Discriminatory appointments against non-Muslims in Nigeria - Coalition of Christian Groups exposes Buhari's Islamisation plot |
Islamist Jihadists of the
Hausa, Fulani and Kanuri Ethnic Nationalities, who are Negroid immigrants to
Nigeria, are pushing the nation to an implosion. It is therefore imperative
that the remaining 386 Ethnic Nationalities of Nigeria should, as a matter of
priority, convene a Conference to demonstrate to the few Islamist Jihadists of
the three Ethnic Nationalities the grave danger of Islamism as a system of
governance. Nigerians are reminded that the present distress in the
nation is not an act of God but man-made.
The brazen and audacious imposition of
Islamist Jihadists into key positions in the country is not an expression of
religious piety but a deliberate manipulation of religion for cultural and
political domination by three Ethnic Groups. This Agenda commenced in 1975
after the overthrow of General Gowon. The Islamist Jihadists are a violent and
domineering strain of Islam rejected by mainstream Muslims
We are reminded that after the Arab
Spring, Tunisia and Egypt elected Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood into
power. One year later, the two Arab Islamic Nations staged another revolution
and sacked them. If Arab Nations could not tolerate Islamist Jihadists’
domination, we wonder how Nigeria, a multi-cultural, multi-religious,
multi-lingual, and multi-ethnic nation would cope with the dire
consequences of flooding government with Islamist Jihadists. The signs are
ominous that the Islamist Jihadists, a minority in the three Ethnic Nationalities
of Arab ancestry, have contrived a malevolent agenda against the other 386
Negro Ethnic Nationalities that make up Nigeria. These Negro Ethnic
Nationalities and non-Islamist Jihadists must rise to contain the present
challenges especially the activities of the murderous Boko Haram and Fulani
Herdsmen that is now being strengthened with the discriminatory appointments
that weighs very much against non-Muslims in Nigeria. The distinction between
Negroes and Negroids is necessary to reject the assumption of superiority of
the Negroid of Arab descendants in Nigeria.
It is pertinent to explain that there is a
difference between Islam and Islamism. While Islam is a Religion, Islamism is
but a political ideology that holds that Islam is not only a religion but a
political system that must dominate wherever Islam is practiced in the world.
Islamism is the ideology driving the Taliban, Al Shabab, Al Qaeda, ISIS, Boko
Haram, Fulani Herdsmen and others. Islamism operates through religious
terrorists and stealthily through “Civilization Jihad” (deceit) both seek to
undermine democratic societies and convert them forcefully to Sharia States.
All attempts to draw the attention
of the Buhari Administration through previous Press Releases and Press
Conferences have, mischievously, been interpreted as politics. We are also
dismayed that the Christian Coalition Group as well as other arms of Christians
in Nigeria that have expressed concern about evolving issues in the Nation have
been described as members of a political party (the PDP). This is a very
disappointing response to very serious national issues. As Nigerians, we
have the right to comment on issues that are of great importance to the nation
especially when our elected representatives chose to be silent. While we were
worried about the lopsided appointments in the Security Services, we also
noticed, a few days ago, that the Education Sector has been privatized in the
hands of only the Fulanis and Islamist Jihadists. Virtually all strategic
federal educational offices/appointments, have gone to persons with Islamist
Jihadists tendencies as heads in the universities, polytechnics,
colleges of education, University Admissions Board (JAMB), Educational Funding
and Policy Departments, etc. Our concern is not about the job and appointments
but the fundamental Islamist Jihadists Agenda that is playing out in Nigeria.
What the list of students’ admission will look like in the nearest future in
our Nation with an Islamist Jihadist in charge of JAMB, we are constrained to
ponder.
During the 2015 Election a major
apprehension was the possibility of President Buhari dividing Nigeria along
religious lines. This apprehension has now been justified as the President has
officially completed the last phase of the Islamization exercise by instituting
a strong Islamic foundation throughout the Nigerian Education Sector.
Most functional Boards in the Civil Service are headed mostly by Muslims and
Fulanis which is becoming a threat and danger to the very foundation of Nigeria.
We, as Christians, pray that God will save us from the hands of the Islamist
Jihadists. We appeal to Mr. President not to set a record as the most
insensitive President ever in the history of Nigeria. Mr. President assured the
Nation during his inauguration, that he belongs to everybody: "I BELONG TO
EVERYBODY, I BELONG TO NOBODY" he said. Unfortunately, since coming into
office, President Buhari has consistently proved that he belongs only to
Muslims and the Fulanis. Mr. President has finally confirmed what he affirmed
in his BBC Hausa interview in 2003 when, according to Hope For Nigeria, he
stated that he would continue in the “quest to ensure that Islamic Sharia is
spread across Nigeria."
VIOLATION OF PRINCIPLE OF FEDERAL
CHARACTER IN FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS
Section 171 sub-Section 5 of the
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) stipulates
that the President in exercising his powers of appointment under this section
shall have regard to the Federal Character of Nigeria and the need to promote
National unity. A critical look at the list of appointments by this
administration shows utter disregard for issues that promote National unity and
a gross violation of the Constitution. We wonder how Mr. President can relate
the impunity of his administration to his mantra; fight against corruption. By
flagrantly violating Sections 171(5) and 10 of the Constitution, the President
has presented himself as corrupt.
Below are some of the very important
appointments made by “Federal Islamist Jihadist’s imperial Government” to
confirm our apprehension:
Chief Executives of Educational
institutions:
1] Head of Universities: NUC Prof.
Abubakar Adamu Rasheed Hausa/Fulani Muslim
2] Head of Polytechnics: Hausa/Fulani
Muslim
3] Head of Colleges of Education: Prof.
Bappah Aliyu Hausa/Fulani Muslim
4] Head of TETFUND: Dr. Abdulahi Baffa
Hausa/Fulani Muslim
5] Head of JAMB: Prof. Ishaq
Oloyede-Professor of Arabic studies–Muslim
6] Head of UBEC Dr. Hameed Bobboyi:
Hausa/Fulani Muslim
7] Head of NABTEB: Hausa/Fulani Muslim
8] Head of NTI: Prof. Garba Dahuwa Azare
Hausa/Fulani Muslim.
88% of the appointments are Northern
Muslim/Fulani Muslim. (Only one person is from South West, nevertheless, a
Muslim.)
This is in addition of handing over
the Security Units in the Nation to Muslims. President Buhari has masterfully
completed the configuration of the entire National Security
structure/architecture firmly in the hands of the Northern Hausa-Fulani Muslims
alone to the exclusion of all other ethnic groups in Nigeria. This is
definitely unfair, not just to Christians but to all non-Muslims in Nigeria.
The Security Units are configured
as follows:
1. Police IG ........... Northern Muslim
Hausa-Fulani
2.Chief of Army Staff ....... Northern
Muslim Hausa-Fulani
3. Minister for Defense ..... Northern
Muslim Hausa-Fulani
4. Minister for Internal Affairs ......
Northern Muslim Hausa-Fulani
5. National Security Adviser (NSA)
......... Northern Muslim Hausa-Fulani
6. DG, Department of State Services (DSS)
..... Northern Muslim Hausa-Fulani
7. Commandant General, Nigeria Security
and Civil Defense Corp (NSCDC) ..... Northern Muslim Hausa-Fulani
8. Chief of Staff ...... Northern Muslim
Hausa-Fulani
9. ADC to President ....... Northern
Muslim Hausa-Fulani
10. CSO to President ..... Northern Muslim
Hausa-Fulani
11. Principal Secretary ....... Northern
Muslim Hausa-Fulani
12. Private Secretary to President .......
Northern Muslim Hausa-Fulani
13. Protocol to President ..... Northern
Muslim Hausa-Fulani
14. DG Customs .......... Northern Muslim
Hausa-Fulani
15. DG, EFCC ....... Northern Muslim
Hausa-Fulani
16. DG, Nigeria Prisons ..... Northern
Muslim Hausa-Fulani
17. DG, Immigration ...... Northern Muslim
Hausa-Fulani
18. Chairman, INEC ...... Northern Muslim
Hausa-Fulani
19. Minister for Petroleum ...... Northern
Muslim Hausa-Fulani
20. Minister for FCT ........ Northern
Muslim Hausa-Fulani
21. President/Commander In Chief of the
Armed Forces ............. Northern Muslim Hausa-Fulani
Fellow Nigerians, added to the above
disturbing appointments are:
1. Head of National Assembly/Senate
President ...... Northern Muslim
2. Head of Judiciary/Chief Justice of
Nigeria ..... Northern Muslim Hausa-Fulani
3. Head, Federal Courts of Appeal ......
Northern Muslim Hausa-Fulani
4. All Registrars and Principal Officers
all Levels of the Federal Judiciary ..... Northern Muslim Hausa-Fulani
5. Clerk of the National Assembly ......
Northern Muslim.
Police Officers Announced as New AIGs:
1] Ibrahim Adamu, AIG, Zone 1
2] Abdulmajid Ali, AIG, Zone 2
3] Usman Tilli, AIG zone 3
4] Dorothy Gimba AIG, Investment Formation
5] Mohammed Mohammed, AIG Special
Protection Unit
6] Mohammed Katsina, AIG National
Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Jos. It is notable that State CPs
were also Promoted to AIG making it a total of 18 New AIGs.
Other appointments of President
Buhari are as follows:
1. DG DPR, Mordecai Ladan. North/West
2. Accountant-General Ahmed Idris;.
Nort/ West
3. Chief of Protocol, Lawal Kazaure Kano
North/West
4. Chairman INEC, Mahmoud Yakubu
North/East
5. Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari Borno
North/East
6. DG NIMASA, Buba Haruna Jauro Yobe
North/East
7. Head of Service, Winifred Ekanem
Oyo-Ita South/South
8. SSA Media, Shehu Garba Kano North/West
9. SA Media, Femi Adeshina Osun South/West
10. CG NSCDC, Abdulahi Mohammed North
Central
11. DG SSS, Lawal Daura Katsina North/West
12. NSA, Babagana Monguno Borno North/East
13. CDS, Abayomi Gabriel Ekiti South/West
14. Chief of Army Staff, T. Y. Buratai
Borno North/East
15. Chief of Air Staff, Marshal Sadique
Bauchi North/East
16. Chief of Naval Staff, Ibok-Ete Ekwe
Ibas Cross River South/South
17. DG Amnesty, Brig. P. T. Boroh
South/South
18. ADC, Mohammed Lawal Kano North/West
19. CSO, Abdulrahman Mani North/West
20. EVC NCC, Umaru Danbatta Kano
North/West
21. Chairman Transition Committee, Ahmed
Joda North/East
22. MD AMCON, Ahmed Lawan Kuru North/West
23. CG Customs, Col Hameed Ali North/West
24. Aliyu Yahaya Gusau DG Budget
North/West
25. EC FIRS, Dr Williams Babatunde Fowler
Lagos South/West
26. Babachir David Lawal SGF North/East
27. CG Customs, Col Hameed Ali North/West
28. CG Immigration, Kure Martin Abeshi
North Central
29. SSA NASS, Suleiman A. Kawu North
Central
30. SSA NASS, Ita S.J. Enang South/South
31. MD NPA, Habibu Abdulahi Kano
North/West
32. DG Budget, Aliyu Gusau Zamfara
North/West
33. EFCC, Madu Ibrahim North/West
34. DG NOTAP, Dan Azumi Mohammed
North/West
35. NIMC, Engr. Aliyu M Aziz North Central
36. NDIC, Umaru Ibrahim Kano North/West
37. Federal Character, Shettima Bukar Abba
North/East Borno
38. SA Social Protection, Maryam Uwais
Kaduna, North/West
39. Chairman NDLEA, Muhammad Abdallah
Adamawa, North/East
40. MD NDDC, Sam Ekere A/Ibom,
South/South
41. PA New Media, Bashir Ahmed Kano,
North/West
42. NEITI Waziri Adio, Osun South/West
42. DG SMEDAN Dr Dikko Umaru Raqqa.
Katsina North/West
43. DG NIMASA, Dakuku Peterside Rivers
South/South
44. OPEC, Sec Gen Mohammed Barkindo
North/West
45. DG NYSC, Kazaure North/West
46. SA Prosecution, Okoi Obono-obla Cross
River South/South
47. CG Prisons, Ahmed Jafaru Jigawa
North/West
48. CG Immigration, Mohammed Babandede
Jigawa North/West
Let us attempt a tally of the
last set numbered 1-48 only
North/West 25
North/East
9
North Central 4
South/West 4
South/ South 6
South/ East 0
This is the full list of the army officers
compulsorily retired by Muhammadu Buhari. They are 90% non-Muslims. It projects
that Ethnic and Regional cleansing continues:
Maj. Gen TC Ude (SE-)
Maj. Gen LC Ilo (SE)
Maj. Gen IN Ijeoma (SE)
Maj. Gen O Ejimai (SE)
Maj. Gen PAT Akem (SS)
Maj. Gen ED Atewe (SS)
Maj. Gen Letam Wiwa (younger brother of
murdered Environmental Rights activist and Author, Ken Saro-Wiwa) (SS)
Maj. Gen FO Alli (SS)
Maj. Gen Mobolaji Koleoso (SW)
Maj. Gen SD Aliyu (MB)
Maj. Gen MY Ibrahim
Brig. Gen GO Agachi (SE)
Brig. Gen Okonkwo (SE)
Brig. Gen Ogidi (SS)
Brig. Gen Koko Essien (SS)
Brig. Gen PE Ekpeyong (SS)
Brig. Gen Bright Fiboinumama (SS)
Brig. Gen. M. Onoyiveta (SS)
Brig. Gen IMD Lawson (SS)
Brig. Gen Oyefesobi (SW)
Brig. Gen AI Onibasa (SW)
Brig. Gen Bashir Mormo (SS)
Brig. Gen AH Sa’ad (SS)-Former ADC to late
President Musa Yar'adua
Brig. Gen MG Ali
Brig. Gen LN Bello
Brig. Gen D Abdusalam
Col. CK Ukoha (SE)
Col. OU Nwankwo (SE)
Col. Nicholas Achinze -Dasuki’s ADC (SE)
Col. Tonye F Minimah –Younger brother of
former Chief of Army Staff, LT. General Kenneth Minimah (SS)
Col. FD Kayode (SW)
Col. Ojogbane Adegbe –ADC to former
President Goodluck Jonathan (MB)
Col. Audu (MB)
Col. DR Hassan
Col. MA Suleiman
Lt. Col GC Nyekwu (SS)
Lt. Col C Enechukwu (SE)
Lt. Col CO Amadi (SE)
Lt. Col Adimoha (SS)
Lt. Col OC Egemode (SS)
Lt. Col TE Arigbe (SW)
Lt. Col TO Oladuntoye (SW)
Lt. Col Baba Ochankpa (MB)
Lt. Col DB Dazang (MB)
Lt. Col A Mohammed
Lt. Col AS Mohammed
With the above statistics, it is fair
to suggest that President Buhari is promoting division between Muslims and
other Nigerians.
We wonder, whether, Islamism has something
to do with the abolition, by President Buhari, of the single four-year tenure
for Permanent Secretaries and two-term of four years (eight years) tenure for
Directors in the Federal Civil Service in order to entrench Islamism and
neo-colonialism in Nigeria.
COLLABORATION AND ACQUIESCENCE OF
ELITES IN NIGERIA
There is need to define imperialism and
what it stands for, especially because the Fulani Jihadists after having been
conquered by the British imperialists were appointed junior partners in
imperialism and colonialism by way of Indirect Rule throughout Northern
Nigeria. This form of colonial policy was adopted with some modifications
to suit Southern Nigeria. Imperialism is a type of advocacy of Empire. Its name
originated from the Latin word "imperium", which means to rule over
territories. Imperialism is "a policy of extending a country's power and
influence tough colonization, use of military force, or other
means". Imperialism also includes a policy of extending a country's
power and influence through diplomacy or military force. Imperialism is
particularly focused on the control that one group, often a state power, has on
another group of people. This is often through various forms of racial,
religious, or cultural stereotypes. There are "formal" or
"informal" imperialisms. "Formal imperialism" is defined as
"physical control or full-fledged colonial rule". "Informal
imperialism" is less direct; however, it is still a powerful form of
dominance. Northern and Southern Nigeria ceased to exist as political
terminologies with the Creation of States in 1967 by General Gowon. There
cannot be a political North when there is no such South. Unfortunately,
the ghost of colonialism continues to haunt Nigeria with the Fulani as the
“ghost” and neo-colonialists of Arewa (North) with a perceived South. The South
as is employed is used merely to promote Arewa (North) as a political
terminology. After independence, the Fulani decided that they were
successors to the British imperialism in Nigeria, and, thereby have become the
neo-colonialists with military arsenal and man-power to continue where the
British left. This backward policy is not in accord with Democracy, the
21st Century Africa and the World.
COLLABORATORS
In the book titled Empire - the
British Imperial Experience from 1765 to the present, the author, Denis Judd
wrote: “faced with the onward march of British imperialism and European
civilization, local peoples had to make a choice between acceptance and
defiance, collaboration and resistance. It is small wonder that for the most
part, collaboration with the imperial authorities became the inevitable
consequence of imperial expansion and control. Without the collaboration - the
acquiescence – of local elites, tribal and religious groupings, the different
castes and sub-divisions of colonial society, the British would never have been
able to carry out their stupendous task of conquering, ruling, dominating and
controlling so large a proportion of the planet, without also the collaboration
and acquiescence of the educated elites.”
The same neo-imperialist can be said
of Fulani Empire in present day Nigeria. Nigerian Christians in 2015
substituted a substantive President with a Vice-President and with the
discriminatory appointments and action listed above, the question Nigerians are
asking is "where are the non-Islamists in partisan politics who, by their
conduct are members of the ruling party and opposition, - when the Islamist
Jihadists decided to take over the country. Have they been paid off so that
Nigeria can become a true Islamist Jihadist country?” If that is the case,
Christian elites in partisan politics have promoted the worst form of
neo-colonialism bordering on slavery where the “Christian” South provide the
funds for the Fulanis to extend the Sokoto Caliphate Empire and influence
through Islamic Jihad, Boko Haram and the stealth Jihad Taqiyya to the rest of
Nigeria.
History will be very harsh on
non-Muslim Nigerians especially the "Christian elites" if we do not
let President Buhari appreciate that Democracy not Islamism is the best form of
government invented by humans. Only democracy can save Nigeria from the paths
treaded by Pakistan, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Eretria, Burundi, Southern Sudan,
Central African Republic, Syria, Iran and Yemen etc. We therefore draw
the attention of all non-Muslims in government (past and present) from
Presidents, Heads of State, Vice-Presidents, Presidents and Deputy Presidents
of the Senate, Speakers of the House of Representatives, Governors, Members of
the Senate and House of Representative and State Assemblies, Church
leaders, Cardinals, Overseers, Archbishops, Bishops, Pastors and Priests to
realize that Christians constitute 50% of the population of Nigeria
and that it is only with their collaboration and acquiescence that the
Islamization of Nigeria can be accomplished. This appeal also goes to
professional groups like the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Nigeria Medical
Association (NMA), Nigerian Union of Journalist (NUJ), Nigerian Society of
Engineers (NSE), Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), Nigerian
Institute of Estate Surveyors and Valuers of Nigeria (NIESV), Institute of
Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Medical and Dental Consultants
Association of Nigeria (MDCAN), Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN),
Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Nigerian Institute of Marketing of
Nigeria (NIMN), Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Chartered
Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS), Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of
Nigeria (CIPM), Nigeria Institute of Architects (NIA), National Association of
Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM),
Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS), National Union of Petroleum &
Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), National Union of Textile & Garment Workers
of Nigeria (NUTGWN) and other professional associations trained in Western
democracies. Surely they do not want to leave the country once again as some
did during the 1975 purge of educated Nigerian. They must all speak out to save
their country Nigeria and its young Democracy. Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen are
not alternatives. We, Christians will be called to question in the world
beyond if we do nothing. We the elites will appear before God to
explain why we failed to utilize God’s gift to us especially our knowledge to
solve our country’s problems by working to stop the backward policies of
Islamist Jihadists. Christian elites who are vocal in condemning Christians in
authority cannot remain silent unless of course they have sold out to the
Islamist Jihadists in Nigeria.
We must conclude by pointing out that
imperialism rested on and indeed was sustained by “assumptions of
superiority”, where one white person or Negroid in the case of Nigeria was
thought to be worth literally any member of blacks”. In Nigeria, the Arab
descendants who partnered the British in Indirect Rule believe that they are
superior to Negro tribes that make up over 80% of the population. Nigerian
non-Muslims who acquired Western education over 70 years before the Arab
Negroids are being regarded “technically” as inferior to those with Arabic
education Boko Haram - Western education is “worthless”. Thus Western educated
collaborators are promoting unwittingly, the superiority of the Arab
descendants over the other 386 Nationalities that make up Nigeria with Islam as
superior to Christianity and other Religions. Not only are these
Jihadists’ assumptions false, wicked and devious, they are also backward,
retrogressive, undemocratic and against the rule of law.
Our answer is to show that while
arms and Taqiyya (deceit) win Jihads, it takes ideas to win the peace.
The options open to us non-Islamist Jihadists in Nigeria today are Dialogue,
Reconciliation and Restructure in that order.
God Bless Nigeria
Solomon Asemota, SAN
For and on behalf of
COALITION OF CHRISTIAN GROUPS
National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF); Nigerian Christian
Graduate Fellowship (NCGF); Think Tank For The Body Of Christ; Christian
Lawyers Fellowship of Nigeria (CLASFON); Association of Christian Schools in
Nigeria (ACSIN); Students Christian Movement (SCM); Christian Professionals
Forum (CPF); Ministers Prayer Network (MPN); International Christian Embassy
Jerusalem (ICEJ); Nigeria Evangelical Missions Association (NEMA);
International Prophetic Ministerial Association (IPMA) (Inc. Worldwide College
of Bishops & Ministers, Africa, UK & USA); Intercessors Without Walls
(IWW); Wailing Women International (WWI); Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship; Nigerian
Fellowship of Christian Students (NIFES); University Joint Campus Christian
Fellowship (UJCM); Nigerian Christian Corpers Fellowship (NCCF); Nigeria
Supreme Council For Ecclesiastical Affairs (NSCEA); African Association for
Ecclesiastical Affairs (AAEA), The Preacher (TP).
8th August, 2016
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