These days, political pundits are all in agreement about the fact
of the matter that the swing regions for next year’s presidential polls are the
Middle Belt and the Southwest. As it stands today, the government of
President Muhammadu Buhari has not done any meaningful engagement with these
regions other than its overarching desire to establish “cattle colonies” in
both places to the detriment of the peace that exist there.
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The people of the Southwest region simply want
a country that is fair to them in terms of the component contributions that
they make into the unitary polity, and the people of the Middle Belt region
simply want peace so they can continue to till the lands they have inherited
from their ancestors. Simple demands and expectations. Regrettably, instead of seeking avenues to ensure lasting peace in the Middle
Belt region, the “intellectual think-thank” of this Buhari administration
headed by a serving governor of a Northwest state is coming up with lots of
balderdash to ensure that elections would not hold in some key anti-Buhari
locales because of “security reasons.”
We are now witnessing what would lead to INEC
declaring those parts “no-vote” areas in the shape of the virulent
anti-Christian and anti-Southern
It is really strange and highly condemnable
that a sitting governor who was voted in as the chief security officer of a
state would go on air to spew lies and twist facts whilst threatening a segment
of a citizenry on account of their religion.
Yet, this is the governor our president
considers as his “brainbox” and one who is known to pull his weight at Aso Rock
and disagree openly with the president on the choice of a senatorial candidate
for Kaduna Central.
Right now Kaduna
This latest flare-up was just on the heel of
self-defensive measures that Christians adopted when they came under attack at
their enclave of Kasuwan Magaji.
I am old enough to say without contradiction
that the Kaduna Kaduna , which is why in their quest for peace Christians
chose to move out of the heart of troublesome Kaduna
Thus, segregation has guaranteed that
Christians would not be molested by raving Islamists and this is why it is so
sad to hear Gov. El-Rufai condemning Kaduna-city segregation.
Any observant person who journeys through the
Trikania-Kawo Bye-pass of Kaduna
Between the Kabala West Junction and the
grounds of the Old Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), there are abandoned
homesteads of the duplex nature that were once owned and occupied by Christians
and this stretch of area was exactly where the parents of the Nigerian
international, Victor Moses, were brutally murdered by Islamists.
We can see that it does not make sense one bit
for Gov. El-Rufa’i to condemn segregation whereas he was on air demonising
Christians and inciting Islamists to violence. What is presently playing out in Kaduna
Now, some Islamic groups are urging President
Buhari to go all out and give the Beroms that “Obasanjo Treatment” in the
moulds of the infamous Zaki-Biam massacre in Benue
State and Odi massacre in Bayelsa State
Anyone listening to the recordings of these
incitement would detect a subtle pro-Buhari political-campaign by these Islamic
groups (note that the intolerant Islamic sect known as JIBWIS has its national
headquarters in Jos and the site approved for the proposed JIBWIS University
falls smack in the heart of Christian Berom Chiefdom where genocidal ethnic
cleansing by the Fulanis, and now the military, have been ongoing).
The questions the proponents of this “missing
General” charade need to answer are the following: How come a just-retired
important Army general close to 60 years would drive himself with no companion
along the tortuous road from Abuja to Bauchi in an old automobile?
How come the photo of this general has not yet
been published in the news media?
How come our army that has not been able to
locate Abubakar Shekau and his hordes knew exactly where this general went
missing and correctly identified the pond where his car was “dumped?” How come,
with no inside knowledge and help, the army has now located the “shallow grave”
where this general was buried?
Lookey, here, sojas, all this hullaballoo
about a “missing general” was to divert attention from the wanton Fulani
genocidal activities at Berom and now that the 2019 presidential election is
nigh.
Aren’t we this moment being reminded of late
Bob Marley’s maxim that “you can fool some of the people all the time but you
can’t fool all the people all the time?”
*Sunday
Adole Jonah wrote from Department of Physics, Federal University of Technology,
Minna , Niger
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