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mbaise1000:
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Very correct, this is the mind of an average nigerian, the 97%.
Let's not pretend like we don't know what that thing said

This is the reason why their country nigeria keeps going backward. The hatred of Igbos in that country is stinking very high and they will never know peace nor any advancement until the final collapse of the contraption they call a country.

TRUTH IS GRADUALLY SETTING IN. HATE AGAINST IGBOS IS WHAT BROUGHT THIS CALAMITY TO NIGERIANS.

2023: BOLA TINUBU AND THE COST OF POLITICAL MISCALCULATION.


By Sanusi Muhammad

The godfather of Lagos politics, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in 2015 led the South-West into an alliance with the North to birth the All Progressive Alliance (APC). His decision, evidently, was informed by the expectation that the two geopolitical regions will share power, invariably to the exclusion of the Eastern bloc. And ultimately that he, or the South-West, will take power by the time the North completes two terms in 2023. But it has proved to be a miscalculation.

Certainly, power play is about conspiracies and alliances. Tinubu is well within his right to do what he thought would best advance his political interest and that of his region. However, in backing President Muhammadu Buhari, he cut his nose to spite his face.

It may not have seemed obvious to many, but once Buhari took power in 2015, Tinubu’s political career was in jeopardy.

To navigate the presidency without bruises, the best Tinubu could have done was to retire from active politics and assume the role of an elder statesman. He did not, he stayed on, wanting to be president and pushing hard to remain at the centre of political discourse. But power is jealous, and if there is any holder of the highest office in the land who would tolerate a co-president, it is not Buhari. Things are beginning to unravel, fast.

Without Tinubu, and by extension the South-West, Buhari could not have been president today. This is one fact that president’s men who now dominate the political space and brook no opposition will hate to admit, but it remains true, regardless.

But being essentially Buhari’s kingmaker, it was political naivety to decide to hang around in the expectation that he would share power. The old Machiavellian advice is that the prince must first destroy the one who made him king. Reason? Because he could decide tomorrow to make another king.

Writing in The Prince, the legendary Niccolo Machiavelli noted “…he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined; because that predominancy has been brought about by astuteness or else by force, and both are distrusted by him who has been raised to power.”

Of course, it should have been obvious that, in helping to make Buhari president, Tinubu was jeopardizing his political career and plunging the South-West, and by extension, Southern Nigeria, into political slavery whose only parallel in the country’s political history is the late Emeka Ojukwu leading the Igbo to war in 1967.

With respect to the Biafra War, blaming Ojukwu for embarking on it could earn one exile in the Igbo country. But if truth be told, the war was avoidable and could have been avoided if Ojukwu had not been too stiff to listen to the likes of Zik and other intellectuals who understood better international politics and diplomacy. This is not to say, nonetheless, that Ojukwu was not sufficiently provoked by the killings of the Igbo in the North in the aftermath of the July 1966 revenge coup that threw up Yakubu Gowon as head of state, and indeed the actions – or lack of it – of the Gowon-led federal side. Regardless, it was still in his hands to accept to fight or toe the path of diplomacy which, given the circumstances, was the best option and the only way to win international support for his secession quest. In the event, he went to war and only succeeded in sacrificing more Igbo lives and weakening the Igbo politically.

The consequence of that weakening is that it provided fertile ground for the emergence of hegemonic Northern power. The imbalance so created is largely responsible for the crisis of Nigeria’s national identity. One mistake many Nigerians, particularly in the South, make is the assumption that the country is already formed and settled as a secular state. It’s not the case. There is the ever-present quest to define the country right, of course, from the 1804 jihad.

Colonial rule put a stop to it, then in the post-war years, the Middle Belt soldiers who dominated the army acted as a wedge. Tinubu’s alliance with Buhari has served to reenact that quest. Buhari is now, apparently, out to define the country. The Jagaban’s political miscalculation could yet prove too costly.

The old generals who, I reckon, understand this are already raising the alarm. But of course, the horde of naive, ignorant online crowd of crumb eaters are blurring the resistance line.

As it concerns the 2023 presidency, it should be clear to anyone with a functioning brain that President Buhari’s North has no intention of relinquishing power to the South-West or any zone for that matter. What many may not have realised, however, is that for the next three decades at least, if ever, and should Nigeria remain one, power will not leave the North. But in projecting, one must always leave space for the law of unintended consequences and the God factor.

[b]But given Buhari’s antecedents, was there any grounds for the South-West, particularly, to have given him benefit of the doubt in 2015? Absolutely none in my reckoning. However, it would appear that emotion rather than sound political calculation informed their support for Buhari in 2015. It was, perhaps, more to spite the East than love for Buhari. I had been amazed when, in the heat of the moment in 2015, before the election, the news editor of my then media platform branded a fellow reporter who didn’t buy into the Buhari presidential project a “bloody b*stard who is following the Igbo people to betray Yoruba by supporting Jonathan.”

In the lead up to the 2019 polls, I had on several occasions engaged my landlord – a backer of Buhari’s second term project who loves to discuss politics with me – on who between Atiku Abubakar and the President would make a better leader. My insistence was, of course, that Atiku would. After we exhausted all manner of issues he raised against the former vice president, he said finally that he would still back Buhari because Atiku was an “Omo Igbo project” and that “after Buhari, Yoruba will take power and after Yoruba, Hausa will take power again.” According to him, “we will be rotating it like that, Igbo people will never smell that place.” I had more of pity for his ignorance. [/b]

When in 2003, Buhari joined presidential race, he did so, apparently, to stop the then president, Olusegun Obasanjo. Not because Obasanjo had performed badly as president, having taken power with the return of democracy in 1999, but because Buhari and the section of the North he represented believed that power had to return to the region.

In settling for Obasanjo in 1998/99, the intention of the Northern military class was for him to do four years as compensation for MKO Abiola – the Yoruba had become uncontrollably agitated – and hand power back to the North. But not long after Obasanjo took power, it became clear that he was never going to leave it for anybody. This realisation led to agitations; criticisms of the Obasanjo government was swift in the north, the climax of which was the Sharia crisis of 2000. To take power, however, the anti-Obasanjo forces in the North knew that ultimately, it was about going to challenge him at the polls. Buhari emerged as the arrow head of that challenge. And through speeches and actions that appealed to regional sentiments, he built a cult following that saw him win elections convincingly in the North right from 2003.

Until 2014/15, Buhari was a regional hero who believed he could become president by winning elections in the North and never thought seriously about campaigning in the South. However, in 2014/15, the Tinubu led South-West gave him an undeserved national platform, and through heavy media propaganda, dressed him in the robe of a born again democrat. But old habits die hard.
Once in power, Buhari did not hesitate to take off the borrowed garb of a nationalist and democrat to put on his original robe of sectionalism. Right from his first set of appointments, he made clear his intentions. And as it stands, he has completely consolidated power in the hands of the North.
Buhari is an idealogue; usually idealogues are very resolute and persistent people. Say what you will, he is doubling down on nepotism. Shout ‘Fulanisation’ or ‘Islamisation’ all you will, he will only look for a hate speech bill or social media bill to shut you up rather than re-examine his ‘hate’ policies.

Possibly, when Buhari is done with the country – if he has his way – no Southerner will, on the basis of an election, ever become president except at the behest of the North. By suppressing votes in the South and inflating figures in the North, the administration is only trying to establish a pattern - a dangerous pattern which supporters of his party in the South are evidently too blind to see.

It is clear to the discerning where the president is headed. But the question is whether he would succeed. I had pointed out elsewhere that the project would fail, ultimately, because Nigerians are too many to be subjugated.

It would seem, from the actions of those controlling the levers of power, that there is an attempt to precipitate a national crisis with a view to using force to take over the country. But, of course, this is a country of 200 million people. The advantage those who have a “legitimate” right to bear arms are enjoying at the moment would be lost if there is a total breakdown of law and order. And the country would break into fractions controlled by warlords, such that it would take a miracle to have it again as one stable country for anyone to control.


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When brainless buffoons talk, you will know. Chimaroke Nnamani is the epitome of fulani slave.

Congratulations to the ful...............Complete the sentence.

Juliusmalema:
Nigeria should seek foreign/military help from Gambia, Caameroon or Somalia



If we can't get the needed help from these countries then we beg giants of Africa like Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda or Kenya for help towards curtailing the insecurity...


I don't think that even Congo will refuse us military help if asked





South Korea is wrong here, Nigeria is not a family let alone having family issues.

what is happening in Nigeria is totally an external affair.....

The use of the word family is totally wrong and misleading.....family goes with blood...and comformity of ideas.

Nigeria is just a coven lugard trapped everyone since 1914.

and the coven is currently weak and going up in flames.

I see your brain is coming back to processing reality. Keep it up. What happened to your one nigeria stance? Seems like you have been listening to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu of late.

What culture? They should not be allowed in. We don't want those terrorists in our land.

eki2000:
Forcing other regions to join Biafra struggle will not work. Trust is not built that way. If this killing continues, it will only turn other tribes against igbo.

Amala, gbegiri and ewedu grubber, face your afonja region and leave Biafrans alone. I don't understand how you can be typing from Benin republic IDP camp and still have Biafra as your problem.

Steve0979:
tunda fire ur generation dere,u get work to give dem if dem leave?idiotic bastard

Those terrorists in police and army uniforms are not even paid by your beloved nigeria government. They depend on mounting roadblocks in Biaftland and terrorize our people and extort them for their daily bread. Those terrorists are not wanted and are now being sent to allah on an errand.

starz100:
They have shifted to Akwa Ibom. The governor of that state should please sit up.

The governor is a confirmed Biafra. He is not a terrorist like you.

Kuginzi:
The evil deeds perpetrated on Southeastern region by some conscienceless ESN/IPOB Terrorist group is getting out of hand. And some brainwashed Biafrans on Nairaland cannot condemn the evil act. You're rejoicing while your father's house is burning.

After talking like a terrorist, remember to tell your terrorist brothers in police and army uniforms to leave Biafraland. If they are caught anywhere in Biafraland, they must be sent on an errand to allah. You hear?

Joromi1:
They're IPOB terrorists.

And ther are eliminating your terrorists in police and army unforms.

CasNova:
Lord have mercy.

Please let the spate of violence cease.

Tell your terrorists in police and army uniforms to leave Biafraland. They are not needed in Biafraland.

Christistruth00:
Just tell UGM to stop Murdering their own People

Elimination of terrorists in police and army uniforms must continue.

BuharisBoy:
Six Igbo brothers killed

So what? Terrorist, so what?

psucc:
The six casualties are not exclusively police officers. The police lose only five with one female civilian.

2. None of the officers suffer/sustain any form of injury.

3. According to the survivors, a good number of their assailants spoke in ibibio(a local language of the Akwa Ibom people) while others communicates in English/pidgin.

This is a firsthand info.

Are you on brukutu? Check the above bolded. What the hell are you writing?

wiseoneking:
Proudly Etche, the civilised one.

Etche is in Biafraland through and through.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etche#:~:text=Etche%20(Echie)%20is%20one%20of,the%20Rivers%20East%20Senatorial%20District.

omoadeleye:
So who will now protect you and your family from unknown gun men in SS/SE when every security outfits listen to your wise call out and resign? Don't you ever try or dare to run to SW sha...

Your terrorists in police and army uniform are far more dangerous than the unknown gunmen. Take them out from our land, we don;t need them. We shall protect ourselves by ourselves. No more terrorists in police and army uniform in all Biafraland. slowpoke, we own Lagos and shall do with it whatever we want. See your mouth and never run to SW as if Lagos is in the SW.

bekpo:
U r on of d unknown gun men, it's very obvious, I think d DSS r watching. The innocent lives n blood u spill will hunt u and ur cohort down u bunch of cowards!

Your useless and incompetent DSS can't do nada. You are a fool for expecting your DSS to do anything when they have shown how incompetent they are. Delusional naive slowpoke, tell your DSS to arrest your terrorist bokoharam brothers first, then maybe we can adjudge them to be competent.

NyamiriFlathead:
Wike is a real man, any ipigidiots or esn terrorists that want to destabilize you state must be sent to their creator like that bastard, ikongo or ikonso whatever

Terrorist, read below. Wike is a nobody.

https://www.nairaland.com/6543576/gunmen-behead-policeman-rivers-burn

Colonial mentality. The anglican church was founded by UK armed robbers. PVC idiots of Anambra, oya your food don ready, make una come dance and showcase your PVC idiocy.

Bravado of a mugu. They will soon reach to your government house. Stay there dey make mouth. Thought you closed Rivers state borders?

peteregwu:
That's is not what jesus told us to do. He gave us the signs of his coming and what we need to do.

Matthew 24:6-8 KJV
"And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. [7] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. [8] All these are the beginning of sorrows."

We are not told to fight any battle. But to make ourselves pure and prepare for his return. If the rapture takes, the mayhem you are seeing now would be a child's play compared to what would happen after that time.

Revelation 9:6 KJV
" And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them."

This brain dead is quoting the bible when people are dying at the hands of terrorists in police and army uniform. No wonder you are daft. Even in that your bible, Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. Matthew 11:12.

anytexy:
This is bad. Why killing the police?. What is really going on?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiWtpRhYuSk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uauwUib6QBY&t=177s

thebosstrevor1:
Those who are there, when they leave the police and military.

How will they take care of their families.

Do you have a solution for their welfare

YOur terrorists in police and army uniforms are not being paid salaries for the past 18 months. The only source of their welfare which is roadblocks extortions in Biafraland is being cut off as we speak. No more terrorists in police and army uniforms in Biafraland, or else you will be sent on errand to allah.

segun18:
Unknown gunmen operating in Akwa ibom and Rivers? Quite strange. Nigeria has gradually turned to Somalia before our very eyes.

Segun, what is strange about that. Keep deluding yourself from your Benin republic IDP camp. Rivers state and Akwa Ibom state are Biafraland and what is happening in those places are expected

Taqiya advise. Our people should not leave their homes for terrorists from futa jalon to come in, to occupy. This is definitely a taqiya advice by the fulanis. Let them face ESN and let's see how it pans out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_dy-fSyfF8

Killing of biafrans Protestant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bbfv2dGqus

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