Letter to President Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu

[Toyin Falola]

Letter to President Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu

by Mahfuz Mundadu

https://fctnewsgazette.com/?p=27465

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[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

All very beautiful.

But the writer is addressing a President who emerged from a party in which his predecessor established a terrorist movement as an unofficial but potent arm of state- the Fulani militia and their Miyetti Allah spokesmen, a culture that continues, in muted form, a culture the current President has always  been careful to be silent about.

You want him to acquire sophisticated weapons for protection against external forces, an imperative need,  but don't address the fact that  his commitment to removing the terrorists running part of his country is questionable.

The Christians of the Middle Belt, Southern Kaduna and Northern Muslim states might not agree there is no Christian genocide.

Yes, Muslims are also being decimated, but both the Boko Haram 2011 terrorist escalation on GEJ"s entering the Presidency  and the Fulani militia escalation on Buhari's becoming President began as attacks by Muslims  against non-Muslims that eventually mushroomed into broader terror, even as the ethnic cleansing in the Middle Belt by the same actors persists.

We need to demand the govt attend to this fact and all aspects of the terrorism crisis in Nigeria, including that in the South East.

Yes, the West can be most crooked. Having ensured a genocide in Palestine, the same person wants to lecture you on genocide.

But how clean are your hands?

Why is the river of blood shedding in your country by terrorists not being addressed?

Thanks 

Toyin

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[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Re - “ It is a dangerous fiction, designed not to save lives but to soften the moral ground for intervention” - 

Like Bobby Dylan, Mahfuz Mundadu is more or less saying

“I can smell something cooking

I can tell there's going to be a feast

You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace”

As if Venezuela is not more than enough on his presidential plate  - although as things are today, he could be on the lookout for a weaker prey; but I think that the tall talk about sending in the marines  is designed to soften  President Tinubu up, so that he  ( Trump) can wring some choice concessions out of him, because as far as fighting terrorism is concerned, with that $346 Million arms deal  with Trump, President Tinubu  is already half way there with that kind of massive military help in the shape of weapons delivery from Uncle Sam  

However, Mahfuz Mundanu telling President Tinubu “It is time, therefore, to pursue with urgency a formal defence pact with the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China.” is tantamount to throwing down the gauntlet and will only make the Donald see red; in fact it could well precipitate a covert invasion ( of an already divided Nigeria , a Nigeria divided along all the known faultlines ) to sweep away whoever at the helm of national affairs wants to enter a defence pact withTrump’s arch rivals. 

I wouldn’t put it past the wannabe next house negro president of Nigeria to creep or crawl all the way to the Massa in the White House to assure him “  I and we the people of Nigeria  are all for you boss, and will never enter into any kind of defence pact with your enemies….