Few hours back, I stumbled on a publication by a very respected online medium [Premium Times] containing excerpts of what is said to be Nigerian government's White Paper on the origin of the ongoing deadly terrorism spearheaded by the armed Islamic extremists known in popular Hausa parlance as Boko Haram which when translated means that education is sinful.

From what I read, it is the thinking of the current Federal Government, which set up a presidential panel made up of local experts who investigated the upsurge in the deadly attacks of the armed insurgents, that politicians were the masterminds of the armed bandits that are now ravaging most parts of Northern Nigeria in the guise of waging war against selected government institutions, the Nigerian security agencies, Christians and some moderate Muslims. At the last count, over 5000 persons have been slaughtered by these murderous gangs of Islamic religious extremists.

In the government's White Paper sighted by the online medium, the Nigerian government blamed some powerful politicians in the North East for setting up well -armed and fortified gangs of political thugs whom they used to rig the 2003 and 2007 governorship and national elections in their respective states but soon abandoned these armed gangs with their guns and other sophisticated weapons intact which led them to align themselves with the then radical Islamic preacher, Sheikh Mohammed Yusuf, whose sermons opposed the validity of the secular constitution operational in Nigeria.

These armed youth later metamorphosed into hardline terrorists after undergoing unspecified foreign terrorism trainings in Chad. The government's White Paper, now gazetted, was said to be silent on how to deal decisively with these identified political kingpins who set up these armed political thugs that now transformed into the biggest terrorists organization in the West African region.

The White Paper on the Boko Haram insurgency in my thinking is severely deficient in the sense that it never mentioned the widely held suspicion which was even leaked by the immediate past National Security Adviser to President Jonathan, General Patrick Azazi, that the internal crisis within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] on the insistence of the current President to run for election in the 2011 Presidential election rather than allow a Northerner complete the second term of the late Alhaji Umar Musa Yar'adua two-terms in accordance with the so-called zoning arrangement, was instrumental to the upsurge in the terror attacks by the armed insurgents.

The above narratives bring us to the all-important question of why the contemporary Nigerian politicians never learn from mistakes of their predecessors which is the fundamental cause of the seemingly unprogressive and stunted growth of Nigeria's democracy.

While his foot -soldiers outside of the highly partisan executive council of the federation are positioning themselves to ensure that the current President, who might face one of the toughest opposition from Northern Politicians, gets soft-landing in the contest for who would fly the Peoples Democratic Party's flag for the 2015 Presidential election, his supporters, who are holding some of the juiciest offices in the Federal Cabinet, are busy exercising arbitrary powers aimed at undermining the lawful activities of some persons in government at the state levels considered as rivals to the President's 2015 Presidential ambition.

It is strongly rumored that the River state Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, who is serving out his second four-year tenure, is interested in running for the prestigious office of the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and that he will run with a Northern candidate who will likely be the Niger State Governor. Aliyu Babangida [PhD] or Sule Lamido of Jigawa state.

And since this rumor has refused to die even with several denials by the Rivers State Governor, the President, whose position in 2015 may be challenged if this widely held political rumour turns out realistic, has started a well -coordinated hostile activities aimed at undermining the authority of the Rivers state governor.

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