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This the best article I have read this year so far .

Op more ink to your pen and inspiration to your mind

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This war was clearly foretold.

We were all duly warned by history and mother nature.

The signs were all there for all to see.

How can any reasonable person not know that a man who openly defended the world deadliest terror group, Boko haram and declared that any attack against them was an attack against the North. A man who openly voted a fellow fulani man from Niger Republic for the AU position as against his country man. A man who contested election under the platform of a little known CPC which had only one state of Nassarawa and lost but still rejected the result and instigated his minions to slaughter thousands. A man who left power for over 30 years but made no attempt to improve himself in any way, wrote no book, organized no seminar or workshop but only played with his cows for all those period. A man who failed woefully even with a loaded gun and a suspended constitution. A man who openly promised to use everything within his power to spread his religion throughout the country.

How can any right-thinking person believe that this man was the right man to pilot the affairs of a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country in a 21st century democracy??

How?

How?

For the sake of God, How

I weak for Nigeria

Benue, Kaduna South, Jos and all southern states should be careful and be on guard.

Vampires on the loose

When I hear my Benue brothers particularly the Tiv elites talking about the Tiv youths misbehaviour against the fulanis, I laugh. I know that they do not understand what the real issue is all about. The Tiv people say that ‘Agbo ka awa tso inya ipav’ The approximate meaning is that ‘when the coco yam increases in size, the soil gives way.’ That’s what the fulanis are doing. But they can only do that technically with an excuse. In Agatu which is the latest case, they accuse Agatu people of killing their 10,000 cows which is a complete lie. They molest, intimidate, harass and excite tension amongst the people by wilful destruction of crops of local farmers. This is done with out the world knowing. Any little reaction by even one person among the lot whose crops are eaten up or destroyed is enough reason for a massive attack with heavy weapons of mass destruction. It is a well planned project heavily backed with financial muscle made possible by Mayeti Allah. Any fertile land in West African subregion is to be taken over if possible.



In Nigeria, there is even the urgency to settle down in the captured lands before the 2017 Census. According to their plan, once they are captured by the Census, in ten years to come, they shall become proper citizens of such areas. As citizens particularly in Tiv land, they will no longer be denied their right to have chiefs of their own, a request that have been turned down by the UTER-the second class chiefs of Tivland. It shall be recalled that the fulanis in Tiv land had requested the appointment of an ARDO (Chief) in each of the 14 local governments in the past. To my knowledge, only one local government did so. The rest saw danger in such an exercise. They have been proved right. The one that did so has since withdrawn from it.



I started this write up by addressing the Benue people to understand that what the fulanis are doing is not just the usual skirmishes between neighbouring tribes. The fulanis are not our neighbours and there is absolutely no way there will be a clash between us over land. It is a war of conquest. It’s their game plan that cut across West African countries. The Nigerian High Commission in Ghana has just reported the death of seven Nigerian fulanis involved in this sort of war. They died during a war waged against a Ghanain community. They were terribly unlucky.



My mission is to let the fulanis know that we know their game plan irrespective of the many excuses they use as their reasons for attacking us. As brothers, it’s expedient to educate them to understand that the time for wars of conquest are over. Even the most mobile tribes of Africa got settled down before the turn of the 19th century. This is the 21st century and I am convinced that with modern government, even the most brazen and terrifying jihad like that of Usman Danfodio can not move beyond Boko Haram.



Let me conclude by calling on our fulani brothers to forget their unattainable mission of capturing the Tiv. We have come a long way. We had a robust relationship whereby the fulanis came to Tivland after harvest and left as soon as the wet season started to allow us farm. In this way, we enjoyed each other. There were few unnoticeable feuds. They accepted their status as visitors and not joint owners of community lands. This relationship has lasted from 16th century to date. An attempt by the Usman Danfodio ‘ Jihad to capture Tivland and change the course of history was unsuccessful and disastrous on the part of the jihadis. Their desire for a return match now is highly uncivilised, crude, unexpected and really really in bad taste. This must not be allowed to continue. copied

NgeneUkwenu:
And the Almajiri you guys have been abusing and cursing are all on Twitter?

Continue living in denial..

I am the least to engage you in argument here. I am not one of the paid dogs to rant online. 2019 will decide. if it's Buhari that wins so be it. But you lots must remind him that he won't be there forever. The earth rotates and so does power

WHAT WILL YOU DO TO STOP YOUR GOVERNOR FROM GIVING CATTLE COLONY TO THESE TERRORISTS?

Quite frankly, for all of us living in this Lugard Cage, 'the night is dark and full of terror'.

These Nomadic terrorists have concluded plans to fulfil the demonic dreams of their founding father,

They call it Cattle Colony but make no mistake, Cattle Colony is a euphemism for Fulani Emirate all over the country. Mark the word "Colony". Colonization.

That word "Colony" was chosen with utmost precision.

And it grieves me to admit that they will succeed BUT ONLY IF we allow them.

The Land Use Act put ownership of land in the hands of State Governors.

The milion dollar question is, how many State Governors have the moral courage to say NO to the Caliphate and maintain his NO in the face of violent pressure like we are currently witnessing in Benue?

The walking shame masquerading as Kogi State governor has already agreed to give out Kogi land as Cow Colony.

And,

Imo and Ebonyi state governors will most likely give Imo and Ebonyi land to the Danfodios for their cattle Colony. I can bet my next dinner on this.

Governors Rochas and Dave Umahi are two Igbo governors whose default inclination is always to the Caliphate. These two men are criminally unconscious of their identity. They can do anything in their desperate bid to get the Asorock Chief HerdsmAn allow one of them replace him. As the political simpletons that they are, they strongly believe that Buhari would transfer power to an Igbo man after doing a 2nd term in 2023.

Unfortunately, we don't have State House of Assembly in any southeast state and indeed most part of the country, to stop any rogue governor who chose to sacrifice his people for political opportunism. What we have as Houses of Assembly is a collection of "Political Alleluya Boys" who snatched ballot boxes for the governors election and were consequently compensated with house of Assembly seats.

So in essence, we the people are the only ones who can stop these govt-sponsored nomadic terrorists in their govt-sponsored murderous land-grabbing quest.

The big question to you that is reading this is,

How do you intend to stop your governor if he decides to give your land to these terrorist herdsmen??

By Charles Ogbu

This reminds me of how Jonathan was leading in all online polls ahead of 2015. The market woman is not on Twitter

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When a Yoruba man was removed as Head of NIA and Buhari instead of picking another Yoruba picked a man from his place I fear the man.

All Patriots are waiting for 2019

People who support Buhari re delusional.

It usual comes from Religious prisms.

My heart is still with Benue people.

When I hear my Benue brothers particularly the Tiv elites talking about the Tiv youths misbehaviour against the fulanis, I laugh. I know that they do not understand what the real issue is all about. The Tiv people say that ‘Agbo ka awa tso inya ipav’ The approximate meaning is that ‘when the coco yam increases in size, the soil gives way.’ That’s what the fulanis are doing. But they can only do that technically with an excuse. In Agatu which is the latest case, they accuse Agatu people of killing their 10,000 cows which is a complete lie. They molest, intimidate, harass and excite tension amongst the people by wilful destruction of crops of local farmers. This is done with out the world knowing. Any little reaction by even one person among the lot whose crops are eaten up or destroyed is enough reason for a massive attack with heavy weapons of mass destruction. It is a well planned project heavily backed with financial muscle made possible by Mayeti Allah. Any fertile land in West African subregion is to be taken over if possible.



In Nigeria, there is even the urgency to settle down in the captured lands before the 2017 Census. According to their plan, once they are captured by the Census, in ten years to come, they shall become proper citizens of such areas. As citizens particularly in Tiv land, they will no longer be denied their right to have chiefs of their own, a request that have been turned down by the UTER-the second class chiefs of Tivland. It shall be recalled that the fulanis in Tiv land had requested the appointment of an ARDO (Chief) in each of the 14 local governments in the past. To my knowledge, only one local government did so. The rest saw danger in such an exercise. They have been proved right. The one that did so has since withdrawn from it.



I started this write up by addressing the Benue people to understand that what the fulanis are doing is not just the usual skirmishes between neighbouring tribes. The fulanis are not our neighbours and there is absolutely no way there will be a clash between us over land. It is a war of conquest. It’s their game plan that cut across West African countries. The Nigerian High Commission in Ghana has just reported the death of seven Nigerian fulanis involved in this sort of war. They died during a war waged against a Ghanain community. They were terribly unlucky.



My mission is to let the fulanis know that we know their game plan irrespective of the many excuses they use as their reasons for attacking us. As brothers, it’s expedient to educate them to understand that the time for wars of conquest are over. Even the most mobile tribes of Africa got settled down before the turn of the 19th century. This is the 21st century and I am convinced that with modern government, even the most brazen and terrifying jihad like that of Usman Danfodio can not move beyond Boko Haram.



Let me conclude by calling on our fulani brothers to forget their unattainable mission of capturing the Tiv. We have come a long way. We had a robust relationship whereby the fulanis came to Tivland after harvest and left as soon as the wet season started to allow us farm. In this way, we enjoyed each other. There were few unnoticeable feuds. They accepted their status as visitors and not joint owners of community lands. This relationship has lasted from 16th century to date. An attempt by the Usman Danfodio ‘ Jihad to capture Tivland and change the course of history was unsuccessful and disastrous on the part of the jihadis. Their desire for a return match now is highly uncivilised, crude, unexpected and really really in bad taste. This must not be allowed to continue.

yeyerolling:
Scammer sang the land is green. Bt went to usa to born pikin

THIS ONE GOT ME.

Kai---you be confirmed son of your father and your mother is a witness

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Removing Buhari is a task every Patriot who values his next 4years must do.

We will not take it in the voice of Orubebe.

PDP will buy 200 while all Sai Babarians will buy at 145

lol

No need. a child will always look for both parents when grown.

the child needs your support not custody

LETS LOOK AT APC REPORT



Boko Haram ALIVE AND WELL, needing 1billion naira a dayto fight it (1 billion dollars a year is 1 billion a day)

Fulani herdsmen on rampage as never before. No presidential speeches of condemnation or visit to the carnage sites

Farms destroyed causing food shortage and price increase nationwide

Economy tanked

Jobs lost

Nigeria pariah in financial matters as JP Morgan blacklists her

Administration with most loans taken since amalgamation

Civil War part 2 flirted with as Buhari makes a whole region pariah

NNPC quarterly financial reports no more

No idea how much crude we produce or sell

Billions spent in searching for oil in the North to no avail, billions that could have gone to feeding the nation or bettering infrastructure

Soldiers killing as much citizens than Boko Haram, from Niger Delta to Kaduna to Benue through Imo, sometimes over mere stoning of a soldiers vehicle.

Pressmen harrassed and jailed

Diaspora people can no longer visit their family in Nigeria because they posted against Buhari

Billions paid to Remita still unaccounted for, No one knows who contracted them or paid out ten percent of our earning daily to a private company

Billions to cut grass

Billions to buy grass from Brazil for cows while people starve

IDP camps bombed

IDP people abandoned and starved like somalis

Yet 2.1 billion dollar loans taken to help them and their lands

800 million dollars gotten from Norway for them and their lands

Large part of budget to same North East to take of these people and their lands

Yet they starve and are bombed

Debono (dates) donated to Nigerians by Saudi Arabia sold in open market and no one knows who received the fruits and refused to share to Nigerians free, instead selling it and pocketing the money. No one arrested. No one lost their jobs

Billions kept in private unguarded houses in Ikoyi

No one knows till date how much has been recovered from previous administration officials who stole, despite reports of billions recovered, probably so they can RETHIEF from thief who dares not complain

Zero charges brought against the very people like Deziani they called thieves through out her tenure

Where is Al Zak Zakki? What is his crime?

Why is Dasuki not facing charges but resting at home?

Insecurity in Rivers and so many other places

No light despite the huge investments under last administration for which we were beginning to see results eg the cold bottles of beer credited to "body language" and spoken of by Bright Basketmouth

No fuel despite a 100 percent increase in prices

And they said they have ended fuel
subsidies as that is a means of robbing Nigerians

Then we find they still pay people, mostly Northern Muslims billions in the name of subsidy of fuel

Subsidy they said was over

No fuel, no light

And Buhari blames others for it, even though he is minister for petroleum

No injection in Aso Rock hospital as states by Aisha Buhari despite almost 4 billion dished out for it

No new hospitals built or even repaired

No new schools built or repaired

Few airports renovated at omila prices

No new ports. One dry port whose building can be credited to last admin only evidence of anything built

No new rail line added. Kaduna Abuja rail by GEJ is what they pride themselves on

No verifiable roads repaired

All gains in farming under former agric minister lost forever.

Fulani herdsmen could be targeting your village next

But they begin reelection bid

And make a serving minister campaign DG when he should be facing his ministry.

RECESSION is just a word!... a word for how this administration is in all things

My dear President, please, permit me to wish you and your family a very happy new year. Let me also offer my words of prayers, and intercession, on behalf of your very handsome son, and his friend, who, according to reports, were involved in a terrible power-bike crash. I pray that God almighty will grant them full recovery and I believe my prayer is already answered because of my presence in the Holy Land of Jerusalem.



Now to the business of the day. Kindly permit me to be as brutally frank as possible. As a stakeholder who made his modest contribution to your emergence as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, I owe you nothing but the truth. I was not a member of your party when I volunteered to support your mission and ambition in 2015. I was elated when Nigerians succeeded in chasing away the profligate and reckless government of the PDP, led by President Goodluck Jonathan. I was one of those who unleashed terror on that government and I subsequently presented you with a compilation of my articles in which I criticised and advised the then President, free of charge. I never expected that our situation could ever get worse under the APC government that almost literally promised heaven and earth. But it has become evident that it is easier to govern by words of mouth than by force of action.

It is indeed shameful that those like me who supported you so vociferously have become butts of jokes everywhere we go. Sir, I plead with you to ignore your acolytes who may be telling you that all is well in Nigeria. My unequivocal verdict, without any fear of contradiction is that things are very bad. While I will not, in all honesty, totally heap the blame on you, there is no doubt that your government has been less than competent. I’m reasonably convinced that you have not availed yourself of the abundant talents it has so pleased God to endow Nigeria with. Rather, you’ve chosen to saddle yourself with hungry lions and deadwoods that you’ve resurrected from penury and oblivion. Leadership should be about managing people and resources. Most of the people you are working with are already retired or tired and with little or nothing new to contribute.

It is grossly unfair that it was very convenient for us to lampoon and scandalise Dr Goodluck Jonathan, yet most of us have remained funereally silent and unreasonably complicit in the evil that the current men of power are perpetrating and perpetuating under your watch. Unknown to you Sir, some people are merely using you to rule by proxy. There is no evidence of discipline in your team, one of the greatest things you preached so fervently about in your first coming as military Head of State. Your acolytes are virtually getting away with murder. Someone, somewhere, sat down with birds of the same feathers, to conjure and compile the most disgraceful list of political appointees ever and yet nothing has happened to those who brought such perfidious insults on our nation. Instead, we are being regaled with tales by the moonlight to gloss over serious maladies in the polity and damning treachery against our nation. No serious apologies. No penitence. Only some foolhardy cockiness from those who will repeat the same nonsense when tomorrow comes.

Your Excellency, it has become very difficult, if not impossible to defend the excessive shortcomings of your government, please, permit my oxymoron Sir. We definitely want you to succeed but it seems some demons are desperately determined to make you fail by all means. The more your administration unravels, the more ridiculously hopeless it seems. You have waltzed from crisis to crisis instead of from glory to glory, as most of us expected. We thought you truly possessed the magic wand and talismanic effect to make all our problems evaporate and vamoose in a jiffy. We did not expect to be regularly mesmerised by impotent excuses galore.

I sincerely doff my hat to your wonderful wife for her rare and uncommon courage. Regardless of what her detractors may say, she is the only insider who has been trying to say it as it is. Even if some of her critics feel she’s seeking for relevance in your kingdom, it is still within her rights. I’m sure that when the day of reckoning comes, you will remember and appreciate her timely warnings. Without mincing words, what Madam Aisha Buhari has been trying to tell you in clear terms is that this government is swimming in a big foul mess and that you should not be carried away by the fake adulation and false adoration you see all around you. There is no government in Nigeria that did not enjoy the services of praise-singers who disappeared as soon as the government itself collapsed like a pack of cards. Ask President Jonathan!

I’m aware that your foot-soldiers are already warming up for the next election. I really do not know what they hope to tell and sell to the electorate this time, particularly after the colossal failure of the last three years. I do not see how they expect to fund your campaign without resorting to the same type of extravagant jamboree we witnessed in the dying and last days of the PDP’s prodigality. As a result of your decision to contest again, you are being forced by circumstances beyond your control to compromise and capitulate on your known principles. Is it not better, and more profitable, to return home, triumphantly, with your reputation intact than to win a pyrrhic victory with everything you ever stood for wasted on the altar of vainglorious aggrandisement? What guarantees do you have that you will win the next election even if you agree to sell Nigeria to the political gladiators?

Sir, I’m pleading with you in the name of God, the Merciful and all-powerful, that you don’t need two terms, or eight years in power, to prove your greatness. Nelson Mandela spent only one term in power and retired to superlative glory as the world’s most respected and revered and idolised statesman. Robert Mugabe spent about four decades in power, yet he returned home in total infamy and unenviable disgrace. It is a lesson of life that we must all learn, sooner rather than later, that man shall not live by power alone. I know my preaching is not likely to touch you and your hardened supporters but, at the very least, I want it to be on record that I spoke publicly, out of genuine love and concern, while you were being goaded on by those who stand to gain more if you win a re-election next year. For most of those asking you to continue, by fire and by force, it is always about their personal agenda and survival. They know their political careers would come to a shuddering halt and abrupt standstill should you fail in your bid to come back. In their desperation to come back at all costs, they are going to do exactly what PDP did, or even much worse. What moral authority would you then have to justify the continued detention and harassment of some of the PDP operatives accused of wasting government resources on Jonathan’s truncated re-election bid. Who amongst us can in good conscience say in the market place that you won the last election on pure merit and that no substantial government funding went into your campaigns.

This year promises to be an interesting one. You will soon discover how treacherous human beings can be when some of those hailing you today as the authentic messiah begin to show you their true colours. Our country is bleeding dangerously while some over-pampered politicians can only think of winning elections by hook or by crook. The quality of your appointees in recent time points to how directionless your government has finally become. In a country overflowing with so many amazing brains and talents, it is incredibly shameful that those are your best representatives for our country. The easiest way for a leader to fail is to continue to attract those much worse than himself. Conversely, the best way to succeed is for a leader to recognise and attract and surround himself with those much better in all aspects of human endeavour. This does not erase or take anything away from the leader but it actually enhances his personality and how he is perceived by everyone. The late sage of blessed memory, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, was a veritable example of how a leader can effectively tap into the collective brains of some geniuses and add to his own in a way that makes him appear super-human.

Nigeria has never been in short supply of whiz kids at home and abroad but Nigeria started dying when our leaders stopped respecting merit and preferred to enthrone mediocrity. The truth is mediocrity begets further mediocrity. The few good leaders in your government have not been able to display their wizardry out of fear and trepidation that some cabal would mark them out and hack them down so ruthlessly. It is a sign of the times, that the courage, astuteness and brilliance that made them stand out in the political crowd has suddenly taken flight and they are now little more than wimps in your insipid government. The bureaucracy in Abuja is enough to suffocate and disorientate any fertile mind.

If I were in your shoes, I would consider that it is not too late to groom and propel some of the best brains in APC or even those living beyond the shores of Nigeria to succeed me. You do not need to look far in this regard but I will not make any suggestions today, lest it be misinterpreted that I am touting any particular individual as a worthy successor. I’m reasonably convinced that you have worked very hard and seem to have reached your peak. To God be the glory. In a country of nearly 200 million people, God has been too kind to you. Apart from former President Olusegun Obasanjo, no other Nigerian has been given a second chance so miraculously. You will be able to justify this unmerited favour by leaving Nigeria much better than you met it. The only way you can do that in the next remaining year is to sacrifice your own personal ambition and hand over the country to proven and tested modern and cosmopolitan technocrats. The world has moved beyond the backwardness that we are being saddled with in Nigeria today. The world expect us to be the true giant and leader of Africa not by words but in deed.

My appeal to you is to urgently do a self-assessment to determine and decide on whether you are what Nigeria needs at this time and age for our country to join the comity of other nations in their march towards technological advancement, political stability, social security and economic prosperity.

With all due respect, Sir, if your answer is yes to the above, you may go ahead and contest but if in all honesty, the answer is no, my prayer is that you will find the courage and selfless spirit to quit the stage while the ovation is loudest. That in itself would be a deserving legacy. I’m watching and waiting for your patriotic decision with bated breath.

Thank you, Mr President, for your usual attention and kind consideration of my latest memo to you, albeit so early in the year


http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/01/06/mr-president-man-shall-not-live-by-power-alone/

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