University Don reveals how Nigeria would be restructured without Buhari
Editor’s note: In the last few years, the agitation for restructuring of Nigeria has been on the front burner. The Jonathan led administration held a confab where all the tribes in the country were represented but the resolution was not implemented before the aspiration of the PDP government.
The agitation has continued to gather momentum in the last two years of Buhari’s administration
In an article sent to NAIJ.com, a lecturer at University of Ilorin, Prof Oyeniran Abioje explains how Nigeria could be restructured without President Muhammadu Buhari
The President, General Muhammadu Buhari (GMB), has never hidden the fact that he is a Fulani Muslim jihadist, even though he denied that fact vehemently while campaigning to be elected as the President in 2015.
At his inauguration as the President on May 29, 2015, GMB could not hide his jihadist mentality and the debt of appreciation he felt for his Fulani forebear, Usumanu Danfodio, who initiated the jihad wars that won the Fulani the caliphate and emirates that have bestowed enormous political influences on the Fulani elite in Nigeria.
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Conversion to Islam through wars and stratagems affected some powerful ruling houses also in southwest Nigeria and the Fulani use that opportunity to subordinate the affected kings to the caliph and emirs. The worse aspect is that Islam is tied to Nigeria's political life as a whole.
President Muhammadu Buhari
In the final countdown, Nigeria is subordinated to Islam, and although Christianity was already separated from politics to a large extent in Europe and America, in Nigeria, Christians cannot but compete with Muslim imperialists, and so emerged also Christian imperialism.
Consequently, Christian and Islamic programmes, such as festivals and pilgrimages take precedence over infrastructure and even over workers' salaries and emoluments. Hence GMB prioritized sale of dollars to Christian and Muslim pilgrimage-makers notwithstanding the economic situation of Nigeria ruined primarily by the religion-motivated war against Boko Haram (BH).
The Muslim imperialists felt threatened by the secluded life style of BH which was a protest against prevalent and debilitating haram perpetrated by Christian and Muslim elites in politics, in church and mosque.
Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu used to be vociferous about true federalism that recognizes a level of regional autonomy. But now that he is a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), why can he not push for it?
Why are well-meaning Nigerians across the nation asking for restructure and GMB and his cohorts are blocking it? Solution lies in people like Tinubu across Nigeria to unite and mobilize the federal legislators that are under their influences to push for it in the National Assembly (NASS).
That was how the third term agenda of the former President, General Olusegun Obasanjo (OBJ), was defeated. OBJ was not allowed to prevail above Nigeria’s interest on that.
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But what is today’s level of chop-I-chop under the pretense of fighting corruption when what is done is recovery of funds looted by past looters who have not joined the APC, and even the recovered loots are not accounted-for; the economy is getting worse, and debts are growing unabated?
Nigeria is currently unsustainable, politically and economically, and GMB's only interests are Fulani Muslim imperialism, himself, and protection of Fulani herdsmen that are killing farming communities.
Ethnic and personal egoisms, as well as Christian and Islamic imperialisms must be relegated to allow Nigeria to develop, infrastructurally and economically. Genuine progressives can do it through the NASS because GMB’s signature is not indispensable, ultimately.
NAIJ.com had previously reported that Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, former governor of Anambra state, has called on the federal government to set up a body that will look into the restructuring of Nigeria.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent the editorial policy of NAIJ.com.
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