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POWER, PALLIATIVES AND BUHARI’S NIGERIA – BASIL OKOH (RE: WEST’S FEAR OF AREWA REFUGEES)
Basil Okoh, April 17, 2020
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Nigeria is not one country, has never been one country and can never be one country. Crude Oil and the Army are what hold the people together. Remove these two and a dozen nations will emerge from here.
Activities of the Federal Government officials appointed to provide palliatives for citizens under the threat of the coronavirus pandemic has shown up once again the crass bigotry and ethnic chicanery that rules Nigeria.

Before the pandemic, it was the sovereign loan of about $28 billion applied for by the Federal Government and approved by the Senate of the republic where the entire South East was left out, without a dollar of investment to it's name.
Again and again it has been proven that the Buhari Government cannot advance beyond it’s ethnic rampart and that the Fulani will drive it’s ethnic agenda to it’s final death by instalments. They give the lie to Nigeria’s assumed nationhood and sense of destiny as one entity.

Since it’s inception, Muhammadu Buhari's Government has demonstrated beyond anyone’s doubt that the North is in Nigeria to look out for its people only and that it’s politicians and publicans see Nigeria only in the prism of satisfying the needs of Northern Muslims. For those who refuse to uphold this truth, a rude awakening awaits at the looming cataclysmic end.

Any time Northern bureaucrats and apparatchiks unleash their ethnic pettiness on the rest of the country, laughing to the banks in personal and group triumph, they believe that they’ve won another political victory against the South, but since the seventies when I started watching these games go on, the South continues to grow faster and ahead of the North and have become economically stronger and more progressive in all areas of development, far superseding the North in every development index.

The notion and belief by the North that it does not have to earn it’s development, that it can always browbeat the South to force concessions and remain dominant in political influence to gain advantages, has become the major falsity that the North must contend with on the day of the apocalypse to come. That day, the freebies from the South will dry up and the North will be forced to work for it’s own upkeep and an unprecedented social dissonance and upheaval will result.

Ethnic entitlements cannot develop a people.
In 1977, Northern students, instigated by New Nigeria Newspapers, the establishment newspaper of Northern Nigeria back then, rioted across northern higher institutions against what they termed gross injustice in University admissions. Prior to that, each of the six Nigerian universities at the time, admitted students on their own terms and through their “Concessional” entrance examinations.
New Nigeria published University admission figures from the six universities to show that the then Bendel State had double the number of University admissions from the state than the eleven states of Northern Nigeria combined.
The resulting protests by Northern students provided the backcloth for the formation of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to infuse the quota system into University admissions in Nigeria.

Last year in 2019 when I checked, Delta State, one of the two states from the old Bendel State, had a higher admission figure than all the Northern states put together. C’est change…… What has quota system availed the North in more than forty years of JAMB?

The Northern elite are not making “progress” at the expense of Southern Nigeria for the simple reason that progress is neither purchased nor is it a product of evil mischief. Progress is earned. Northern Nigeria is not making progress, no matter how many irrigation systems or bridges built or how many people in the Sahel North get Coronavirus pandemic bonuses against non in the South.

Railway Systems soon go dead without maintenance. Non of these can be run or maintained by Northern indigenous technology or enterprise or management capability. Their inability to build a technocratic workforce means that they can never own or sustain those technologies and investments.

The North is a leach with its proboscis sunk deep into the jugular of Southern Nigeria. With every opportunity and excuse, the North thrusts it’s sucking claws deeper into the economy of Southern Nigeria. As a result of its total dependence on the life blood of the South, it is now unable to survive by itself and provide for any of its needs. Like the true parasite, it will die if priced out of its host.

Northern Nigeria became a leach and a bully with a gun held to the head of Southern Nigeria. So the North is not just a parasite, it is also a deadly virus at the same. It lives off the South as a parasite and is ready to kill the South at the least sign of life, as a virus.

It became the goal of Northern politicians to stop the South from hosting or acquiring the accoutrements of military resistance and warfare. Just as the Muslim Turks did to the Armenians and are now doing to the Kurds, the survival of the North depends on the demilitarization of Southern Nigeria.

The North has played it’s survival politics so well and used it’s dominance of Government to ensure that Southern Nigeria remains unarmed and without a means of defense. It made sure that after the Civil War, it denuded Southern Nigeria of all munitions of defense.
While we lament, we have to ask: Where have the Southern politicians been all the while these Northern politicians have been grabbing power for themselves and their region?

Southern politicians are the quintessential self effacing chameleons in a retrograde forest. They change colours and blend into whatever environment they find themselves. Because of their inherent need for self abnegation, they remain subject to and victims of their environment, unable to rise to the position for self iteration or assertion.
They have no ambitions for their people, no vision and no speed. Their inherent capacity to self abnegate and blend into the flora of the moment means that the environment must define whoever and whatever they choose to be, they are ordinary chameleons foraging for food from leftovers. Nothing more.
They threaten no one. Their only skill is to blend into the environment and lose their self identity, in order to be left alone to forage for rotten leaves and leftovers.

The Southern politician is focused on the money, on personal gain and on what he takes home to flaunt among his people. The Northern politician on the other hand, is focused on power, on ethnic and group interests and using the power to achieve group political and economic control.
The Southern politician hardly has a national outlook but wants to be the biggest Igbo politician, bigger than Azikiwe or the most successful and richest Yoruba politician, bigger than Awolowo. He is in competition with his own, living or dead.

The Fulani sees Nigeria as a political unit and looks for the best position in the unit to fix his claws and his suction pipe. He is not in competition with his fellow Fulani but works in cooperation with him to achieve political supremacy for the benefit of the whole group.
Because the Southern politician works alone for personal rather than group interests, it does not take much to defeat his purpose and ambition because, again, his ambition was never founded on belief and galvanizing vision. So he is shoved aside as soon as he arrives on the national stage. He is alone, after all.

But in order to shove Fulani aside, you have to contend with the entire Fulani who share in his group interests and stand to benefit from his ethnic galvanizing ambition. Competition in the South is individual.
This is why the Southern politician surrounds himself with nincompoops, his useful idiots, those who cannot have the mental capacity to draw out his insecurities and selfish ambition. He feels threatened by the smart ones from among his people.
The Northerners compete as a group, presenting a United front and easily defeating the individual rival from the South. This is why a Bola Tinubu or Rotimi Amaechi cannot compete in national politics with a Buhari or even a Rufa'i.

These are alone pursuing personal agenda and contending with implacable and debilitating rivalries from home. They become mere candles in the wind of Nigerian national politics.
They can succeed in becoming local champions. They can never be national champions because they rise by suppressing all dissent at home and betraying every rival. They are all alone at the national stage without the consensual backing of their smart people. The intense enmity at home provided the inertia that makes national acceptance impossible.

Because the Northern politician and his brother military denizen have succeeded in moving all military installations to the North, it gives the Southern politician a convenient alibi to live the life of a chameleon, in self abnegation and measured cowardice. So he proceeds to Government with a defeated mind ready to negotiate and concede even his own peoples need for group ambition in a federal arrangement.

But like all parasites, the North is so weak that it cannot survive without it’s host, Southern Nigeria. Take Northern Nigeria off the suction pipe to Southern Nigeria’s economy, it will suffer atrophy and die in no time. This is true of every parasites and true also for Northern Nigeria.
In the distribution of relief materials across the country, what emerges is a shameless Buhari Government recognizing and reinforcing the general belief in the helplessness and inherent poverty of Northern Nigeria and its total dependence on handouts from the Government for survival.

Coronavirus becomes another excuse to unleash a new episode of an ingrained and clannish predilection to feed the North from the wealth of the South.
It’s not for nothing that all of 75% of the relief handouts went to Northern Nigeria and a mere quarter was payed out in Southern Nigeria. Now here are the payment allocations as published by the agency directly making the payments.
FG Relief Cash Transfer - Zone by Zone
1) North West -- N112.7Billion
2) North Central -- N88.1Billion
3) North East -- N44.4Billion
4) South West -- N39.1Billion
5) South South -- N10.4B
6) South East -- N3.3B

What does this information tell the world, other than to show the diabolical clannishness of those handling the operations?
It tells the world above all else, of a population of a hundred and more millions of people dominant in the expanse of the Sahel Savannah belt of Northern Nigeria, who one and all, are totally dependent on others for food and other needs for basic sustenance.

So when you read in the Vanguard Newspaper recently, one of them writing that the North is the food basket of Nigeria, you ask, what food and where is the basket? You are the food basket of the South from whose ports, farms and storehouses you are loading up thousands of trucks to feed your people at no cost to them or your region? Has any Southerner ever been “allocated” Northern food for free?

Do not bet on the world not knowing the anomaly of the Nigerian situation. The world’s knowledge of this anomaly is the reason why it insists that Nigeria be continually glued together as a nation, for good or for worse. It is convenient now for the world to abandon Southern Nigeria to carry the burden of a hundred million indolent population, even as it gasps for breath.
When the overburdened ox throws down the weight in revolt, the world will notice as the Sub Saharan Africa gets flooded in their cities and nations with refugees.[b][/b]

The world fears for the unleashing of fifty million refugees on the rest countries of sub-Saharan Africa and the humanitarian crisis that will result, the like of which will overwhelm the entire continent of Africa. The present level of hunger and poverty in the Sahel Northern Nigeria puts the region in worse position today than Yemen, Kashmir, or South Sudan, countries devastated by years of warfare.

Now, you imagine two million refugees added to the population of Ghana, two million to Cameroun and one million each to the population of forty-six other African countries, you'll then know the problems the world would face with a real Civil Strife in Nigeria.
The world is not helping in any way to enforce the sociopolitical Justice that would help keep Nigeria peaceable and glued together. The North has made itself to believe that it can get away with any act of aggression against Southern Nigeria at no cost to itself.
It has been allowed to keep all the instruments of warfare to menace the South and also allowed to purloin the sustaining structures of the economy to the sorry point where the North now believes in it’s false invincibility against any Southern reaction.

The seeds of a cataclysmic warfare are being planted everyday but the world, particularly paternalistic Britain, looks the other way, leaving the South to carry the burden of a lumpen population and a thoughtless comprador elite hooked on free loading from Southern Nigeria.
There must be a bottom to political and social endurance and Southern Nigeria is fast approaching that bottom.

Nobody will die for lack of coronavirus palliatives in Southern Nigeria, that we are sure. But for those who need palliatives to survive as humans, it is to them we send our sympathy. For one day the feeding bottle will dry up. When it does, where will the people who need palliatives turn? Where will the pampered horde turn to for free food? @basilokoh.


SOURCE:
https://web.facebook.com/basil.okoh/posts/10222853516750678

DabuIIIT:
The abomination of a certain people in the south is another big problem.

The op is right,the south (the yorubas as it were) compete with its own.

Everybody knows the east should produce the next president but the west want to contest with the east. The east or SS will never contest with its own,they will rather back out and vote for the stranger.

Op,that's what's gonna happen if the west wanna play Alec against the other south...the hausas will continue to rule if the west wanna play Smart.
It's painful but that's how it is.

Barbilius:
The mistake you are making is to think Yorubas are part of your South, sorry, we are not, we weren't part of you since inception of the contraption, and we will never be. We sit west of the Niger, thus, we are westerners and we do what we feel is good for us, you people too should do what is good for you. No hard feelings.