Ben Nwabueze, Chairman of the
Patriots, has rubbished the President Muhammadu Buhari-led anti-graft war,
saying it’s a strategic plot to Islamise Nigeria.
He made the claim while faulting
the appointment of Northerners as heads of all major security agencies and
other strategic positions in the country.
Nwabueze stressed that old age
was affecting Buhari’s mobilisation of Nigerians to support the eradication of
corruption.
He stated this in a statement he
signed entitled, “Whether the eradication of corruption is the motivating
object of the on-going war against it.”
The statement reads in part,
“Given that President Buhari was initially acclaimed, hailed and idolised by
the people as an uncompromising spear-head of a crusade against corruption –
taking crusade to mean, not just a war, but a war fought with great passion and
zeal – it is significant that, in less than two years, the acclaim is giving
way to cynicism about the President’s sincerity in the prosecution of the war.
“Is he really the uncompromising
crusader that the public had been led to believe? There is reason to suppose
that the public cynicism is the by-product of the President’s Northernisation
Agenda, as it is being carried into effect by his lopsided strategic
appointments which are so manifestly skewed in favour of the North and against
the South.
“Viewed from the standpoint of
the war against corruption, it is significant that all the key officials
involved, even if it be indirectly, in the prosecution of the war are
northerners appointed by President Buhari since his inauguration as President
on 29 May, 2015. A list of such appointees shows this assertion to be an
incontrovertible fact.
“Babachir Lawal, Secretary to the
Government of the Federation, SGF; appointed in preference to a hotly tipped
candidate from the South-East; after his removal following allegation of
diversion of funds meant for persons displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in
the North-East, he was replaced by another northerner, Boss Mustapha, again in
preference to a rumoured candidate from the South-East.
“Maj-General Babagana Monguno,
rtd, National Security Adviser, NSA, replacing (Col) Dasuki, NSA under former
President Goodluck Jonathan.
“Alhaji Abba Kyari, Chief of
Staff to the President, replacing Brig-Gen Jones Oladehinde, rtd, the holder of
the office under former President Goodluck Jonathan.
“Ibrahim Idris, IGP, appointed
over the heads of some southern officers senior to him. The IGP is heading a
Police Force, the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, in which 15 out of the 22
Assistant Inspectors-General of Police, AIG, who exercise much of the function
of the operational control of the Force, are northerners, while three are from
the South-West and two from the South-East.
“These blatantly lopsided
appointments, all of which were made since the inception of the Buhari
Administration, portray the NPF as an army of occupation deliberately designed
to carry into effect President Buhari’s Northernisation Aganda in furtherance
of the dream of the Sardauna to reduce the South to a conquered territory and
thereby prevented from having control over its future.
“The President’s implacable
opposition to re-structuring which envisages the establishment of State Police
should not, therefore, surprise us. He wants to be able to continue to exercise
control over the internal security of the Southern States and to continue to
hold them hostage. It caricatures true federalism that a constituent state in a
Federation should be under the control and yoke of the Federal Government in
the matter of its internal security.
“Daura, Director-General,
Department of State Services, DSS, replacing Ita Ekpenyong; apart from the DG,
the directors are mostly northerners. The control of the NPF and DSS by
northerners must be taken together with the fact that the Minister of Interior
and the Permanent Secretary of the ministry are northerners; that the Army and
Air Force are headed by northerners; and, above all that President Muhammadu
Buhari, a northerner, is the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces,
and has the power under the Constitution to direct the operational use of the
NPF for the maintenance and securing of public safety and public order; his
power to direct the operational use of the DSS is even more plenary.
“The implication of the control
of security by northerners is that the security of Nigeria and Nigerians is an
exclusively northern affair, thereby putting the rest of us at their mercy.
“Abubakar Malami SAN,
Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, AGF, a young SAN,
who was raised to the rank in 2008, i.e. seven years before his appointment as
AGF.
“Lt-Gen Abdulrahman Danbazau,
rtd, Minister of Interior. viii: Magaji Abubakar, Permanent Secretary, Ministry
of Interior; he has publicly admitted to have wrongfully sidetracked the Head
of Service, HoS, Mrs Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita, a southerner, in the
reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina, and has apologized to her accordingly: see
the Vanguard of December 1, 2017.
“Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman,
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC; still kept in office in an
acting capacity since 9 November, 2015 because of repeated refusal by the
Senate to confirm his appointment. “Hamed Ibrahim Ali, Controller-General,
Nigerian Customs Services; customs is the underbelly of corruption in Nigeria.
“Mohammad Babandede,
Controller-General Nigerian Immigration Services; immigration stands implicated
in Maina’s escape out of Nigeria after his sack from the civil service and his
subsequent re-entry into it.
“Amb. Muhammed Dauda, Acting
Director-General National Intelligence Agency, NIA, replacing Ayo Oke, a
southerner; after he was sacked, following the discovery in the NIA offices in
the Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, of the sum of $43 million, £27,800 and N23 million.
“Alhaji Amed Idris,
Accountant-General of the Federation, replacing Jonah Ogunniyi Otunla, a
southerner. Maitanti Baru, Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, NNPC, replacing Ibe Kachukwu, a southerner, who, as Minister of
State for Petroleum and Chairman, NNPC Board, was sidelined by Baru in the
process for the award of some NNPC contracts; earlier he has been downgraded
from Minister of Petroleum to Minister of State for Petroleum, with the
President taking over as his own Petroleum Minister.
“Abdulrasheed Maina, Chairman,
Presidential Task Force on Pension Reform; although his initial appointment
took place before the Buhari Administration, his reinstatement after he was
sacked occurred during that Administration, with the President’s approval as
the evidence shows…
“There are of course other
lopsided strategic appointments, such as the appointment of Professor Mahmood
Yakubu as Chairman, Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, and Hadiza
Bala-Usman as Head of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA. The listed
appointments raise critical issues as to the intention or design behind them.
“They look like a swoop on the
South, a jihad designed to foist Northern domination, or even subjugation, on
the South in pursuance of the Sarduna’s agenda, announced as far back as 1960,
tosubjugate the South and reduce it to a conquered territory, with the object
of preventing it from havingcontrol over its future,” an agenda which President
Buhari, in a speech in May 2015 as President-elect, re-echoed and vowed to
carry to a finish.
“What other reason could there be
for concentrating in the North the appointments to all the positions vital to
the effective prosecution of the war against corruption? We need to be told.
One hopes that the order for the purchase of war planes from the U.S.,
ostensibly to fight Boko Haram terrorism, is not connected with the hidden
agenda for a jihad.”
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