Removing Emefiele As CBN Governor, Buhari, Cabal’s Last Play In Northernisation Policy via politicsngr
With about four months to the end of his constitutionally allowed two-term tenure as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari and his close associates in the presidential villa, from indications, appear ready to force Godwin Emefiele out of office in order to create the path for the appointment of a northerner into that office in a move that completes this administration’s northernisation policy and ensures that northerners control the strategic Central Bank for...
If you happen to be a guest of Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state at any of the swank restaurants in Makurdi where pounded yam tops the menu, then you can be sure of a hearty meal with the two-term governor of a state with the very apt motto “Food Basket of the Nation.” When the hapless and defenseless farmers resist them, the herdsmen whip out their AK-47s, point them at the meddlesome farmers and then cut them down to size. Such acts of premeditated and casual killings occur every now and then thus making them commonplace in modern Nigerian history.
Reported by a journalist Don Silas after Ortom appeared on television the day before to condemn the killing of farmers in Edumoga, Okpokwu local government area by gunmen believed to be herdsmen, annihilating 24 more people asleep in their homes in another community, and eight others in Mbadwem, Guma local council and 16 in Tiortyu in Tarka local council along Makurdi – Gboko road, the governor stated inter alia: “It is not just about a certain local government area.
In a seminal essay written by Professor Bola Akinteriwa published in THISDAY a year ago headlined “Buhari’s Fulanisation Scheme: Manifestations and Foreign Policy Dimensions,” the professor of International Relations and former DG of Nigeria Institute of International Affairs faulted PMB’s implicit endorsement of the Fulanisation process.
“Why is the Federal Government being silent about these Fulani herdsmen? When will the Federal Government come out and criticise and arrest herdsmen carrying AK-47? When are they going to do that? Are we second-class citizens in this country? Why the Fulani man superior to a Tiv man? I am not their slave, a Benue man is not a slave to any Fulani man in this country.
“You are the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, you are not the President of Fulani. You are the President of everybody and I owe you a duty as a stakeholder in this nation to let you know that what is going on is wrong and this has the potential of dividing this country which will not be in the interest of anyone – some of us believe in the unity of this country.”
“A new civil war is not always limited to the domestic level,” Akinteriwa contends,” but generally also extended to the external level. Put differently, the battle fields can be geo-politically located within Nigeria, but mercenaries can come from outside. Aiding and abetting, especially in terms of funding, supply of arms and propaganda, can have international character. This is why every war always has a foreign policy dimension.
Hon. Asake also recalled the situation in his community and some other communities in Southern Kaduna. He said: “Youths and vigilantes are being killed and when they respond by taking up machetes, sticks, bows and arrows to defend their communities against these killer Fulani herdsmen, they are oftentimes arrested and thrown into detention.”
Continuing, Shehu cited an instance in June 2020 when some Southern leaders took their case against the president to court before the Abuja Division of a Federal High Court. What was their grievance? “A regional analysis of the heads of security agencies conducted by The ICIR, including paramilitary and anti-graft agencies based on their state of origin shows that 12 out of 16 of them are from the northern part of the country,” Shehu observed, “while just four are from the southern part of the country.”
“We have not run an inclusive government in the last two-and-a-half-years or so and that is evident,” Odumakin had said then. “And when you look at Nigeria, when they hold a meeting of the Security Council today, apart from one or two nominal people, the whole people there are all from one section of the country. If you look at other appointees, every agency that bears arms is headed by people from one section of the country. This is why Nigeria is so fragile at the moment.
To one of PMB’s staunchest critics, Farooq Kperogi, the president’s appointments smacks of “Arewaization.”
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