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ONE NIGERIA; A SELF DECEPTIVE MYTH AND CLOAK WHILE ISLAMISATION GOES ON

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uddenly, the usual suspects, are out again, singing one Nigeria. The latest are Yakubu Gowon one of the architects of the civil war and proclaimer of no victor no vanquish, who pursued a policy of economic disempowerment and discriminations against Igbos, and Sanusu Lamido Sanusi, the Emir of Kano and a beneficiary of 'one Nigeria'. Both represent the bipolar extremes of everything that is wrong, sinister and absurd about Nigeria.

Gowon is a minority from the middle belt, who has served as errand boy of the feudal north and turned a blind eye to the sustained ethnic cleansing and discrimination of minorities in the north and middle belt. He has kept quiet as Fulani herdsmen rampaged plateau state and ethnically cleansing the Birons and pursuing their islamisation agenda.

He has made no comment since Fulani militia invaded Benue state and Igbo land killing, burning villages and committing mass murder. He says nothing, when Islamists in northern states burn churches and kill Christians. He has not said anything about the Chiboki girls. However, he is the the first person to sing one Nigeria, when those paying the blood price of this contraption protest.

Gowon is singing one Nigeria because some Igbo youth have seen the hypocrisy bear the unfairness of one Nigeria and have rejected it.

Sanusi, represents the other end of those who destroy Nigeria by using his intellect to frame narratives for the unfair system, which he is a beneficiary. While he and his likes get first class education, he sees nothing wrong in sustaining a system that makes cattle rearers, almaijris and regions fanatics who believe western education is sin of majority of the young people in the north. He supports an Islamic agenda, in spite of what he knows about the intolerance, inequality and lack of freedom in all Islamic states.

He talks about a new generation and why we should think differently, while heading a feudal system that represents everything that is wrong with Nigeria. I cannot call him a hypocrite, that would be very polite.

He waxes lyrical how everybody should believe in one Nigeria, while pursuing a sectarian agenda. When he was Central Bank governor, he gave kano state 100 million Naira, and did not have similar amount for souther state in the same circumstance.

Sanusi condemned Fulani herdsmen terrorism in no uncertain terms. He Has not demanded that they be disarmed? He has not said anything about Fulani herdsmen deliberately grazing cattle on farms to provoke farmers? He has not found his voice to condemn the killing of traditional rulers by Fulani herds men? He wants one Nigeria and advocated sharia in the north.

Sanusi wants Yorubas and Igbos to be like Awolowo and Zik, while he and his northern brothers continue to be like Amadu Bello and see Nigeria as estate of their father Othman Dafodio.

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi cannot claim to be one of the most honest banker in Nigeria. In 2004, when Tony Elumelu bought over the legacy UBA, Sanusi was the Group Head of Credit Risk and an Assistant General Manager then. He was forced out of the bank, when Victor Osadolor was brought to head him.

His uncle Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, the father of the would be suicide pant bomber, brought him and made him a GM in First Bank with the plan of making him the MD. It worked out as planned. He then became the CBN governor after six months as the MD of FBN. He unilaterally awarded contracts to Buhari and El Rufai, without due process to the tune of over 128 billion.

He then started planning for this Northern agenda, which materialised in deceiving the world about the true intentions of Boko Haram and those behind the organisation, the establishment of Islamic Bank and finally, the election of Buhari in 2015.

The north cannot have it both ways. They either subscribe to a democratic Nigeria, under one law based on justice and equality or a true federation or we go our different ways.

I no longer want a Nigeria were students from Abia state need to score 130 points to gain admission into federal government college, while students from Sokoto state only needs to score 6 point and will go on to become a generals in the army and president, while the Abia student is marginalised and forced to migrate out of Nigeria.

I do not want a Nigeria, where the north abolishes teaching of history in schools for fear of young people leaning how the Fulanis took advantage of the kindness of Hausas to conquer then.

I do not want a Nigeria, where religious study becomes Islamic indoctrination of young people.

I do not want a Nigeria, where Fulani herdsmen are free to graze their cattle on farms and sack any village that protests, with the view to establishing a caliphate, with an emir in charge.

This is 2016. No one should be forced to share a country with those who believe in Sharia and Jihad and wishes to conquer the rest by violence in order to impose Islam.

What the north is producing at an alarming rate are intolerant Muslims, whose heart are filled with hate and prejudice against non-Muslins. These extremists claim to worship God and want to covert the whole Nigeria to Islam through subterfuge or violence.

Many of these religious extremists are governors, Emirs, senators and academics and they are hell bent on bringing terror, death, suffering and evil to all parts of Nigeria in the name of jihad.

Nigerians are deceiving themselves, if they think that the north wants to build a liberal democracy in Nigeria. Another Lebanon is in the making in Nigeria. The old Nigeria is dead, it is waiting for the undertaker. This is the time to sue for peace. I am outraged.

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