Nigeria will be 53 years old this year. For 39 years of these five decades, political power was monopolized by Northern politicians to the gross impoverishment and dis-organization of Nigerians! In 1999, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo emerged as Nigeria’s democratically elected President after many years of military autocracy initiated and sustained mostly by the North’s oligarchic power-lords and their gangs of foreign backers. During Obasanjo’s tenure in Aso Rock, Northern leaders were known to have rang their usual alarm-bells, accusing and threatening all sorts when it became clear to them that Obasanjo was not in for business-as-usual politics. An anticlimax of their resentment for non-conformist Obasanjo was the detonation of the sharia bomb with the intention of blowing Nigeria up into war. Unfortunately, the explosion only went ‘as far as Damaturu’! After Obasanjo came Umaru Yar’Adua as President. Throughout Yar’Adua’s tenure, there was neither accusation nor threat from the North. In 2011, after Yar’Adua’s unfortunate death, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan won the presidential election. Sequel to Jonathan’s victory, Northern leaders resumed their campaign of wild accusations and vehement threats! Presently, two years to the next presidential election, the North has re-commenced its filthy schemes aimed at seizing political power, after watching the Boko Haram’s guerrilla bombers murder thousands of innocent Nigerians in cold blood in their part of Nigeria! Without the least regard for victims of Boko Haram’s barbarity, Northern leaders including the Sultan of Sokoto rambled on to the streets of Northern Nigeria, clapping and dancing for amnesty to be granted to members of this killer-gang! Prior to their show of shame, newspapers revealed that 83% of Nigeria’s oil wells located in the Niger-Delta are owned by Northern elites! What good have these feudalists done for Nigeria with all the money they have made from their proxy-control of Nigeria’s oil wealth? Despite controlling Nigeria’s purse for most part of the country’s independent years, Northern Nigeria has the largest number of illiterates and street-beggars! The North is the most destitute region of Nigeria! The North is the most volatile part of this country! It is where disease has the right to live with people undisturbed all through their lives until their bodies finally succumb to its ravagery! In life, you can only give what you have. Going by the passion with which Northern leaders seek to drag Nigeria’s political power back to their desert tents, one can conveniently say that all that the North seeks to do with political power if their reclamation agenda ever succeeds is to return Nigeria to the death waters of stagnation! Political power is not the birthright of any section of Nigeria or ethnic group of Nigerians. Power, whether social, economic or political, is for all Nigerians to enjoy. To the extent that a qualified Nigerian is able to convince Nigerians to have him lead them, he will win the people’s heart to become their President! This meritocratic exercise is among the spectrum of important factors that make progress possible in other parts of the world. Curiously, such a culture runs foul to the leadership lifestyle of Northern feudalists! As far as these oligarchs are concerned, political power is both soul and gold that must be possessed and kept away from other sections of Nigeria via the instrumentality of theft, intimidation and violence! And for as long as power resides with them, progress for Nigeria is better-off being an outcast than a beloved child! Britain diligently designed Nigeria to run politically subservient to the North! It was a decision born out of the determination of Buckingham Palace to exercise perpetual control over the riches and destiny of Nigeria to the prosperity of the UK and its allies. Northern leaders rejected political independence from Britain when the idea was put forward to them by their Southern counterparts. Based on this truth, Northern Nigeria constitutes part of independent Nigeria as a product of reluctance! Like Sothern masses, the ordinary man and woman of Northern Nigeria seeks the good things of life. They need water, electricity, food, clothe, shelter etc. Unfortunately, these necessities are considered alien to their leaders’ wicked agenda of perpetual keeping life’s basics and luxuries to themselves, their children and protégés! In the reasoning of the North’s suppressive and oppressive leadership, to avail Northern masses comfort is to empower them against the long-existing system of mass impoverishment. These so-called leaders fear popular uprising! Mass abjectly poverty is a major security of theirs’ against masses revolt! And from all indications, they do not appear willing to do away with this institutionalized isolation of members of the under-classes from comfort and enlightenment! Nigeria can never achieve progress with this sort of leaders presiding over its affairs! The leadership of Northern Nigeria deliberately betrayed the trust of Nigerians for 39 years and consciously wasted all the opportunities that came their way for the progress of Nigeria. Today, they stand on the corridors leading to President Jonathan’s office shedding crocodile tears for the god of quota to help them re-possess the place! I as such advise the oligarchic leaders of Northern Nigeria to embrace change and be part of the process of rehabilitating and prospering Nigeria. That is the only way they can be taken seriously at all. Long Live The Federal Republic of Nigeria
Posted on: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:52:42 +0000
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