STRATEGIC GOVERNANCE “ORIGIN AND OBJECTIVES OF BOKO HARAM 2/7” • By Dr Kelechi Okpalake HIGHLIGHTS FROM CALIPHATE COLONIALISM ESSAY: • The Caliphate must go! • Kick out the Caliphate, so we can uproot its feudalist principle of public-office-as-fief-for private- plunder that has fostered Nigeria’s lootocratic “corruption”. • The Caliphate must go! • Kick out the Caliphate so that Nigerians can move forward to true federalism and general prosperity. • However well any nationality thinks it has done under Caliphate colonialism, it stands to do much better after we jointly free ourselves from these arrogant caliphate parasites, that is to say, after the Caliphate’s lion’s share of the national cake is taken from them and redistributed. • The Caliphate must go! • The long-suffering victims of Caliphate Colonialism must now go on the counter-offensive and drive the Caliphate out of Nigeria. We must then seal the border between the Caliphate Shariyaland and the new Secular-democratic Nigeria. If need be we should erect an Iron Curtain or build a Great Wall to keep these jihadist barbarians out of our new Nigeria. • Why? • Please read on! Format Please note: A quoted passage, however long, is indicated by a deep indent, a Q number, and bracketed off thus: e.g. Q55) abcdefgh. . . ________________________________________ Introduction Nigeria is a torn country, a country torn between two irreconcilable versions of what is should become. These two rival versions have been in conflict since the 1940s. They are the Feudatheocracy version and the Secular-democracy version. The Feudatheocracy version was best articulated by Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto, in 1960 when he told his Caliphate constituency: Q1) “The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.” Sir Ahmadu Bello, Leader of the NPC and Premier of Northern Nigeria, (Parrot Newspaper, 12th Oct. 1960; republished on November 13, 2002, by the Tribune Newspaper, Ibadan.) Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto The Secular-Democracy version was best articulated in 1978-79 by Chief Obafemi Awolowo when, at various points on the campaign trail, he told Nigerians: Q2) “In order that Nigeria may achieve rapid economic progress, and establish an egalitarian, just, democratic and peaceful society . . . we of the Unity Party of Nigeria are resolutely determined to pursue [the following]: Equal opportunity for every Nigerian; equality under the law; extermination of ethnic hegemony; dethronement of mediocrity wherever it exists; guaranteeing for every Nigerian no matter his place of birth or state of origin, equal access to the good things of life. [etc.] . . . Our dual aim is to achieve equality of status for Nigerians and the black people with all other racial groups, and respectable economic strength for Nigeria in the international community. . . .We . . .can succeed . . . provided we allow ourselves to be guided by this great principle: “The glory of a Ruler is the welfare of every one of his people.” Obafemi Awolowo, UPN Candidate, 1979 Presidential Election (Path to Nigerian Greatness, Enugu:Fourth Dimension, 1981:33, 32-33, 95, 97, 43) Chief Obafemi Awolowo These two ideological versions of Nigeria have been locked in struggle, and until one ideology defeats the other, or until Nigeria divides into two separate entities, one for those aspiring to each of these incompatible versions, Nigeria will remain unstable, backward; a theatre of recurring bloodbaths; a disgrace to itself and the Black World; and a breeding ground for international terrorism. Let us look into why in subsequent editions 3/7. ***Jude Akagbusum is a Strategy and Leadership Expert, Good Governance Advocate, a Chartered Accountant and Management Consultant. [email protected] +234-803-328-4110.
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