By
Chinweizu
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Junaid Mohammed
2015: There’ll be bloodshed, if Jonathan runs, warns
Junaid Mohammed
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Our Reporter December 1, 2013
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‘Supporters
of SNC asking for civil war’—Junaid Mohammed
(Accessed December 6th, 2013)
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Here
is my three-point rejoinder to Junaid Mohammed and his threats:
1]
The issue isn’t whether or not President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GEJ, runs in
2015 (that is his personal affair and his constitutional right) or whether or
not there will be bloodshed if he does; the issue is whether there should be
any further elections under the fraudulent 1999 constitution.
That “constitution” is
a self-interested creation of Northern generals, for the parochial interest of
Shariyaland. Many genuine Nigerians hold
that any future elections must be under a new constitution created by a
transparent democratic process and approved by the people through a referendum.
That is what the two-decades-long Sovereign National Conference, SNC, campaign has been about, and it is what
will be decided through the ongoing National Dialogue/Conference process. In
any case, there is already bloodshed--Boko Haram bloodshed, bloodshed by
rampaging Fulani cattle herdsmen--all sponsored by the Caliphate big wigs on
whose behalf Junaid is speaking and making these threats.
2] But even more importantly: What is Junaid’s locus standi for
discussing Nigerian elections or any other Nigerian issue? After all, he is
just a fake Nigerian, a foreigner, an alien. As a citizen of a Shariya state,
he isn’t a Nigerian anymore. Ditto for Buhari and Yakassai and Lawal Kaita and those
chieftains of the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, who hail from Shariya states.
Juniad and his Caliphate gangsters should realize that their
home states, by adopting shariya as their constitution in 2000,
repudiated the 1999 Constitution and by that act committed de jure secession
from Nigeria. Accordingly, citizens of
these shariya states, a.k.a Shariyaland, have as little locus standi to discuss
Nigerian affairs or contest elections in Nigeria as do citizens of Mongolia or
Azerbaijan or Cyprus or the moon.
They should stop disturbing us with their opinions and threats.
They made themselves foreigners. And threats from them are tantamount to
threats from a foreign country--i.e. an act of aggression on Nigeria by
Shariyaland.
President Olusegun Obasanjo, OBJ, did Nigerians a great
disservice by not formally accepting their secession and openly declaring
Nigeria freed of them in 2000. But nothing stops GEJ from doing so today. It
should be made clear to them and the whole world that the Shariya states
(Shariyaland) have seceded from Nigeria and that their secession is
wholeheartedly accepted.
But if they insist on forcing themselves back into and upon Nigeria,
then that’s an act of aggression and should be repulsed by total war on
Shariyaland. In that case, Nigerians must fight a just war of self defence
against Shariyaland aggression.
Frankly, Junaid Mohammed, Muhammadu Buhari, Lawal Kaita, Tanko
Yakassai and their ACF gangsters have abused our hospitality for the past 14
years. Orkar excised them from Nigeria for just one day in 1990. They butchered
their way back! But then they voluntarily excised themselves in 2000.
But they
have been carrying on as if they were still genuine Nigerians. It is more than
time to tell them to shut up and go away and leave us Nigerians in peace to
give ourselves a constitution of our own making. They and their 1999
Constitution are no longer part of Nigeria.
All their National Assembly legislators are
illegitimate, so too their members in
any Nigerian institution or organization: Soldiers, ambassadors, state
governors, state legislators, Local Government councilors, judges, board
members, civil servants--from permanent secretaries down to janitors and
messengers; so too their members on the Advisory Committee on the National
Dialogue/Conference.
Shariyalanders in any of these positions are
illegitimate and should be dismissed. Their salaries and allocations should be
stopped immediately and they should be given 48 hours to pack up and leave
Nigerian territory and return to their homes in their country, Shariyaland. Abuse
of hospitality by aliens in a foreign state has its limits!
And all Nigerians still in Shariyaland should
immediately leave that foreign territory and return to their home states in
Nigeria.
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3]
On the SNC demand as asking for Civil War
It should be noted
from the foregoing that war between Shariyaland and Nigeria is not civil war, but
a war between two neighboring countries. And it began in 2005 when Shariyaland’s
emirs recruited Boko Haram to make war on Nigeria. That is to say Boko Haram is
Shariyaland’s war of aggression on Nigeria. In order to appreciate this fact, it
is helpful to ask: Is Boko Haram a sectarian insurgency or a war of reconquest?
The conventional view
of Boko Haram is that it is a sectarian insurgency. Another view, based on wider
historical evidence, is that it is not an insurgency but a war of reconquest
waged on Nigeria by a section of Nigeria, Shariyaland, that seceded and now
wants to reimpose itself on Nigeria.
I shall examine this
perspective and then explore its implications for how Nigeria might fight to
win this war.
In summary, this view is that a section of Nigeria, Arewa
(Sokoto Caliphate) that ruled Nigeria from 1960 to 1999, lost power in 1999,
and seceded in 2000, and became a separate country, Shariyaland, and began a
war to reconquer Nigeria, using Boko Haram as its military instrument starting
in 2005.
Part of Nigeria’s
difficulty in fighting this war is that Shariyaland has a pervasive fifth
column within the Nigerian government and political parties. This fifth column consists of Shariyaland citizens
who are holding positions in Nigerian government and political parties, all the
way from the Vice Presidency to party leaders in both the ruling PDP and the
opposition APC. It includes the governors and NASS legislators from
Shariyaland; it includes Shariyaland personnel in the security forces, in the
media, the economy, etc.
Can you imagine
Britain winning the war against Germany if it had in its cabinet, parliament,
armed forces, media, banks, civil service, and every institution of British
life, a huge fifth column of Germans loyal to Hitler and organized to assist
Hitler?
Or can you imagine Abraham
Lincoln winning the US civil war if his Vice President was a Confederate
politician, his cabinet included Confederate men, the Congress still included
Confederate legislators, and the Union Army was full of Confederate generals
and soldiers?
So, that is the
fundamental anomaly that Nigeria must speedily rectify if it is to respond
correctly to this war of aggression by Shariyaland. Nigerians must stop
confusing and deceiving themselves and come to a correct understanding of
what’s going on. And they must then make a conscious decision to wage a war of
resistance to this aggression from their Shariyaland neighbor.
Unless they do, they
will be conquered and recolonized by the Caliphate’s Shariyaland and enslaved. When
the situation is seen in this new light, the question now is this: Is President Jonathan ready to lead
Nigerians in an open and declared war of liberation from the Caliphate? A designated
war of resistance to this ongoing Shariyaland aggression?
Chinweizu
is a historian and Neo-Garvey Pan-Africanist. His books include The
West and the Rest of Us, (1975); and Decolonising the African
Mind (1987).
sundoor999@gmail.com
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