SHEHU SANI ON THE NIGERIAN PRESIDENCY IN 2023.

[Anthony Akinola]

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Igbo, Yoruba may lose Presidency in 2023 – Shehu Sani 

Published August 24, 2019

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A member of the 8th National Assembly, who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator Shehu Sani, has said the 2023 Presidency may elude the South if the South- East and South- West clamouring for it are not united.

Sani said the two geopolitical zones must unite and decide on a single candidate that would represent the southern part of the country as the nation’s President.

He spoke in Abuja on Saturday at an interactive session organised by the Correspondents Chapel of the  Nigeria Union of Journalists, FCT Council.

Sani said the ruling class was unyielding to ideas of a rotational presidency and that it would take only a united southern region to press home the political solution adopted for all parts of the country to create a sense of belonging in the governance of Nigeria.

He said while it may be unfair for the North to hold on to power after  2023, the southern bloc must unite to confront the posture of those in power as against its inter-regional campaign on who is qualified or otherwise to run for 2023 from the South.

He hinted that the northern region might produce the next President after President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023 if the Yoruba and the Igbo remained divided on the issue.

The Senator said,  “It will be unfair for other sections of the country if one section uses its topographic or demographic advantage to hold onto power, knowing full well that it was not the topography or demographic advantage that delivered them to power.

“Rotation of power is what I prescribe and stood for, whether that power goes to the East or West, it is dependent on the people from the South.

“What I will say is that there is a possibility of producing a Northern president in 2023 if the East and the West remain divided in their resolve on the governance of the Country.

“It is this division that will be exploited by those who are proposing the issue of competence,” Sani stated.

[Salimonu Kadiri]

​Since June 2019, Shehu Sani ceased to being a Senator with the usual and arbitrary monthly income of N13.5 million contrary to the decision of Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) which is empowered by the Constitution to fix salaries and allowances of the legislatures. For that reason, Shehu Sani  had to find  political libido in the ethnic coated Viagra. He said, "..... 2023 Presidency may elude the South if the South-East and South-West clamouring for it are not united." I don't care which part of the country the President of Nigeria comes from. I have always wanted as my President, a man or a woman who is intelligent, honest and bold, who is surrounded by truth-telling and competent advisers, whose policies are people-centred and who wants to lead. Now Shehu Sani is repeating the well utilized slogan of the political elites, rotational presidency between North and South in order to give sense of belonging to various ethnic groups. Should I feel sense of belonging to Nigeria because the president or any other public office holders in Nigeria is from my geo-political ethnic State? My situation is similar to that of Malcolm X when he said, "Well, I am one who doesn't believe in deluding myself. I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate (Malcolm X Speaks, p.26, The Ballot or the Bullet)." If I lack basic needs of life just like majority of all Nigerians, why should I feel sense of belonging to Nigeria because the President is from my geo-political ethnic zone?

S. Kadiri

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[Anthony Akinola]

In my candid opinion, the informal rotation of the presidency between the North and South has been a stabilising factor since the inception of democracy in 1999.

I am an advocate of rotational presidency.

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Anthony Akinola

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[Julius Eto]

Very dear Prof. Falola, thanks for the good and great work that you are doing for Nigeria and the African race.

Who is more patriotic between Shehu Sani and Salimonu Kadiri?

Mr. Kadiri, you can only deceive yourself by opposing rotational presidency and other measures
to unite our country because you feel you have an ephemeral advantage today.

Sani was referring to divisive ethno-religious bigots like Kadiri when he said: “It is this division that will be
exploited by those who are proposing the issue of competence.”

Who is more patriotic between Farooq Kperogi and Salimonu Kadiri?

Kperogi, in a display of true patriotism which cannot be found among people like Kadiri, urged fairness in national appointments so that Nigeria's Christians (including APC members) won't feel shortchanged. Kperogi, a Muslim, was advising Muslim leaders, but he is being attacked by reactionary/right-wing writers like Kadiri.

Some of the good work(s) the Buhari administration is doing are threatened by ethno-religious favouritism, especially lopsided appointments, which a self-serving person (fake patriot) like Kadiri sees nothing wrong in, whereas if the President is courageously advised, he could rectify the situation

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​Since June 2019, Shehu Sani ceased to being a Senator with the usual and arbitrary monthly income of N13.5 million contrary to the decision
of Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) which is empowered by the Constitution to fix salaries and allowances of the legislatures. For that reason, Shehu Sani  had to find  political libido in the ethnic coated Viagra. He said,
"..... 2023 Presidency may elude the South if the South-East and South-West clamouring for it are not united." I don't care which part of the country the President of Nigeria comes from. I have always wanted as my President, a man or a woman who is
intelligent, honest and bold, who is surrounded by truth-telling and competent advisers, whose policies are people-centred and who wants to lead. Now Shehu Sani is repeating the well utilized slogan of the political elites, rotational presidency between North
and South in order to give sense of belonging to various ethnic groups. Should I feel sense of belonging to Nigeria because the president or any other public office holders in Nigeria is from my geo-political ethnic State? My situation is similar to that of
Malcolm X when he said, "Well, I am one who doesn't believe in deluding myself. I'm not going to sit at your table and
watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate (Malcolm X Speaks, p.26, The Ballot or the Bullet)." If I lack basic needs of life just
like majority of all Nigerians, why should I feel sense of belonging to Nigeria because the President is from my geo-political ethnic zone?
S. Kadiri

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[Assensoh, Akwasi B.]

Dear 'Tony:

You are too modest! Indeed, you are not only an advocate of a rotational presidency in Nigeria but, indeed, a scrupulous expert. I still

remember co-authoring a lengthy published review of your excellent 1996 book on the topic, Rotational Presidency; you followed it up,

in 2013, with Democracy in Nigeria – Thoughts and Selected Commentaries, which consisted of a series of essays addressing a

variety of issues that dealt with good governance as well as the stability of the great nation of  Nigeria. 

Those two books, coupled with your third book, Party Coalitions: History, Trends and Prospects, do stand you in great stead as an expert in 

rotational presidency as well as governance matters in West Africa, not just in Nigeria.

Continue the great intellectual work and, in the words of my old mentor (Baba Ijebu), more grease on your elbow!

A.B. Assensoh.

 

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[Femi Segun]

I will just want to ask a simple question from Ogbeni Salimonu Kadiri: Do we need a Federal Character Principle in Nigeria? Given the disparities in the  levels of education between the North and the South, which the British colonialists foisted on the country (because out of selfish interest they agreed with the Emirs not to introduce western education in the North), is there a chance for nation-building or development  in the country if majority in the North remain Almajiri? 

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[OLAYINKA AGBETUYI]

I dont think asking the moderator to determine who is more patriotic is appropriate here.  Nor is it appropriate to call people names because you disagree with their views.

Alagba Kadiri knows I disagree with him on this issue but I can not stop him from re- presenting his views.  He is simply idealistic. He could see in the US no one cares which part a presidential aspirant comes from. But we have not got to the level of American cultural homogeneity which was achieved in the main on the battlefield when Britain militarily knocked out its ethnic European rivals to claim ethno- cultural supremacy in the States.

His idealism is therefore not too different from those in this forum who would seek American solutions to most Nigerian problems some of whom are now attacking him.

OAA.

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I will just want to ask a simple question from Ogbeni Salimonu Kadiri: Do we need a Federal Character Principle in Nigeria? Given the disparities in the  levels of education between the North and the South, which the British colonialists foisted on the country (because out of selfish interest they agreed with the Emirs not to introduce western education in the North), is there a chance for nation-building or development  in the country if majority in the North remain Almajiri? 

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[Anthony Akinola]

The United States of America did its own balancing where it was necessary. The idea of a bicameral legislature was informed by the need to maintain a balance of some sort between large and small states. In the Senate, for instance, each state, regardless of size and population, is represented equally by two senators. .Nations are different in their complexities, hence it does not make sense to rush into comparisons.The realities of the Nigerian state compel the argument for a rotational presidency.

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[Salimonu Kadiri]

​Federal character as it is being applied in Nigeria is a weapon of ethnic deception. One is deceived into believing that because ones ethnic person is holding an official position, the whole ethnic group is participating in governance even when the official is incompetent and incapable of delivering what the office is designed to produce. Section 15 (4) of the 1999 constitution states, "The State shall foster a feeling of belonging and of involvement among the various people of the federation, to the end that loyalty to the nation shall override sectional loyalties." The example of what Section 15 (4) implies, in practice, is that a Minister of water supply obliged to provide all Nigerians, and not only to people from his own ethnic group, get potable water. You will agree with me that potable water has no ethnic colour or odour. Nigerians who get constant potable water will not think of the ethnic origin of the Minister of water supply, rather, they will be loyal to the nation and its government.

​You mentioned the educational gap between the South and the North as the reason why the South should hold the lever of governance in Nigeria. Generally, what we consider as being educated in Nigeria is the ability to speak and write fluently in English language. Presumably, Southerners speak and write better English than Northerners but that has not had any positive effects on the development of Nigeria. Out of the last twenty years of democratic rule (29 May 1999 to 29 May 2019), Southerners had been president for 13 years, 7 months and 27 days (Obasanjo & Jonathan) while Northerners have ruled for six years, 7 months and 26 days(Yar'Adua & Buhari). During these periods educated Nigerians, mostly Southerners spoke and wrote fluent English at Nigeria's oil refineries only to become fuel importers and hustlers of fuel subsidy's payment receivers; at the National Electric transmission Commission, educated Nigerians blew their English grammars causing the nation to be enveloped in constant darkness. While chest-beating ourselves in pride for our achievements in oral and written English language, the Chinese who could only communicate with us in signed language, came to lay tracks of modern railways for us, and Julius Berger who is very proud of his German language is constructing roads, building bridges and houses all over the country. We think we are not educated because we can speak and write fluently in English language. Does anyone need to tell us that the education that cannot give us our desired developmental goal is useless?

S. Kadiri

[Salimonu Kadiri]

​Julius Eto has taken pleasure in intellectual somersaults and illogical acrobatics to arrive at unusual definition of patriotism by twisting and turning facts. As a patriot I stand for Nigeria and the masses.

​Julius Eto claimed that I am against 'rotational presidency and other measures to unite the country' as if to say that Nigeria has been united since the so-called rotational presidency between North and South has been practised from 1999 till now. Putting his boiled yams in a calabash and striking it with the pestle in his wisdom to make pounded yam, Mr. Eto averred, "Sani was referring to divisive ethno-religious bigots, like Kadiri when he said, 'it is this division that will be exploited by those who are proposing the issue of competence.'' There is no part of the Constitution of Nigeria where it is said that the presidency shall rotate between the North and the South every eight years. Rather, Section 14 (1) & (3) of the 1999 Constitution provides that, ''The composition of the government of the Federation or any of its agencies, and conduct of its affairs, shall be carried out in such a manner as to reflect the Federal Character of Nigeria and the need to promote national unity.'' Obviously, and for instance, if the affairs of the Ministry of Power is conducted in such a manner that every household in Nigeria gets constant electric light, no one will care about the ethnic origin of the Minister or his officials. Actually, normal Nigerians do not care a hoot whether the man who rules their country comes from North-central, or Northeast or Northwest, or Southeast, or Southwest or South-South; or whether he/she speaks Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Kwari, Urhobo, Isjekiri, Idoma, Kalabari or whether his/her face is carved up, horizontally or vertically with tribal marks. Normal Nigerians rather care for the man/woman who will give them a fair share of amenities, of rights and of opportunities. In other words, a man/woman who is not possessed by the primitive passion of greedy acquisition of Nigeria's patrimony for himself, his family and his cronies.

​Not done, Mr. Eto drew his idol, Professor Farook A. Kperogi into the discussion by referring to him as having advocated for 'fairness in national appointments so that Nigeria's Christians (including APC members) won't feel short-changed.' In Mr. Eto's world, competence should take the backseat when national appointments are being made while the ethno-religious qualities should take the driver's seat. Since independence, and especially after the past twenty years, ethnic religious balancing at the Federal level (popularly known as Federal Character) has been practised by an amalgam of elites at the centre which involves sharing the resources of the country among themselves for the purpose of enjoying material comforts produced in the developed world and to the exclusion of the Nigerian masses. That is why Nigeria has Federal character of incompetent and corrupt political elites and intellectuals in all our ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs). The incompetent ethnic-Christian-Muslims occupy the driver's seats of the nation's vehicles but they cannot drive. In their trials and errors attempt to drive, they put the gears of the vehicles on the reverse, therefore, the vehicles of the nation are not stationary but moving backwards.

​The important matter of how Nigeria should be governed must not be reduced to region, religion and ethnicity. As we have seen, the same set of people who claimed the rights to public offices on tribal and religious grounds also excuse their incompetence in office with ethnicity and religion. Nigerian Christian or Muslim worshipers have nothing to do with good characters, good works or righteousness. For the mere fact that public officials open every executive meeting with multiple of prayers in Hebrew, Arabic and English to Jehovah, Allah and God respectively, does not mean that they intend to do what is good and right. Meetings for the award of contracts to themselves and their cronies, of which they will collect 100% payments but will never be executed always begin with prayers to Jehovah, Allah and God. It is by the grace of Jehovah, Allah or God through his son Jesus Christ that the funds for socio-economic development of Nigeria end up in the bank accounts of ethno-religious Nigerian public officials. The deployment of ethnicity and religion as weapons of mass deception in Nigeria was fully captured in a speech delivered by the then acting President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo, at the Graduation ceremony of Senior course 39, the Armed Force, Command Staff college, Jaji, Kaduna State, on Friday, 23 June 2017. Here follows excerpts from the speech titled - We can Rebuild Nigeria : The last two decades in Nigeria have witnessed the quickened retreat of the Nigerian elite to their ethnic and religious camps. I would like to emphasize the fact that this was essentially an elite phenomenon - unity and disunity are promoted by the elite to which the vast majority of the Nigerian people were only later conscripted. In these past few years, more and more, we began to hear expressions such as Nigeria's ethnic nationalities, we began to see more identifications by race and geo-political zones, Ndigbo people, the Yoruba people, South-South, North-East, South-West, North-West and South-East, and other parochial description that were hither unknown. The rise of ethnic chauvinism rose on the wings of several agitations. The narrative of most agitations centred around alleged marginalization and fears of dominance of one faith over the other. …//… Most ethnic agitations are centred around getting a larger share of the national cake or more favoured placement in the food chain because they have essentially elite claims : the vast majority of the ethnic groups that win some concession or the other never really benefit. So, the mere fact that a South-South person became President did not necessarily translate to prosperity for the tribe, neither was it the case when the President from the North-West emerged, nor one from the South-West. Aside from a few individual beneficiaries of some appointments or the other, there is usually nothing to show for the ethnic group of those who emerge in Nigeria's numerous ethnic contests for power. Yet, the contests of the tribes are heightened by the elite, usually for personal or commercial ends. When you hear a person say that my tribe has been marginalized, usually, what he is saying is appoint me. The ethnic card is an effective bargaining tool.

A major drawback of ethnic chauvinism is the way that it is used to mask wrong doing and promote impunity. Notice that when people are charged with looting public funds, they quickly find counter narrative. It is because I am Yoruba, Fulani or Igbo; or the Christians or Muslims are after me. 

Appointments in the public service are no longer even judged on merit. The question is how many are from my own ethnic group. A terrible affliction, when you consider that what we are looking for are men and women of integrity and talent to run our economy and create a future for our children. Why is it that when we want to win at a football competition we don't ask which ethnic group the players are from?" Julius Eto and associates may not like the question posed by Yemi Osinbajo since they are of the opinion that in the name of federal characters, the lames should feature in the national team to promote the sense of belonging. Finally, Mr. Julius Eto, I laugh at your wisdom in trying to hang a diamond necklace on the tortoise when you tended claim that ultimate intellectual despots and tyrants, who demand that their judgments or submissions on any matter must not be questioned and who refuse to acknowledge superior arguments to theirs, are patriots. The tortoise has withdrawn its head into its shell and your diamond necklace is on bare ground.

S. Kadiri      

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[Ezinwanyi Adam]

Out of the last twenty years of democratic rule (29 May 1999 to 29 May 2019), Southerners had been president for 13 years, 7 months and 27 days (Obasanjo & Jonathan) while Northerners have ruled for six years, 7 months and 26 days(Yar'Adua & Buhari). During these periods educated Nigerians, mostly Southerners spoke and wrote fluent English at Nigeria's oil refineries only to become fuel importers and hustlers of fuel subsidy's payment receivers; at the National Electric transmission Commission, educated Nigerians blew their English grammars causing the nation to be enveloped in constant darkness. While chest-beating ourselves in pride for our achievements in oral and written English language, the Chinese who could only communicate with us in signed language, came to lay tracks of modern railways for us, and Julius Berger who is very proud of his German language is constructing roads, building bridges and houses all over the country. We think we are not educated because we can speak and write fluently in English language. Does anyone need to tell us that the education that cannot give us our desired developmental goal is useless?

S. Kadiri

1. What about the Military rule when Northerners had the upper hand, how much progress did Nigeria make?

2. With the form of education acceptable in the North how much of the people's 'desired developmental goal' is achieved so far without the influence of western education?

3. Does the problem lie in the form of education or in the people?

I am just an inquisitive mind seeking (for) more knowledge ... Thanks to all the contributors ...I'm learning a lot.

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[Salimonu Kadiri]

​The period under consideration for discussion is 1999 to the present. There was no rotational presidency during the military era. However, right from Aguiyi Ironsi, Gowon, Mohammed, Obasanjo, Buhari, Babangida, Abacha and up to Abdulsalami, most of the civil servants that served under them were educated Southerners. Job description of Nigeria's Head of State, whether military or civilian, entails serving all Nigerians regardless of tribe or religion. Public servants at the MDAs are supposed to serve the entire nation without discrimination.   

​The form of government in the North is based on Western education as in the South. Even the twelve supposedly Sharia law States in the North are governed with Western system of democracy.

​To your third question, I will say that Nigeria is a country of great and many academic titles but of no skills and of insignificant deeds. The mere academic titles of Nigerians in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies conjure up a powerful visions and ideals of the type of a country we all want our Nigeria to be. But visions and ideals have been conjured into nightmare by a pack of vultures that have systematically bled our nation dry, especially over the last 20 years, through their nefarious activities in government and parastatals. For me, I think that the problems of Nigeria's economic development will be solved when we start demanding that public officials should match productions in their respective office with their academic titles.

S. Kadiri    

[Julius Eto]

Salimonu Kadiri, I should have just ignored you, for all you have written in response to my observations on " SHEHU SANI ON THE NIGERIAN PRESIDENCY IN 2023," is afterthought, to unconvincingly show that you are not an ethno-religious bigot that you are, reinforced by your arrogant assertions in your futile defence.
I chose not to ignore you because of your false claim that Professor Kperogi is my hero. I have only three heroes namely Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohammed and Kwame Nkrumah. Your narrow-mindedness makes you to totalise or sum up my praises for Muslim Kperogi's and Sani's calls for equity or fairness in national decision making and appointments, as evidence that they are my heroes. Clap for yourself with one hand for "discovering" or "exposing" this.
I am not in this your sycophantic business of hero/idol worshipping for whatever reason (s). I have long been a third option man, openly supporting the Labour Party against the dominant twin parties (APC+PDP=APDP) which Nigerians have come to realise are birds of the same plum. However, although i have been constructively criticising all governments (military and civilian) in the country, i also praise them for any achievement they make. That is why in my observation, i mentioned that your god's government is making some positive strides which, however, you chose to ignore. You claimed Kperogi sees nothing good in others whereas you are worse.
I have read the manifestos of the PDP and your APC and affirm that that of the ruling party is more progressive (restructuring, etc) but implementation is another matter.
So, hold your peace Kadiri instead of insulting others who disagree with you because they may also have planeloads of insult for you if that's what you want

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[Julius Eto]

Salimonu Kadiri, I should have just ignored you, for all you have written in response to my observations on " SHEHU SANI ON THE NIGERIAN PRESIDENCY IN 2023," is afterthought, to unconvincingly show that you are not an ethno-religious bigot that you are, reinforced by your arrogant assertions in your futile defence.
I chose not to ignore you because of your false claim that Professor Kperogi is my hero. I have only three heroes namely Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohammed and Kwame Nkrumah. Your narrow-mindedness makes you to totalise or sum up my praises for Muslim Kperogi's and Sani's calls for equity or fairness in national decision making and appointments, as evidence that they are my heroes. Clap for yourself with one hand for "discovering" or "exposing" this.
I am not in this your sycophantic business of hero/idol worshipping for whatever reason (s). I have long been a third option man, openly supporting the Labour Party against the dominant twin parties (APC+PDP=APDP) which Nigerians have come to realise are birds of the same plum. However, although i have been constructively criticising all governments (military and civilian) in the country, i also praise them for any achievement they make. That is why in my observation, i mentioned that your god's government is making some positive strides which, however, you chose to ignore. You claimed Kperogi sees nothing good in others whereas you are worse.
I have read the manifestos of the PDP and your APC and affirm that that of the ruling party is more progressive (restructuring, etc) but implementation is another matter.
So, hold your peace Kadiri instead of insulting others who disagree with you because they may also have planeloads of insult for you if that's what you want

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Out of the last twenty years of democratic rule (29 May 1999 to 29 May 2019), Southerners had been president for 13 years, 7 months and 27 days (Obasanjo & Jonathan) while Northerners have ruled for six years, 7 months and 26 days(Yar'Adua & Buhari). During these periods educated Nigerians, mostly Southerners spoke and wrote fluent English at Nigeria's oil refineries only to become fuel importers and hustlers of fuel subsidy's payment receivers; at the National Electric transmission Commission, educated Nigerians blew their English grammars causing the nation to be enveloped in constant darkness. While chest-beating ourselves in pride for our achievements in oral and written English language, the Chinese who could only communicate with us in signed language, came to lay tracks of modern railways for us, and Julius Berger who is very proud of his German language is constructing roads, building bridges and houses all over the country. We think we are not educated because we can speak and write fluently in English language. Does anyone need to tell us that the education that cannot give us our desired developmental goal is useless?S. Kadiri

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[Salimonu Kadiri]

​Julius Eto, when I wrote that I am patriotic to Nigeria and her masses, I thought that you would not have any problem in discerning that should the Nigerian government do anything harmful against the citizens, I would take side with the masses in protests and resistance. However, I am really very sorry if you feel insulted for what I have written since in my mind I never intended to insult you or any other person on this forum. 

​I have explained, not only why rotational presidency is unconstitutional but how it has not been beneficial to the nation. The onus is on you to prove me wrong but you seemed to have ignored that responsibility of yours on this subject under discussion. While it is not surprising that you Julius, a Christian, has Jesus Christ as your idol, it is rather exiting to read from you that Mohammed is also one of your idols. Both Christianity and Islam originated from the Middle-East and your Christian name, Julius may be equivalent to the Muslim Jelilih. Although Nigeria is not a theocratic state, every ten metres of all Nigerian streets contain a church and a mosque, yet the behaviours of Nigerians, both inside and outside government, are diametrically opposed to Godliness. In fact, the Arabs who brought Islam to Africa did not only commit holocaust that turned the whole of North Africa into Arab land but also raided African countries to catch slaves, which they justified with reference to verses of Quran. On the Christian side, Pope Nicholas the Fifth in his Papal bull of 1450 cited Leviticus 25 and Exodus 21 in the Bible to justify the enslavement of Africans. In 1492 Rodrigo Borgis became Pope Alexander VI. His Papal bull of demarcation of 3 May 1493, issued under Spanish pressure and its revision by the Treaty of Tordesillas, 7 June 1494, arrived at through diplomatic rapprochement between Spain and Portugal, put all heathen peoples and their resources - especially Africans - at the disposal of Spain and Portugal. If those who introduced Islam and Christianity to us were devils Nigerians (Africans) who adopted the two religions are Lucifers. Of course, there are good things in the Bible and Quran which if practised can make this world a paradise for all its inhabitants. I will endeavour to give some examples.

​The Islamic and Christian scriptures preach that one should love his neighbours as oneself. If that is practised, human beings will not be divided into minority rich and majority poor people. It will just be to each according to his/her need and from each according to his/her ability. We human beings, and if we should limit it to Nigeria, are interdependent. On love the Bible says, "Love is patient and kind. Love envies no one, is never boastful, never conceited, never rude; love is never selfish, never quick to take offence. Love keeps no score of wrongs, takes no pleasure in the sins of others, but delights in the truth. There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, its endurance. There are three things that last for ever: faith, hope and love; and the greatest of the three is love (1 Corinthians 13: 4-7)." Contrary to the above predikant from the Bible, are we, Nigerians, not confronted by conceited, boastful and rude Christian politicians and intellectuals, even on this forum? On pride and boasting, the Quran teaches, "And swell not thy cheek (for pride) at men, nor walk in insolence through the earth, for God loveth not arrogant boaster (Quran Surah 31:18)." Are Nigerians not experiencing on daily basis from Muslim politicians and intellectuals, despite the injunction in the Quran, swollen headed pride and arrogant boastfulness, just as we find on this forum those who think they can punish any forum participant by filtering away from their email inbox the opinion, of any participant, they do not like or does not concur with theirs? It appears Nigeria has abundant of neurotic persons (proud idealists) who always feel angry when events do not affirm their idealized self image. In Proverbs 6, 16-19, the Bible tells Christians, "There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to Him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community." Quran Surah 40 : 28 tells Muslims, "Truly, Allah does not guide one who transgresses and lies." It is for this reason that Mohammed said in the Hadith thus, "Be honest because honesty leads to goodness, and goodness leads to Paradise. Beware of falsehood because it leads to immorality, and immorality leads to Hell." On the truth and falsehood the Muslims are exhorted in Quran Surah 2 : 42 thus, "Cover not Truth with Falsehood, nor conceal the Truth when you know (what it is);" and further in Surah 16 : 94, Muslims are urged thus, "Take not your oaths, to practice deception between yourselves." In Leviticus 19 :11 the Bibel tells Christians thus, "Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another;" and in Psalm 31 : 18 Christians are commanded thus, "let the lying lips be put to silence which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous." The Nigerian public servants who are, mostly, either Muslims or Christians are united in stealing public funds and not adhering to the commands in the Scriptures.

​I was confused to read that Osaguefo Kwame Nkrumah is your idol since he was neither a Muslim nor A Christian like you, but a socialist. If Kwame Nkrumah is your hero as he is to me, you ought to have read the greatest of all his books, Neo-Colonialism - The Last Stage of Imperialism and as such your views and mine on the unity of Nigeria should be same. In that book, Nkrumah wrote, "Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism. Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below her soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa's impoverishment." He continued, "Africa has more than 40 per cent of the world's potential water power, a greater share than any other continent. Yet less than five per cent of this volume has been utilised. Even taking into account the vast desert stretches of the Sahara, there is still in Africa more arable and pasture land than exits in either the United States of America or the Soviet Union. There is even more than in Asia. Our forest areas are twice as great as those of the United States. If Africa's multiple resources were used in her own development, they could place her among the modernised continents of the world. But her resources have been, and still are being used for the greater development of overseas interests." Thereafter, Nkrumah listed  basic materials extracted from African soil to feed British, French and German Industries, in 1957. Taking a lesson from what Osaguefo Kwame Nkrumah described in his book on Africa published in 1965, Nigeria is a crude oil exporter without functional oil refineries, whereas nearly all European countries who depend on crude oil import from Nigeria have functional crude oil refineries. Nigerians must now reason that it is not tribalists, a religionists, or a regionalists that are appointed/selected/elected/employed to manage the affairs of our country. Their constitutional duties are not to serve the interest of any tribe, region or religion, but the entire country. When Nigerian public officials fail to fulfil their constitutional obligations to Nigerians, it is not their tribe, region and religion that should be blamed, but the the public officials concerned whose names should be made known to Nigerians. Once Nigerians can reason as aforesaid, we will discover that rotational presidency and federal character appointments are frauds and subordinate to competence. Since you are a Christian, Julius, I think your Lord's Prayer should be : Our Father who is in Heaven; Hallowed be Thy Name. Let our Kingdom come; Let our will be done in Nigeria as Yours is done in Heaven. Give us this day our industrial, economic and financial power. And forgive not those who plunder our nation's treasury, but destroy them with thunder and lightning as you did to Annanias and Sapphira according to the Acts of Apostles Chapter 5 : 1-5, when they hid a basket of wheat from the church to avoid tax. And lead us not into dishonesty, but deliver us from rogue politicians, corrupt public officials, fake religionists, fake regionalists, fake tribalists and fake intellectuals. For ours is Nigeria; For ours are the political power, and the economic glory forever, Amen.

S. Kadiri       

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[Julius Eto]

Thanks Salimonu Kadiri for your explanation. It's cool with me.
But join pan-Africanists (since you claim to be one) to free this continent from dictators.
Don't be afraid to proffer constructive criticism, no matter the party or person in power (Muslim or Christian).
You just assumed I am a Christian because of my name. I read Islamic and Christian material but i belong to none of both religions.
I cherish my African names (Omokioja Kwame) than Julius. I was born in Ghana but returned with my parents when the reactionary Busia government drove out Nigerians.
Pan-Africanism, not Christianity or Islam, is my religion for it is the authentic ideology of black people worldwide, meant to unite them for rapid development and collective security.

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