In his book titled “Concerning the Government of Our Country and 
Neighboring Countries in the Sudan”, Nigeria’s first Mahdi, Sheik Usman 
Dan Fodio, who is the father of the Fulani Caliphate and leader of the 
1804 jihad that overwhelmed and conquered what is now known as northern 
Nigeria wrote:
“The government of a country is the government of 
its king without question. If the king is a Muslim, his land is Muslim; 
if he is an unbeliever, his land is a land of unbelievers. In these 
circumstances it is obligatory for anyone to leave it for another 
country”.
Could this strange and primitive rationale be the reason
 for the creeping attempt to wipe out Christianity, destroy the Church, 
slaughter Christians, Islamise the faithful and enslave the people of 
the south and Middle Belt in our country today?
Could this be the 
ethos and philosophical bedrock and foundation of the imperative of 
Islamic domination and Fulani rule? Have we finally discovered the 
intellectual Holy Grail of Fulani raison d’etra?
This brings me to a number of other questions which many harbour but few dare to ask.
The
 southern region of Nigeria has not had a Chief Justice of the 
Federation in 30 years and now that one has been nominated by the 
National Judicial Council our core northern President Muhammadu Buhari 
has simply refused to confirm him. The question may be asked, what is 
the south’s portion in Nigeria?
Such is the suspicion, bedlam and 
utter turmoil in our nation today that some are of the view that the 
solution to the problems of Nigeria is not just restructuring but a 
total break up of the country.
They believe that restructuring may
 be a good first step but the final destination has to be a total and 
complete break up and divorce.
They argue that this can he done peacefully and quietly or it will eventually be done violently and in a very messy way.
They say that the sooner we do it the easier it will be and that the longer we delay it the more messy it will be.
Whether one agrees or disagrees with them one thing is clear: we are sitting on a keg of gunpowder and we ALL know it.
It is just that we like to pretend. The bottom line is this: things cannot go on the way they are.
Some
 believe that we should let the four “liberal” zones (south-west, 
south-south, south- east and north-central) come together and form one 
nation and let the north-west and north- east zone either go and merge 
with Chad and Niger Republic or form their own country.
They argue
 that we should let the Christians, the Shiite Muslims and the core 
northern ethnic minority tribes that presently live in the north- east 
and north-west, if they wish, to relocate, move to the Middle Belt 
(north-central) and remain with us in Nigeria.
Interestingly this 
mass relocation and migration process was executed in India when she 
broke into two and Pakistan was formed just after she got her 
independence from the British.
Millions of Muslims who resided in 
India moved north to the other side of the country that was to be later 
called Pakistan whilst millions of Hindus who resided in the area that 
was to be later called Pakisan relocated from there and moved all the 
way south to the area that continued to be referred to as India.
Given
 the terrible carnage that took place between the Hindus and the Muslims
 in India before the break-up the whole thing worked rather well and 
saved millions of lives.
This was the case even though there were 
three border wars between the two countries not too long after the 
division and tensions exist between them until today.
Yet had it 
not been for the break-up the number of casualties would have been far 
higher and the victims of the fratricidal butchery which took place 
would have been primarily the civilian population, including women and 
children, rather than just the soldiers.
Some believe that we in 
Nigeria must take a cue from the Indian, and later Sudanese, examples. 
They believe that we must break Nigeria into two before we kill each 
other to the last man and woman.
They believe that it is either we
 negotiate this and let it be done in an equitable, reasonable, 
respectful and orderly manner or we will end up having a violent, 
brutal, bloody and long ethnic war in this country which will result in 
the final balkanisation and break up of Nigeria into no less than four 
or more pieces.
Whichever way we cannot be compelled to stay in a nation that is 
controlled by our collective oppressors and those that believe that 
killing others that do not share their faith or belong to their ethnic 
group or religious sect for much longer.
They have sucked the nations blood dry and killed the host body that they have fed fat on for the last 56 years.
They
 have killed the spirit of Nigeria and sacrificed her unity on the alter
 of greed, hate, religious intolerance, political domination and false 
notions of ethnic supremacy.
Their hegemony is an affront to the Living God and it stands against the natural order of things.
It is time for them to go or to be thrown out.
It is only after this happens that we can achieve our full potentials as a nation and that our people can be truly blessed.
Those
 that control the country and believe that they own it will NEVER allow 
restructuring because it defeats the object of their purpose.
Given
 that, it is very clear that we are heading for the rocks because the 
generation of southern and Middle Belt Nigerans that come after mine 
refuse to accept the notion that they are nothing but glorfied slaves 
and second class citizens.
My generation and those that came 
before it were far more ready to compromise with the evil, accept that 
bogus notion and just contiue to hope for the best.
The result is 
that we are still waiting and hoping whilst the grip of our internal 
colonial masters and their power is greater today than it has EVER been.
Meanwhile
 thousands of southerners, Shiite Muslims, Middle Belters and northern 
Christians have been slaughtered at the altet and are being butchered by
 the sponsored ethnic militias that are known as the Fulani herdsmen. 
One must ask, how long are we going to continue watching this evil 
silently and just keep hoping for the best?
This sort of thing can
 only happen in Nigeria. If people had been subjected to such barbarity 
and wickedness in any other country in the world there would have been 
international outrage and violent reactions long ago. Yet in Nigeria we 
respond to it with nothing but indifference and silence in the name of 
political correctness. It is truly pathetic.
The truth is that 
this “political correctness” will kill us if we dont kill it first. We 
must be prepared to say the things that we say to one another behind 
closed doors publicly as well.
The country needs a dose of truth 
to heal its wounds and it also needs focused, strong, honest and 
decisive leadership. Those that believe that they were born to kill us 
at will and rule us in perpetuity must either accept that they are not 
our ethnic masters and stop all this barbarity or they must go.
The
 truth is that the whole country is ready to explode. We the older men 
are the ones that are just still talking. The younger ones stopped 
talking long ago and now they are preparing for war.
I have 
travelled to many parts of this country in the last few weeks and months
 and what I saw and heard scared me. And I dont scare easily. We must 
try to keep a lid on it and talk our way out of this mess before the 
bullets start flying and reason and rational thinking goes out of the 
window.
Those that believe that they own Nigeria are the greatest 
obstacle to national cohesion and no one else. The rest of us can work 
out our differences, keep our four zones, devolve power from the centre 
and establish a 21st century secular modern nation-state where we are 
all equal, where the rule of law prevails and where islamic 
fundamentalism and ethnic domination has no place.
We must also 
work out our differences in the south. It is the division amongst the 
southerners that feeds and fuels core northern hegemony. We must all 
make concessions and set our differences aside and come together as one 
againt our collective adversaries.
If we cannot do that and we 
allow historical differences and rivalries to abide and flourish then 
frankly we deserve to remain as the slaves that they have turned us 
into. Let us hope that good reason prevails and that we make the right 
choices.
Let us hope that we are guided by God and His Holy Spirit
 in all our endeavours. Let us hope that we can muster the courage to 
say “no more” to ethnic and religious cleansing, mass murder, bondage, 
servitude and tyranny.
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