Upgrading The Save - Nigeria -Group's Option For Nigeria

I do not subscribe to this idea of a blanket condemnation of a particular section of the country as the harbinger of all our woes as a nation, or as the all time oppressor. About eighty percent of the predominantly Christian South are highly impoverished, intimidated and dehumanized. In the predominantly Islamic North, about ninety percent are entrenched in illiteracy, reduced to street beggars and enslaved socially, politically and religiously.

Today Nigerians have had to contend with the horrors of an Islamic terrorist sect from the Northern part of the country called Boko Haram to the extent that the President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s administration from the Christian South is greatly threatened to its very foundations. 

Though the real contents of the Boko Haram insurgency have not been articulated in any clear language save some inaudible musings on the inadequacy of Western Education and the hostility of the Nigerian government towards Islamic Sharia law, and until the decayed ingredients of secularism are removed from the sugar-pots of Western education and the remainder made to pass through the crucibles of traditional culture and authentic religious experience either as Christians or as Muslims, we are tasked to exercise some caution in dismissing the Boko Haram struggle with a mere wave of hand. But I must quickly add that, like the Niger Delta struggle, violence or terrorism has never been and cannot be an authentic method of struggle for self-determination. It is its most effective killer. 

At this point, while someone like Chief Ralph Uwazurike deserves some commendation, real Muslims who belong to or sponsor the Boko Haram sect are equally tasked to a re-think of terrorism as a viable option. And without prejudice to the fact of non-violence being the best method for authentic regional, group and private agitations respectively, I dare to assert here, in a very authoritative way, that Christians are cowards. This statement is not an attempt to promote or fuel some fundamentalist attitudes but rather in reference to the quality of life we live when confronted with the Jude vs. 3 challenge.

So, how did we come to this mess?

 I have argued quite correctly that Babangidarism is the evil that Nigerians must have to wage a war against in a collective capacity. The people assembled against Mr Goodluck Jonathan are very powerful and influential. It is not about North or South, Christianity or Islam, nor about Niger Delta or Boko Haram. It is about the Babangidarist sect< http://saharareporters.com/article/babangidarism-playing-ostrich-ghost-dele-giwa-fr-ken-evurulobi >

Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida impenitently created this Cabal,which I choose to refer to as Babangidarism , as an instrument and at the same time, a weapon with which to prosecute and realize his life-presidency ambition. This sect is made up of four groups or categories of people:

1. The Oil Cartel.

2. The Ex-Soldiers Union (mostly made up of retired military officers both from the Army, the Navy and the Airforce who are very close to and were heavily “settled” by IBB).

3. The Smugglers.

4. The Drug Cartel.

These people have amassed so much wealth, power and influence, and have come to dominate the political space, rule the economy, and bought their way through in the socio-religious platforms.  

To be sure of returns and to evolve an effective network of defense and security around himself, Babangida hijacked the whole structures of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and beckoned to the World Union for advice, assistance and support promising the World body a Nigerian membership in return for favors received. The result was that, spear headed by the secret efforts of Mr Kingibe, the Satanic Code was built into the PDP organogram and configured to Ogboni Fraternity as a visible point of contact for all members of this cartel. In this way Nigeria was gradually transformed into a big bowl of ritualism, and all the things – some unprintable, some unimaginable, yet some unbelievable – that go with it.

With this Cartel who presented themselves as reliable allies to either General Abacha or to Chief Mathew Olusegun Obasanjo, IBB worked hard to build two un-existent worlds – the world of sycophancy and that of invincibility - around General Sani Abacha and Chief Mathew Olusegun Obasanjo and then forced them to live in these different worlds during their respective tenures respectively while bidding his time. 

Until the final hour, and irrespective of the Abiola factor, Ibrahim Babangida was full of hopes that he was the sole and inescapable beneficiary of General Sani Abacha’s misadventure into the two worlds of sycophancy and invincibility. Things did not work out for IBB as planned even though it is true that General Abacha was consumed completely by this set-up.

Chief Mathew Olusegun Obasanjo himself was highly discredited and deeply bruised but he used the Yar’dua/Jonathan joint ticket to achieve two things: One, to stop IBB. Two, to forge an escape route and a formula for self-preservation. 

Thus the slogan “power must return to North” implies only and necessarily too that power must be handed over to Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. Every contrary provision was repudiated and stigmatized. Babangida was the North and the North was Babangida.

And most of our political and religious leaders have resigned themselves to being their praise-singers knowing fully well that to speak up against the many illegalities that form the fulcrum of their major activities is at the risk of blackmail.

 The real North could have exploited the opportunity provided by the Presidential Electoral Tribunal to regain their hold on power by standing strongly behind Alhaji Atiku Abubakar or General Muhammed Buhari in 2007, but prompted by the secret shenanigans of a man so much possessed and ruled ominously by an acute disease of a self-succession bid and for whatever other reasons best known to it, the North chose to play the imbecile with Alhaji Musa Yar’dua.

 Under the new arrangement thrown up by the event of Yar’dua’s demise, it would have amounted to political suicide and confirmed imbecility for the South, significantly, the Niger Delta to dash her political space to the North like General Sani Abacha will dash a whole lot of oil block to General T. Y. Danjuma just for nothing while millions of Nigerians are wallowing in abject poverty and acute lack of infrastructure. 

Christians must, however, try to approach the Boko Haram insurgence with much restriction and be careful not to permit that their just retaliatory measures be not hijacked and transformed into an instrument to serve the interest of global Satanism. This - so much distanced and removed from global Satanism - is the fatal projection which Boko Haram has been re-designed to serve.

At a closer self – examination, real Muslims will have to discover that Boko Haram is a ploy evolved by global Satanism as a means of criminalizing Islam. 

The only strong opposition to or most potent force against global Satanism is the Vatican. But presently, the World Union is hitting hard on the Vatican by an induced in-house peddling of official secret documents using the Italian Mafia and the Council for Foreign Affairs (CFA) in the U.S., and targeting, through blackmail, the would-be role models after the example of Christ, and leading image makers of the 21^st Century Church. 

Presently, the experience is not funny for the Vatican. At the end the Church will be very much shocked at the level of damage done, and may come to appreciate the fact that the most reliable ally for Christians today may be moderate Islam and the war it has waged against relativism but which it has confused and mixed up with the notion of western education. Of course the resignation of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican Secretary of State, will produce a major disconnection between the enemies of the Vatican and their targets inside the Vatican. 

To ignore the rot in the Petroleum industry presents ugly precedents for the fight against corruption. But to fight dirty also equally sets some unattractive antecedents for our democracy and may result in sending us back to be at the mercy of the evil genius. By the time Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida  hits hard on the Goodluck Jonathan administration using the NNPC sleaze and the criminal funding of the Niger Delta militants, there will be no defense left for President Goodluck Jonathan or any moral opposition to Babangida save the Church, the Igbos , the Save Nigeria Group and the Congress for Progress Change (CPC). He will start with the Christian Association of Nigeria and then fine tune it with the sordid details of the Okija Shrine scandal, thus confining what remains of the opposition to a mere insignificant voice of disgruntled propagandists, and perhaps, stigmatized apologists.

 Political assassinations will eventually be employed to silence it finally.

But, frankly speaking, the North lacks the moral grounds and competence to wage an oil war against President Goodluck Jonathan, a bona fide son of the Niger Delta. 

However, the Cartel could instigate and insist on taking Mr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to the cleaners as a ploy to divert attention from itself and may not loose any sleep even if the matter leads to another civil war where it will seek the intervention of the world union. The implication is that the Rwanda/Burundi situation may be replicated in Nigeria.

To avoid this situation, we must reach a truce with Mr Goodluck Jonathan using the SAVE NIGERIA GROUP as a point of contact. 

What is needed to overcome this Cartel which membership is not up to 20% of the general population is a collective revolutionary action, not an individual effort because the man or woman you are working with/for or who is paying you salaries may be a member of this Cartel. 

Therefore, to support Mr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is to support the SAVE NIGERIA GROUP and vice versa. 

A party or a government that cannot come to terms with the basic demands, principles and practices of responsible leadership and accountability, and does not pretend about its aversion for these but is rather hoodwinked to, and promotes interests and practices that pooh-pooh and impoverish established values, human dignity and the constitution is surely an evil masquerade

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It is unfortunate that the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) worked inter-alia to blindfold and entrap not only Mr Goodluck Jonathan but also the electorate body during the 2011 General Elections using violence, intimidation, terrorism, bribery and corruption. This has been PDP’s stock in trade since 1999. 

It is instructive, and at the same time, calls for a sober reflection on the part of all those involved in any form of group/regional agitation to discover that both Mr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and General Andrew Azaazi, National Security Adviser – two prominent names from the Niger Delta have come to appreciate that the PDP formula does not serve the interest of any person, group or region. It is rather suicidal and incriminating at the end.

 By the time PDP is unveiled, Nigerians will come to know that, all along, they have had a “Vampire” as the sole manager of the Nigerian public trust, and that the vampire is surrounded by nurses who are periodically appointed to take care of him. Ordinarily, since 1999, these nurses have filled the ranks of the presidency, governors, senators, ministers, permanent secretaries and directors in both the federal, state and local government arrangements respectively.

Now we know the truth. Now we know the way forward. Now we know and have also seen the dangers if we fail to act decisively. To fold our hands and do nothing is to accept to be reduced to slaves in our fatherland.

We must listen to the SAVE NIGERIA GROUP (SNG).

 

What is required is for the Civil Society/Labour Groups to mobilize immediately and march in full but non-violent protest to the floor of the National Assembly and demand that the 2011 General Elections be declared "Null and Void" but "Constitutionally Provisional for One Year within which Mr President is charged to conduct fresh elections by September 2013 and then handover power on exactly October 1, 2013.

Beyond the option of staging mass protests, convoking a Sovereign National Conference (SNC) in the guise of National Elders Forum < http://evurulobi.hubpages.com/hub/A-CALL-FOR-NATIONAL-ELDERS-FORUM-IN-NIGERIA > is an approach that is more realistic and one that promises to be more rewarding.

A PDP dominated National Assembly cannot be trusted. And an alliance with them is at the pain of betrayal and blackmail. Let us all join hands to move this Giant of Africa forward.