The Sabotage By The Caliphate North Against The Rest Of Nigeria -By J. Ezike

It was the Great Nelson Mandela who described “four methods of violence” stemmed from religious and political ideals of a people whose aspirations border on the core ethics of self-determination and/or on the practice of expansionism. In his autobiographical book: “The Long Walk to Freedom” he had argued that in every community of peoples distinguished by divergent value systems, conflicting interests, and a clash of cultural and technological mindset, Oppression and Survival are the two fundamental principles that are almost certain to make “virtue” out “violence.”

The oppressor believes in the righteousness of his own belief and attempts to establish himself as an Ironhand. He is not a democratic gentleman who finds logic in dialogue or keen on receiving a flock of civilized opinions which he considers as treasonable acts or careless display of insubordination. His own principle of force and violence are sacrosanct and placed above the doctrines of any Holy Book whether the Bible or the Koran. In his mental eye, he visualizes himself as god whose independent thoughts must be established through military aggression, expansionism, feudalism and colonialism.

The survivalist on the other hand believes in the resistance of an unfavorable condition foisted upon him by imposition. He can be placed in the same bracket as the oppressed except that he is not asleep to the events that affect him and his people. He is not a pacifist and therefore is unlikely to react with the unique character of one who is passive. He understands his condition and lacks the patience to tolerate the brutality, the injustice and the persecution he suffers. He is more psychologically awake and politically disposed.

Nelson Mandela who was a survivalist and was never a good slave of the apartheid South Africa had justified his survival backed up by strategy, rebellion and intellect. He was one of those who believed firmly in the ethics of self-determination, in the dissolution of the apartheid constitution and through the expression of his political thoughts demonstrated his readiness to reconcile with the oppressor through dialogue and through the typical attitude of a democratic gentleman.

But in the course of the struggle, his long walk to freedom, he underwent an epiphany – the clarity of his existence as the oppressed, as the survivalist who lacked the power to influence the nature of the struggle and by consequence was placed at the pure mercy of the oppressor. He had said in his autobiography: “A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle and the oppressed is left with no recourse than to use methods that mirrors those of the oppressor.”

Before I proceed, I encourage every freedom-fighter, every survivalist and every oppressed ethnic member of the South and Middlebelt of Nigeria to read Nelson Mandela’s “Long Walk to Freedom” by any means necessary. This is not an advertorial for the book but a strong recommendation of an African History of institutionalized regional oppression that appears to be replayed, restaged and reenacted in the Nigerian political system.

I could not help wondering that the four methods of violence: “Sabotage, Guerilla Warfare, Terrorism and Open Revolution” as mentioned in the book resonates with the core strategic plans of the Caliphate North of Nigeria. We have seen the Islamization agenda of the North prefaced with the fulanization of all principal offices within the arms of government. We have seen how the Ruga initiative kept pace with the high-level, forceful settlement of Fulani Herdsmen in the Middlebelt and the South. We have seen the importation of millions of Fulani militias from neighboring countries bordering Northern Nigeria and the closure of Southern Nigerian border. We have seen the mounting death tolls of Christians and the violent attacks of Southern civilians to assure the collective fear of the people and the castration of their political and religious leaders. We have seen the hateful reception by Miyetti Allah (MACBAN) towards the self-policing initiative of the West known as Amotekun which constitutes the survivalist’s only source of self-preservation and the aftermath result that gave birth to the two successive bomb blasts in Abule Ado of Lagos and in Iluabo of Ondo and the sudden change of name by the culprits who sell violence under the trade name MACBAN but now rebranded as KACRAN.

These few points sum up the agenda of the Fulani oppressor who believes in the righteousness of his Ironhand against the democratic vision of the Southern and the Middlebelt survivalist.

More than anything else, the sabotage of the Southern and the Middlebelt business and residential infrastructure, farmlands, agricultural consumables and other forms of economic livelihoods essential towards their daily survival, through deliberate destruction via bomb explosion and fire outbreaks is a powerful illustration of what the Caliphate North of Nigeria represents in that god-forsaken union that begs unity for the continuity of its expansionist ideals and hegemonic aspirations!

Guerilla Warfare has been established through the Fulani militias who stand by the convictions of the Caliphate North and are tasked as herders heavily armed to do justice to the daydream of Ahmadu Bello. Terrorism on the other hand has been the long term initiative of Boko Haram that operates within the same department of violence and sponsored by MACBAN or KACRAN who were brought into display by the Caliphate North to bring into fore the “Open Revolution” that supports the total extinction of everything and anything Non-Muslim, Non-Fulani.

It turns out that all methods of violence as recognized by Nelson Mandela have been adopted by the Caliphate North of Nigeria, undoubtedly the oppressors in that apartheid union. This reality supports the theory of the survivalists who believe that Northern Nigeria is more strategic than the South and the Middlebelt. And that in its attempt to establish its expansionist dream, a silent war of subjugation and oppression has been impressed upon the South and the Middlebelt of Nigeria for many decades.

Now, the only question begging for answer is whether the survivalists of the South and the Middlebelt, in the course of the long walk to freedom, the struggle for self-determination, would mirror the method of the Fulani oppressors of the North who have continued to defy every chance of dialogue, of renegotiation, in order to assure their collective survival as a people, as a race.

Only time will tell…