Introduction:
Nigeria as a nation has really evolved. Just a century ago,
Lord Lugard, the then Governor-general under the British colonial rule,
amalgamated the northern and southern protectorate, thereby giving birth to
what is today called Nigeria.
That unholy marriage of 1914, as many political scholars
have christened it, right from the earlier instance, was susceptible to be a
marriage of two strange fellows that would not last beyond a decade. Even the
sage, Awolowo in one of his immortal writs, was quoted to say, ‘I had inkling
that a political marriage with Hausa/Fulani would be a disaster’, a riot act a
more detribalized Zik jettisoned with a pinch of salt. Left for Awolowo,
intellectualism could have been employed to cut down the wizardry wings of
these core northern elites, who from time had shown their unbridled thirst for
power, considering the fact that the core north was intellectually and educationally
disadvantaged.
Eventually, in the spirit of oneness and accommodation,
every tenet of the constitution was intended to favour the so-called less privileged
north, including the federal character principles. What a paradox that those
who were seen to be disadvantaged have eventually taken the greater chunk of
being at the helm in the leadership of this country within the last five
decades since Nigeria got her independence!
Within these periods, Nigeria as a nation has seen the good,
the bad and the ugly side of an independent nation. Think of the following:
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The military regime with its coup and counter
coup, that resulted to loss of lives and properties
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The Civil war
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The Maitasane clampdown
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The economic recession of early and mid ‘80s
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The Abacha dictatorial regime
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And many more…
In all these, the hand of God was great upon this nation. With
what Nigeria, as an independent nation had gone through, many turned prophets overnight,
predicting that the nation would be disintegrated in a moment of time.
The last straw that could had broken the camel’s back was
the tension of war and blood that preceded the last general election of 2015,
when the then leading opposition party, All
Progressive Congress, threatened hell and brimstone, including ‘monkey and
baboon soaking in blood’ if they failed to clinch the power at the centre. Those threats were not empty ones, and
Nigerians knew it.
The whole nation was sitting under a time bomb. Those who
had never prayed ever in their lifetime turned emergency prayer warriors. The
main prayer point then was, ‘ O God, we need peace in Nigeria, both before,
during and after the 2015 general election’.
And God heard and answered- the
incumbent President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, conceded defeat graciously, even
when he was aware of all the manipulations that went in favour of APC, just
because ‘Power must return to the North’.
It is evident; God has delivered this country for so long,
in spite of our wickedness and evil works. And here are we today under a new
political dispensation- a onetime army general, a former military head of state,
in the person of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) is now the President and
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria.
And Nigeria is still evolving!
In all of Nigeria impending catastrophe, which every
patriotic Nigeria should do well to pray against, and if possible, fight
against, are what I call the ‘Triple Threat of nation’, which are Buhari,
Biafra and Bokoharam.
Let’s take them one after the other.
1. Buhari’s ‘Madness’:
Last year, before the Presidential election,
I wrote an article on why Nigerians should not elect Buhari as president. It’s
not that I have a personal grouse against him. That alone would be sin on me
being a Christian. But I believe part of our responsibilities as Christians in
our nation is to be a ‘voice’, especially when we have revelations and inklings
of impending dangers. Of course, our crying out may not change anything, but at
least, it would be on record that there was a voice!
Every man has got a flaw, including
political leaders, and President Buhari is not an exemption. He can make
mistakes. But aside human frailties, Buhari, since he assumed office, has
exhibited a high level of ‘madness’ that we Nigerians out of either blind
sycophancy, hypnotized party affiliation, deadened conscience, cowardice and/or
brazen gullibility have refused to address. Think of these:
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Blame game-
Within the last eight months since Buhari came into power, he keeps blaming
Jonathan on every seeming woes that is befallen the nation, instead of tackling
them. Paradoxically, the man he and his party are criticizing are far better
than him in every meaningful statistics- For Jonathan, his political ambition is
not worth the blood of any Nigerian; while for Buhari, ‘monkey and baboon would
soak in blood’ if he fails to win.
For Jonathan, in spite of the harsh opposition from Buhari, APC and the
entire north, he concentrated and revived the economy; while for Buhari with no
opposition (PDP is just a dead dog), the economy is collapsing under his nose.
Jonathan was detribalized; while
Buhari is tribalistic to the core.
Jonathan today is still enjoining
Nigerians to support Buhari; while Buhari was busy attacking Jonathan at every
instance when Jonathan was in power.
Under Jonathan, opposition parties were winning election, and in each
case, he would congratulate the winner, in spite of his party affiliation; but
today, under Buhari, the entire nation is gradually turning to a one party
state, as the elections won by opposition parties are being cancelled in favour
of APC and Buhari apologists.
Jonathan was pelted with objects during his Presidential campaign, and he
forbore with the illiterate children of the north, and did not command the army
to kill the ‘terrorists’; but young innocent men and women of the East were
gunned down by Buhari army, for just celebrating peacefully over the news of
their leader’s release from the ‘caesar’s dungeon’.
One is an enlightened PhD Holder; the other is still searching for his
School Cert Result.
The list is endless….
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Marginalization
of Ndigbo- Anybody who sees or says otherwise is either myopic or
hypocritical. How shameful that during the last Media chat of the President,
when the question of Ndigbo marginalization came up, the President began to
mention his appointees from South/South as to be South/East representatives. Does
it mean that as a President, he does not understand the geo-political settings
of our dear nation, Nigeria?
One
hypocrite may be quick to note that Ndigbo did not vote for him during the last
election, so as to concur with Buhari’s innovative political ratio of 95%:5%.
But should it be so in a democratic setting? The Muslim Hausa/Fulani are now
virtually in power, and Nigerians say it’s alright, and I say, it’s madness!
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Contempt to
the Rule of Law- The Bible declares, ‘If the foundation be destroyed, what
can the righteous do’? The point being made here is that, when the judiciary,
which should serve as the foundation of justice, fairness good governance and
civility among citizens, is trampled upon, who can really practise
righteousness. In a question of time, everybody would turn a societal deviant,
because as the saying goes- ‘a leader’s sin is a leading sin’.
Today, we see our President breeching the rule of law by showing contempt
to judicial pronouncements, with his overzealous foot soldiers, the DSS, in the
name of fighting corruption. The human rights of citizens are jettisoned, and
we’re all applauding the ‘Caesar of terror’, lest we be consumed…!
Nobody
dare criticize the government again. If one dares it, one risks being a guest
to EFCC. Today, because Fayose, Fani-Kayode and Metuh are speaking out, EFCC
has dusted their files to come up with a bad name for the ‘dogs’ so that they
would hang them… and Nigerians are applauding!
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Executive
Lies and Propaganda- Never before in the history of this nation have we
seen the level of executive lies and propaganda, as what is witnessed today. All
the pre-election promises are today, technically denied. Like a friend rightly
put it, #PromiseOfChange has turned to #ChangeOfPromise. Nobody is ready to confront
this madness. Nigerians looked dazed and hypnotized.
The list is endless, but I’m very
sure, God will intervene. By then, the #LyingLiars would be exposed, and all of
us today who are termed, #WailingWailers would be vindicated.
2. Biafra Militancy:
Militancy is not a new word in our memory
dictionary as Nigerians. At least, we still remember the Niger Delta militancy.
Great thanks to President Musa Yar’adua (of blessed memory), who took the
initiative of a good leader, and quenched the inferno that could had burnt the
entire nation to ashes. If we all should go to memory lane, looking at cause
and not just the effect, we can all agree that those boys agitated for a cause.
Who would blame a man for asking for his due right, even if it takes going to
the militancy length! Only cowards and men of religion, who believe in the
Supernatural fighting their cause, do otherwise.
As a Nigerian from the Eastern part of the
country, I love Nigeria being united as one and achieve greatness as a nation. But
today, we can all see what is happening- a call for a sovereign state of
Biafra. There are some factors that led credence to this renewed agitation, but
two are more prominent: One is the normal human unquenchable thirst for power. After
the declaration of ‘no victor, no vanquished’, one would think Biafra issue is
dead, especially when the man who fought the real war, Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu (of
blessed memory), accepted the fate of a united nation. Eventually, somebody has
woken up to realize that Ojukwu made a mistake after all. The truth is that if that
is done in the right spirit, there is nothing wrong with it. The UN supports such.
The second factor is based on the perceived
marginalization, with the attendant feeling that ‘Nigeria is no longer a home
for us; we need to seek for another home’.
Interestingly, none of the above factors is
problematic on its own. But the way the federal government handles it will
matter a lot. If the Buhari-led government think that the only option left to
solve the problem of the renewed agitation for the sovereign state of Biafra is
by showing off his endemic hate for Ndigbo, and then go on a killing spree of
harmless citizens, while his Fulani herdsmen brotherhood are walking free, then
Nigeria should be ready for another militancy. Be sure, you can’t push a people group to the
wall for too long.
We Nigerians like to discuss problems and
trade blames, instead of proffering solution. Nobody wants to advice the
Presidency now on the best way to handle these boys; it’s rather shameful that even
the so-called enlightened men, like Prof Sagay, Obasanjo and their likes would
be throwing blames and abuses to Ndigbo for agitating for an independent state.
Is that the best they can offer?
3. Boko-haram Murderous Tendencies- It’s
quite heart-breaking that Nigerians are under a cloud of error and falsehood. The
present government has made lies and propaganda its bedrock. So, for the
hypnotized folks among us, let me remind us, Boko haram is still on point! Understanding
the antecedent of Boko haram is what every average Nigerian needs to know what
is going on in the secret as regards Boko haram insurgency.
Boko haram is an Islamic mandate
tool, just like ISIS and every other terror groups across the globe. Islam has
a mandate to capture many nations and take a formidable root. Their sole target
is to get formidable enough to fight Israel and America, their arch enemies. Part
of the mandate was to use force and insurgency to capture Africa as a whole,
alongside every other part of the world they feel they can capture by the use
of force; otherwise, they employ economic force, as you see Muslims buying up
corporations and big businesses in Europe and Americas.
Every Islamic leader, including
devout Muslims, are subscribed to this mandate, and Buhari is subscribed to it
too. Buhari cannot eliminate Boko-haram, not because they are too strong for us
as a nation, but because he is sympathetic towards them. A time would come in this nation (if we
refuse to pray for God’s intervention, and rather choose to blacklist this
article) when Boko haram men would be part of this government of the Muslim
North, and they would be employed to attack Christians, Ndigbo and all those
perceived to be fake Muslims.
When the late Gaddafi predicted
that by 2015, Nigeria would be no more, he was just reading a script from that
satanic mandate. The feeling in their quarter was that Jonathan would likely
win the election, being the incumbent. So they planned to so set the country on
fire to the point Nigeria would become a desert. You heard Buhari said it. You
heard all the APC guys threatening to form a parallel government if Jonathan
had won. You see how even PDP leaders who are Muslim northerners did not
campaign for Jonathan in the north. You saw all that happened during the
election, how under-aged voted for Buhari.
Orubebe today appeared like a fool
in the eyes of many gullible Nigerians, but that man reacted for good.
A lot of
things happened, just to make sure power returns to a Muslim, who would support
the emergence of an Islamic state. Jonathan knew as well as saw it, but
considering the level of bloodbath that could have greeted the nation; he threw
in the towel, so that Nigeria would be. God used him, the good man, Jonathan.
I wouldn’t want to dwell so much on
this as I will still come up with a piece on Islamic mandate.
I’m very sure many will kick at as
well as blacklist this article as a figment of my own imagination. Well, let
that be; every man is subject to his/her own opinion.
However, I wish to reiterate here
that I have no personal grouse against the person of Mr President. I pray for him and the nation too.
I only will like to enjoin every Nigerian
to be praying this prayer, which I’ve also made a personal prayer point as it
concerns the points hitherto raised:
“If President Buhari means well for
this country, may heaven support him. May he find God’s grace, mercy and divine
assistance in tackling the problems of this nation, Nigeria. May he live long
and enjoy good health; may he not stumble; may it be well with him all round…….
But if he has an evil agenda and a mischievous connivance with evil men and
group to destabilize this nation, oppress Christians, Ndigbo and his perceived
enemies, unjustly, then may heaven be against him; may the whirlwind of divine
wrath cut him short and disappoint him that he would not be able to carry out
his enterprise. May the Almighty Judge expose and rebuke his evil and
mischievous intents and inclinations”.
All these prayers made in the right
spirit in Jesus name. This nation has been under the hand of God for these
years; the same God who cannot change would be merciful enough to keep us safe
and secure from both internal and external foes in Jesus name. Amen!
Long live the Federal Republic of
Nigeria… the Giant of Africa.
From a Patriot…
