By Femi Aribisala
The only way the APC can redeem its perception as a
supporter of APC party is by putting forward a South-South
man as its presidential candidate in 2015.
The Northern Elders Forum, the apostles of “the
North is born to rule,” finally played their joker. They
maintained that if the government does not #Bring
Back Our Girls by the end of October, 2014, Jonathan
should forget about running for re-election.
This again reveals that there is more political
mischief to the kidnapping of the Chibok schoolgirls
than initially meets the eye. As a matter of fact, it
shows conclusively that #Bring Back Our Girls is
simply another instrument of #Bring Back Our
Northern Domination.
The First Lady understood this clearly from the onset;
which is why she declared that: “There is God o!” The
people of Borno understood this. They have always
known that their own feudalist leaders are behind the
kidnapping of the girls. With the statement of the
NEF, Nigerians must no longer be in two minds about
this. The kidnapping of the Chibok girls is part and
parcel of a cynical plan by some Northern elements
to embarrass the government and militate against
Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election plans.
For this very reason, Goodluck Jonathan must not
only run for president, he deserves the support of
every Nigerian determined that this country should
not be surrendered to the Boko Haram. It is
unfortunate for the APC that its interests are in the
short-term the same as those of the Boko Haram.
Indeed, the only way the APC can redeem its
perception as a supporter of APC party is not by its
insistence on fielding a Northerner, but by putting
forward a South-South man as its presidential
candidate in 2015. Nevertheless, it would still lose the
election.
New and old North
In the Nigeria of today, there are two discernible
Norths: the new North and the old North. The new
North is perennially progressive. It is the glue that
holds Nigeria together. While the South-South
threatens secession; the South-East is still reluctantly
Nigerian and the South-West would rather keep
Nigeria at arm’s-length; the new North remains the
only truly nationalist component of the country. It
never threatens secession but is preoccupied with
national unity.
The new North is the North of men like our most
successful industrialist, Aliko Dagote, now the 23rd
richest man in the world. It is the North of men like
Ibrahim Gambari; our point-man and intellectual
giant at the United Nations. It is the North of men like
Nuhu Ribadu; whose courage in going after thieves
and robbers in the EFCC led to his being hassled out
of the police.
It is the North of men like Father-Reverend Matthew
Kukah, a Catholic priest with a national social
conscience. It is the North of men like Mohammed
Buba Marwa, the most dynamic governor in Nigeria
during the Abacha regime.
But subsisting beside this new progressive North is
the old North of decrepit old men who have lived for
long as parasites on Nigeria’s oil wealth. This old
North is the North of #Bring Back Our Northern
Domination; a North of indolent political has-beens;
looking for pensions from national coffers. It is the
North of recalcitrant yesterdays men who had lived
large at the country’s expense and are hankering
after an inglorious past where they spent the national
patrimony with the profligacy and abandon of
irresponsible firstborn children.
This is the old North that ran down the nation’s
resources. It is the North that built nothing and grew
nothing. It is the North that ate up our groundnut
pyramids. It is the North that, despite being in power
for 38 years, failed grievously to educate Northern
children. It is the North that paid lip-service to the
North but cared nothing about the welfare of
Northerners. It is the North of those who kept their
fellow Northerners in the bondage of abject poverty
under a feudal system where, like dogs, they fed
them from the crumbs that fell from their table.
This old North is the North of men who are now
reduced to pathetic bluster and blackmail. It is these
same Northerners that are now crying #Bring Back
Our Northern Domination. But they can no longer
fool the new emergent North; and they certainly
cannot fool the rest of the country, except perhaps a
few gullible and power-hungry Yoruba chieftains.
The new progressive and nationalist North has long
rebelled against the old feudal North, but the #Bring
Back Our Northern Domination brigadiers have yet to
receive the memo. When as far back as the 1993
presidential election, the old North presented yet
another feudal lord in the person of Bashir Tofa, as
successor-prince of the Niger, the new North refused
to play ball. Although Tofa was a Northern favourite-
son and Abiola from the South, the new North opted
massively for Abiola; refusing to be persuaded any
longer by the lie that Northern interests are best
served by Northern feudalism.
Back-fired coup
In desperation, the old North hatched its most
audacious coup d’état yet: it annulled the 1993
election. But then, suddenly, it found itself naked and
isolated. Its traditional sources of support melted
away. It took it another six years of Abacha’s
recalcitrant regime for the old North to realise that
the centre could no longer hold. But it comforted
itself in the belief that it could continue in power by
choosing a pliant Southern successor to hold fort for
a few years while tempers cooled and then relaunch
its #Bring Back Our Northern Domination project
just as before.
The choice of Northern feudalism in 1999 was
Olusegun Obasanjo. His credential was that in 1978,
when fate handed him the position of Head-of-State,
he was very mindful of Northern feudal interests and
dutifully handed over power back to a clueless
Northern feudal lord, in the person of Alhaji Shehu
Shagari.
But it soon dawned on the old North that the second-
coming of Obasanjo would be different from the first.
Obasanjo’s first task in regaining power was to
demolish feudal Northern power first and foremost
in the army. Once he started that, the old North was
up in arms.
In spite his limitations, Obasanjo was a nationalist.
While he was nominated for president by the feudal
North, Obasanjo recognized that he was elected by
Nigerians and especially by the new North.
Therefore, he refused to play second-fiddle to
Northern feudalism. All Obasanjo would agree to
was that power would ultimately return to the feudal
North, but even that only after he might have
remained in power for a wishful-thinking period of
twelve years.
Nigerian good luck
However, Nigerians sent Obasanjo packing after his
statutory eight years. He then dutifully handed over
power to another Northerner of the old school, Musa
Yar’Adua. But this time, it was not only fate that
intervened; it was also Nigerian good luck.
The illness of President Yar’Adua made the return to
Northern domination short-lived. While Yar’Adua was
incapacitated, the #Bring Back Our Northern
Domination feudalists conned he nation, flagrantly
raiding the treasury by fraudulently forging cheques
in Yar’Adua’s name. But they would soon pay a
penalty for this. Goodluck Jonathan, a South-South
man, was sworn in to complete Yar’Adua’s unexpired
two years. After that, he became eligible for another
eight years; making it a possible total of at least ten
years of political wilderness for Northern feudalists.
Up in arms, the feudalists shopped for a Northern
Goliath to oust Jonathan from contention in the 2011
presidential election. Their choice of Atiku Abubakar
suffered ignominious defeat by Jonathan in the PDP
primaries. All hope then rested on Buhari, another
apostle of Northern domination. However, the old
North could only mobilize 11.8 million votes for him
from Northerners in the 2011 election.
Instead, the new North gave Goodluck Jonathan of
the South-South a massive 8.4 million Northern votes
in 2011; in preference to its Northern regional
champion of Buhari. At the same time, the outright
rejection of Northern feudalism by the rest of the
country was evident in the fact that out of over 38
million votes cast nationwide; Buhari could only
obtain 391,922 votes from all the states in the entire
South put together.
Last gambit
Having finally realised that a major segment of the
North is no longer amenable to feudal manipulation,
the #Bring Back Our Northern Domination brigade
has now decided to enter into a marriage of
convenience with certain gullible elements in the
South-West who are inclined to sell the Yorubas into
slavery, for the sake of their personal political
ambitions. In their greed for power, these naïve
Yorubas are blind to the plan of the Northern
feudalists to use them merely as stepping-stones to
Aso Rock.
But this plan has already come to grief. Things have
quickly fallen apart in the backyard of their ACN
alliance partners in the South-West. In 2011, ACN
obtained a measly 0.8% of the PDP vote in Cross
River. In Rivers State, it obtained only 0.9% of the PDP
vote. That is how you know these states are PDP
strongholds. The opposition is not just defeated; it is
decimated.
Fast-forward to today, on the eve of the 2015 election.
The ACN (now APC) loses the gubernatorial election
to the PDP in its so-called stronghold of Ekiti, losing
in all the local government areas in the process. It
then struggles to win in Osun, conceding 42% of its
vote to the PDP. And yet, this same APC would like us
to believe that it is going to be a problem for the PDP
in the 2015 election. Pull another leg!
With the game clearly over before it has even begun,
the #Bring Back Our Northern Domination brigade
has now resorted to its backup plan: to use the #
Bring Back Our Girls campaign as a tool to force
Goodluck Jonathan not to run for re-election.
However, this has turned out to be one big blunder.
All it has succeeded in doing is in raising cynical
questions about the very kidnapping of the Chibok
schoolgirls, the so-called assassination attempt on
the life of Muhammadu Buhari and the despicable
extent to which the #Bring Back Our Northern
Domination vanguard of the APC would go in their
desperation for political power.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/bring-back-northern-domination/

waiting......

abbeywasc: waiting......

waiting for what? I hope those Yoruba awusa slaves who have sworn to die if their master are not given the mantle of leadership are watching.

This lunatic is on the 'loose' again!!!
What do u expect from a paid writer like the uncouth Aribisala? Hatchet job!!

2cato: waiting for what? I hope those Yoruba awusa slaves who have sworn to die if their master are not given the mantle of leadership are watching.

goat!

Though he was not fair to APC and "old North" his long epistle was a delight to ready, I wish I could write better.

caseless: goat!

ewu

Who doesn't knw dat chibok girls is a scam until now is a lunatic and shld visit yaba left

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Aribisala. A pure thinker. What a delightful read. Nothing to add.

Aribisala on point again.

......It is unfortunate for the APC that its interests are in the short-term the same as those of the Boko Haram.....

^^^Ouch!

when i read article like this,am always happy we still have Nigerians that thinks and reason beyond the the surface.good write up.

What a wonderful, insightful and succinct analysis. You sure are one intelligent genius to have broken these truth to pieces. I hope the wise will benefit from this!

This piece got me rolling...


What next for the feudal north? For now they still hold unto the Police, Judiciary, legislature, Customs etc yet they are not comfortable.

I know the yorubas are wise and will pull the rug off their feet at the right time. Ask Tinubu what happened to the alliance in 2011. Yet for want of who to align with as the true Igbo and SS politicians will be stoned if they touch them with even a long pole, they returned to the marriage of convinience again with Tinubu and his band.

If the north wants to continue enjoying the oil, they have to kow-tow. Its game over for them.

Good write-up. Vintage Aribisala.

this aribisala guy thinks and write like an igbo man
the man's brains are so "un-yoruba".

aribisala: FRESH AIR FROM THE WEST

The First Lady understood this clearly from the onset;
which is why she declared that: “There is God o!” —Aribisala

Bitter truth, always difficult to be accepted

Femi Aribisala propagating truth since 500 BC

the #Bring Back Our Northern Domination brigade
has now decided to enter into a marriage of
convenience with certain gullible elements in the
South-West who are inclined to sell the Yorubas into
slavery, for the sake of their personal political
ambitions.

If only your fellow folks can see this as glaringly as you do.

Some of my brethren from the west will soon disown him for saying the obvious

Dump article....see all the fools above me

"The only way the APC can redeem its perception as a
supporter of APC party is by putting forward a South-South
man as its presidential candidate in 2015."— Aribisala
An impossible demand

Dat is just it

OtunbaJega: Dump article....see all the fools above me

shut up, u tribal bigot
Accept de truth for once

ruggedboy01: ewu

You should have added "awusa" to it; I.e Ewu Awusa

Whether we like it or not, Femi Aribisala may not be card carrying member of PDP but "HE LOVES PDP FAR MORE THAN APC" and that is while he always find fault in anything APC does. I still find it difficult how he link APC to Northern Elders Form ? If eventually GEJ contest in 2015 and won , i won't be surprised if he made FEMI ARIBISALA has his spokeman before he finishes his tenure

who ever listens to this guy is an idiota!

suwailad: who ever listens to this guy is an idiota!

Then 80% of Nigerians must be idiotas. Well I'm happy to be part of the idiotas that listen to the truth.

caseless: This lunatic is on the 'loose' again!!!
What do u expect from a paid writer like the uncouth Aribisala? Hatchet job!!

and what do we expect from an unpaid n so_broke jobless_arsse loser like u? keep whinning...
#GEJ TILL '19
#NO TO supporters of APC

suwailad: who ever listens to this guy is an idiota!

lunatic
Have u taken ur drugs today