Professor Ben Nwabueze, Chairman, the Patriots; Project Nigeria Movement and Igbo Leaders of Thought has blamed President Muhammadu Buhari for divisions in Nigeria
- He said Buhari is only concerned about the north agenda
- The constitutional lawyer also noted that the president’s actions and utterances under reference manifest a pre-determined Islamisation/northernisation agenda
Professor Ben Nwabueze, Chairman, the patriot, Project Nigeria Movement and Igbo Leaders of Thought has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari's utterances are causing the division tearing Nigeria apart.
Guardian reports that Professor Nwabueze in press statement said: ‘In an interview with The Vanguard dated Monday, October 16 2017, Chief Emeka Anyaoku said: “Since the 1967 Civil War, I do not think this country has ever been as divided as it is now.”
‘This statement, coming from a man known for his unstinted objectivity on matters of public affairs, represents the undeniable truth about the situation facing our country today. There are separatist agitations for the Republic of Biafra, Niger Delta Republic and Oduduwa Republic. There is the notice issued by the Arewa Youths Coalition to Ndigbo to leave the north by 1st October 2017.
NAIJ.com gathered that he said there is the menace of Fulani herdsmen rampaging the whole country, killing and maiming innocent people and destroying their farms and properties. These divisive events are pushing Nigeria to the brink of disintegration.
“Instead of a principled approach based on its merits and demerits as it affects the whole country as one entity, restructuring has divided the country into north and south, according to how it is perceived to affect the interests of the north, or, as it is put in a report in The Vanguard of 15 October, 2017, in order to “ensure that the North is not shortchanged” by restructuring.
The interest of the north in the matter is defined to be to keep it (i.e. the north) “united” within a united Nigeria. The interest of the north, said Governor El Rufai of Kaduna state, is not restructuring, but to“address the dual challenge of poverty and deficiency in education in the region.”
In his own contribution, even former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar said: “The north has nothing to fear (from restructuring) because we have the land, we have the population and we have the resources.
The north has nothing to fear because oil will soon become history.” It is indeed lamentable that a matter touching on the vital interests of the whole country as one entity is being viewed and treated as a matter in which the interest of the North predominates and overrides everything else.
But the critical question, which disquietens me deeply, is as to why the division along the lines mentioned above is occurring just at this time, during the 2½ years rule of President Buhari, and why they had not occurred at any other time during the 46 years since the end of the civil war in January 1970.
This is a question the Presidency appears never to ask itself, as it should. It (i.e. the Presidency), busies itself instead in self-justification and self-praise and in issuing stern rebukes and threats of repressive action against those who threaten the unity of the country.
The President constantly regales us with the hackneyed talk about the unity of the country not being negotiable, forgetting that the unity of the country is yet to be created by the coalescing of the over 300 ethnic nationalities comprised in Nigeria into one united nation.
The game of self-justification and self-praise in which the Presidency constantly engages itself, precludes self-examination, without which there can be no self-correction.
President Buhari owes it to the Nigerian people to admit that the divisions tearing the country apart are caused by his actions and utterances; he should now begin the process of self-correction which involves the making of amends for his misguided past actions and utterances.
His actions and utterances under reference manifest a pre-determined Islamisation/northernisation agenda with the war against corruption serving as a cover.
The existence of such agenda is not something conjured up just to discredit him; on the contrary, it is an irrefutable fact.
His commitment to the Islamisation Agenda was heralded in a speech at a seminar organised by the Supreme Council of Sharia in Nigeria in August 2001 where he (Gen. Buhari) publicly declared that he was committed to implementing Sharia law all over the country.
The Islamisation agenda was a significant factor in the APC presidential primary for the 2015 election. The voters at the said primary, the majority of whom were Muslems from the north, wanted a presidential candidate whom they could confidently rely upon to implement the Sharia agenda, and so voted overwhelmingly for Buhari as the man to be relied upon for the job, giving him 3,430 votes, as against 954 votes for Atiku Abubakar, also a Muslem but not a diehard Islamist like Buhari.
His position as a fervent apostle of the Islamisation/northernisation agenda was re-affirmed in a speech he, as President-elect, delivered before an audience of exclusively prominent northern Muslem leaders on May 2, 2015 at Queen Amina Hall, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria.
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“I charge you”, he said with the ardour of a zealot, “to join me as we build a new Northern Nigeria in a generation ………the best investment we can make in the North is not finding oil in the Chad Basin……..we will start with one local government in each state until we get to every school in all of Northern Nigeria……. To achieve this, I have secured a northern rehabilitation fund……..to rebuild the North after the devastation of Boko Haram insurgency..
Meanwhile,Prof. Ben Nwabueze said that the leader of Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu mandated him to declare to Nigeria that he is ready to call off the struggle for Biafra if there is progress made in restructuring Nigeria.
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