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Ugonna Utulor, a Public Affairs Analyst and the author of the thriller Hackers Day argues that Nigeria's northerners majority of whom are Muslims should be encouraged to secede out of Nigeria. Here's the article:

""Fulani group claims ownership of land from the Atlantic Ocean to Sokoto" - PM News.

News like this have made me come to a conclusion: dissolution of Nigeria will be a better solution than any other. But rather wait for others to start the process, the Muslim north should take the lead.

The Muslim north of Nigeria deserves a country of their own. Instead of beating around the bush they should unite and secede. The north craves power and has indeed had power either through the ballot or seized it with bullets. But the Muslim north do not just want power, they want to change the power rulebook.

The Muslim north is not comfortable with democracy. They do not like democracy and feel enslaved by the fragile democracy that Nigeria has since 1999 been too afraid to practice.

The Muslim north prefers a theocracy. Influenced by the Wahhabi ideology, the Muslim north prefer Sharia and laws meant for the dark ages to an American constitution and the freedom that comes with its democracy.

Liberalism is not their thing. It's why they don't like liberal "Yoruba Muslims". Imams from the South West cannot lead prayers in the north even though Islam came to Odua first.

The imams in the north preach all sort of radical messages. The radicalism of Shekau and co started in mosques and Islamic schools in the north. The north has a born to rule mentality and have ruled for years, lending to Nigeria the most inept of leaders and affecting the whole nation with mediocrity in thinking, in leadership and in aspiration.

Yet the imams think that the north hasn't gone far enough. The imams say Nigeria is their heritage. And indeed encourage their elites to open the borders to their distant cousins in all parts of Africa. They too have to come and possess their possession even if their were originally from Mali or Gabon, from Senegal or Gambia. Once in Daura, Keita from Gambia becomes Keita Daura.

The Muslim north shielded Boko Haram in its formative years and used them to achieve their political goals at the height of their insanity.

We know Niger Delta militants fought for compensation. Oil had devastated their land, defiled their waters, killed their fishes and spilled poisons into their farms making it impossible to grow crops. They deserved some money to eat or even buy water to drink and since they demanded peacefully and got locked up or given the Saro-Wiwa treatment, fighting from the creek was an appealing tactics of last resort.

OPC fought against Yoruba marginalization and the atrocity that's June 12, 1993. IPOB and MASSOB are fighting Igbo marginalization.

But what is Boko Haram fighting for? What exactly is the problem with the Fulani herdsmen?

At the heart of it is Sharia. Implementation of Sharia across the country. And then the establishment of an Islamic caliphate.

But who are their sponsors? Fingered are Muslim elites from the north. Remember it was the elite governors who first introduced Sharia into states in the north and have vowed to al in other parts of the country.

Why can't all of Nigeria be ruled by the Sultan, they wonder. It wouldn't be a bad idea to make Nigeria the next Turkey, one-time Christian bastion, modern-time Islamic stronghold.

Sharia is oppressive in Saudi as in everywhere else. Yet it's exactly what all northern Muslims crave.

Since they prefer oppression to freedom, they should be encouraged to secede and not force their ways on others.

#PoliticallyIncorrectButTruth"

I can't offend my senses by reading any of this.

Can someone who can offend their senses please let me know if he proposes that Christians and indigenous god worshippers in the North should secede with his Muslim North or if he proposes they abandon their ancestral land because the rest of us refuse to defend their right to their land because of a few terrorists.

Are the minorities safe now? How many of their homes have been razed by Fulani herdsmen? How many northern minorities are in IDPs? Persecuted everywhere, the Jews had to move from diverse places to the state of Israel. Minorities in the north should be encouraged to move to other countries including Odua Republic or the other succeeding nations of the retired Nigeria.

budaatum:
I can't offend ny senses by reading any of this.

Can someone who can offend their senses please let me know if he proposes that Christians and indigenous god worshippers in the North should secede with his Muslim North or if he proposes they abandon their ancestral land because the rest of us refuse to defend their right to their land because of a few terrorists.

Sarakist:
Are the minorities safe now? How many of their homes have been razed by Fulani herdsmen? How many northern minorities are in IDPs? Persecuted everywhere, the Jews had to move from diverse places to the state of Israel. Minorities in the north should be encouraged to move to other countries including Odua Republic or the other succeeding nations of the retired Nigeria.

So, you know the minorities are not protected in a Muslim-Christian Nigeria, and your solution is, carve them off to a Northern Nigeria where they can truly be treated like the Jews were in Germany? And you propose all this because of some minority terrorist, or is it that you think everyone in the North is a majority Islamic Fulani terrorist?

And what do you propose to do with the Muslims in Southern Nigeria, I wonder? Should they go and become Northern Nigerian Muslims too because we non-Muslims own the South perhaps, or shall we allow them to continue to practise their Islam amongst us in the South?

1. The minorities in the north, like minorities elsewhere, are free to leave if their lives are threatened as it already is.

2. Many in the north support Sharia and would love to see all of Nigeria turned into a Sharia state. They may not be terrorists but they wouldn't mind if somehow all of Nigeria is whipped into their ideology.

3. Muslims in Western Nigeria, except for Professorship Ishaq Akintola and very few others, are not a security problem. But it's my believe that once the north secedes Nigeria will dissolve just as it happened in the USSR in 1991. For other than religious differences, ethnic differences and disagreements remain a big problem and I do not see Yorubas and Igbos being in one country if given a choice. I also think that the minorities in the South South won't be interested in being in the same country with Igbos. Everyone should be free to form alliances and be in their own nation. There's need for honest discussions. The confab of 2014 gagged conferencemen from discussing the unity of Nigeria but time and time again, it becomes clear that if the unity of Nigeria is nor renegotiate Nigeria may be thrown into hot water.

budaatum:
So, you know the minorities are not protected in a Muslim-Christian Nigeria, and your solution is, carve them off to a Northern Nigeria where they can truly be treated like the Jews were in Germany? And you propose all this because of some minority terrorist, or is it that you think everyone in the North is a majority Islamic Fulani terrorist?

And what do you propose to do with the Muslims in Southern Nigeria, I wonder? Should they go and become Northern Nigerian Muslims too because we non-Muslims own the South perhaps, or shall we allow them to continue to practise their Islam amongst us in the South?

Take time to travel around the North, and Nigeria, in fact. Then come talk to me when you know what you talking about!

Sarakist:
1. The minorities in the north, like minorities elsewhere, are free to leave if their lives are threatened as it already is.

2. Many in the north support Sharia and would love to see all of Nigeria turned into a Sharia state. They may not be terrorists but they wouldn't mind if somehow all of Nigeria is whipped into their ideology.

3. Muslims in Western Nigeria, except for Professorship Ishaq Akintola and very few others, are not a security problem. But it's my believe that once the north secedes Nigeria will dissolve just as it happened in the USSR in 1991. For other than religious differences, ethnic differences and disagreements remain a big problem and I do not see Yorubas and Igbos being in one country if given a choice. I also think that the minorities in the South South won't be interested in being in the same country with Igbos. Everyone should be free to form alliances and be in their own nation. There's need for honest discussions. The confab of 2014 gagged conferencemen from discussing the unity of Nigeria but time and time again, it becomes clear that if the unity of Nigeria is nor renegotiate Nigeria may be thrown into hot water.

Hahahahaha...

Truth be told, no region in Nigeria is self reliance to be a country..

helinues:
Hahahahaha...

Truth be told, no region in Nigeria is self reliance to be a country..

Gambia has a population of about 2 million, far smaller than d smallest state in Nigeria.

ogbuefi677:
Gambia has a population of about 2 million, far smaller than d smallest state in Nigeria.

Same Gambia that protested against the messiah Barrow last week?

Protest is a sign of a healthy democracy

helinues:
Same Gambia that protested against the messiah Barrow last week?

YEs they need to go

helinues:
Hahahahaha...

Truth be told, no region in Nigeria is self reliance to be a country..

A lazy man's excuse
Take note that necessity is the mother of invention.

Don't be ignorant my friend. How you lie on your bed and assume that others don't know what they are talking about is disgusting.

Do you need to go to North Korea or Iran to confirm it's a hell hole?

So, what happens to reading news? Using the internet?

So, one must go to Sambisa to confirm it's a warzone controlled by jihadists?

Take it or leave it, the only solution to Nigeria's problems is dissolution.

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budaatum:
Take time to travel around the North, and Nigeria, in fact. Then come talk to me when you know what you talking about!

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Sarakist:
Don't be ignorant my friend. How you lie on your bed and assume that others don't know what they are talking about is disgusting.

Do you need to go to North Korea or Iran to confirm it's a hell hole?

So, what happens to reading news? Using the internet?

So, one must go to Sambisa to confirm it's a warzone controlled by jihadists?

Take it or leave it, the only solution to Nigeria's problems is dissolution.

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I wonder where you get the idea Iran is a hell hole. The news? Go dissolve Nigeria. And good luck while you're at.

Sarakist:
Don't be ignorant my friend. How you lie on your bed and assume that others don't know what they are talking about is disgusting.

Do you need to go to North Korea or Iran to confirm it's a hell hole?

So, what happens to reading news? Using the internet?

So, one must go to Sambisa to confirm it's a warzone controlled by jihadists?

Take it or leave it, the only solution to Nigeria's problems is dissolution.

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You're wrong. Dissolution cannot be achieved peacefully, not in Africa

Theoretical. In 1981, no one would have believed the USSR could dissolve. But 10 years later it happened and there was no violence. One day we will all see that our union has failed and we will negotiate our divorce peacefully.

blasted12:
You're wrong. Dissolution cannot be achieved peacefully, not in Africa