I
read with shock and disbelief the article with above title in Punch Newspaper
viewpoint of June 25, 2014 written by one Law Mefor out of Abuja.
Given
the accuracy and immediacy of the occurrence of every prediction made by
Governor Shettima, it is clearly obvious that the conclusions I made in my
article “What If No Girls Were Kidnapped At Chibok?” about the agenda of the
Northern political elite being the same as that of boko haram is simply the
truth.
Instead
of condemning only President Jonathan for failures, let us condemn and also
prosecute Governors of the North East for waging war against the Federal
Republic of Nigeria.
Contending
with a daredevil criminal and terrorist organization backed by a wealthy state
governor, how can the Nigerian military be expected to be effective? Even the United States military would be
nothing but a crate of eggs inside a rickety pickup van on a rough Vietnamese
road vis-à-vis the less motivated Nigerian army in the circumstances where some
state governments are the ones sabotaging their efforts.
I
have always felt that what we are facing in the North East is the beginning of
a Northern rebellion. President Jonathan
himself has said that the boko haram insurgency is worse than a civil war. I agree with him. What worries me is that an attempt by people
of South-East and South-South to secede 1967 as a result of the genocide
visited upon them by the Hausa-Fulani people of Northern Nigeria was visited by
an all-out war in which millions of the people of the two geopolitical zones of
the country were murdered without mercy by the Nigerian government and military.
Today,
we have in our hands a clear armed rebellion by the people and governments of
the Northern Nigeria and we are calling it insurgency and dealing with it with
kid gloves.
The
highly mouthed weakness of President Goodluck Jonathan is nothing but an
attempt to beguile and intimidate the President from using the state power
available to him to crush this rebellion which is an obvious attempt to
overthrow a democratically elected government of Nigeria, truncate our developing
democracy and enthrone evil, anarchy and religious bigotry against the Nigerian
state and citizenry. President Jonathan
is obliged to act against the forces of evil and anti-democracy with all the
power available in the constitution of Nigeria. It is better than one man
should perish than for a whole generation to dwindle in unbelief.
Goodluck
Jonathan need to appreciate that the desire in man to seek for political office
is the hand of God pushing a man whose destiny would achieve the greater good
for the society to take control of things.
He should stop feeling alone. He
should move forward to do what he must do – lead this country to the destinies
that God has ordained. His stepping out
should not be seen as his personal agenda.
It is a divine agenda.
All
well-meaning Nigerians should help President Jonathan make decisions that Divinity
has put his hands and mind to make for the progress of this country which can
only work if the witches are destroyed.
Even Europe had to destroy the witches before they received the vision
to colonize the rest of the world which saved them from dying of hunger and from
extinction.
If
you would like to have Francis O. Nmeribe speak at your event reach him through
fnmeribe@outlook.com
