“e possible say your goat don born turkey abi,” local axiom
I have just finished a small project on the Central African Republic.The exercise took me to Banjui, and the gory site of near genocide reminds me of the carnage in Boko Haram terrorized zone of Nigeria which shown our leaders in the North are far away from the issues. Going round Potiskum, Damaturu, Maidugiri, Yola, etc, exposes the aloofness, the lack of grassroots influence of our emirs, village heads, district heads, dogaris, mallams, wards, and angwar champions.
Everybody is blaming Christopher, when Mustapha cannot closely engage the people they eat with, live with, and identify and either flush them out or discuss with them.So much energy has been dissipated in Jonathan save us and Jonathan it is your fault.So if Jonathan does not come to our aid, we will keep travelling to Washington DC and our daughters would continually be raped, sons killed, villages razed down, some Nigerian officers killed and the land lies desolate?
We have failed in healthcare, education, and agriculture, our mainstay no longer stays.Are we the only ones? Fulani herdsmen are in Benue; trouble, Taraba; wahala, Plateau; palaver, in far away Delta, Oyo, Kaduna. It is Fulani everywhere you go – true, imagined or fabricated. How have we tried in reducing poverty?Our leaders have been more concerned in our losing power in Abuja, how much the Niger Delta and militants get; we have in recent times become masters of the ‘rant’, how the oil even belongs to us, than the welfare of our people.
Bickering across party lines, decamping and boot camping; in United States matters of national security are bi-partisan and about the American people, flag and anthem, heritage and beliefs. But while there is blood on northern dance floors, our governors and senators are disc jockeying a song called blame-game.Tell me what is working in Maiduguri, or Yobe and now Adamawa. It is a conspiracy, the attackers wore army uniform, they came from Jos, they were Igbos, France wants to divide us, and the tales by moonlight is only as consistent as electricity in Nigeria.
So what is Dasuki, Gusau, IBB, Abdulsalami and all the military powerhouse of the past and present doing? Mustapha is blaming Christopher, and Christopher believes Mustapha has an agenda to wipe him out.We should leave them and their oil. JNI says Muslims have been cheated in the confab list, because everyone knows Muslims are more: CANreplies it’s an insult, we won’t participate in 2016 Census unless…
In the past we had a few factories in the North -many in Kano – now we are governed by an elite who treat home as a second choice university in the matriculation exam form. El-Rufai is fighting Jonathan, Ribadu is fighting Jonathan, Kwankwaso is fighting Jonathan, Atiku is boasting he is the highest employer of labour in Nigeria, yet we know the kind of talakawa that attend his American franchised ABTI University; the list is endless. Jibril Aminu is chopping with Jonathan, Gulak, Labaran, Sambo and many northern leaders are chopping with Jonathan.
The opposition will not allow Buhari to run, Jonathan will run but has not declared, how does that concern or change the fact that Sokoto is about the most peaceful state in Nigeria, but equally the poorest? The entire North, 19 states, cannot boast of a factory in any of them that employs 5,000 workers, yet we are China-ing/ USA-ing in the name of foreign investors.
It is an unconscious act now, because I dare say we are doing it on purpose, we have become so critical we have lost the argument. Every debate is centered on Jonathan and how he should be removed. We forget that Jona is part of a political elite that is one and same.Tell me a governor in the North, a federal lawmaker, politician whose son is suffering, they catch Lamido’s son with plenty money of the ordinary talakawa, we say it is
Jonathan; a governor makes his son adviser we say is it Jonathan, Sanusi says “he is a good man, but those around him…”
In the tiny Central African Republic of about 5million persons, some almost 1million are now refugees.Now we know it all boils down to lack of good governance, rogue leaders have exploited religion against a gullible and naïve populace.Fact is that years of typhoid of leadership put us the
Hausa/Fulani/Berom/Nupe/Afizere/Jukun/Idoma/Igala/Tarok and the other 100 plus groups where ‘illegal idiots’ lead us. Gowon, IBB had the opportunity; Abdulsalam and Abacha all could have made the North a little London and by extension Nigeria a loveable United Kingdom but they failed and indeed we failed. So will Jonathan be the miracle?Lest, I am accused as usual of being a paid writer, I leave us to answer. Will the goat possibly give birth to a turkey? Only time will tell.
