporarly. Therefore, any nation that wishes peace for itself must be prepared for war. Hard as it seems, NO WAR, NO PEACE.
More than what the nation is currently witnessing in Boko Haram, as I do say, and with due respect to the sensibilities of all families who have lost their dear ones to Boko Haram's monstrosity, I forsee greater challenges coming our way, hence I do hereby, plead with all my fellow Nigerians that all our beloved compatriots who had lost their lives, be it in the civil war or other tragic challenges which had befallen us on our journey to the glory land - OUR PROMISED LAND, we should keep emotions and tears aside and joy in the fact that, because of the NIGERIAN GLORY they advertently or inadvertently put themselves forward as sacrificial lambs for the HEALTH & GLORY of our country.
If the truth must be told, since the 1960s till date, it is the Hausa and Fulani people who just form between 8-10% of the nation's population (although the spurious censuses have always alloted them highers per centages such as 21%, which I very much reckon is not only dodgy, but a blatant lie and deception) who have been killing their compatriots resident in their midst even when things happened in far away Denmark and other nations. But why is this so, and why has this been so over the years - and why has this bestiality been allowed to continue unchecked by successive Governments since the 60s including the pogroms and the bestial and monstrous beheading of compatriot Gideon Akaluka, whereupon the animals involved put his head on a long stick and went from street to street exhibiting their gross bestiality thinking they had once more humiliated and conquered Ndigbo, with all the security agents standing by as if they were merely watching a tragedy film at Ado Bayero Palace?
Isn't very shameful and very, very embarrassing that of the nation's over 450 or so ethnic nationalities, it is ONLY the Hausa and Fulani people who do kill their compatriots with careless abandon: The Yorubas don't kill the Igbos in their midst, neither do the Igbos kill the Yorubas in their midst, although they do disagree; the Ogojas don't kill the Ibibios/Efiks in their midst, nor do the Efiks/Ibibios kill the Ogojas in their midst, although they do disagree; the Junkuns don't kill the Langtans, nor do the Lantangs kill the Junkuns, although they do disagree, etc. Therefore, can my Hausa and Fulani compatriots now before their God begin to search their consciences, examine themselves, confess them and afterwards repent of these sins against God and all of humanity and ask for forgiveness? The trouble with the Hausa and Fulani people of Nigeria is they live their lives as if the Arabs are perpetually watching over their shoulders, such that if they don't resort to all these bestiality, the Arabs and the Arab world generally will not consider them as proper Muslims.
Despite all of these unfortunate blight on our nation's history, I will yet counsel, my fellow compatriots that we should all learn to forgive and forget, but give historians, researchers, journalists and documentarists a space to on our behalf chronicle all the unpleasantness we have experienced thus far, for us and posterity, pleading to all severally that whenever we disagree, as we shall continue to do, let us disagree in love, but certainly NOT, repeat, certainly NOT with daggers, spears arrows, guns, armoured tanks, acids and missiles. This day thenceforward, let us resolve with one resolution that IT IS NOT IN THE CHARACTER OF NIGERIANS TO KILL FELLOW NIGERIANS, NO MATTER THE EXTENT OF PROVOCATION! This is my message to Boko Haram and their creators/sponsors and all such other bloodhounds that the king of Darkness may cause to suddenly spew forth from the pit of darkness onto our pathway to the Promised Land, OUR LAND OF GLORY.
HOW JONATHAN IS CREATING A NEW GENERATION OF OIL THIEVES
Also, it is hoped that our Hausa and Fulani compatriots would come unto themselves by advising the Hausa and Fulani people that unlike in the past, they no longer have the monopoly of violence and in the use of force against their Southern compatriots because virtually all ethnic nationalities in the country today, no matter how small, now have their own ALTERNATIVE ARMED FORCES, some of whom President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has stupidly, but strategically in the sense of the Hausa and Fulanis' perpetual lust for power and domination of the rest of the country recruited to be manning the nation's oil pipes, hoping if he does not win, these militants will cut the oil pipes carrying oil to the North, so they use whatever they have in their backyard to govern Nigeria, and not with the resources from the Niger Delta. But I foresee blood when power changes hand. What is more, corruption and oil thievery have been taken to abysmal level, thus creating a NEW GENERATION OF OIL THIEVES & VANDALS!
However, in spite of the difficulties and dangers ahead, I want to tell all Nigerians, be you assured that our Nigeria is not a tragic geographical space or an anaerobic biotic spheres full of pains and sorrows, but a paradise of glory waiting to be cultivated with its common wealth to be shared by and amongst all of its people justly and equitably in a manner that naturally enhances and brings about ontological equilibrium.
ELECTIONS, DEMOCRACY, THE PSYCHOLOGY AND INTRIGUES OF THE HAUSA AND FULANI PEOPLE OF NIGERIA SINCE 1960 TILL DATE
WHAT ELECTIONS IN NIGERIA ARE NOT...FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Elections in Nigeria are not about governance and rendering services to the people, but about power struggle - who gets, controls what, when, how, why and where?
Since the Hausa and Fulani people have realized that they cannot compete in a democracy in all matters of turonci, robust debate, free speech and the rule of law, they have tended to rely heavily on force and actual violence through the intrumentality of the military, Almajiris and now Boko Haram. And more than anything else, their avowed and earnest desire, backed fully and financially by Arab nations to deliver Nigeria to them as a Muslim and a Sharia-compliant country, the military pathway to them offers a more realistc and dependable catalyst in the realization of that delusion/dream/vision.
As an ultra-imperialistic culture, the Hausa and the Fulani people are impatient with democracy which tends to advocate and promote robust debate in all things including free speech as against what obtains in the ultra-theocratic States of Saudi Arabia and most of the Arab/Muslim and Islamic nations.
With exception of the Kaduna-Nzeogwu led coup which arguably was revolutionary in nature, and depending on the camp that you are in, appears justifiable, all the other coups including the failed plot which led to the mobilzation of the khaki boys to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja and other strategic areas following the leadership tuzzle that ensued following the death of Nigeria's former President Umaru Musa Ya'Adua, tend to confirm the above truism, taking cognizance of the palace coups such as were induced from within due to internal rivalries and intrusions of vested interests such as emirs, business people, top level civil servants and outside influences from the West and the Arab world.
Therefore, from my Observatory and particulary my crystal glass, expcepting the March 28 elections go their way, there could be supra-active volcanic eruptions and an Interim National Government as I had warned years ago is top option on their 'Plan B' to offer a tragic catharsis in the event of a realistic inferno, but will be dismantled in the case of Nwafor Orizu versus Iron and Abacha versus Ernest Shonekan.
Unlike their docile, pleasure-loving, life-loving and bukuru Southern compatriots of theirs, who are always ready to play Esau, the Hausa-Fulanis do always have alternative plans - B, C, D. E...ad infinitum, hence the best crystal glass to predict ontological disequilibrium in the Nigerian polity is simply when the Hausa-Fulanis/North are not in power - and at such times they become very hyper-restive as it was during the President Olusegun era and currently is in the Age of Goodluck, consequently they make the country ungovernable in one way or another. They mouth ONE NIGERIA and declare when they are in power that the corporate existence of Nigeria is non-negotiable.
Thus, anyone coming out at this time to say there will be an ING, or going to ask the President whether such has been planned or not, is simply being naive and it shows their complete lack of knowledge of the workings of the Nigerian political machinery with respect to the psychology of the Hausa and Fulani people whenever they are not in power, hence being aware of this truism, is in itself not a predictive or an analytical knowledge, nor is it a testimony to anyone's political sagacity nor native wisdom, but simply a common knowledge!
OF PARALLELISM AND DEMOCRACY
This is a recent addition to my political theory in fulfillment of my childhood dream whilst at Aladura Comprehensive High School, Anthony Village, Lagos to be a philosopher, political theorist and become the most quoted human being on the planet earth.
In this my latest addition to the global political jargon, it is to that gang of colonial politicians who have been moving from one Western nation to another to give their colonial masters whom they want to sell Nigeria, Africa and all persons of African ancestry to all over again, situation reports about their strategies to capture power at the centre at all cost and asking for their support, probably hoping to give these former colonial masters unhindered access to Africa's resources once more.
The band of these executive mobs - those street urchins and political almajiris suffering identity crisis declared agberoically through one John Oyegun their Chairman deceiving the Nigerian people and portraying themselves to them as "saviours": “As a party, we assure you that we will congratulate president Goodluck Jonathan and his party, PDP if our presidential candidate and party are defeated in free and fair elections, and we will not go to court. However, as a party, we wish to reiterate, that we will not hesitate forming a parallel government, if the 2015 election are rigged either by the use of security agencies (police or military) to harass, intimidate and cajole voters or through the use of a compromise Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC).”
Since this is just a synopsis, I shall at this juncture define Parallelism as the government of a supra-anarchic elements for the same irredeemable decadent elements and by the supra-anarchic elements. Those who promote or advocate this type of aberration in any nation's body politics are to be referred to as Parallelists. Thus, the parallelists are supra-anarchists of the worse kind - irredeemably decadent anarchists. It is either their way or nobody's way. If they can't have or get their way in their own operating environment, they then create a situation of unparalleled chaos and set up a parallel Government with all governmental apparatus within the environment of a duly constituted Government or outside of it in a foreign nation, where they mount up propaganda against the constitutionally recognised Government in their country of origin.
Parallelists are no respecters of persons, of laws of human dignity; of free speech; of democracy; robust debate; of constituted authority, etc. Their ultra-anarchism is just for the pleasure of it as they often do revel in purposeless malignity. In any country where there exists these rotten elements, their actions/inactions should be considerd worse than treasonable felony.
Therefore, the pre-fix Parallelist should precede their names if they have any.
Examples:
- Parallelist Muhammadu Buhari
- Parallelist Bola Ahmed Tinubu-Field Marshall
- Parallelist John Oyegun
- Parallelist Lai Mohammed
- Arch-Parallelist Rotimi Amaechi.
Parallelists are not democrats, although in their delusions of grandeur they think they are. This explains why Parallelist Bola Ahmed Tinubu sometimes thinks he is Chief Obafemi Awolowo, at other times he thinks he is Nelson Mandela and at another time, he thinks he is Mahatma Gandhi. In fact, they biologically cannot be democrats because they are conginitally parallelists, hence their irredeemabilty. Apart from the fact that their brains have been programmed from birth to be who they are - ultra-ultra-ultra-anarchists (3ua), they lack the intellectual capacity for robust debate. They hate the ideas of give and take, live and let live.
IGBO RENAISSANCE: IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
Once Ndigbo have patriotically put the events of the pogroms leading to the civil war behind them, it is my candid opinion that the next stage should be the inauguration of the NDIGBO RENAISSANCE as over 26 years ago, being dissatisfied with the situation of things generally in our country, I had planted the seed of the NIGERIAN RENAISSANCE and added to that onerous task, the AFRICAN RENAISSANCE, for in my dissection of the Nigerian situation and the lot of all persons of African ancestry, I have come to the inevitable conclusion that the African problem is on the mind, more than anything else. Why would a people sell some of their own to strangers; why would a people so endowed with natural resources - in other words, a continent that is resource-rich be so poor, whereas nations/continents that are resource-poor are stupendously wealthy; why have we allowed the two strange religions to become opiums and alcohols in our spirit and soul such that like lions we now prey on one another for the pleasure of those who left us these opium and alcohol, whilst they continue to enter our ancestral groves to cart away our natural endowments and our artefacts which tell our history as the originator of civilization? All the answers to these questions and many others can be located on the AFRICAN MIND. In fact, the African mind is infected with what I call MIND DISEASE and for there to be a way out by way of curing this very disease - it is not to start first and foremost by fighting corruption, although fight corruption we must, but once the mind is healthy through a stirring up of the African spirit we shall have our minds renewed, then comes a REBIRTH.
Hence my starting point in this vision is the decolonization, de-arabinization, de-neo-colinization, de-militarization, de-self-centredization and de-bigmanization of the African mind.
UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL
The Biafran option within a sovereign Nigeria is indeed, a dead one. It's rather unfortunate that many a vested interest in the so-called Biafran project are merely deceiving some gullible Ndigbo, whilst they use the platform to make money, both in Nigeria and in the Diaspora. What is worse, many compatriots who genuinely think the platform is real and had given their all to the realization of the Biafran dream had either found themselves in detention and with some actually getting killed. Perhaps, during the June 12 crisis, Ndigbo and other Nigerians did not hear Ikemba Emeka Odumgwu Ojukwu loud and clear when he said: "I tried it and failed, if anyone tries it they will equally fail." It is hoped a word is enough for the wise here."
Ndigbo kwenu! Kwenu! Ndigbo kwenu! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
The solution does not lie in exhumating Biafra from the grave yard, but in earnestly, genuinely and honestly seeking a place to stand at the centre participating fully in the governance and fully featuring in all the spheres of our national life - and where it looks as if the rights of Ndigbo are being ignored by any persons or group of vested interest, they must as civilize people use the media and go to court to seek redress, and this must be the right avenue for other compatriots too, instead of seeking redress through threatening to Buharass Nigeria by making her ungovernable or resort to the Bolekaja strategy of aiming to form a parallel government like the Almajiris Political Consortium (APC) who will soon carry their political bowls like Femi Fani-Kayode, if the opposite party makes their way back to power.
All I'm saying is: Give Ndigbo a chance to rule Nigeria, and the wounds of the civil wars can be seen to be totally healed when this prayer of mine for Ndigbo becomes a reality. So I cry: Give Ndigbo a place to stand and see them move Nigeria! O, give Ndigbo a standing place and they sure will move Nigeria!
But Ndigbo must work assiduously as a team, not as in the usual way of every autonomous community scrambling for just the one slot meant for Ndigbo and at the end of the day, they all end up not getting that one slot. Growing up in the village, I had watched the stupidity of goats who all struggled to drink water at the same time from just one pot of water left for them, but at the end of the day, as they all struggled to drink at the same time, they would break the pot of water with none having water to drink. Two things are currently lacking amongst Ndigbo: UNITY AND TEAM SPIRIT. These they must endeavour to cultivate, practise and nurture and then first work amongst themselves as one, and afterwards, reach out to work with their compatriots - South-South, West and North of the Niger.
THE PHARAOH CALLED NORTH
For upward of 38 years, our Pharaoh enslaved the rest of the country making them construct their edifices with straws, instead of bricks with resultant stagnation in develoment as they continued to promote medievalism and theocray, far above progressivism and democracy, enlisting our Nigeria in such retrogressive organizations as the OIC and D-8. They told us the sun has set in the West, hence they are moving towards the East, where arises the sun, but unknown to them, in the Arithmetic of creation, this their much prized East is the region of Dark spirit, wherein their ligua franca is violence, and blood-shedding is the air in which they breathe - yes, if you doubt this altruism, what is the Nigerian story as of today?
And despite the fact that it pleased the God of Nigeria to deliver His people from the hands of their oppressors on may 29, 1999, in the delusion of our Pharaoh, chariots of war have been sent out and they are now in hot chase to return God's people to their life of slavery in Egypt, but let them not forget that they will all meet their waterloo in the Red Sea, the Cathedral of the nation's justice.
NO GOING BACK TO EGYPT
Peradventure, our Pharoah does not know, the Red Sea is the grave yard for all unjustness, yes, it is the place where all evils and dark powers do perish unmourned.
Therefore, the tyranny of the North must stop forthwith, because Pharoah has outlived his used by date and the Israelites have been delivered from the hands of their oppressors finally, finally.
The Hausa-Fulanis/descendants of Uthman Dan Fodio and indeed, the whole North need a few lessons in humility, team spirit, co-operation, live and let live, tolerance, rather than their trade mark inflammability, universal altruism, free speech, freedom of worship and the right of every citizen to freedom of choice, in being servants, as they who want to be great must first learn to serve, instead of always being served, as no Nigerian, repeat, no Nigerian whether at home or in the Diaspora would want to be a slave any longer in their fatherland.
Meanwhile, let the word go forth to the children of the coming generations of Nigerians that, whilst Pharaoh's rule lasted for upward of forty years, the Southern half of the NIBE FEDERATION played the sheep, but whilst the Southern kingdom of the NIBE FEDERATION took over the mantle of office, the Northern half of the NIBE FEDERATION decided to introduce Sharia and create the Midianites who shed blood all over the Northern kingdom of NIBE.
SANCTITY OF LIVES AND UNIVERSAL ALTRUISM
At this juncture, and in a child-like manner, I plead with all within the Republic - to the the Hausa and Fulani people, the Yalas, the Yorubas, the Tivs, the Ibibios, the Jukuns, the Bashamas, the Binis, the Ijaws -
people shouldn't dominate;
people shouldn't do killings;
people shouldn't do lootings;
people shouldn't gather wealth they cannot be able to finish in a life time;
especially when other people don't have anything to eat,
when the poor can't send their children to schools because of school fees,
when people are dying in hospitals due to lack of drugs,
adequate health care and inability to pay hospital bills, whereas the rich go abroad for treatments of the minutest ailments,
and especially, when all around the world the greater number of the world's population are hungry;
people shouldn't cheat on others;
people shouldn't think only they have the right to do things as in ruling Nigeria;
people shouldn't be arrogant, pompous and proud;
people shouldn't miss use religion;
people shouldn't be self-centred.
Let us sing: "We shall over come, we shall over come some day..."
NDIBGO RENAISSANCE INSTITUTE (NRI)
It is hereby proposed that Ndigbo East of the Niger, Ndigbo of the Niger Delta and the Diasporan Ndigbo should all come together an erect an iconic landmark to be situated East of the Niger - a one-hundred story building which will convey a message of determination in the face of odds to the coming generations of Ndigbo - this should be a 5-10 year vision having multi-purpose halls for mult-purpose functions including such other things as hotels, reataurants, giant supermarkets, the biggest library East of the Niger, the biggest research centre, East of the Niger, lecture halls, wedding halls, singles hall/centre, civic centre, scientific laboratories, the biggest, East of the Niger, cinema halls, Nolly Wood hall for national awards in the arts and culture sector, centre for the study of Igbo culture and African civilization, sports centre, table tennis court, lawn tennis court, etc, etc. Each wing/hall should be named after prominent Igbos. This vision should be replicated all over the existing regions of Nigeria, for a serious nation does not compete at the level of violence, blood-letting and war, but at the levels of ideas, progress, development, inventions, innovations, businesses, the professions, etc.
Also, to be constituted in earnest is a body of Igbo intellectuals, journalists and elders to look into all of these areas, compiling and comparing the list of all Generals the nation has produced together with other political appointments made since the 1960s till date to see where Ndigbo in comparison with Hausa-Fulanis and the Yorubas have been short-changed, with a view to redressing these obvious injustices and ensuring balance, so Ndigbo get their due in their own very country - Nigeria. Nigeria is for all Nigerians, for what has happened over the years is the subtle and most times overt superimposition of Arabism/Caliphateism/Arewaism and Gamjism over Ndigboism, making Ndigbo to settle for crumbs in their own country, especially when the Hausa and Fulani people know the Igbos would always play Esau, no matter what.
The same fairnessness and balance MUST apply to other ethnic nationalities within the Nigerian Federation, whether small or big. The idea of a section, a group of ethnic nationalities always having their ways and lording it over the rest of the country must stop.
WHAT IS MY BUSINESS IN ALL OF THESE AND WHERE DOES JOHN ODEY ADUMA STAND IN THE NIGERIAN FEDERATION?
I stand on the side of justice; on the side of peace and peaceful co-existence of all Nigerians and all of humanity; yes I stand on the side of posterity; I stand on the side of progress; I stand on the side of good governance and the rule of law; I stand on the side of uprightness; above all, I satnd on the side of the God of the heavens and the earth and on my epitaph, I want it written: "Here lies the body of John Odey Aduma, who like His Lord and Master went about doing good, a "trouble maker" who was a thorn in the flesh of authorities, and a friend of all who do good, justice and peace, and above all, John Aduma stood stedfastly on the side of God till the end."
A British friend of mine whom God has raised to be supporting my vision for Nigeria, Africa and all of humanity on this side of the Atlantic Mr Neil Pearce recently asked me after he and the wife had read one of my articles: "Don't you want to have friends, you don't spare any body, not even America? And I said to him: "Who are my friends, but those who do God and not religion, who are my friends, except those who do good, justice and peace, practise universal altruism and contend for the liberty of the entire humanity."
Life to me won't be about money, but about God and I just want to be the mirrow of God and not of the world. And it won't be about religion, but about God; it won't be about material things/acquisitiveness, but about service to God and humanity; it yet won't be about fame and all of its shallow things, but it sure will be about doing good; it yet won't be about me and my place in the world; but about justice, equality and peace.
Just last week, a Briton, one Mr Carrington, 93 years old, a man of means and on being told I'm a journalist said to me: "You must be a trouble maker?"
And taking a deep breath, my quick thinking came to the rescue and I went for the positive meaning of that phrase, so I replied: "Yes, I'm a trouble maker not in the negative sense of the word, but in its positive sense. Yes, I'm a trouble maker for the sake of peace and justice, equality and fairness, universal altruism and liberty, principles, convinction and consciencism."
Yes, anyone who wants to record this for posterity, let them be told John Odey Aduma was a trouble maker for the sake of all of God's people, defending their rights and advocating equal distribution of the national wealth to ensure the greater majority of the citizens are taken out of poverty.
My dear Nigerians, let the word go forth therefore to the children of the coming generations of humanity that John Odey Aduma is a servant of and crusader for peace; let the word go forth to the children of the coming generations of humanity that John Odey Aduma is a man with the olive branch, a peacemaker poised to contend for the peace of the world, the liberty of the world, harmonious and peaceful co-existence of all of the children of God here on earth, this is where I stand.Yes, this is where John Odey Aduma stands.
CONCLUSION
My fellow Nigerians, be aware therefore, that the Hausanization, Fulanization and Arabinization of the Nigerian Federation are hinged on the depraved and domineering philosophy of caliphateism, emirateism, Gamjism, arabism, islamism, medievalism, northernism, wahabism, shiteism, sunnism, arewaism, salafism and lately, bokoharamism with islamism as the fulcrum with the ultimate aim of sharianising the Nigerian Federation, using the islamists nuclear weapon of jihadism and co-operating actively in bringing about the reign of principalities, territorial spirits, powers of darkness, spiritual wickedness in exalted places, fuelled by purposeless malignity, are Saudi Arabia, Qatar, other core and peripheral Arab nations, helped locally in Nigeria by Boko Haram agents whose cells/chapters are in palaces, homes of serving and former civil servants, in mosques, campuses, hotels, motels, brothels, in barracks, military and police formations, your so-called national assembly, Apo Village, Asokoro, Aso Rock, Federal Secretariat in Abuja, forests, hills and valleys, market places, rugas, etc, etc, all of who have allegiance, not to the Government and People of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but to the Koran, Sharia, Saudi Arabia and the Arab world.
O' you did not get it when Sanusi Lamido Sanusi during his installation as the Emir said he would be guided, NOT by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but by Sharia. What that translates into meaning is that he is not the Emir of Kano, whose inhabitants are Nigerians, North and South including foreigners, but he is the Emir ONLY of the Muslims in Kano State. Sanusi's car passed onto him by Ado Bayero up till now is right-hand drive with the steering on the right instead of left - hand drive with the steering on the left which the country changed to since 1972!
He cruises around with it, and the late emir also cruised around with this car with police turning a blind eye. Sanusi went to Aso Rock with this very car during one of his visits to the nation's seat of power, but the security agencies' eyes were plucked out of their sockets, so they could not see Sanusi and his car to impound for breaking the law of Nigeria.
What Sanusi had demonstrated by his now trade mark arrogance is that: "I'M ABOVE THE LAWS OF NIGERIA!" It is tantamount to a Sanusi saying, "There are two nations in one as far as the Nigerian Federation is concerned - one governed by the constitution and based on democracy and the rule of law, and the other governmed by Sharia and based on theocracy and medievalism, hence the cutting of hands and the beheadings as exemplified in Boko Haram's bestiality and total monstrosity.
THE NATURAL AND MYSTICAL DIVISIONS OF NIGERIA IGNORED BY AGENTS OF THE CALIPHATE OVER THE YEARS IN THE BALKANIZATION OF NIGERIA
Perhaps, we would have had a better Nigeria today with containable frictions and disagreements if the partitioning of Nigeria had followed what I'd like to call its natural and mystical division such as:
- Nigeria East of the Niger (NIEON or EON...comprising all former Eastern Region).
- Nigeria West of the Niger (NIWON or WON...comprising all former Western Region before the creation of Mid Western Region in 1963).
- Midland or (Middle Belt or Central Region...all areas/States comprising today's North Central).
- Nigeria North of the Niger (NINON or NON...all States making up North West and North East).
It is an idea that I'm still developing, but let us all think about these...with these, Nigeria could adopt the United Kingdom Model of Four-in-One.
CITIZENSHIP, STATEISM, INDIGENIZATION AND SETTLERSHIP
In sane societies, to be a citizen surpasses all else - remember Paul declaring to his aggressors: I'M A ROMAN CITIZEN and what follows afterwards? Therefore, to merely declare: "I'M A NIGERIAN CITIZEN should entitle you to anything, whatsoever in any part of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, without recourse to such nonsense as State of Origin, religion, indigenes, settlers, etc. And if by now, you are thinking what I'm thinking, a Nigerian citizen, born, bred and domiciled in any part of the country should contest elections into any elective posts there are, from the grassroots - local government areas, States and at the centre without any form of discrimination or obstacles put in the way of such well meaning and highly integrative tendencies. Why should anyone raise an eye brow if Musa Abdullahi who has Kano roots, but born, raised up or just domiciled in Cross River State contested and won a gubernatorial election and subsequently sworn in as the Governor of Cross River State? Similarly, why must hell be let lose if Christian Achebe Udechukwu with Igbo ancestry, who was born and bred or just domiciled in Zamfara State (should I say Zamfaraghanistan?) contested the same election, won and was subsequently sworn in as the Governor of Zamfara State?
In the forthcoming General elections, how many Nigerian citizens born, bred or domiciled in States other than their so-called States of Origin are contesting, to start with, in States like Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, three of the nation's most highly multicultural, multi-lingual States, and then at the City of Vultures and Worms, the nation's Federal Capital Territory?
In a truly federated country, there ought not to be such highly embarrassing shame as indigenes, settlers, States of Origin, but citizens. Equally, there ought not to be such display of ignorance with respect to national commons such as oil and other natural resources as to carrying such "mumuness"/silliness/illiteracy/ignorance/arrogance to a point of extremity as oil producing States or oil producing communities, for I for one, as reflected in all my writings, there is no State or community in Nigeria that produces oil or such other resources or commodities, but the GOVERNMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA do.
More worrisome is the fact that young people in Sharia States are not prepared as citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but as Mujahedeens/jihadists with allegiance to Saudi Arabia and the Arab world, where began all the plots and whisperings for the islamification of Nigeria, or if it proves impossible, then as Muamar Gadafi who surreptitiously destroyed such West African countries as Sierra Leone and Liberia had suggested, Nigeria should be divided along religious lines, at a time he was speaking the mind of the Arab world regarding Nigeria or should I say: NIGERIANISTAN/NIGERIAGHANISTAN?
Mark this: Sharia and the current wave of jihadism in and around Africa which is a replay of the 7th Century invasion of Africa, consequent upon the destruction of indigenous (Black) civilization including their displacement, the dilusion and the discolouring of North Africa as you now have in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Sudan, some of who today parade themselves as ARAB REPUBLIC OF...yet are members of the so-called African Union (AU), will destroy the continent in a manner worse than the combined evils of slavery and colonialism had done in the previous centuries and push her backward a billion years.
By this my prophetic message to all Nigerians, especially my fellow Hausa and Fulani compatriots is that in a polygamous home called THE HOUSE OF NIGERIA, the children of one of the many wives in the House of Nigeria cannot continue to look upon their other half-brothers and sisters as illegitimate/bastards for so long, without risking an absence of peace in the household, manifesting in such emotions as contant strife/friction/violence, consequent upon untold blood-letting and war. The purpose of this message is to sound a warning to you and all my brothers and sisters up North that it is not wisdom, but a lack of it that will make anyone from a polygamous home like Nigeria want to behave thus, all of the time.
But as Abraham Lincoln the 16th American President had said centuries ago: “You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.” I'm in love with the 21st Century and earnestly looking forward to the next centuries ahead, but to be returned back to the Dark Ages, I'd rather jump off the Ship of State and get drown in the Ocean than allow myself the indignity of being transported back to medievalism with all its attendant bestiality and monstrosity! Coming off the Ship because of the reason adumbrated above, John Odey Aduma will not be alone, but I will have many comrades who would like me like to drown honourably in the Ocean than to be returned to the medieval era.
Also, it smacks off crass arrogance, superiority complex, intolerance, total lack of honour and dignity, gross inconsideration devoid of universal altruism, totally disrespectful to the Golden Rule for the children of this same woman in the polygamous House of Nigeria to want to deny their other brothers and sisters the inheritance to which all of them are heirs, using every dishonourable methods, which all of the time involve violence and bestial blood-letting as Cain's before the very eyes of the all-seeing and all-knowing God, including undignified tactics such as Machiavellianism.
Since my Hausa and Fulani compatriots cannot read the hand writing on the wall, it is my patriotic duty to aver that the time has come for every bond person within the Nigerian Federation to free themselves, such that they would not want to return to the Dark Ages, they would also not want to return to Egypt after having crossed the Red Sea, for as Major-General Mamman Jiya Vatsa once said: "Lean freedom is better than fat slavery."
And echoing the Great William Shakespearse: "Every bond man has the right to free himself."
In plain English, what I mean is that no Nigerian - North and South of the Niger wants to be a slave in their fatherland any more. What is more, in the coming Ndigbo renaissance, whose stirrings and echo I can hear already, THE IGBOS OF NIGERIA ARE NO LONGER FOR TURNING, SO ARE OTHER NIGERIANS!
Therefore, Arewa, my Hausa and Fulani compatriots particularly, watch it/take note!
Ndigbo kwenu!
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Nigeria, kwenu!
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!
Africa, kwenu!
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Kwenu! Kwenu! Kwenu!
And as I descend the platform to take my seat with the elders, I can hear the echo of the song: LET THERE BE LOVE SHARED AMONGST US,
LET THERE BE LOVE IN OUR HEARTS.....
Children, be of good behaviour amongst yourselves.
God bless Nigeria.
*John Odey Aduma, a British Chevening Scholar is the publisher of VIGILANCE-THE WORLD'S LEADING SECURITY MAGAZINE. He was formerly Chairman, Editorial Board of The Daily Times of Nigeria Plc and Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria.
***Please pass this on and ensure it gets to 150 million Nigerians today...email it to all on your mailing list and please do print, photocopy and send it to all that you know...read it reflectively, carefully, gradually, chew it, discuss it and think on it! As you prepare to go and cast your ballots in all the nooks and crannies of Nigeria, I can hear the echo of Otto Rene Castillo's eternal message to all Nigerians at home and abroad reveberating on the mountains, over the hills and valleys: "BENEATH OUR NIGHT A SUN AWAITS US." And I'm happy to announce today to all severally that God has smiled on our Nigeria and all of its people, both in the Upper and Lower Niger and in the Diaspora and I can see the sun of Nigeria as it arises from the far off East. Good Morning, Nigeria as the eyes of the world are on you. Let March 28, 2015 be your finest hour and not your darkest. THEREFORE, LET THERE BE PEACE IN NIGERIA, EVEN THE PEACE THAT SURPASSES ALL UNDERSTANDING. ONCE AGAIN, MAY GOD BLESS OUR NIGERIA AND ALL OF ITS PEOPLE AT HOME AND ABROAD.