A DANGEROUS PALACE COUP
~Elder Thompson Ofeton
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There was a time in Nigeria when there were three dominant political parties namely, the Northern people’s congress (NPC), the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroun (NCNC) and the Action Group (A.G) tied to the aprons of each of the three major ethnic groups of Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba respectively in Nigeria. These three major political parties later metamorphosed into the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), the Nigerian Peoples Party (NPP) and the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) respectively. Each of these parties defended its territories and candidates or membership tenaciously as each party tried to penetrate opponents’ territories and rank and file membership in their quest for growth. So it was that between 1960 and 1983, after any federal general elections, none of these three dominant political parties succeeded to win the required number of votes and seats to form the government alone by itself and so there was always a merger of the party with the highest number of votes and seats, which was always the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC) with any of the remaining two parties. And because the leadership of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) decided then not to go into alliance with the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC), the Federal Government of Nigeria was always formed by the alliance of the Northern People’s Congress (NPC and later NPN) and the National Council of Nigeria and Cameroun (NCNC and later NPP). This kept the South-Western States (Sought-West Geo-political Zone) perpetually in opposition at Federal Level between 1960 and 1983.
With the emergence of new political parties through one of which (the PDP), one of the sons of the South-West (ex President Olusegun Obasanjo) became an elected President in 1999, the South-Western States and their governors still did not join the PDP even before the emergence of their son as elected President and so they remained focused in the opposition at the Federal Level till this year 2015.
But when the dominant political party (the PDP) became divided against itself and things began to fall apart, it became a happy observation to political observers that the South-West which hitherto isolated itself, could chart a pathway into the North, building bridges to give birth to a mega opposition party now known and called the All Progressives Congress (APC). Political observers saw this as a healthy situation that would make future Federal Elections much more competitive.
Hence, as the campaigns for the just concluded presidential election started, the intensity and excitement that ensued, was not entirely unexpected. But be that as it may, the fallout of the 2015 Presidential election in Nigeria has brought to the fore, a most dangerous trend that no nation on earth has ever known or applied and this has put our nation, Nigeria, and her people on the edge of a calamitous precipice.

THE POWER – SHIFT SYNDROME IN NIGERIA
All over the world, where democracy is practised as a system of government, political parties are formed. And when elections are due to be held into the executive (i.e. the Presidency) and or into legislatures, each party fielding candidates in the elections proceeds to elect or adopt their candidates for the elective positions in the elections. Once their candidates emerge, each party moves to campaign and canvass for votes from the general public for each of their candidates in the elections.
But this was not to be in the 2015 Presidential Election in Nigeria in which because of their crave for “power shift to the North”, a dangerous PALACE COUP was conceived, neatly hatched and seamlessly executed by all the Northern PDP Governors and their state and national leaders who made sure that all the Northern PDP states (which were in the majority in the North) voted for APC to actualize their clamour for “power retention in the North” which started in 2010 but metamorphosed to “power shift to the North” after the 2011 presidential election. See map of Nigeria at the front page of Punch Newspaper of Wednesday, April 1, 2015 which shows states won by PDP and APC at a glance in colours; in the Presidential Election of March 28, 2015. Therefore, it was the “power shift syndrome” that played out in the 2015 Presidential Election in which all the Northern PDP states voted against their own candidate the incumbent President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and NOT the merits or the demerits of any political party or of the contending candidates. They proceeded to ensure the much needed working majority in the National Assembly to be free from any impeachment zone for the incoming government. I cannot remember any antecedent of where or when a political party voted against its own candidate in a general election of this magnitude in any nation on the earth except Nigeria where this has become a stock-in-trade.
A peep into excerpts from warning prophecies and predictions of monumental crisis in the 2015 presidential elections and possible break-up of Nigeria.
1. Prophecy by prophet Ekong Ituen: Excerpts from an interview with DailySun correspondent TOSIN AKINOLA, after the presidential election.
Excerpts: It is on record that the seer (Prophet) Ekong Ituen of the Christ Deliverance Ministries (CDM) predicted in 2014 and 2015 that President Jonathan would be defeated in 2015 Presidential election because he saw the flag falling from his hand which signified defeat. Vide Daily Sun of January 20, 2014 on page 54 and Daily Sun of January 15, 2015 page 47, with the captions, “2015: APC will win Presidential election” and “Election result will shock Nigerians” respectively. Spiritually speaking, I saw his defeat coming, that was why I warned him, but he took the prediction for granted”. He continued, “it is on record as was published in Daily Sun of January 4, 2013, page 43 that I warned President Jonathan severally to be careful with Northern Governors as they will betray him and will not be there for him when he will need them most. He was also misled by those who pretended to be loyal to him unquote”. Source: Daily Sun of Wednesday, April 15, 2015, page 47.
2. A research by National Mirror correspondent UBONG UKPONG: A critical look at the challenge of securing the nation in an election year and the survival of Nigeria, by the National Mirror Correspondent Ubong Ukpong has revealed and I quote, “The challenge was occasioned by series of predictions and projections of Nigeria’s imminent collapse in the 2015 electoral year in view of the likely violence that would erupt if the presidential election did not tilt to the direction of the opposing forces.
About six years ago, these predictions and projections for violence in Nigeria and its subsequent collapse in 2015, came to the fore and became very popular when the electioneering activities commenced in earnest in 2014. It even brewed serious anxiety at the dawn of the year 2015.
The desperation and strength exhibited by the Boko Haram terrorists group in causing havoc and capturing territories became even more worrisome since the insurgency and elections were two major factors believed to threaten the country’s continuous existence.
Since the emergence of the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, the country has been quite ungovernable and insecure and this was attributed to the insistence on Northern Presidency and alleged campaign threats and utterances by prominent Northern Presidential candidates, including the present President – Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, that they would make the country ungovernable unless a Northerner was President”. Source: National Mirror of Tuesday, April 14, 2015.

3. Prediction from the United States of America Angle: Excerpts: “A conference report titled ‘Mapping sub-Saharan Africa’s Future’ by a group of experts assembled by the United States National Intelligence Council predicted the possibility of ‘outright collapse of Nigeria’.
The report said, “While currently Nigeria’s leaders are locked in a bad marriage that all dislike but dare not leave, there are possibilities that could disrupt the precarious equilibrium in Abuja. The most important would be a junior officers coup that could destabilize the country to the extent that open warfare breaks out in many places in a sustained manner.
The United States went ahead to deny Nigeria the opportunities to buy arms for this purpose and blocked every move by Nigeria to buy from other countries, while the insurgents were getting arms freely, making it look like President Jonathan and the military were incapable of confronting the insurgents”.
Source: National Mirror of Tuesday, April 14, 2015, page 13.
It was not surprising therefore that submarines were stationed in Ghana’s territorial waters, ready to evacuate their nationals from Nigeria should crisis erupt from the result of the Presidential election of March 28, 2015.
It is unfortunate that a lot of highly placed political analysts and intellectuals have been giving reasons for and against the outcome of the 2015 Presidential election. Instead of studying the dynamics of Nigerian politics and especially the “Northern factor” in Nigerian politics, most of them speak IGNORANCE. And ignorance does not mean the non-existence of KNOWLEDGE or TRUTH. IGNORANCE simply means that the ignorant person IGNORED learning the TRUTH or IGNORED ACQUIRING the KNOWLEDGE necessary for acceptable analysis.
The danger inherent in this conspiracy theory that culminated in the palace coup that played out in the 2015 presidential election is that in the absence of rotational presidency among the six geo-political zones being entrenched in the constitution, this theory which the North has now either bought, discovered, acquired or learned, the North can now hold to the presidency for as many years as they so desire since party affiliation will be thrown to the wind, just to capture or retain the presidency in the North, and especially with the lop-sided creation of states in Nigeria – nineteen (19) States in the North and Seventeen (17) states in the South. Afterwards, men of Northern Nigeria origin in military uniform held to power in Nigeria for about thirty-five (35) years without remorse. This latest conspiracy theory therefore surely portends great danger to the corporate existence of this nation, Nigeria, if not checked and stopped. By this single act, Northerners have entrenched “ethnic and regional pattern of voting” in a greater and deeper dimension. The only antidote is the entrenchment of rotational presidency in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Coup?

Sick write up, when Jonathan won elections in 2011 in states controlled by ACN, what do you call that? In 2015 Jonathan won in Anambra, Edo and Imo, states ruled by APGA & APC, what is that called?

For your information OP, voting is done by people not political parties and choices are supposed to be freely excersiced, sentiments, reason, bigotry, and 'born to rule' included

I stopped reading when I reached here

the present President – Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, that they would make the country ungovernable unless a Northerner was President”. Source: National Mirror of Tuesday, April 14, 2015.

Same repeated trash .

Imokay:
Sick write up, when Jonathan won elections in 2011 in states controlled by ACN, what do you call that? In 2015 Jonathan won in Anambra, Edo and Imo, states ruled by APGA & APC, what is that called?

For your information OP, voting is done by people not political parties and choices are supposed to be freely excersiced, sentiments, reason, bigotry, and 'born to rule' included

You might need a hammer and nail to get that into his head