You are, therefore, welcome to read, drink, soak yourself therein, debate, dissect and analyse, chew it, swallow it up, and become wiser and reflective, but you are not to plagiarise, copy and paste to claim its ownership, nor regurgitate it, but give credit to the author if you must make reference, quote from it or you are fascinated by any word, phrase/s or idea.

As a teenager at Aladura Comprehensive High School, Anthony Village, the age that the GIBB have chosen to join cultism and youth gang, it was Aduma’s dream to propound theories, be the most quoted intellectual on the planet earth and the greatest theorist and philosopher ever. And regarding that boyish dream, he is today widely quoted in academic journals and scholarly theses across the globe.

No doubt, you are already salivating and don’t want any further ‘traffic’ from the author on your way to his fountain of wisdom and knowledge, but before you are set loose, Mr Aduma ‘d like to ask you these questions: what is your dream?

Just what are your life’s dreams and goals? Happy reading!

(PART 17): Porous borders and national security in times of national emergency and unparalleled adversity

In this series:

• SADA’S HYPOCRISY AND HOW THE FULANI, THE HAUSA AND THE KANURI ELITES HAVE BEEN CANNIBALIZING AND KILLING THE DESTINIES OF THE CHILDREN OF THE TALAKAWAS ACROSS CENTURIES
• THE SUBTLE CONQUEST AND SUBSEQUENT INVASION OF MODERN OYO… MUHAMMADU BUHARI, MUHMMADU SA’ADU ABUBAKAR IV AND THE REVIVAL OF THE FULANI EMPIRE IN MODERN DAY NIGERIA
• A LAMENT TO UNICEF, UNESCO, MOTHERS IN NIGERIA AND WORLD LEADERS ABOUT THE RAPE PANDEMIC IN NIGERIA
• CAN THE NORTH EVER SAY TO THEIR DAUGHTERS: “BE LIKE NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA?”
• THE NEW NORTH/NORTHERN RENAISSANCE: MOON SIGHTING Vs. MOON EXPLORATION
• AND WHO SHALL THE YORUBAS TELL THEIR CHILDREN/WARDS TO BE LIKE: OBAFEMI AWOLOWO OR BOLA AHMED TINUBU?
• BOLEKAJA ‘MESSIAHS’: AWOISM Vs. AGBEROISM
• JIHAD IN NIGERIA AND WEST AFRICA – WHETHER IT IS CAMOUFLAGED AS TERRRORISM OR EXTREMISM OR ISLAMISM OR INSURGENCY OR FULANI HERDERS OR BANDITS OR RAPISTS OR PAEDOPHILES OR PURPOSEFUL CATTLE RUSTLING SO AS TO GO ABOUT KILLING THE SO-CALLED “PAGANS,” OR THE SO-CALLED UNKNOWN UNIFORMED MEN, JIHAD IS JIHAD AND A JIHADIST IS A JIHADIST, NO MATTER THE MODE OF THEIR OPERATIONS…AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING - FROM THE 6^TH CENTURY AD…IS NOW, AND EVER SHALL BE!

THE FHKSA’S FRANKENSTEIN MONSTERS – BOKO HARAM MEMBERS, AL-SHABAAB FIFLE, BANDITS, FULANI CATTLE HERDERS, KIDNAPPERS, ARMED ROBBERS, RAPISTS, ARSONISTS, DRUG MULES, DRUG ADDICTS THAT HAVE NOW FILLED EVERY LITTLE CORNER OF THE NIGERIAN FEDERATION IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT -

                                                                                          FROM GIANTS TO GRASSHOPPERS...THE SAD STORY OF A PEOPLE

CHICKEN-HEARTED SOUTHERNERS AND THEIR OBSEQUIOUS GOVERNORS…FOR JUST A PROMISED ‘MESS OF POTAGE’, THEY DELIVERED THEIR PEOPLE TO THEIR AGGRESSORS

Bolekaja Messiahs and the Future of Nigeria: From Awoism to Agberoism

OF GIANTS AND GRASSHOPPERS…THE SAD STORY OF A PEOPLE

Preamble

The ‘messiahs’ that come from the motor parks and under bridges will not bring the Nigerian people to the negotiating table, but they sure will bring war to the doorstep of every Nigerian. And when that war comes, the bullets therefrom will not have the ability or capacity to distinguish between a Yoruba and a Fulani or a Hausa from the innocent Nigerians, but will fell any creature/object on its trajectory.

But why have the SS and SE Governors, the Southerners and Nokbekwarans generally so cheapened themselves to the point of always fawning and rankadedeing them by the second and whenever they sight them from afar or stand before them?

This is the type of self-degradation and self-demotion that do always encourage every Buharis, El-Rufai, ‘kwaso and Ango-lying, the trio, of who are graduates of Lie Mohammed Academy of Lies (Lai-MAL) to head down South on their Abuse and Lying Mission to the South (ALMS), with each behaving like a bloody and tyrannical village headmaster to lecture them on civility, culture, decorum, “good education” and morality, talking them down as if they were their abeeds (slaves) indeed.

Also, why are these despicable and dishonourable governors quick to throw their doors wide open to these self-appointed, self-proclaimed Apostles of civility, “good education”, and morality from the upland?

But why don’t these self-righteous ‘apostles’ of sophistication first talk to all the monsters they have created and now terrorising the Nigerian people or just remain up North and use this expertise of theirs to fight conventional/traditional terrorism, pastoral terrorism, rape pandemic, pervasive lasciviousness and an endemic adultery despite sharia, banditry; unparalleled poverty, cattle rustling, abysmal level of under development, desertification, sort out the millions of IDPs, menace of Almajirai, including the desiccation of the river systems, making the North to now sit on a hydrological edge, etc?

Will someone out there join with me to tell these Fulani colonialists, ‘apostles’ of territorial expansion and cultural imperialism: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

And as in the 80s when there was the cry of ANGO MUST GO, let us jointly warn: ANGO MUST STOP, and stop he must with his other wandering Almajirai.

WILL THE NORTH EVER SAY TO THEIR DAUGHTERS: “BE LIKE NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA?"

But when will the North match the South, not with quota system-push-me-up Nigerians of Fulani/Hausa/Kanuri and the Shuwa Arabs, but with super stars like Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Christopher Okigbo, J.P. Clark-Bekederemo, Emeka Anyaoku, Ben Enwonwu, Gani Fawehinmi, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Oby Ezewesili, Chike Obi, Tai Solarin, Rotimi Williams, Ayodele Awojobi, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Bola Ajibola, Adeoye Lambo, etc?

2023: AS HEROD, THE COLONIAL MASTER GOES SOUTH WITH BULALA TO BEAT THE “PAGAN” SOUTH INTO SHAPE, NDIGBO, THE YORUBAS AND THE NIGER DELTANS MUST SHINE THEIR EYES FOR THE MISCHIEF THAT IS AFOOT

First, my childhood reminiscence of three goats: Once upon a time at Ayi Ada Gboji in Okpoma, the present headquarters of Yala Local Government Area, Mama (OJI WONAH OGBUDU) had left a pot of water she had fetched from Akuble, a spring water virtually all Okpoma depend on during the dry season. And whilst I was playing away, three goats were seen struggling as to which of them should be the first to drink from the water pot.

Moving towards them as their stupidity caught my attention, the one that was the first to deep its head and horns into the water pot was unable to bring them out as the remainder two were now anxious, fighting ferociously and pushing each other off the pot of water to drink too. They continued their fighting, but the one that had its head and horns inside could not get them out.

And struggling to run away at my approach, the pot got broken as all three goats were struggling insistently to have their way  with all the water spilling on the ground, but the one that was first, was left hung on its head a potsherd and he kept shaking it, trying to get his head and horns out of it, but to no avail, whilst the other two kept on with their horn-fighting as they ran away from me, the intruder. 

On getting to the scene of the broken pot, I collected the broken pieces/potsherds and kept for Mama’s return from ogra ikor, our market arena.

But what was foolish about the three goats?

They jettisoned the philosophy of turn-by-turn because of their greed and impatience, hence neither of them could drink from the pot nor have it, and the broken pieces I had collected awaiting Mama were not of any use to either of us. This is the end of my story.

THE KING MAKERS’ TALES – SETTING THE STAGE FOR CHAHOS (CHAOS), BUT WHO MADE THE NORTH (FULANIS, HAUSAS, KANURIS AND THE SHUWA ARABS) PRINCES AND JUDGES, KINGMAKERS AND POWER BROKERS OVER THE OTHER NIGERIANS?

Moses Kills an Egyptian AS FULANIS ARE KILLING OTHER NIGERIANS!
…13The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?” 14 But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done has surely become known.” Exodus 2:13-14.

• Strategy 1: Rubbish Ndigbo presidential vision/dream through ‘civility’ apostles like Ango Abdullahi, BAT’s disciples and his newsroom ‘cattle egrets’, and go on to pit the Fulanis/Hausas/the Kanuris/the Shuwa Arabs against Ndigbo.
• Strategy 2: Threaten the fool of Iragbiji, Bola Bullion thus: Drop ya Presido ambition or be probed. Not done, threaten and follow it up by putting appropriate machinery in place to probe other presidential aspirants from the South using the scarecrow strategy/alternative; and asking the question who initiated and funded the recent nationwide youth revolt/violence – also, who are the originators of the quit notices flying all over the place in the South or who have been instigating the issuances, or who are the instigators/inciters of these quit notices behind the scenes or who are the initiators/funders of the tribal/ethnic/regional security outfits, including wanting to know the financiers and instigators/inciters of the self-determination KPANDEMIC (pandemic)?

But why did these incidents/events come at the time of the call to split the country in the SW, and “honour the agreement” lullaby that followed thereafter from the same zone, especially the #EndSARS REVOLT and the ongoing 1962-ethnic like clashes between the Yoruba and the Hausa/Fulani communities in the SW?

Why were there strategic burning, destruction of carefully targeted properties and looting during the nationwide youth revolt? Can the case of treasonable felony other than arson be levelled and sustained? Who and whose passports are to be seized?

Who are the drummers inside the dark valleys of the SW beating the war drums which are all now alcoholic in the spirits of the Igboho X’s and the Akintoyes, and such other twilight messiahs?

• STRATEGY 3: Temporarily collapse the so-called ONE NORTH whose slogan under Ahmadu Bello was: NORTH IS NORTH, WHETHER MIDDLE BELT OR CORE NORTH to now begin to push North East and North Central to go into the race and fiercely contest for the 2023 Presidential election with the excuse that since returning to democracy in 1999, the North West has produced the nation’s presidents twice in the persons of Shehu Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Muhammadu Buhari; the South West have produced Olusegun Obasanjo and the South South POLIGEOZONE or GEOPOLIZONE, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, whilst unarguably, the South East, North Central (NOKBEKWARA) and the North East have not given the Presidency ago, with the usual fair play slogan: “what is good for the goose is good for the gander” or WHAT IS GOOD FOR KWAN IS GOOD FOR KWASO or what is good for Sokoto is good for Shokoto trousers or what is good for Olu is good for Eze! The North’s political calculus, equation, permutation, principles, philosophy, geometry, and mathematics is based on the LAW OF LINEAR EXPANSIVITY – highly flexible, malleable, adjustable, accommodating, compromising, so able to respond very appropriately to exigencies of the moment or moments of national necessity, especially within the Northern fold, whereas that of the South is based on the FESTUSIAN DOCTRINE of TOO MUCH KNOWLEDGE or in a local parlance TOO MUCH BUKURU/GRAMMAR, for Festus had told Paul: “Too much reading has made thee mad.” (“And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.” Acts 26:24). Thus, the Southerners since the days of Awo and Zik never agree on anything, always arguing, quarrelling, fighting, unaccommodating, unreasonable, and inflexible, in a sort of NA ME ONE KNOW BETTER or I KNOW PASS YOU and often times, instead of reasoning and compromising, resort to grammatical indulgences/gangsterism/violence/aggression, using bombastic words, highfalutin, arcane, priggish and pedantic words for purpose of status conferral, which merely expose their crass absurdity, stupidity and the lack of wisdom and common sense as always; each hyphenate zone therein is always in a broil, endless argument with the other, hence the North has been winning in all things politics; in things cultural; in all things socio-economic; in all things moral; in all things religion; in all things education, and in all things Nigerian!
• STRATEGY 4: Create a state of unparalleled insecurity in the country through incitements, then declare a state of emergency starting from SW? SE? ND/SS or North? To be followed by heightened activities of terror, herdsmen’s purposeless malignity – grazing in every grazable and ungrazable places, rape of unimaginable proportion and madness, faking coup attempts or premeditated actual, banditry, resort to nationwide mass abductions, some as ferocious as the Dunblane massacre of 1996 and the Beslan siege of 2004, with the police, the military and the paramilitary turning themselves into savage wolves, etc.

Then arrive at tenure elongation using these crises or (crisis/chaos) or say: TO FINISH YAR’ADUA’S TENURE IS A TASK THAT MUST BE DONE or ING or GONU.

STRATEGY 5: MARSHAL MUSIC CONCERT with the Peul/Hausa/Kanuri and Shuwa Arabs as usual playing the symphony orchestra!

NIGERIA: A PEOPLE PERPETUALLY ENSLAVED -

THE DRAMATIS PERSONAE OF THE TRAGEDY

• Enter, Yoruba vs. Ndigbo
• Enter, Yoruba vs. Fulani/Hausas/Kanuri/Shuwa Arabs
• Enter, Ndigbo vs. Fulani/Hausas/Kanuri/Shuwa Arabs
• Enter, Niger Delta/SS vs. Yoruba
• Enter, Ndigbo vs. Niger Delta/SS
• Enter, Nokbekwarans (Central POLIGEOZONE/GEOPOLIZONE) vs. Yoruba/Ndigbo/SS/NE
• NE POLIGEOZONE Central Region (Nokbekwarans)/Ndigbo/Yoruba/SS

And press power will not be in short supply, but available to the highest bidder/s.

Country fifle, TORI DONE WOWO…WAHALA DEY-O!

Boh, man pikin no get “clearance” for the pe-pe-pe-pe…. So thierfore (therefore) make I shut up my mouth before dem come snatch my konfuta (computer).

Let us sing: Amebo, make you shut up your mouth;

Ore, Amebo, make you shut up your mouth;

Iyawo, Amebo, make you shut up ya mouth….

And echoes of the 1970s FRCN jingles could be heard afar off –

Careless talk e dey put man for wahala,

Careless talk edey put man for wahala,

Keep our secret to we-selves-o make our life better,

Keep our secret to ourselves-o make we country better….

THE 2023 HYPOTHESES AND PERMUTATIONS

Having in the usual manner pitted the South against one another, the stage is now set for a fight between:

Hypothesis 1: Yorubas and Ndigbo – a sort of Yorubaism vs. Ndigboism, if Bola Ahmed Tinubu or any Yoruba person does not win the Presidential ticket and subsequent contest and win in 2023, but an Igbo wins, and vice versa. So how ready are the police to proactively pre-empt the ensued fracas between the two sworn enemies, including protection of lives and properties, if things get out of hand as either will sure blame the other for putting sand-sand inside their political garri?

Hypothesis 2: if GEJ is stupid and gullible enough to taste the ‘poisoned apple’ being offered him by his enemies and enemies of his people from the North, consequent upon his death, having escaped it many times over whilst in office as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; if Goodluck Ebele Jonathan gets the ticket of any party, contests and subsequently wins the 2023 Presidential election with a view to stupidly riding back to power, this ‘feat’ of his will draw the ire of both the Yorubas and Ndigbo who will no doubt fight the Niger Deltans, and by extension, the SS for being responsible for their inability to clinch the Presidential ticket and go on to win the much-coveted political diadem.

On the other hand, if GEJ is very weak enough to be persuaded to eat of the forbidden apple but fails to make a comeback to that House of Monsters and Maggots – the Presidency, the core Niger Deltans and by extension, the SS will team up to blame the duo of YORIGBO, especially the side that gets the ticket and goes on to win the Presidential election.

Hypothesis 3: However, if very unfortunately, and stupidly too, power again is hijacked/kidnapped/abducted/herded by the traditional national power hijackers/kidnappers/abductors/herders/rapists and taken/catapulted (back) to the North amid all the ensuing wahala/katakata (chaos/crises), then all South are likely to join hands and battle the North for their very unwarranted/needless/selfish/greedy political gluttony and an unparalleled/incurable lust for power all the time/at all times.

Hypothesis 4: The Nokbekwarans? As always, they will always swarm the winning side – ever without character, without regionhood, but the so-called ONE NORTH.

As I have continued to reflect in all my writings spanning over three decades, within the Nigerian Federation, the ever siddon-look Nokbekwarans are the spineless ones, vacillators, political pendulums without a legitimate and direct and rightful association/relationship with their country, they are always hiding behind the back of the so-called North, in the name of ONE NORTH and the NORTH IS NORTH slogan of that arch bigot and Islamist, Ahmadu Bello, and having turned themselves into political bastards and made themselves the illegitimate children of Nigeria, they were adopted and engrafted into the ONE NORTH FAMILY – under the ideology of NORTHERNISM, FULANISM, HAUSAISM, KANURISM, ARABISM, AREWAISM or GAMJISM or COWOISM or RUGAISM or ZANGOISM - through whom they have all benefited very, very, very immensely, hence the elite Nokbekwarans can’t talk whenever their colonial masters are killing their brothers and sisters, destroying their crops/farmlands, including their ancestral lands, fearing they and their immediate family members will be eliminated. Also, it is a sure existential survival strategy as the sandwich region is the most vulnerable within the NIBE FEDERATION, because a breakup of Nigeria, would mean an automatic wiping out of every Nokbekwaran by the Muslim North in collaboration with the Muslim ummah from the neighbouring West African states, North Africa, Central African Republic and worldwide.

However, it is not unlikely, there might be a few voices from the sandwich region, so weak and frightful, they cannot clamour for an independent region nor country within the Nigerian Federation, to speak out this time round in the event of the Peuls, ever lusting for and monopolising power in Nigeria, stupidly make a comeback after the exit of one of their own, the walking dead President Muhammadu Buhari, to be here henceforth referred to as President X as one is not sure if the Nigerian state currently has a President or not, especially under the very ugly and lamentable scenario of truck Nigeriyana heading down hill without a driver nor a conductor. And if this folly will be the likely scenario, then the proverb in all Nigeria shall be: NOT DESTINED TO BE.

Hypothesis 5: The power monopolisers of Nigeria and their perpetual slaves and willing tools – the AGIP region are likely to team up with their cronies in and around the six geo-political zones of Nigeria to spring surprises, if only the two major parties of PDP and APC, courtesy of zoning, field two Southern candidates each – Ndigbo or Yoruba, this could induce a switch of protest votes from the Arewa (core North), their ever timid willing tools, the Nokbekwarans, who even though they don’t usually use their natural strategic power, are undoubtedly the nation’s strategic swing axis for eligible voters therein to cast their ballots for a minor/lesser party than for a person of the North who is its flag bearer, consequent upon intractable commotion - degenerating into national crises/chaos of unimaginable proportion, far worse than the 1962’s, eventuating in a greater political earthquake/eruption/inferno, with the highest magnitude of the molten lava, spewing from all corners of the Federation – state of emergency, marshal music and ING!

If this is what the ensuing chaos will lead to, even the pacifist region – the Nokbekwarans might join all the other region clamouring for self-determination with the two option of the British model of 4-in-1 or actual independent countries emanating from the present so-called ONE NIGERIA.

THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE MIDDLE BELT

• “Mummy, when you get back to Nigeria, tell my people to remain one in unity. Tell Nigerians to remain one in love, tell my Plateau people that they must remain one. Tell my people to imbibe unity, peace and love."
• - The last words of Chief Daushep Solomon Lar, through his wife, Mary Lar to his Plateau people, the Middle Belters and Nigerians in general.

The sandwich region of Nigeria, otherwise known and called variously by this writer as NOKBEKWARA, THE MIDLAND, THE HEARTLAND, CENTRAL REGION; or simply the Middle Belt as it is generally known and called, is naturally the AXIS OF STRIFE, AXIS OF CONFLICT, AXIS OF TENSION, AXIS OF CONTENTION, AXIS OF VIOLENCE, THE BONE OF CONTENTION, AXIS OF EVIL, AXIS OF WAHALA, AXIS OF KATAKATA between the North (the Muslim North) and the South (the Christian South).

There is thus, a perpetual war/battle/contention/strife which goes thereon 24/7, not visible to the naked eyes, but exists only in the super-supra-sensible realm of being.

However, this tension does sometimes, so to say, occasionally manifests itself in the terrestrial/earthly – on the physical plane/realm of being like an earthquake, spewing up its molten lava, burning very fiercely with very hot flames – Vesuvius-like in nature.

Also, there are two invisible massive gates on both the Southern and the Northern sides of NOKBEKWARA/Middle Belt known spiritually as the Northern and the Southern Gates or the Great Northern and the Great Southern Gates. And manning these gates are beings on either side of the two giant gates, and leading either side are two dominant figures known and called Uvuvuhudoholah and Uvuvihudoholibah striving perpetually to prevent the forces of Christianity from reaching North to capture its soul, and the forces of Islam from reaching down South to capture its soul.

Therefore, the battle for the soul of NOKBEKWARA is in fact, the battle of the invisible forces/powers of Christianity and Islam, hence the battle between Christianity and Islam.

Also, this perpetual battle in addition to the religious, aims at both territorial expansion and cultural imposition on the NOKBEKWARANS – replacing all indigenous monarchs in hamlets, villages, towns and cities with sarkins, ardos, sardaunas, emirs and such others as well as linguistic imperialism, making Fulbe/Hausa, including Arabic as major or dominant lingua franca, thereby, forcing all indigenous languages into extinction, whilst religiously, Islam is to be practised through the instrumentality of force/coercion and violence, and in some cases, using money and food to convert the people in this region to Islam, courtesy of the imminent famine of Biblical proportion caused by the ongoing terrorists/extremists/jihadists/herders/abductors/kidnappers/rapists and banditry activities that famine is already heading down intractably, from the core North, and spreading via NOKBEKWARA (the Middle Belt) and Southward.

Yours in the service of God, our Nigeria and all of humanity.

• Johnny Boy

SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM.

** *The Voice of One crying in the Diaspora…proudly leading the NATIONALISTS UNITY MOVEMENT OF NIGERIA (NUMON).

*To be continued.