NORTH AND SOUTH- WEST CONSPIRACY AGAINST SOUTH-SOUTH By Emmanuel Nicholas ‘’I predict that the denouement of the riddle of the Niger delta will soon come. The agenda is being set at this trial. Whether the peaceful ways I have favoured will prevail depends on what the oppressor decides, what signals it sends out to the waiting public’’. Ken Saro Wiwa I open my article on that great speech of the hero of the Niger Delta, Ken Saro Wiwa , though dead, his spirit is alive to the struggle of the freedom of his race. Many institutions had forecast the breakdown of Nigeria in 2015. First, it was the late President of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi who said Nigeria should be divided into two nations along religious lines to avoid further bloodshed between Muslims and Christians, the late Libyan leader has said. In a speech to students, he commended the example of India and Pakistan where he said divided to save many lives. Excruciating Nigeria "would stop the bloodshed and burning of places of worship. This words was not taken seriously because of the background of the preacher, even though it is an earnest truth. Since the Boko Haram started the carnage of Christians in the northern Nigeria more than ten thousand lives have been sent to their early grave , while hundreds of thousands have been rendered homeless and orphans . The current rage by northern politicians to disrupt the administration of Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the president of the federal republic of Nigeria is a plot to plunge the nation into war that will lead to her disintegration. The North having ruled Nigeria for 39 years should voluntariry allow the region that lays the proverbial ‘golden egg’ that butters the whole country to finish its two terms peacefully. They started this war of dethroning the South –south’s only president by sponsoring Boko Haram violence to make Nigeria ungovernable for him , just as the former Head of State, General Buhari (rtd) has vowed . Billions of naira that would have been used to develop the country has now been shifted from capital projects into security in a bid to curbing the menace of Boko Haram in the North. The other day the speaker of the House of Representatives Hon Aminu Tambuwal ,who is alleged the number one planner and sponsor of both the political crises in PDP and Boko Haram violence was blaming the government of Goodluck Jonathan , which he is a principal officer of not executing major capital projects that were detailed in the 2013 budget, pretending not to have the knowledge that the major part of the funds have been redirected into security problems in the north to quell the violence he fuelled with his compatriots. But whoever set fire in the bush, will never go free, it is either he died by it or his children will be consumed by the conflagration. The thinking of the north to cause instability infusing crises into the ruling party to frustrate President Goodluck Jonathan out of office and take over is a chemical weapon which they will not be able to withstand the impending war that will surly lead to the Nation’s fragmentation. The south- south militants who had decided to embrace peace and return to their legitimate careers are watching closely the turn of events, waiting for the north to excrete more poisonous venom that they will capitalize on to fight back. The Biafran Movement is also building ties with the Niger Delta Militant , ready to war to the last. If the North successfully takes over, they should be assured that from that day of swearing -in, Civil war will breakout in Nigeria by the militants, which all the crude oil and gas pipe lines will be blown off and the nation’s economy will be brought to her knees. No amount of weapon and military intervention will bring that war to an end, rather, the division of Nigeria will be the end result. Already many nations that are interested in the natural resources deposited in the region are monitoring the Nigerian political and religious crises with keen interest and there is a lot going on in integrating closer ties with the leaders of the South –South and the militants’ leadership to provide military and human assistance to bring the Niger Delta Country to be. Many may think the threat of Former militant and leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, who declared that if President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential ambition in 2015 is scuttled, there would be blood in the streets is mere threat. “The way things are going, there is no sitting on the fence in the battle before us,” Mr. Asari-Dokubo has said. “When some people say they have a right to rule and others don’t have, then there is no sitting on the fence. All of us will have to be in the ring and fight. We cannot leave Goodluck (Jonathan) alone. He fumes. “My support for Jonathan will be biased, because charity begins at home. Monkey no fine, but im mama like am. Goodluck, na my person. 2015 is already a settled matter. Goodluck Jonathan would be President in 2015.“Whether they contest or they don’t. If they say the blood of the dogs and the baboons will be soaked in the streets, or salt water in the streets, we will help them in blood in the streets”. Insisting there was no crisis in the PDP in the wake of the walkout during the recent National Convention by some aggrieved members, led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and seven governors, Mr. Asari-Dokubo said the exit of seven out of 23 governors elected on PDP ticket was not enough to cause any crisis. On the role of two former Presidents, Ibrahim Babangida and Olusegun Obasanjo, who are working towards an amicable resolution of the crisis, Asari-Dokubo described the duo, who are also members of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the PDP, as “agents provocateurs”, who are fuelling the crisis by declaring that they do not want Jonathan to run in the 2015 elections. He accused Messrs Babangida and Obasanjo of secretly encouraging the Jigawa state governor, Sule Lamido to run for President, with Rivers state governor, Chubuike Amaechi as his deputy, adding that at one recent public function, Mr. Babangida had said that Mr. Amaechi and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, were good to run for higher offices come 2015. And on his own part, Ateke Tom, Leader of the Niger Delta Vigilante (NDV) led thousands of youths to protest against Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi and the northern threat to Jonathan which paralyzed normal business activities in Port Harcourt. With the permission of the state Police Command, Tom led protest against Amaechi, warning Amaechi to desist from fighting President Jonathan and vowed to return to the creeks and bring to complete stand still oil production in the entire region , Tom added that the North feels they are the ones to rule Nigeria but we will bring this nation to mire and told the press that Ameachi is a saboteur whose biological birth place is in doubt, adding that he is not a Rivers man, even the name can tell you. The Rotimis are from the Western Region of Nigeria . That is why is causing the dismay in the state. Other aggrieved former militant leaders have also threatened to return to the creeks should the North take over from Jonathan; that they will spell war. More than 1000 ex-militant leaders and their boys in Warri, Delta, State South-South, Nigeria, carried out a protest march at the Marine Quarters area to drive home their point. They disrupted free flow of traffic as they barricaded some of the major routes on Okumagba Avenue and other parts of Warri The group, whose protest was led by one “General” Augustine Oges and Kingsley Muturu, took over Gbiaye Street at about 4.30p.m., and stopped at the NUJ Press Centre at Third Marine Gate. At the centre, the ex-militants manhandled a staff of the NUJ Secretariat and forcefully gain entry into the centre. They told journalists at the Press centre that they would make the Niger Delta region ungovernable if a northern president takes over from Jonathan. They said they will push for their own country since they are not regarded in Nigeria. The marginalization of the South –south led increasingly to the militarization of the Delta. Local and state officials had become involved by offering financial support to these paramilitary groups they believe would attempt to enforce their own political agenda. Right now the groups are having military training in Russia , America and China which are the countries that have interest in the oil and gas deposited in the region. The north should know that all their ethnic –political gimmicks in collaboration with western Nigeria are being monitored closely by the international community and they are ready to give military support to the Niger –deltans to have their own country. Amalgamation treaty that was signed was a trial version to see whether the country Nigeria with all ethnic groupings can co-exist. A clause in that treaty gives room for any region to pull out of the country after 100 years. So it is the right time to bring the country Nigeria to a close, if the North feels the minorities do not have the same right as they have, then the call for National Confab by some elite is the right position to avoid the ethnic cleansing that the North funding Boko Haram to kill the Southerners in their midst and the west are now deporting the southerners which is a clear evidence that the south-south and south-East are not wanted in the country called the Nigeria anymore. To avoid further bloodshed and the looming Civil war, the national confab should be in place to a call for referendum . Let the people vote for which country they wish to belong. President Goodluck Jonathan should not at any point bow to pressure from the north to bow out of office. Let the western –Nigeria and the North Collaborate and destroy Nigeria, so that the Country Niger Delta could emerge, where the resources from their land will be used to develop their land. For so long the South-south has remained a slave to the North and west, it is time for freedom and liberation. I will rest my ink with this great quote by the hero who struggled to stop the marginalization of the South –South , Ken Saro Wiwa: ‘’My lord, We all stand before history. I am a man of peace, of ideas. Appalled by the denigrating poverty of my people who live on a richly endowed land, distressed by their political marginalization and economic strangulation, angered by the devastation of their land, their ultimate heritage, anxious to preserve their right to life and to a decent living, and determined to usher to this country as a whole a fair and just democratic system which protects everyone and every ethnic group and gives us all a valid claim to human civilization, I have devoted my intellectual and material resources, my very life, to a cause in which I have total belief and from which I cannot be blackmailed or intimidated. I have no doubt at all about the ultimate success of my cause, no matter the trials and tribulations which I and those who believe with me may encounter on our journey. Neither imprisonment nor death can stop our ultimate victory’’ Though gruesomely murdered by the Northern Nigeria and Western Nigeria Conspiracy against the South-South, his spirit fights on with the living.
Posted on: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:34:51 +0000
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