Mr. Gwnfor Evans MP, the great
Welsh politician, lawyer and author and the leader of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh
nationalist party, for no less than 36 years before he passed on in 2005, made
the following historic and profound observation many years ago. He said,
‘Britishness’ is a political
synonym for ‘Englishness’ which extends the English culture over the Scots, the
Welsh and the Irish”.
As a student of English and
European history and one that was not only trained and educated by the British
from the age of 7 but that is also highly conversant with their system and their
ways, I can confirm that Evans is absolutely right.
His words are relevant to our
situation in Nigeria as well and, in many ways, has some application here.
I say this because what the
English managed to do to the Scottish, the Irish and the Welsh, in the name and
under the cover of establishing ‘Great Britain’, over a period of 500 years is
what the Fulani is trying to do to the rest of us here in a much shorter space
of time and in a more brazen, crude and aggressive manner.
To echo Evans’ words and place
them in the Nigerian context, it is in the same way that “Nigerianess” is a
political synonym for “Fulaniness” which seeks to extend the Fulani culture, and
I daresay Islamic religious faith, over the Hausa, Igbo, the Yoruba, the Ijaw,
the Tiv, the Berom and everyone else.
They have succeeded in doing that
to the Hausa and this is a tragedy of monumental proprtions. A once proud
people who had their own empire, their own culture and their own ways were
conquered, reduced to nothing and compelled to accept Fulani traditional and
political leadership and rulership by the force of arms and this remains the
case till today.
Consequently Kano, a thriving,
bubbling and wealthy commercial Hausa city which once served as the capital of
the ancient Habe Empire that had flourished for hundreds of years before the
Fulani got there was compelled to bend its knee to a Fulani Emir.
Very few Hausa people even know
their own noble history and they have become so bound up, intrinsically linked
and obsessed with the Fulani version and narrative of historical events that
one can say that they have been utterly and completely Fulanised and have come
to see themselves as, at best, second class citizens and, at worst, slaves to
the Fulani. I repeat, this is tragic.
And the rest of us must resist
this course and not allow ourselves to be Fulanised. We must remember who and
what we are, we must never forget where we are coming from, we must promote our
respective cultures, we must defend our faith, we must rever and honor our
traditions and we must keep our respective identities.
We must also remember the words
of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the erstwhile Leader of the Yoruba, when he wrote the
following in his celebrated book titled ‘Paths To Nigerian Freedom’ in 1947.
He wrote, “Nigeria is not a
nation but a mere geographical expression” and he went on to say that “there is
as much difference between a Fulani man and an Igbo as there is between a Turk
and a German”.
Can anyone dispute the veracity
of these assertions? Are they not as true and as relevant today as they were in
1947 when Awolowo wrote them?
The attempt by the Fulani to rob
us of our identities and conquer us by guile and assimilation in the name of
one Nigeria shall fail.
They shall not succeed in doing
it by double-speak, deceit and subtefuge and they shall not achieve it by the
force of arms.
If Nigeria is to continue to
exist and if some insist on her remaining as one nation then let her be
restructured on regional lines so that every single one of her numerous ethnic
nationalities and regions can preserve their identities, their religious faith
and their culture and can develop at their own pace.
Failing that the only answer is
for us to set into motion a peaceful dissolution of the union and enter into a
non-acrimonious and mutually beneficial divorce.
That is the answer to our problem
and not just for us to replace Buhari in 2019 with someone that is better.
The truth is whether we have a
good President or a disaster like Buhari the nationality question still has to
be answered and the fundamental issues of the nature of our union or indeed
whether we wish to continue to remain as one nation or not has to be addressed.
Gone are the days when others
will sit in a room somewhere and make those decisions for us. We have come of
age and we deserve to make our own choices.
Let me share a little bit more
with you about the perfidy of our former colonial masters when it comes to
Nigeria.
Their atrocities are obvious and
too numerous to list here but permit me to share the less obvious and something
that many may not know.
If you really want to know the
truth about why Nigeria remained one nation, who was behind it and what the
reasons were for their decision please read the following.
I have done my research and I can
confirm that everything that the writer has written is factual and historically
accurate.
He wrote as follows:
“If you thought oil was
discovered in Nigeria in 1959, you could pass your high school economics with
that information. It was actually discovered 50 years earlier.
Did you know that oil from the
territory was sold for almost 50 years before the approach of Independence in
1960 forced the disclosure of Oloibiri by Britain?
Even at that the quantities were
concealed from the newly-Independent Nigerian Governments until the counter
coup of July, 1966, when the north packed their baggage to head back north in
the famous ARABA putsch.
The then British High
Commissioner to Nigeria, of course on the promptings and direction of his home
government, zoomed in upon Gowon halfway, and prevailed on him to reverse the
decision of moving the north out of Nigeria, at a time Gowon already hoisted
the Arewa Flag in a temporary Capital, Ilorin.
In the hurry to announce this
reversal, Gowon’s speech, which was originally designed to take out the north,
was poorly edited, leaving a portion that should have been expunged and so
distorting the concluding part from the body of the speech.
That unexpunged portion is the
celebrated Gowonian faux pas in which he in one breathe declared that
“everything considered, the basis of Nigeria’s unity is no more”, yet going
ahead in the next breathe to proclaim that “to keep Nigeria one is a task that
must be done”.
It was in the heat of the ARABA
(northern secession) move that the British whispered into the ears of the
fledgeling Gowon government, the huge quantities of oil that eastern Nigeria
would have, if the North left, and so would become the poor neighbour of the
south and particularly the Eastern Region.
In a series of dubious
underhanded exchanges that followed rapidly, the British practically took over
the handling of the crises all the way to when it became war in July 1967, from
the poor school certificate-holder soldier, Yakubu Gowon (Gowon went for
tertiary education only after he was overthrown in 1975 by his July 1966
comrade-in-crime, Murtala Mohammed).
In that dark period Gowon signed
off the entire oil/gas reserves of Eastern Nigeria to the British for 50 years,
more or less, contracting the war to Britain.
The British which held those
concessions via Shell, had to parcel out substantial blocs of their holdings to
the other world powers and Permanent Members of the UN Security Council.
Thus the entry of Gulf Oil and
Mobil (US) Elf (France), Agip (Italy). Soviet Union had oil at home and so
didnt need oil blocs. What Russia (USSR) got was an open order to supply the
hardware for the war, including MIG Jet Fighters, Ilushyn Battle Tanks, AK 47
Riffles, all at double of the prevailing market prices.
This oil blocs bribe was the
basis of the cooperation of the then world powers with Britain and its stooge,
northern Nigeria, to kill 3.5 million easterners in a simple self-determination
dispute, which was substantially resolved in Aburi, January 1967″.
It is clear from the foregoing
that it was not God that put Nigeria together but rather the greed and
mercantile interests of the Western powers led by the British.
And as it was in 1966 so it was
in 1914 when Lord Lugard recommended the amaglamation of the northern and
southern protectorates and his soon-to-be wife, Flora Shaw, gave us the name of
Nigeria.
Even then it was just about
satisfying the mercantile and pecuniary lusts of the British, or should I say
the English, Empire.
Permit me to conclude with a
short word about Nigeria’s reigning Fulani Caliph and the one who regards
himself as the rightful successor and reincarnation of Sheik Uthman Dan Fodio
and Sir Ahmadu Bello all rolled into one.
His name is President Muhammadu
Buhari and he regards himself as nothing less than the Muslim north’s and
Caliphate’s third and final Mahdi, even though he has no blue blood.
The Bible says “the wicked walk
on every side when the vilest men are exalted”. (Psalm 12:8).
To the wicked, who exalt the vile
beast in the Villa, I have the following to say.
Buhari is a genocidal maniac who
believes in conquest and oppression and who has turned a blind eye whilst his
subjects are butchered in their thousands by Fulani terrorists. He has brought
nothing but carnage, division, destruction, death, poverty and evil to our
nation.
On several occassions he has
directed his security agencies and Armed Forces to kill thousands of his own
citizens, whether they be Igbo youths that are members of IPOB or Shiite
Muslims, after which they are buried in mass graves.
Those that are not killed are
thrown into prisons or horrific detention cells all over the country where they
are tortured and left to rot without any form of due process and against court
orders to release them.
Buhari is a plague, a curse and
an affliction. Getting him out of power is not just a sacred duty but it is
also a religious obligation and a righteous crusade.
If we want Nigeria to live, to
remain united, to survive and to be restructured we must get him out. He is an
ancient dinosaur with analogue ideas who offers nothing but outdated, archaic
and provincial solutions to complex modern challenges.
He is out of touch with reality,
he is out of his depth and he is encumbered by a hateful spirit and a vengeful
and bitter disposition which is fuelled and driven by what can only be
described as an obsession to strengthen and empower his Fulani kinsmen and
members of his islamic faith above all others.
To him the Fulani Muslims are
supreme beings that were divinely ordained and born to rule whilst everyone
else, including Christians and non-Fulani Muslims, are nothing but serfs,
plebians, useful idiots and handy slaves.
He says he wants to take us to
the next level. I say we should nail him to the stake and bury his ambitions by
voting him out in 2019.
Enough innocent blood has been
shed. It is time for this cold, insensitive, unfeeling and cow-loving mad man
to go!
The Bible says “for the
oppression of the poor and the sighing of the needy, now will I arise. I will
set him in safety from him that puffeth at him”. (Psalm 12:5).
The Lord of Hosts and the Ancient
of Days shall not forsake us. He shall honor His word and deliver us from these
vile and evil men who seek to shed our blood and destroy our nation.
In Part 2 of this contribution I
will shed further light on the Fulanisation agenda in Nigeria, the purpose and
mission of the Fulani terrorists and herdsmen, the real intention of those
behind the idea of cattle ranches and finally I will expose certain aspects of
the history of the Fulani that few Nigerians are aware of.
I will also explain why it is
that I call a spade a spade and why I do not hold back anything or show any
form of restraint when writing about them, their atrocities or their leaders.
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