Monday, June 9, 2014

Northern Christians be warned- Be aware of possible North Sudan experience!,

Northern Christians be warned- Be aware of possible North Sudan experience! I really appreciate the extreme danger moderate Muslims and Christians in the North face as regard if they chose to speak out against the evils of Boko Haram. However I am appalled that Northern Christians are not speaking out and more so acting out less against the activities of Boko Haram. The Northern Christians must do much more than they are doing at present. Northern Christians in AREWA, Northern Elders forum and other North Interest groups must speak out and act decisively against the domineering influence of the Northern reactionary and divisive elements, whom I strongly believe have high jacked the various Northern interest groups. I also believe that Christians and even moderate Muslims who may chose to speak and act decisively against Boko Haram may become subject of extermination by Boko Haram but the prize of not speaking and acting now would definitely much more than the possible dangers right now especially for Northern Christians! Let the moderate Muslims and Christians not be carried away by the crazy sentiment that there was a gentle man agreement between the North and the South for the rotation of the presidential position. Though this is quite true and desirable however the emergence of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as Nigeria President was and is never a breach of that gentleman agreement. If Gen Olusegun Obasonjo had died suddenly while in office there was no way that Atiku Abubaka couldn’t have replaced him and I don’t think any Southern would have opposed him to contest for the presidency once he steps in. There are also the crazy talks elevating an ordinary Gen. Olusegun Obasonjo to a deity position that would have or rather that knew that President Yardua would die and so brought him out so that immediately he dies a southerner would once more step into Aso rock!! What an arrant non-sense! Come to think of it those who peddle this crazy and ridiculous talk conveniently forgot to also blame the electorate in Katsina state who elected Yardua in as a governor without which he most unlikely would have been picked for Presidential ticket of the PDP. Gen Olusegun Obasonjo has no such deity power and so couldn’t have exercised a power he does not have. The untimely, unfortunate death of President Yardua and emergence of Dr. good luck Jonathan as Nigeria President were all acts of God, as simple as that!. In fact come to think of it was most unlikely that Dr. Goodluck Jonathan would have ever entered Aso Rock if President Yardua had completed his two terms, Obasonjo did it to Atiku Abubaka despite the enormous help Abubaka gave to the General! So the all in the North has to accept it that Goodluck Jonathan having emerged has the constitutional right to contest for two terms according to the Nigeria constitution! Our northern brother should also understand that if a hasty farmer stands up to dig out his yam and unfortunately the tail of the yam severs off , he the farmer would now spend more time to kneel to dig out the tail! Our Northern brother should not forget in a hurry that from Gen Gowon to Multara Muhammed to Alh. Shehu Shagari to Buhari to Babangida to Abacha to Abubaka is almost 35 years of near uninterrupted Northern rule of the nation Nigeria! That is more than 65 % of the nation’s life span and the heavens did not fall or does our brother in the North felt that this was normal because some Northerners believe that some exclusive section of the North is born to rule! If it is so I advise our brothers in the North to forget those non sense all Nigerians irrespective of where they come from have all the rights to run the affairs of the nation so long as the person have the requisite capacity. The Northern Christians and moderate Muslims should understand that over 90% of the southerners are desirous of a strong and united Nigeria but if the North is of late talking of separatism I believe that all patriots would do all that is necessary to thwart that but even if the nation for any reason tows the part of break up the South would never be the worse of it! So the South is not perturbed of all talks of separatism. Now why Northern Christians must do and act more than they are doing now is that if for any reason the nation is split it is almost certain that it would be hard-line Muslims that would be in control of the North. It is almost certain that Sharia would be the only legal system in the North then and may even progress to barn Christianity totally in the North and you can add up what pains and misery that would be visited on the Christians up north. The Northern Christian should also not put hope in the moderate Muslims that speak out against their hard headed brother they would instantly go silent if the nation should split and even they don’t want to they would be whipped into submission by the hardliners! Make no mistake about this, it would be North Sudan! Now that Southern Christians are helping to fight against Muslim hard liners it is damn difficult you can guess the misery and human degradation that would be visited on northern Christians that would happen if the north goes its way. The Northern Christians should talk more and above all act more for instance I do not expect less than 300,000 Northern Christians and moderate Muslims to enlist in the Nigerian army as regard the new open window for general recruitments against Boko Haram and their supporters in AREWA and NORTHER Elders forum and other Northern pressure groups. Finally I urge southern Christians and moderate southern Muslims not to ever forget our brothers and sisters in the North !

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