Election or referendum?

FOR anybody to say that Nigeria is a very funny country would seem to me to be saying an unnecessary thing; anytime, anywhere. President Donald Trump of the USA included Nigeria in countries that he allegedly referred to as shithole/asshole countries; and many of us protested as we liked; but many people who may rightfully object to his very politically incorrect usages of the English expressions were also part of those who joined to provide solid evidences that what he actually meant and should have said was indeed true. Many past leaders in Nigeria in the past and present had variously said the same thing, though in different words; and it is nothing new. Chief Obafemi Awolowo called Nigeria a “mere geographical expression” and nothing to be called a country! Sir Ahmadu Bello repeatedly referred to Nigeria as his inherited great grand-father, Othman Dan Fodio’s, jihadist conquered territory which the British rudely interrupted their ongoing complete conquest; and which would continue after the rude interruption.

If anybody knows, in today’s very democratically advanced world, what a country continuously run like either of those two past leaders have independently said may be called other than any of the above terms or similar ones, I would like to know it. Again, one says these things not to castigate anybody; but only to state the facts as they are. If any of us came the way that the Uthman Dan Fodio descendants had come, we would probably do as they are doing; or even worse! Our duty as the truly civilised people that we are, however, is to point out to everybody that such ways of thinking and living is utterly primitive. It belonged to 100 years ago and earlier; but no longer in the world of the “everybody a winner”, respected and a truly free world!

As is most clearly seen by anybody who may like to care, we currently are living in the fully resumed jihad of Uthman Dan Fodio in Nigeria; and anybody who does not see it is simply sick, pure and simple! This jihad, though fanatical and seen all over the world, concentrates on the Christians as the main non-Islamic population therein, in Nigeria. In this wise, it has relatively left the other non-fanatical Muslims out of the murderous bids for now; but it is only a matter of time for it to descend on them as well. So, whoever decides to keep deceiving him or herself in that regard may go on with it. S/he will surely answer for it, as we all believe, at the “end of time”!

A situation where repeatedly we wait like goats for the slaughter, for us to be presented with two Othman Dan Fodio progeny at every so-called national election to “vote” for one of them to come and rule us is, obviously, the most idiotic thing that anybody could do. And that is what Nigerians have kept doing; thanks to the British frauds in these regards. It is in their interest that the least educated, and least able to get the best out of the people entrapped in this Nigerian enclave will keep ruling us. So, the real question is this: are we going to repeat this stupidity again in another 10 months from now? Will these funny Nigerians keep colluding with these stupidities; or would they work for a true democracy that will eventually benefit everybody in this unfortunate enclave maximally; even more so for the most underprivileged serfs who keep colluding with this stupidity with the assumption that it is benefitting them!

As the Yoruba Leaders Forum had informed us after the September 2017 Adamasingba meeting, the Middle Belt Forum people, the Ohaneze Idigbo people, the Christian Leaders Forum, the Niger Delta ones, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference and many of their other arms and fora, especially after the Mbalom Church jihadist massacre, the Handshake Across the Niger Group, and many more, there is only one sensible thing to do in Nigeria politically. That action is to have a plebiscite or referendum on the true structure that Nigeria should have if it is going to exceed this 2018 year. Whether this plebiscite is about the whole national one to continue to be a country and to meet to determine the nature and structure of it or to meet and decide the units thereof that would wish to go their various ways so that those left over may then also sit down and decide how that remnant country will be.

To my rather honest, educated, positively but a-partisanly political mind and that of one concerned deeply for the common good of all humanity, and not just Nigerians, it is very clear to me that this is the only subject worth any political discussion by any serious minded nigeriand or ones who have any genuine love for themselves, personally or mutually. To do otherwise, worst of all, to keep talking about any so-called election in 2019, would seem to me to be something to be compared only with a mad man nurturing a suicide ideation, as we know it in psychiatry. Let any politically involved Nigerians, especially those who have performing ethnic and inter-ethnic groups in this regard start now to present to us the proposals on the items for this plebiscite or referendum; and make those widely known. They should make it eloquently clear to the jihadist protagonists that there is nowhere to go as a nation outside of these; even in their own best interests which they are invariably unable to appreciate.

However, if these otherwise obviously better educated Nigerians do not do these, but just continue to make noises, we will only watch them. They will not eventually say that they were not told what they should do when the day of reckoning comes. Are we going to do what we need to do as sensible people; or should we continue in these senseless ways of old? May God Himself assist us all in answering these questions properly and taking the needed actions thereof. Amen.