By Femi Fani-kayode
Mr.
Gwnfor Evans MP, the great Welsh politician, lawyer and author and the
leader of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, for no less than 36
years before he passed on in 2005, made the following historic and
profound observation many years ago.
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| *President Buhari and Gov El-Rufai of Kaduna |
He
said, “‘Britishness’ is a political synonym for ‘Englishness’ which
extends the English culture over the Scots, the Welsh and the Irish”.
As
a student of English and European history and one that was not only
trained and educated by the British from the age of 7 but that is also
highly conversant with their system and their ways, I can confirm that
Evans is absolutely right. His words are relevant to our situation in
Nigeria as well and, in many ways, has some application here.
I
say this because what the English managed to do to the Scottish, the
Irish and the Welsh, in the name and under the cover of establishing
‘Great Britain’, over a period of 500 years is what the Fulani is trying
to do to the rest of us here in a much shorter space of time and in a
more brazen, crude and aggressive manner.
To echo Evans’ words and place them in the Nigerian context, it is in the same way that “Nigerianess” is a political synonym for “Fulaniness”
which seeks to extend the Fulani culture, and I daresay Islamic
religious faith, over the Hausa, Igbo, the Yoruba, the Ijaw, the Tiv,
the Berom and everyone else. They have succeeded in doing that to the
Hausa and this is a tragedy of monumental proportions.
A
once proud people who had their own empire, their own culture and their
own ways were conquered, reduced to nothing and compelled to accept
Fulani traditional and political leadership and rulership by the force
of arms and this remains the case till today.
Consequently
Kano , a thriving, bubbling and wealthy commercial Hausa city which
once served as the capital of the ancient Habe Empire that had
flourished for hundreds of years before the Fulani got there was
compelled to bend its knee to a Fulani Emir. Very few Hausa people even
know their own noble history and they have become so bound up,
intrinsically linked and obsessed with the Fulani version and narrative
of historical events that one can say that they have been utterly and
completely Fulanised and have come to see themselves as, at best, second
class citizens and, at worst, slaves to the Fulani.
I repeat, this is tragic.
And
the rest of us must resist this course and not allow ourselves to be
Fulanised. We must remember who and what we are; we must never forget
where we are coming from; we must promote our respective cultures; we
must defend our faith; we must rever and honor our traditions and we
must keep our respective identities.
We
must also remember the words of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the erstwhile
leader of the Yoruba, when he wrote the following in his celebrated book
titled Paths To Nigerian Freedomin 1947. He wrote, “
Nigeria is not a nation but a mere geographical expression” and he went
on to say that “there is as much difference between a Fulani man and an
Igbo as there is between a Turk and a German”.
Can
anyone dispute the veracity of these assertions? Are they not as true
and as relevant today as they were in 1947 when Awolowo wrote them? The
attempt by the Fulani to rob us of our identities and conquer us by
guile and assimilation in the name of one Nigeria shall fail. They
shall not succeed in doing it by double-speak, deceit and subtefuge and
they shall not achieve it by the force of arms.
If
Nigeria is to continue to exist and if some insist on her remaining as
one nation then let her be restructured on regional lines so that every
single one of her numerous ethnic nationalities and regions can preserve
their identities, their religious faith and their culture and can
develop at their own pace. Failing that the only answer is for us to set
into motion a peaceful dissolution of the union and enter into a
non-acrimonious and mutually beneficial divorce.
That
is the answer to our problem and not just for us to replace Buhari in
2019 with someone that is better. The truth is whether we have a good
President or a disaster like Buhari the nationality question still has
to be answered and the fundamental issues of the nature of our union or
indeed whether we wish to continue to remain as one nation or not has to
be addressed. Gone are the days when others will sit in a room
somewhere and make those decisions for us. We have come of age and we
deserve to make our own choices.
Let
me share a little bit more with you about the perfidy of our former
colonial masters when it comes to Nigeria . Their atrocities are
obvious and too numerous to list here but permit me to share the less
obvious and something that many may not know. If you really want to know
the truth about why Nigeria remained one nation, who was behind it
and what the reasons were for their decision please read the following.
I
have done my research and I can confirm that everything that the writer
has written is factual and historically accurate. He wrote as follows:
“If you thought oil was discovered in Nigeria in 1959, you could pass
your high school economics with that information. It was actually
discovered 50 years earlier. Did you know that oil from the territory
was sold for almost 50 years before the approach of Independence in
1960 forced the disclosure of Oloibiri by Britain ?
Even
at that the quantities were concealed from the newly-Independent
Nigerian Governments until the counter coup of July, 1966, when the
north packed their baggage to head back north in the famous ARABA
putsch. The then British High Commissioner to Nigeria, of course on the
promptings and direction of his home government, zoomed in upon Gowon
halfway, and prevailed on him to reverse the decision of moving the
north out of Nigeria, at a time Gowon already hoisted the Arewa Flag in a
temporary Capital, Ilorin.
In
the hurry to announce this reversal, Gowon’s speech, which was
originally designed to take out the north, was poorly edited, leaving a
portion that should have been expunged and so distorting the concluding
part from the body of the speech.
That unexpunged portion is the celebrated Gowonian faux pas in which he in one breathe declared that “everything considered, the basis of Nigeria ’s unity is no more”, yet going ahead in the next breathe to proclaim that “to keep Nigeria one is a task that must be done”. It was in the heat of theARABA
(northern secession) move that the British whispered into the ears of
the fledgling Gowon government, the huge quantities of oil that eastern
Nigeria would have, if the North left, and so would become the poor
neighbour of the south and particularly the Eastern Region.
In
a series of dubious underhanded exchanges that followed rapidly, the
British practically took over the handling of the crises all the way to
when it became war in July 1967, from the poor school certificate-holder
soldier, Yakubu Gowon (Gowon went for tertiary education only after he
was overthrown in 1975 by his July 1966 comrade-in-crime, Murtala
Mohammed).
In
that dark period Gowon signed off the entire oil/gas reserves of
Eastern Nigeria to the British for 50 years, more or less, contracting
the war to Britain . The British which held those concessions via
Shell, had to parcel out substantial blocs of their holdings to the
other world powers and Permanent Members of the UN Security Council.
Thus the entry of Gulf Oil and Mobil (US) Elf ( France ), Agip ( Italy
).
Soviet Union had
oil at home and so didn’t need oil blocs. What Russia (USSR) got was an
open order to supply the hardware for the war, including MIG Jet
Fighters, Ilushyn Battle Tanks, AK 47 Riffles, all at double of the
prevailing market prices. This oil blocs bribe was the basis of the
cooperation of the then world powers with Britain and its stooge,
northern Nigeria , to kill 3.5 million easterners in a simple
self-determination dispute, which was substantially resolved in Aburi,
January 1967.
It
is clear from the foregoing that it was not God that put Nigeria
together but rather the greed and mercantile interests of the Western
powers led by the British. And as it was in 1966 so it was in 1914 when
Lord Lugard recommended the amalgamation of the northern and southern
protectorates and his soon-to-be wife, Flora Shaw, gave us the name of
Nigeria . Even then it was just about satisfying the mercantile and
pecuniary lusts of the British, or should I say the English, Empire.
Permit
me to conclude with a short word about Nigeria ’s reigning Fulani
Caliph and the one who regards himself as the rightful successor and
reincarnation of Sheik Uthman Dan Fodio and Sir Ahmadu Bello all rolled
into one. His name is President Muhammadu Buhari and he regards himself
as nothing less than the Muslim north’s and Caliphate’s third and final
Mahdi, even though he has no blue blood.
The Bible says “the wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exalted”.
(Psalm 12:8). To the wicked, who exalt the vile beast in the Villa, I
have the following to say. Buhari believes in conquest and oppression
and who has turned a blind eye whilst his subjects are butchered in
their thousands by Fulani terrorists. He has brought nothing but
carnage, division, destruction, death, poverty and evil to our nation.
On
several occasions he has directed his security agencies and Armed
Forces to kill thousands of his own citizens, whether they be Igbo
youths that are members of IPOB or Shiite Muslims, after which they are
buried in mass graves. Those that are not killed are thrown into prisons
or horrific detention cells all over the country where they are
tortured and left to rot without any form of due process and against
court orders to release them.
Getting
Buhari out of power is not just a sacred duty but it is also a
religious obligation and a righteous crusade. If we want Nigeria to
live, to remain united, to survive and to be restructured we must get
him out. He analogue ideas has nothing but outdated, archaic and
provincial solutions to complex modern challenges. He is out of touch
with reality, has obsession to strengthen and empower his Fulani kinsmen
and members of his Islamic faith above all others.
To
him the Fulani Muslims are supreme beings that were divinely ordained
and born to rule whilst everyone else, including Christians and
non-Fulani Muslims, are nothing but serfs, plebeians, useful idiots and
handy slaves.
He
says he wants to take us to the next level. I bury his ambitions by
voting him out in 2019. Enough innocent blood has been shed. The Bible
says “for the oppression of the poor and the sighing of the needy,
now will I arise. I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at
him”. (Psalm 12:5).
The
Lord of Hosts and the Ancient of Days shall not forsake us. He shall
honor His word and deliver us from these vile and evil men who seek to
shed our blood and destroy our nation.
In Part 2
of this contribution I will shed further light on the Fulanisation
agenda in Nigeria, the purpose and mission of the Fulani terrorists and
herdsmen, the real intention of those behind the idea of cattle ranches
and finally I will expose certain aspects of the history of the Fulani
that few Nigerians are aware of. I will also explain why it is that I
call a spade a spade and why I do not hold back anything or show any
form of restraint when writing about them, their atrocities or their
leaders.
*Fani-Kayode is Nigeria ’s former Aviation Minister
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