The main obstacles to the unity
and progress of Nigeria are the Northern Political Elite.
An excerpt from an open letter to
President Muhammadu Buhari from Femi Fani Kayode has this to say about the core
north:
According to the World Bank 87%
of poor people in Nigeria are in the North. It is a wonder what 58years of
Northern oppression, tyranny aggression, manipulation and hegemony over Nigeria
has actually done for the Northern masses.
Since independence, mass poverty,
terrorism, religious bigotry, ethnic hegemony, Islamic fundamentalism,
arrogance, born to rule syndrome, the worship of cows, ignorance disease, hate,
racism, feudalism, pedophilia child marriage, VVF, gender inequality, chauvinism,
the persecution of Christians, the suppression of women, corruption, deceit,
greed, ingratitude, sense of entitlement, tyranny, insensitivity, bloodshed,
genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass murder and gratuitous violence, have all been
deeply associated with the core North.
According to UNICEF, if Nigeria
were to ever break up, the core north would be the poorest spot on Earth.
This is why Northerners keep
screaming “One Nigeria” and threatening the lives and liberty of those that do
not share their view. Without Nigeria they would be groping in the dark,
wobbling on their feet and literally starve to death.
All these yet they insist that
they were “born to rule” and that southerners and middle belters where “Born to
serve” them and be their slaves.
Professor Yusuf Dankofa of the faculty
of Law at Ahmadu Bello University (a Northerner himself) put it in very clear
term and spoke the bitter truth when he wrote the following:
I think the north is only interested
in power and nothing more. The sweetness of power and the allure it brings is
what appeals to them and not work. If not, how can a region be so decimated by
its own internal contradictions and trudge on as if the region is not
regressing. In the face of calamity, what you see is eerie silence, since power
is with their elites who are thoroughly dependent on public treasury to survive.
The poor too draw happiness from the fact that power is in the hands of their
elites even if they will die of poverty and insurgency. We are happy that power
is with us even though we don’t know what to do with it. This mindset will
definitely lead others to seek to move out of the union. You can’t slow down
your own progress and those of others and expect them to clap for you.
Those to be blamed are the southern
and middle belt politicians and leaders who have refused to unite and who have
failed to resist them and stand up to them since independence.
But the real obstacles is not our
Hausa Brothers and the various tribes in the North but our almost 3(three) Million
Beloved Fulanis who have an agenda to Islamize Nigeria and at the same time take
over the land of the Middle Belters and the Southerners to settle their Fulani brothers
from other parts of Africa.
Nigerians should not keep quiet
and watch this atrocity otherwise, there is no hope for the future generations.
The political elites in the
middle Belt and the south should wake up from their slumber and shy away from
their present myopic interest to face this evil that confronts the unity of our
nation.
Our Nation is hanging on a
precipice. We all need to cry out in one voice to prevent the ultimate
collapse.
The Northern Political Elite should
realize that their strategies are open to the world. They should re-strategize
to toe the line of peace and progress.
The present bloodletting must
stop, Nigeria should take the lead in breaking the barriers that separate
Africa. But this can only be achieved if she puts her home in order. We already
agree that the contraption called Nigeria today is a “Marriage of strange bed
fellows”. But we must either learn to peacefully live with it or let it collapse
to produce other cohesive national groups to form countries after a properly
negotiated sovereignty conference.
We should earnestly seek the face
of OLODUMARE for the way forward.
Shalom.
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God Bless Nigeria
God Bless Africa
God Bless Humanity
Very Truly Yours
Evang. Déjà vu
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