The first phase of the covert plan to diminish Nigeria’s influence and leadership position as the regional hegemon is all but complete now, as exemplified when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Ghana for support in Israel’s bid to have a sit at the African Union.

To recolonization of West Africa cannot be achieved with the behemoth Nigeria in play. To achieve their agenda, the powers that be plans to get Nigeria out-of-the-way by replacing Nigeria on three fronts:

Diplomatically (Ghana) (check)

Economically (Morocco)

Militarily (France, United States, bases in Chad, Cameroon,Ghana,Niger)

The diplomatic takeover is certainly complete with this latest development. Nigeria is in denial of this new reality. It’s going to be tough for Nigeria to accept this new reality. Such is the price for having incompetent and unqualified people run Africa’s richest economy with a lack of a coherent foreign policy.

How were the powers that be able to execute a successful diplomatic coup right under Nigeria’s nose?

For answers we have to go back to the past.

In July 2009 U.S President Barack Obama made his first Sub Sahara Africa trip, flying over Nigeria to Ghana, where he hailed Ghana as a model for democracy in the region. President Obama also became the first US President to deliver a speech to the Ghanaian Parliament and to visit a slave departure point when he visited Cape Coast Castle.

Three days to the 2015 Presidential Elections President three USAF Osprey aircraft landed in Accra’s international airport. On-board was a team of 600 fully armed U.S Marines. President Obama had earlier made his misgivings of the forthcoming election to the Ghanaian President John Atta Mils and suggested sending a team of Marines to Ghana.


Their mission was to move into Nigeria from Ghana and evacuate Americans and other Westerners from the country when the shooting starts. Without consulting with Nigeria’s President Ghanaian President Atta Mills agreed to the proposal. So much for Ghana’s often touted Pan Africanism.

As Ghana’s diplomatic status grew, its foreign policy objective was getting more antagonistic towards Nigeria. Relations between Abuja and Accra cooled when Ghana became the first country to support Morocco’s membership into ECOWAS after Nigeria called for a motion to put negotiations on hold. A move that irked the Nigerian government.

At the Oxford 2018 Africa Conference in London, Ghana’s President begins his speech with a 20 minutes monologue bashing Nigeria. He criticised Britain’s embrace of Nigeria during the oil boom of the 70s and contrasted the current situation of Nigeria vis-a-vis Ghana. This unprecedented whitewashing of Nigeria by the leader of a fellow African country in the presence of Heads of States, policy makers, business leaders, academics, artists and students was an insult and a total lack of respect to Nigeria.

In February 2018 Nigerian Intelligence (SSS) uncovered plans by the United States on establishing another military base in West Africa, this time Ghana. President Buhari dispatched Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Jideofor Kwusike Onyeama to Ghana to about the danger of an expansion of the American military in the region and advised against the deal.

Against Nigeria’s concerns Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo agreed to the deal that would give the United States military an expanded role in Ghana. As part of the agreement struck last week, the United States would invest about $20 million in equipment and training for the Ghanaian military, carrying out joint exercises with Ghana and using the nation’s radio channels and runways.

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Protesters take part in demonstration organised by Ghana First Patriotic Front (GFPF), in downtown Accra on March 28, 2018, against a Ghana-US defence cooperation agreement which was ratified by the Parliament last week. / AFP PHOTO / CRISTINA ALDEHUELA (Photo credit should read CRISTINA ALDEHUELA/AFP/Getty Images)
This was seen as a betrayal of ECOWAS by surrendering our sovereignty and threatening the peace and stability in the region.

Ghana’s was to score another win when U.S First Lady Melania Trump visited Ghana in October. Her first ever visit to the African continent.

Enter the British Royal couple Prince Charles and Camillia. Again the first country they touch down in is Ghana.

Is Ghana challenging Nigeria’s leadership role in West Africa? Why is there all of a sudden so much interest in Ghana from the West? Is President Nana Akufo-Addo being used to obliterate the ECOWAS alliance, to forestall the unification of West Africa.? Is the spirit of Pan Africanism DEAD?

In 2003 President Obasanjo was the first African Head of State to criticize Francophone African countries paying France $400 billion every year into French treasuries and supported a single West African currency that was to be called the ECO. It would be the strongest and most valuable currency in Africa. The West African Gas Pipeline Project was funded mainly by Nigeria. Thirteen odd years later ECOWAS has gone from what the Economist once called the most successful military alliance in the world,outstripping NATO, to an alliance that is basically in the throes of death.

https://defensenigeria.blog/2018/11/14/ghanas-president-nana-akufo-addo-pan-africanist-or-sellout/

Nigeria my country

What do you expect when President Buhari is busy condemning Nigeria before the international community.

DDGN:
The first phase of the covert plan to diminish Nigeria’s influence and leadership position as the regional hegemon is all but complete now, as exemplified when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Ghana for support in Israel’s bid to have a sit at the African Union.

To recolonization of West Africa cannot be achieved with the behemoth Nigeria in play. To achieve their agenda, the powers that be plans to get Nigeria out-of-the-way by replacing Nigeria on three fronts:

Diplomatically (Ghana) (check)

Economically (Morocco)

Militarily (France, United States, bases in Chad, Cameroon,Ghana,Niger)

The diplomatic takeover is certainly complete with this latest development. Nigeria is in denial of this new reality. It’s going to be tough for Nigeria to accept this new reality. Such is the price for having incompetent and unqualified people run Africa’s richest economy with a lack of a coherent foreign policy.

How were the powers that be able to execute a successful diplomatic coup right under Nigeria’s nose?

For answers we have to go back to the past.

In July 2009 U.S President Barack Obama made his first Sub Sahara Africa trip, flying over Nigeria to Ghana, where he hailed Ghana as a model for democracy in the region. President Obama also became the first US President to deliver a speech to the Ghanaian Parliament and to visit a slave departure point when he visited Cape Coast Castle.

Three days to the 2015 Presidential Elections President three USAF Osprey aircraft landed in Accra’s international airport. On-board was a team of 600 fully armed U.S Marines. President Obama had earlier made his misgivings of the forthcoming election to the Ghanaian President John Atta Mils and suggested sending a team of Marines to Ghana.


Their mission was to move into Nigeria from Ghana and evacuate Americans and other Westerners from the country when the shooting starts. Without consulting with Nigeria’s President Ghanaian President Atta Mills agreed to the proposal. So much for Ghana’s often touted Pan Africanism.

As Ghana’s diplomatic status grew, its foreign policy objective was getting more antagonistic towards Nigeria. Relations between Abuja and Accra cooled when Ghana became the first country to support Morocco’s membership into ECOWAS after Nigeria called for a motion to put negotiations on hold. A move that irked the Nigerian government.

At the Oxford 2018 Africa Conference in London, Ghana’s President begins his speech with a 20 minutes monologue bashing Nigeria. He criticised Britain’s embrace of Nigeria during the oil boom of the 70s and contrasted the current situation of Nigeria vis-a-vis Ghana. This unprecedented whitewashing of Nigeria by the leader of a fellow African country in the presence of Heads of States, policy makers, business leaders, academics, artists and students was an insult and a total lack of respect to Nigeria.

In February 2018 Nigerian Intelligence (SSS) uncovered plans by the United States on establishing another military base in West Africa, this time Ghana. President Buhari dispatched Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Jideofor Kwusike Onyeama to Ghana to about the danger of an expansion of the American military in the region and advised against the deal.

Against Nigeria’s concerns Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo agreed to the deal that would give the United States military an expanded role in Ghana. As part of the agreement struck last week, the United States would invest about $20 million in equipment and training for the Ghanaian military, carrying out joint exercises with Ghana and using the nation’s radio channels and runways.

gettyimages-939228512-1024x1024.jpg
Protesters take part in demonstration organised by Ghana First Patriotic Front (GFPF), in downtown Accra on March 28, 2018, against a Ghana-US defence cooperation agreement which was ratified by the Parliament last week. / AFP PHOTO / CRISTINA ALDEHUELA (Photo credit should read CRISTINA ALDEHUELA/AFP/Getty Images)
This was seen as a betrayal of ECOWAS by surrendering our sovereignty and threatening the peace and stability in the region.

Ghana’s was to score another win when U.S First Lady Melania Trump visited Ghana in October. Her first ever visit to the African continent.

Enter the British Royal couple Prince Charles and Camillia. Again the first country they touch down in is Ghana.

Is Ghana challenging Nigeria’s leadership role in West Africa? Why is there all of a sudden so much interest in Ghana from the West? Is President Nana Akufo-Addo being used to obliterate the ECOWAS alliance, to forestall the unification of West Africa.? Is the spirit of Pan Africanism DEAD?

In 2003 President Obasanjo was the first African Head of State to criticize Francophone African countries paying France $400 billion every year into French treasuries and supported a single West African currency that was to be called the ECO. It would be the strongest and most valuable currency in Africa. The West African Gas Pipeline Project was funded mainly by Nigeria. Thirteen odd years later ECOWAS has gone from what the Economist once called the most successful military alliance in the world,outstripping NATO, to an alliance that is basically in the throes of death.

https://defensenigeria.blog/2018/11/14/ghanas-president-nana-akufo-addo-pan-africanist-or-sellout/

You said 3 fronts?
I say 4 fronts, don't forget we have the uneducated dullard dictator Buhari parading as president.

Nothing is killing Nigeria as a powerful country like having Buhari.

naijaking1:


You said 3 fronts?
I say 4 fronts, don't forget we have the uneducated dullard dictator Buhari parading as president.

Nothing is killing Nigeria as a powerful country like having Buhari.

Had Obama not cripple the Jonathan presidency we won't have quite literally the worst president in the history of this country. The country seems to thrive each time he hand over to Osibanjo as acting President whenever he is away. I feel ashamed hear I him speak as a Nigerian. His inability to speak coherently when speaking in publicly breaks my heart. Look at the Presidents of Ghana or Kenya or any other President. Kenyans do now now their head in embarrassment when their president speak. Ghanaians beam with pride when they see their President speak. Why is it only in Nigeria we seem to produce leaders that struggle with articulation. It get frustrating knowing a qualified and charismatic person will never ever ever ever ever rule Nigeria. It doesn't matter if he gets %100 support in the South. The 85 million northern youths will make sure an educated and well qualified candidate never wins. So we as a nation we are stuck. Looking at Lagos and other states like Calabar one cannot help but wonder how Nigeria would have fared if the northern allow us to put in office a qualified candidate. NEVER !

The elites of the north have weaponized illiteracy. Power have stayed on the north for 44 years of Nigeria's existence yet it's the worst place to be on earth I kid ye not. Northern elites and social structure delibrately stife education, restrict global and national engagement, and restrain economic opportunity, just so that their ignorance can be used to gather votes. Nigeria's development is being held hostage by northern elites with 85 million ignorant desperately poor youths. To think Atiku stands a chance of becoming the next Pesident makes me want to cry. How does a nation with the most educated people not only in Africa, but in the United States too, continue being held hostage my northern anti-development, anti-education, anti progressive piverty stricken religious fanatical youths.

They see the truth, they know the truth, they deny the truth to spite others. In the end they become the laughing stock...

DDGN:


Had Obama not cripple the Jonathan presidency we won't have quite literally the worst president in the history of this country. The country seems to thrive each time he hand over to Osibanjo as acting President whenever he is away. I feel ashamed hear I him speak as a Nigerian. His inability to speak coherently when speaking in publicly breaks my heart. Look at the Presidents of Ghana or Kenya or any other President. Kenyans do now now their head in embarrassment when their president speak. Ghanaians beam with pride when they see their President speak. Why is it only in Nigeria we seem to produce leaders that struggle with articulation. It get frustrating knowing a qualified and charismatic person will never ever ever ever ever rule Nigeria. It doesn't matter if he gets %100 support in the South. The 85 million northern youths will make sure an educated and well qualified candidate never wins. So we as a nation we are stuck. Looking at Lagos and other states like Calabar one cannot help but wonder how Nigeria would have fared if the northern allow us to put in office a qualified candidate. NEVER !

The elites of the north have weaponized illiteracy. Power have stayed on the north for 44 years of Nigeria's existence yet it's the worst place to be on earth I kid ye not. Northern elites and social structure delibrately stife education, restrict global and national engagement, and restrain economic opportunity, just so that their ignorance can be used to gather votes. Nigeria's development is being held hostage by northern elites with 85 million ignorant desperately poor youths. To think Atiku stands a chance of becoming the next Pesident makes me want to cry. How does a nation with the most educated people not only in Africa, but in the United States too, continue being held hostage my northern anti-development, anti-education, anti progressive piverty stricken religious fanatical youths.

My sentiments exactly!

Personally, i see no light at the end of the dark tunnel insofar as we're still tied to the north (core muslim north), hence i've all but given up on the Nigerian project...a project started more than 100 years ago by that racist pirate Lugard, but is still crawling on the ground while our contemporaries like Singapore, Malaysia and UAE are running marathons and have left us for dust!

The Nigerian political space has been taken over by thugs, moneybags and self-serving charlatans, and this prevents decent and cerebral individuals like Muoghalu, Adesina, Soludo, etc, from getting a look in!

The north is only taking advantage of the schisms that exist in the south and are craftily playing one against the other while they benefit from the resultant squabbles!

Who wrote this piece of crap? Every country has a right to pursue an agenda that is in its best political interest. What i# the writer complaining about? Ghana had supported Nigeria in the past. What did ghana get, apart from insults, disdain and outright disrespect?

Nigeria should look elsewhere for support. Ghana has moved on and there is nothing Nigeria can do about it.

To O.P.
I stopped reading when I hit the phrase
" Such is the price for havibg incompetent and unqualified people run Africa's richest economy..."

Question:
How competent on foreign policy, and how qualified was French stooge JonaCrook who ended up being fired by the Nigerian people when they elected general Buhari in the last presidential election ?