There is no better time to restructure Nigeria than now. The unity of the country is being threatened due to actions and inactions of the country’s political elites. There have been insinuations that there exists a group of faceless Nigerians popularly called the ‘CABAL’ who are behind Nigeria’s internal woes. And the cabal seems to be strangling life out of Nigeria through intimidation, fear and terror. So, the question is who will save Nigeria from the cabal’s seven point agenda?
The disruptive power of the cabal is a structural reality and will only get worse, no matter where the President of Nigeria comes from. It is a seven fold yoke which must be broken for the sake of generations yet unborn. The agenda are stated below:
1. Political Yoke
Nigeria is the only Federation in the world where land mass is used as primary criteria for creating federating units. No Southern leader, civilian or military, has ever had the guts to create any federating unit; all the federating units have been created by the Northern military adventurers. 20 federating units were created from only one region (North), while 17 Federating units were created from the South. Competent leaders are easily filtered off by the rigged political structure. At every election, the cabal needs only a few Southern collaborators to impose any presidential candidate upon the two foremost political parties, only for the electorate to formalize one of the candidates with votes. That’s why Nigeria has been having such mediocre leaders as President, in a country awash with extremely capable presidential materials. This also explains since 1960, no Southerner has ever led Nigeria except by accident. The first coming of all three Southern leaders, Aguiyi Ironsi in 1966; Olusegun Obasanjo in 1976 and Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in 2010 followed the death of Northern incumbent. The fourth and only other Southerner leader was Ernest Shonekan and his coming followed the forced ‘stepping aside’ of a Northern Head of State in 1993. He lasted for only three months after which he was toppled and replaced by another Northern military Head of State. For 2019 Presidential contest, it was between Atiku vs Buhari; two Fulani representatives of the cabal.
2. The Economic Yoke
Nigeria is the only oil producing country where oil wells are allocated to individuals. The cabal allocated over 80 per cent of the oil blocks either to the Northerners or to their Southern fronts/allies.
3. The Religious Yoke
No other faith is mentioned in the Nigerian Constitution except Islam. For instance, in the 1999 Constitution, Christ, Christian, and Christianity are not mentioned even once whereas Islamic signposts are strewn all over the Constitution. Sharia is mentioned 73 times, Grand Khadi 54 times, Islam 28 times, Muslims 10 times, etc. that Constitution was written solely by one Muslim Fulani Jihadist named Prof. Auwalu Yadudu (Special Adviser to Abacha on Constitutional Matters). While the 1979 Constitution emphasized Nigeria’s secularity, the 1999 Constitution of Yadudu is a de facto Islamic Constitution and the cabal ensured that Yadudu was there to fight that position at the 2014 National Political Conference (Confab). Subsequently, during Obasanjo’s government, the same Northern cabal formally adopted Islam as the State Religion in the core Northern States (full implementation of Sharia). Obasanjo refused to discuss the issue, except to state that it would fizzle out. He knew fully well that it would not fizzle out but was afraid of confronting the cabal.
4. The Cultural Yoke
The Sultanate forms a major pillar of the Hausa-Fulani Cabal. As permanent President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), the Sultan is the permanent leader of all Muslims in Nigeria (whether they are Northerners or Southerners). As the permanent Chairman of National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria (NCTRN), the Sultan is the permanent leader of all traditional rulers in all the 36 states of Nigeria and FCT, Abuja. By the way, the current Sultan was the Brigadier-General Commanding 241 Recce Battalion, Kaduna. Many public policies are determined only with the tacit approval of the Sultanate of Sokoto and the Emirates. For instance, when the Gender Bill was introduced in the National Assembly, the Sultan ‘killed’ the Bill simply by criticizing it publicly. Even Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (the world’s most revered monarch) would never criticize Parliament publicly because that would be an abuse of royal privilege.
5. The Administrative Yoke
Nigeria is the only African country that built a new capital from scratch (using resources from the oppressed, deprived and degraded Niger Delta/South East). The cabal claimed that the location of Lagos by the ocean was a security risk but this was just an excuse to Northernize national public service. A careful look at the map of Africa shows that only two nations have central capitals. The most common location for African capitals is at the coast. London (United Kingdom) is situated at the edge of England on the River Thames. Washington DC (USA) is located along the Potomac River on the East Coast of USA. Paris (France) is located at the edge of France in the north-bending arc of the River Seine. When Lagos was capital, the Governors of Lagos State were from the East, West and North. Since the capital moved to Abuja, no Nigerian leader has ever had the guts to appoint a Southerner as substantive FCT Minister. The FCT Minister must be a Northerner, preferably a Muslim (the immediate past FCT Minister was appointed while he was Executive Secretary of the Hajj Commission).
6. The Diplomatic Yoke
Any Christian leader who questions Nigeria’s membership of the two main international Sharia driven bodies (OIC & D8) faces the wrath of the cabal. So far, only Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe has ever had the guts to seriously question Nigeria’s involvement in these Islamic bodies and as a result, Ukiwe was summarily dismissed from office.
7. The Military/Security Yoke
Nigeria’s all major security agencies are headed by only one section of the Federation and only members of one faith:
Nigerian Army- Northern Muslim
National Security Advisor – Northern Muslim
Ex-Minister of Defense – Northern Muslim
Ex-Minister of Internal Affairs – Northern Muslim
Airforce – Northern Muslim
Police – Northern Muslim
EFCC – Northern Muslim
National Civil Defense Corps – Northern Muslim
DSS – Northern Muslim
Immigration – Northern Muslim
Prisons Service – Northern Muslim
Nigerian Customs Service – Northern Muslim
Chief of Defense Intelligence – Northern Muslim
Director of Military Intelligence – Northern Muslim
Fire Service – Northern Muslim
NEMA – Northern Muslim
NPA – Northern Muslim
No Southerner has been made substantive Comptroller-General of Customs in 30 years.
Despite Obasanjo’s aggressiveness, he was not able to break the jinx in his 11 years as Nigerian President/Head of State.
Again, no Southerner has ever been appointed as the Chairman of EFCC since inception in 2003. Finally, the only Southerner (late Gen. Owoye Andrew Azazi) that was ever appointed National Security Advisor was killed after he was unceremoniously removed from office by a Southerner President Goodluck Jonathan after the cabal blackmailed and arm-twisted him and told him that if he wanted peace, he must appoint a Northerner back to the post.
The above maneuvering of Nigeria by Hausa-Fulani is not by accident. Read the book by Harold Wilson which clearly states how and why the British laid the foundation for the Hausa-Fulani hegemony in Nigeria. The principle guiding the Cabal was clearly set forth by the Cabal’s patriot saint, Sir Ahmadu Bello, who said to the media: “The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in 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 own future” – (The Parrot Newspaper, October 12, 1960).
Freedom by the Cabal is not about the North vs. South, infact, the greatest victims of the Northern Cabal are the northern masses themselves. The struggle entails Northern Cabal vs. all of the lovers of Freedom. Hence, the need for restructuring is NOW!
