Main Agenda for the Conference
Ihave always supported the agitation for a conference in Nigeria. I often get sentimental when I am bored by restive brothers especially from the southern part of the country on the call for a conference that is sovereign. I often fall into that trap of sentimentalism because as a person, I became challenged when my brother tells me that I am a parasite and or in the competition for space and access within the federation, I and my people are threatened by fictions than reality.
As a student of political science, one thing that always guide my thoughts and actions is a statement by Shehu Usman Danfodio which is the motor of the Guardian Newspaper that ‘ a society can survive with unbelief but can never survive on injustice’.
As a Muslim, I am guide by the Qur’an and Hadith and a central teaching in the religion is that you should do to others as you would want others to do on to u. if we are as Muslims and Christians as we claim, Nigeria wouldn’t be in the mess that it is today. The fact that we are in problem means that our religiosity is not only artificial but fakae.
Anytime Goodluck Jonathan packs a lot of people and travel to Israel in the name of pilgrimage, anytime Namadi Sambo travels to Saudi Arabia for Hajj or Umrah, what comes to my mind is one thing. These guys are fake! You supervise over a Stella Oduah and try to clean her of her mess despite a resounding national outrage of pilferage and squander and you are going all the way to the deserts of Jigawa to arrest the sons of Sule Lamido simply because he is challenging you. You travel all the way to Kano to threaten bank mangers to show you where Rabiu Kwankwaso is going wrong.
You went to Anambra and helped mis- do the election to the extent of making your party lose just because you don’t want a Chris Ngige who is likely going to be a problem in 2015 to win the polls. At least Bamanga Tukur told us that weeks before the elections that PDP was going to lose.
The level of theft and stealing going on in government at the center is alarming and all that we hear is that EFCC is doing well. The desperation is clear. It’s for 2015. If what happened in Anambra is anything to go by, I see problem in 2015. There are two extreme tendencies. A government that is failing wanting to remain by all means and a people that are battered and are prepared to all cost see it out.
If 2015 will be rigged, we have warned several times and more Nigerians are warning, what we saw in 2011 in some parts of the country may as well be a child’s play. That is why whenever I remember Ambassador John Campbell, I feel sad and sorry for my country.
The prognosis by the American intelligence service long before