“If anything happens to Buhari the north will insist on being in power till 2027…those who see Buhari as their representative and are not being treated justly are going to claim their own rights and the only way you are going to resolve the issue is that after Buhari’s administration, you have it zoned to the north for eight to 10 years”- Dr. Junaid Mohammed, Punch Newspaper, 14th May 2017.
This is bunkum! There is no such thing as “insisting” on
anything in a democratic setting.
Dr. Junaid Mohammed is out of touch with reality and he
speaks only for the lunatic ultra-conservative wing of the core northern Muslim
ruling elite to which he belongs.
He does not speak for moderate, reasonable, rational and
God-fearing core northerners.
The truth is that the lunatic fringe and ephemeral “north”
and the ultra conservative extremists and hegemonistic cabal that he represents
is no longer in a position to insist on ANYTHING because this is a democracy.
The fact of the matter is that the glorious days of the
all-powerful “Kaduna Mafia” are long over!
There is no question of any form of coercion or compulsion
in this matter.
If the core north wants the Presidency in 2019 they must
appeal to the rest of the nation to give it to them and they must work hard for
it.
And it can only be given to them as a result of hard
negotiation and consensus and not by threats.
Nothing must be taken for granted. It will not be given to
them as of right but, if at all, it will be conceded to them as a consequence of
the freely exercised will of the Nigerian people from both the north and the
south.
We do not operate a monarchical system of government in
Nigeria and no single individual or group of people have a “divine right to
rule”.
The title of “born to rule” is not only provocative,
insulting, unsavoury and distasteful but it is also inimical to and
incompatible with every form and tenet of decency and justice that is known to
man.
It cannot be engendered, tolerated or sustained in a
democratic dispensation and setting where the rule of law prevails and where
every citizen, regardless of gender, ethnicity or faith, is deemed to be equal
before God and has the right to vote.
Nigeria does not have and neither does she desire a
master-race of blue-blooded core northern aristocrats to run her affairs and
she is not a Saudi Arabian or ISIL-like caliphate that is ruled and governed by
a set of antiquated and archaic feudal and theocratic laws.
Our jurisprudence and system of government is based on a
proud and strong Judeo-Christian foundation which is enshrined and embedded in
equity, decency, tolerance, liberalism and justice for all.
No individual, no matter how highly exalted or revered, and
no ethnic group, no matter how innovative, resourceful or well-endowed, can laud
it over the entire nation, impose their will on us or tell us what to do.
That is the bitter truth and that is the Nigeria of 2017: a
nation where a new generation of young and dynamic political activists and
leaders are silently emerging who are not prepared to settle for the insults,
indignities and tiny crumbs that the older generation were prepared to live
with and tolerate for so many years.
The truth is that if anything happens to Buhari nothing will
happen and Nigeria will move on.
If anything happens to Buhari, the Acting President,
Professor Yemi Osinbajo, will continue his term of office with full powers, he
will have the support of the Nigerian people and he will finish his tenure hail
and hearty.
If anything happens to Buhari in 2019 Nigeria may have a
southern President after which the country may be restructured.
If anything happens to Buhari the south and the Middle Belt
will NOT go on bended knee to beg and appease the north and we will not be
moved or intimidated by the usual threats of carnage and violence by the likes
of dark and sinister men like Junaid Mohammed.
If anything happens to Buhari it will be a defining moment
and we will know whether ours will remains a nation at peace with itself or a
theater of bloody conflict and civil war.
On Sunday 14th of May, Chief A.K. Horsfall, the former
Director General of Nigeria’s State Security Services (SSS) and National
Intelligence Service (NIA) and one of the most revered and respected figures in
the intelligence community, told the Sun Newspaper that “Nigeria is sitting on
a time-bomb”.
He is absolutely right. Some of us warned that things would
eventually come to this as far back as two years ago but as usual the
shallow-minded skeptics, the ignorant dullards, the undiscerning fools and the
cowardly compromisers amongst us brushed aside our concerns and paid no heed to
our fears.
Instead they insulted us and labelled us as enemies of the
system, alarmists and prophets of doom. Now we are in a real mess as the clouds
of conflict are gathering and the drums of war are beating.
Sadly everything that we said would happen two years ago has
come to pass and today Nigeria is a nation that is on the brink.
The fear and tension in the land is palpable as the quest
for power has once again started.
Yet those that insist on power remaining in the core north
till 2027 are relentless. They are not prepared to give an inch and they are
already preparing the ground for the worst case scenario.
This is sad and most unwise but no-one is intimidated. The
bitter truth is that if they insist on carnage, conflict and violence I say let
it come and let us consider it to be the final battle in the war for Nigeria’s
independence.
We won our independence from the British, our erstwhile
external colonial masters, in 1960 after my distinguished father, Chief
Remilekun Fani-Kayode Q.C. S.A.N, C.O.N, proudly and successfully moved the
motion for Nigeria’s independence in Parliament in 1958.
Today, by this contribution, I hereby move the motion for
Nigeria’s independence from our all-powerful internal colonial masters and I
decree and declare that by 2019 we will be free and truly liberated from their
hegemony and subjugation.
Some have threatened to impose their will on us by the force
of arms and by the usage of savage and relentless religious and ethnic militias
and standing armies like the Fulani Herdsmen and Boko Haram if we do not accept
their bondage.
Yet we cannot be intimidated. If they refuse to relent, if
they unleash violence and havoc on our people and if they insist on holding on
to power in perpetuity we will defend ourselves and we will resist, oppose and
fight them.
With or without the support of our beleaguered, and
overwhelmed elders we will fight them.
With or without the backing of our conflicted, compromised
and timid political leaders we will fight them.
As long as God is alive and Jesus sits on the throne we will
fight them.
We will fight them physically, spiritually, intellectually,
psychologically and in every other way.
We will fight them on the land, in the sea and in the air.
We will fight them in every visible and invisible realm and
on every tangible and intangible plain.
Our enemies are not the ordinary people of the core north
but those misguided elites who believe that they own Nigeria, who see the rest
of us as nothing but chattel, who treat us like field hands and slaves and who
believe that our lives are worth less than the lives of their cows.
We cannot be expected to love our oppressors and to cheer
them on whilst they are attempting to cut off our balls and castrate our
people.
We cannot be expected to love those who see us and ours as
nothing more than animals that are to be caged and treated like the scum of the
earth.
Nigeria is a modern nation-state and not a primitive
Islamist caliphate. And neither is she Nazi Germany or Apartheid South Africa.
There is NO “master-race” here.
Our forefathers fought and died for us to be a nation of
equals and not a nation of horse and horse-riders, slaves and slave-owners or
masters and serfs.
To those that see themselves as Nigeria’s Aryan race I say
“enough is enough”.
To those that seek to establish an apartheid enclave in our
shores and that see themselves as the all-conquering white Boers of Nigeria, I
say “you are playing with fire”.
To those that kill us, torment us, enslave us, deride us,
denigrate our people, ridicule our faith and believe that we are nothing but
the biblical and proverbial “hewers of the wood” and “drawers of the waters”, I
say sheath your bloody swords and stop this madness before you set our nation
ablaze.
Yet it is not too late. Once they drop their born to rule
disposition we can be friends.
Once they rid themselves of the misguided notion that they
must dominate and rule over us in perpetuity we can love them again and treat
them like our brothers and compatriots.
Once they “let my people go” all hostility and enmity will
vanish, God’s terrible judgement will be lifted and the curse that plagues them
will be rescinded.
That is the way forward. That is the path of peace which
provides us with the potential for a joyous, fruitful and prosperous new
beginning.
But as long as they hold on to their misguided and misplaced
notions of ethnic and religious supremacy it shall be like oil and water
between us.
You cannot truly live unless there is something for which
you are ready to die. This is a noble cause for which each and every one of us
is ready to lay down our lives.
As long as they insist on treating us like the beasts of the
field and the dogs of the wastelands we shall be mortal enemies and our
opposition to them shall be relentless.
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