But the truth is that Goodluck Jonathan may
be the last president of Nigeria.The word
Boko Haram is a word created by the Western
Media to explain Yusufua Maiduguri. Yusufua
is just one out of 26 radical groups that are
operating within Nigeria. The western press,
to make it readable to the western world,
created the word, Boko Haram. Haram means
forbidden and Boko is corruption of book.
They have not burnt any university. They
have not killed any professor, nor harassed
any institution of higher learning. What they
are out for is very simple. Number one, not to
Islamise but an Islamic Nigeria, a Nigeria
where there is no plurality of religions, but
one religion; a Nigeria in which women will
be oppressed always, a Nigeria in which they
will eradicate democracy. They have scored
success in many nations of the world before
our own. You only need to go and do
research and you will find out. Uthman dan
Fodio and Shehu of Borno
Nigeria’s problem started since 1955 or
1956. It is an ancient problem. The problem
with Nigeria’s own is that before the global
resurgence of terror, Nigeria had an ancient
streak that started in 1774 when Uthman dan
Fodio entered Maiduguri. He was lecturing in
Islam doing very nice and quiet and the
Hausa people embraced him and were happy
with him because he was teaching their
children.
They didn’t know that he was radicalising
their children at the same time. While he was
radicalising the people at that time, nobody
knew. He even instructed one guy called
Yoeofa, the son of the king in Islamic way.
When Yoeofa was being taught by Uthman
dan Fodio, he said dan Fodio was a good and
nice teacher, but dan Fodio noticed that the
taxes were high; that they were not purists.
The predominant Islamic force in Nigeria then
was the remnant of Kanem Borno Empire.
You will find out that the Shehu of Borno,
who was actually supposed to be the
spiritual leader of Islam in Nigeria, was
displaced by dan Fodio because dan Fodio in
1804 declared a Jihad.
It was tough then and they were coming
towards South. There were three things that
stopped dan Fodio. Number one, El Kanemi, a
Borno man who said, ‘I am a Muslim but I
don’t understand this religion that involves
killing of Muslims as well.’ And have you
noticed that they have also started throwing
bombs in mosques in Nigeria? El Kanemi rose
and he was able to put a stop to the advance
of Uthman dan Fodio.
Secondly, the arrival of the British and they
had what they called Maxim gun, and in 1903
or 1904 Sokoto and Kano fell. There was
armed resistance and in 1906 there was an
uprising in Mali which arose just like bin
Ladin’s but it didn’t last long. The British
decimated it. They were able to kill a few
British nationals. All the emirs had waited
then, saying if he (the Malian) succeeds we
will join him, but when they saw the British
crushing him, they went underground.
Thirdly, Ilorin was taken but the Jihadists
couldn’t advance further because of the forest
belt. They have an advantage of cavalry;
when they were coming to South, they had an
advantage of horses but when they hit the
forest belt, their horses couldn’t proceed.
That is why you find that Ogbomoso, Osogbo,
that buffer zone is where the rivers spread
and the violence was not heavy.
Jihad under colonial rule
The truth is that during the colonial years, the
British made one mistake in which they used
indirect rule. Lugard personally promised
them that he would not allow the
Mauguzawas to be introduced to Christianity.
Majority of people in northern Nigeria, when
the British came, were not Muslims. They
were animists and the Mauguzawas, who
automatically, because of indirect rule were
recognised as Muslims. It is an ancient creed,
a very smart creed—very difficult to detect.
War can go on even in peace time.
They shifted to consolidate under the British
rule; smiling at the British while consolidating
their code for the whole of Northern Nigeria.
The moment the British wanted to leave,
because they appeared nice to , the British
made a miscalculation which is what is
destroying them till today. What the British
did was to devise a formula and hand over
power to Northern Nigeria and create a
political formula by which Northern Nigeria
ordinarily should forget about one Nigeria.
Jonathan, Yar’Adua and Northern power
blocs
This last time, whether by the name of
Goodluck and by the pattern of his life that
was disrupted, for the first time in Nigeria, we
had about four or five presidential candidates
from the northern part of Nigeria and they
couldn’t agree on one.
Had they agreed on one, all these things
would not have happened. Olusegun
Obasanjo came because of the pacification of
the South West and after him, the North could
have held on to power for ever, but
immediately, it shifted back to the North. You
know what happened to Yar’Adua. The late
Yar’Adua was the Mutewani Katsina (holder
of the Emirate’s treasury).
The Emirate and an Ancient Dream
What Nigerians don’t know is that there is an
existence underneath the Federal Government
structure in which an ancient dream is kept
alive by a core of radicals who teach their
children why they should not see Nigeria as
one. And because it is not a formalized
education, it’s not written down anywhere.
It’s difficult to detect but they tell their
children that southerners should always
come to pay obeisance. ‘We are their rulers
and there is only one religion’. You find that
when Yar’Adua was in Katsina state, he was
a devout Muslim to the core. There is a
radical call from Katsina because it is the
centre of learning; they’re purists.
When he was to become president, I was
alarmed because I knew what his sentiments
were, but somehow he did not last long and
Goodluck stepped in. Goodluck should not
have become president this time around but
for the fact that northerners could not agree
on a consensus candidate. If they had agreed
on the formula left for them by the British
colonial heritage, there would have been no
argument.
Sheik Gumi, Islamic Banking and Jonathan
In 1955 ‘or 1956, in the Hajj Camp in Saudi
Arabia, the Nigerian flag was burnt because
the flag had a Star of David on it. One of the
contributors of what you are seeing today
was late Sheik Gumi, a clever man who never
denied where he was going. If you remember,
he was the one who declared that over his
dead body would there be a Christian ruler in
Nigeria.
That was just a tip of the iceberg. One of his
boys who converted from Islam in those
days, they put fatwa on him. He had to
escape to Kano and the Federal Government
used all state apparatuses to hunt for him.
They beat him till they felt he was dead, but
the Christians later found out that he still had
life and he later escaped to Ghana. All these
sentiments have been there but we are the
ones who close our eyes and pretend as if
they were not there. There is a radical cult at
the centre.
Islamic banking we are talking about today,
Gumi was part of it. So, all the noise that
people are making at the last moment is
pattern of what they have been doing
because there is a pattern in which it will
work.
Christians in Northern Nigeria
Ask people like Archbishop Peter Jasper
Akinola, His Eminence Sunday Mbang and
those who had headed CAN, they will tell you
how many young girls were kidnapped
annually in the North. Your children can’t go
to schools; it is either you fake their names to
a Muslim name or there is no promotion.
Progression of the Ancient Dream
All these things have been there and we
pretend as if we don’t see them. But they are
there, well established in all those states. The
movement behind it is a very intelligent; they
are slow in their tactics and facts. The
progression in Nigeria was that by the time
they have swept through the Northern states
and consolidated the North…the normal thing
is that you push non-Muslims away from the
city centres. So most northern cities today
that have any sizeable Christian number are
divided into two. Why? Because there is a
time to come when they will launch an attack
unless the Christians agree to live under a
status where they become a third class
citizen. This issue is not only in Nigeria; it is
a global thing.
Islamisation of Nigeria
Nigeria has done about 65 per cent, it only
has about 35 per cent to go. People are only
shouting Plateau State but I pity Plateau
State young men because they are falling into
a trap till now.
Foreigners on Plateau
Plateau State people think they are doing
something but they are wasting their energy
by responding with vigilante groups. I have
seen a lot of foreigners who are coming into
Nigeria with their own silly theory when they
don’t understand what is going on here. Last
week, I was in a place where one of these
British consultants was talking on how
Plateau indigenes were just killing Muslims.
They are only managing information in which
the international press is looking at Plateau
as blood-thirsty people. And Nigerians know
that they are the most peaceful people in
Nigeria, ordinarily.
Camps in South South, South East
This same thing has entered Makurdi in
Benue State and it is coming down South.
Whether you like it or not, there are camps
and places where people are being trained in
the South South and we now have more Igbo
Muslims in Nigeria than we have ever had in
this country. Why? They have quietly entered
through sponsorships, spending money.
There is one school in Afikpo where people
are offered scholarships and given free food.
As soon as you adopt the Islamic religion,
you will be sent out of the country to
radicalise you more. In the South South, there
are militants milling around in the name of
petty traders.
The truth is that they have taken advantage
of everything and that is a weakness for us.
While we were sleeping, when we didn’t know
a lot about these people …
Islam in Bauchi
Look at the Bauchi nurses in 2001 who were
sacked because they refused to wear hijab.
What I am saying is that a medical doctor,
S.Y Sabo, who was in charge of Federal
Medical Centre, Azare, knew that he was not
just a medical doctor but also there to
establish something. You can duplicate this
in all the places.
Do you remember what happened to Gideon
Akaluka on the streets of Kano? Is it normal
to parade the head of a fellow human being
on the stick and dance round town
jubilating? And since all these things
happened, has anybody been convicted in
Nigeria? You want to know why? It is
because Nigerian institutions are riddled with
spies and wolves who believe in that future;
and the truth is that Nigerian leadership
doesn’t have the moral courage to face up to
the fact that from the police force to
intelligence services, to education, to sports,
the institutions are filled with people who are
fighting the war quietly.
Including the Judiciary?
If you are talking about the judiciary, let me
ask? Which rule of law is the uppermost in
Nigeria? Nigeria has the British law that we
inherited. Then we have the Common Law,
the Customary Law and the Sharia Law.
Which one is uppermost in Nigeria? If the
Nigeria Constitution is uppermost, a former
governor in Nigeria married a 13-year- old
girl. He paid $100,000 for her, smuggled her
into Nigeria from Egypt. According to the
laws of Nigeria, is that a crime or not? Will
you agree to live in a country where a full
grown serving senator can marry a 13-year
old girl? We all sat down to watch what
would happen when some people came up to
say that it was an Islamic affair, a religious
affair and not a democratic issue. What
happened to the case eventually? So what
has been proven now?
Nigeria’s mistakes
Now, what are the mistakes we are making?
This thing is creeping in and because of the
ancient one that started earlier and the
emergence of the international one ,they are
now woven together. About six or seven
years ago, in 2001, a bomb exploded in a
church in Lalanto in Jos. Bomb making
literature had been coming to Nigeria for
more than 10 years. It’s just that initially ,it
was blowing off their own hands and legs
and it was being explained away. But
gradually, they have mastered it now. Before,
the problem was how they would co-ordinate
the activities of 26 Islamic sects with each
one having its own leader and different ideas
but western countries have solved the
problem for them, by creating the name Boko
Haram. Unlike before when an individual sect
had its own ideology, now Boko Haram has
created an umbrella through which they all
work. By being stupid and playing into the
hands of the western media, they made our
case worse. So they are now making more
progress and even bolder than they could get
before.
The reason why Uthman dan Fodio was able
to overthrow Hausa kings was because there
was a lot of corruption in the Hausa
Kingdoms. There was a lot of oppression and
poverty. There was no home for majority of
them. There was no hope for the future then.
There is little hope for the future now. A
house full of intellectuals, deceive themselves
that there is a future. And that is why the
average intellectual does not have the reality
on what Nigerian life really is.

Many
Nigerians youths are crossing deserts on foot
to escape Nigerian life. That is a pointer for
you on what life looks like in the country.
Is the invitation to foreigners to assist us a
true way out of the problem?
We have to be very careful. Immediately the
UN House was bombed, Nigeria ceded its
authority and it was not right for Nigeria to
cede its authority. A lot of countries have
similar problems and many of them are
looking up to Nigeria to see how she would
solve the problem to help their own
countries. Now, in Nigeria a lot of intelligent
strategies have just been just bullshit, they
are unwise. At every step, we bring in our
soldiers to level (destroy) towns.
Ordinary Boko Haram with 1.6 million
members held Nigeria Army and Police Force
for almost three weeks. Nigerian youths are
impoverished, education is gone, and we are
the second highest in the world’s infant
mortality, maternal maternity, second highest
in the world. It is a curse for you to be
pregnant in Nigeria, that is what it means. It
is better for you to go to Ghana or Cotonou,
next door and have your children than to
have them in Nigeria.
In all indices by which you measure a state,
Nigeria cannot score pass mark in any area.
Human life value is very low. A woman was
butchered by soldiers in Gombe, till today no
compensation. The governor, Danjuma Goje
made it impossible for the case to be tried in
the state. It was all by collusion. If you like,
let’s keep deceiving ourselves here that
things are well. The infiltration is already
noticeable in Calabar, in South East and in
these areas we have the problem of tribal
divide. No consensus. The youths, almost 75
or 80 per cent of the country, are
impoverished, they are disenfranchised, and
they have no inheritance. The people who
stole their inheritance, their great grand
fathers are still alive—all the generals who
are arguing against each other. The monies
their grandchildren should spend they stole.
Outside Assistance, CAN Chairman
This one has an agenda and a motive. They
are schooled somewhere, well funded locally
and internationally. Unfortunately for us, the
international funders right now are busy but
once things are settled in the Middle East,
more funding will come back to Nigeria.
When the president of CAN called for the
arrest of that general, uninformed ignorant
people whose children may be slaughtered in
future decried the position of the CAN
president. As a special adviser to the CAN
president, I can tell you that he has more
information in his hands than he is allowed to
speak to the public.
But whether you like it or not across all the
northern states, the number of people killed
in order to bring Jonathan Goodluck to power
is maximum casualty figure we have never
seen in Nigeria before. He rode him on a lot
of bloodshed. The pattern of the killing even
before the result was announced, the killing
had started in the genera’s name. When the
CAN president called for his arrest, he was
not joking. It is just that the government
lacked the moral courage to do what is right.
They incited people. It was pre-planned, pre-
medicated obviously and if you look at the
target of the killing, as usual, you cannot say
it was political. Even if you bring them out for
political reason they will still do what they
want to do. Isioma Daniel (who was your
colleague) when she made a comment on
Miss World, which buildings were burnt?
Most of them were churches. What has a
journalist’s comment on Miss World to do
with maiming and killing of people. We are
pretending as if this thing is not there but it
is mopping up.
UN building bombing and Boko Haram
It was assumed that it is al Qaeda that
bombed the UN building. It is more in
consonance with al Qaeda. What Nigeria
should have done is to first of all examine the
explosives used and the methodology of the
explosion—because every device has its own
signature—and check it maybe it is in
consonance with the more primitive ones that
they mixed with internet instructions. The
truth is that it is not the handiwork of Boko
Haram. If we continue to call them Boko
Haram, we are uniting 25 to 26 Islamic sects.
We are encouraging their unity and helping
the foreigners who are funding them to make
their work fast. We should break away from
calling them Boko Haram and the Nigerian
Press must stand up to wage a war against
their western counterparts, accusing them of
neo-colonialism. If they can create an Islamic
battlefront in Nigeria, they will come in from
all around the world and Nigeria will fracture
and the world will go on, just like Sudan for
many years. Their vision is global. There are
lots of radical preachers all over the county,
they will teach freely for years and nobody
ever disturbs them. They are protected by
their governors and commissioners of police.
Do you think that it is in the interest of the
west to create chaos in Nigeria?
If you are having problem in your country and
the people causing problem in your country
can move away from your country to another
side, would it be in the interest of your own
county to encourage the people of that
country to learn their mistakes and turn their
own land to a fertile ground. They will sell
ammunition to both sides. Look at Libya,
what is happening is a very interesting
scenario. But my fear is the compromise of
Nigerian interest. My own insistence is that
whatever is going to happen to us, whatever
co-operation we are going to have
international with anybody; we don’t want
Nigeria to be represented by bananas who
will just throw away the national interest
without even knowing what they are doing.
What do you mean?
Look at the UN Building bombing. The place
has now been sequestered. Our inadequate
facilities, our security systems, obviously, are
highly unprepared for this kind of thing and
they have yielded it to foreign government.
Before you call in foreign assistance, you
must think properly and think well. Because
of the absence of enough intelligence to
handle the problem we are now surrendering,
but we should surrender with caution,
because one or two moves like this, Nigeria
will become the worst of. What makes you
think that the nation’s security apparatus is
not infiltrated? I will like you to go and supply
me the list of Nigerian national security
advisers from independence. If you can give
me that list, let us sit down and scrutinise the
lives of every one of them, their utterances in
private, not in public; their business interests,
their links all over the world. Someone put
Nigeria in OIC single handedly. Are there not
radicals in Nigeria who have been walking
free simply because the orders come from
above that nobody should arrest them? Who
are the people supporting this no-arrest
order? You better let people know what we
are up against.
You think President Jonathan is incapable of
handling this?
A farmer does not depend on good clock to
bring about good harvest and food for us to
eat. If a tailor depends on good luck to sew
your cloth, when you are looking for a shirt
you will end up with a dress. If a farmer does
not look for good luck to give us to feed the
nation, and a tailor does not depend on good
luck to sew cloth, when it comes to certain
matters good luck has its limitation. Instead,
wise planning and intelligent thinking is what
is needed. It’s not true that IGP is
incompetent as people have been saying. We
have a situation where the IG himself is more
or less a junior to some of the commissioners
of Police serving under him. Remember that
some people stayed behind with the intent of
helping him, are all of them loyal to him? Do
we know where the loyalty of some of them
lies? Is it possible for him to have as free
hand with the kind of command he’s asked to
handle? Is he given a free hand? The moment
you politicize anything that had to do with
security, you have fractured the chain of
command. So, whereas, he may be a very
competent officer but the structure he was
asked to perform with may not help him.
Is that not enough reason to resign as people
are calling on him to do?
You will have to interview him on that. Is it
easy to resign? If he is your uncle will you
ask him to resign?
What is the way forward out of the current
logjam?
The leadership must first of all find the moral
courage to understand the reason why we are
prone to these things more other countries;
to face the problem, diagnose it and call it by
its real name so it can treat it. If leadership
does not do that we are going to slide to the
morass faster. That is one. Number two; this
new problem, in other countries nobody is
relying on old methodologies. In some
countries, they call a new kind of war,
because there is no text book answer. As I
speak right now, all over the world,
intelligence experts are just writing the text
books to match this menace of terrorism,
because it is a resurgence that has not be
seen in many centuries. So, coming up with
military intelligence to come and answer this
problem is a waste of everybody’s time;
coming up with DIGs to come and answer
this, is a waste of everybody’s time. What we
need is leadership with innovative thinking;
people who can think out of the box; who
understand the cultural, religious, political
and the radical aspects of what we are
talking about here; people who know how to
recognize the different phases and to handle
all the phases with equanimity. I give you an
example; one of the things that making this
thing spread faster is the lack of a consensus
in Nigeria. The Chinese Constitution is about
2,000 words; the American is about 4,400
words but the Nigeria Constitution is in
excesses of 74,000 words. Nigeria has never
had a real constitution. What we call a
constitution is not representative of the
Nigerian people. There is no common
agreement. The best country that Nigeria to
align with right and it is going to be done
with utmost wisdom, is USA—the only
country that has had the same kind of history
and experience and was successful to a
point. They were also colonized by the
British. Every offer that was given to Nigeria
as we transited to independence was also
offered the Americans but they rejected all.
All the problems in the Nigerian foundation
can find solution in the American history.
There is something called the American
declaration of independence, Nigeria does not
have the equivalent of it. What is written
there is very simple but very powerful, and
you can build the country on it: “…All men are
created equal before God and everybody is
entitled to the pursuit of happiness….”
That is why you see that nobody jokes with
liberty in the US. If you have 10 heads,
everybody is equal. Three revolutions were
fought by the Americans, all based on the
original agreement. In Nigeria, is there any
such document that says we are all equal and
that everybody is entitled to the basics of
life? We do not know the power of such
words. America was able to overcome its
colonial experience and build their nation
properly. Nigeria is yet to that. We must work
with America with caution, but there is a lot
we can learn from them.
Courtesy by;
EphorJohn Generalissimo UbaHerzog

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