Our mutual sincerity encourages me to utter the
following pleas and words of advice. Certainly you
are aware that many Nigerians are concerned and
even fearful about the persistent claims by some of
the Hausa-Fulani political leadership that their Hausa-
Fulani nation must dominate Nigeria as a sort of
colonial overlord. You know as much as anybody that
that thorny fact has been one of the factors in the
making of our country’s disunity, conflicts, and
instability. Usually, people do not accuse you
personally of sharing in that mentality; but since you
are Hausa-Fulani, and since some of your people
perpetually noise that claim and make efforts to
achieve it, it is a large though mostly unspoken factor
in the coming presidential election. It would be a pity
if this should cause serious problems for such a
good candidate as you at this time.
Therefore, I urge you: use your best capabilities to
put an end to this terrible tradition – in the interest of
our country. Realistically, no single one of our
nationalities can dominate all the rest of us. It is
impossible. How can one nationality, even if it is
larger than all the rest of us put together, dominate
all the rest of us in any full or lasting sense? And we
do not have any numerically dominant nation like
that. Our three largest nationalities (Hausa-Fulani,
Yoruba and Igbo) are very close in population size,
and each of them is a minority in Nigeria. How can
the Hausa-Fulani succeed in subduing and
dominating the large and capable Yoruba or Igbo –
not to talk of all the nationalities of Nigeria? Talking
about domination and trying to achieve it has only
bred hostility, crookedness, and instability in our
country. It is time we remove that obstacle from the
path to our country’s stability, progress and
prosperity – and you can lead us to do it. Please
sincerely strive to do so. Let it be one of your
immortal gifts to our country. Nigeria is a country in
which we all can prosper – and together build a
world power.
That leads me to another but related subject. The
reason most of the Hausa-Fulani elite are forever
angling for a bigger, more powerful, and more
resource-controlling Federal Government, is that they
believe that, by having that kind of FG and ensuring
their own control of it, they will be able to subdue
and dominate all of Nigeria. But it is a nebulous and
disruptive venture. Yes, they have contributed much
in pulling power and resources into the hands of the
FG, but has their homeland or anybody else gained
anything from that? The most important result of
massing power in the FG is that the FG has become a
podgy, ponderous, incompetent and repulsively
corrupt monstrosity, a constant manipulator of
elections and other vital processes across our land, a
destroyer of development and progress in our
country, and a disgrace to our country in the wide
world. You acknowledge almost as much as this in
your manifesto. As matters have developed under
Jonathan (and even under Obasanjo before him),
whoever controls the FG tends to use it as a personal
estate, to be used for his own aggrandizement and
the disproportionate benefit of his own nationality
(or his favoured nationality). Recently, the elder
statesman, Alhaji Maitama Sule, lamented that the
people of the Arewa North are suffering serious
discrimination today in Nigeria, and leaders of the
Arewa Youth went out protesting about the same
thing – and Yoruba people are crying out about the
same too. Is it not absurd that we have created a
system that makes it possible for such major
segments of Nigeria as Arewa North and the Yoruba
Southwest to be marginalized and discriminated
against by anybody controlling the FG? How can our
self-respecting nationalities love to continue to
belong to a country that is disrespectful and
mismanaged like that?
The FG’s obstruction to development is hurting all
parts of our country. For instance, our Northern
Region saw a great deal of development and
progress under the Regional leadership of the late Sir
Ahmadu Belo. Since all the power and resources for
development have been gradually pulled together at
the federal center, has the North not steadily
declined in economic progress? Is the same not true
of the East and the West? Obviously, the answer is to
take away much of the ponderous powers of the FG,
reenergize the different parts of our country, and
thus bring development close to our people again.
Empower the elite of our various parts to handle the
development of their people, and our country will
pick up again. Moreover, leave each part to elect the
local men and women who will handle their affairs,
and stop the destructive assumption that those who
control the FG have the prerogative to choose rulers
for all parts of Nigeria. Flush corruption out of our
elections. These are things you are capable of leading
us to accomplish. If you sincerely promote them,
most of us will ardently support you.
Then, because I am sure and happy that you will fight
and kill corruption, I wish to offer some counsel
concerning your fighting corruption. Our country’s
experiences show that prosecuting and punishing
those who have been corrupt is a problematic
approach, potentially capable of generating division
and even conflict. This is because, in a country in
which ALL public servants (politicians, civil servants,
judges, and all) have descended into the culture of
corruption, punishing some people tends to
degenerate into a process of selective justice. Groups
that feel that their own leaders are being punished
selectively cannot be blamed if they feel bitter. For
instance, even though I hate public corruption as a
destructive evil and fought it passionately throughout
my time of service to Nigeria, it displeases me to
remember that, among today’s generally corrupt
Nigerian leadership, prominent kinsmen of mine (like
Bode George who was sent to prison, and Bola
Tinubu against whom the FG started a vindictive case
some time ago) were selected for punishment. If
punishment is one of the weapons you decide to
employ against corruption, please make sure that the
process is transparent and even-handed. In trying to
kill the worms in the baby’s tommy, let’s take care not
to harm or kill the baby himself.
In addition to whatever weapons you are thinking of
using, let me suggest one that I have seen some
countries use to good effect. Let us make a federal
law demanding that all former and current Nigerian
public officials who have money in any form or shape
in foreign countries should bring it back to Nigeria
within a specified time and invest it in Nigeria. They
can do it without any questions asked, and the
consequent investment will be theirs. The big gain for
our country will be that the money becomes active in
building our economy (generating businesses and
economic activities and providing employment)
instead of building the economies of the countries
where it was formerly hidden. Those who do not
comply within the specified time will be subject to
criminal prosecution and punishment. (Tracing and
following money stolen and hidden abroad by public
officials of any country is now quite easy.
Sophisticated international agencies do it, actively
supported by the governments of many powerful
countries). Some young friends of mine tell me that
one practice among our corrupt leaders these days is
to bury large tomes of their stolen public money in
the ground! I don’t know how you will force such
people to exhume and declare such money, but you
must come up with a way.
Finally, my brother, remember what I said in my first
letter about restructuring our federation properly.
Fortunately, your manifesto says much the same.
Also, remember what I said about investing heavily in
our people – to create skilled and reliable workers,
entrepreneurs, small modern businesses and
inventors, attraction of foreign investors and
businesses, high quality exports, and modern
farmers. Your candidacy is generating much hope
among our people. Again, I wish you luck; and I wish
Nigeria luck.

Ok.

People being molested or under repression make one of two choices. Some fight to change their situation while others accept their situation as the norm and love it. That the oppressed accept their situation does not make it right.

So akintoye can write as many letters as he likes, but repression is repression.

Just as there will be Muslim Northern women who will protest if we are to abolish child marriage. It does not make it right the fact that there are ignorant women who will support child marriage.

This guy is hallucinating. Who told him that the hausa-fulani man will smell the seat at aso rock. Gej till buhari ahòn

So u rather vote in someone who say stealing is not corruption and giving criminal presidential pardon than someone that will prosecute corruption and corruptor.


No wonder Nigeria is declining.
When we d youth are not fighting against d politician that steal our money but fighting against someone that will bring about at least 3% tolerance to corruption.


I wount call you a taniod or Satanist but you know who you are.


Buhari for President jare

Buhari can not implement the following


Resource control

Fiscal federalism

Privatization

Political federalism

Decentralization of Nigeria

Restructuring of Nigeria

Institutions submitting their quarterly activities to public scrutiny


Which are the fastest route to economic diversification , citizenry prosperity and political greatness

WhiteTechnology:
Buhari can not implement the following


Resource control

Fiscal federalism

Privatization

Political federalism

Decentralization of Nigeria

Restructuring of Nigeria

Institutions submitting their quarterly activities to public scrutiny


Which are the fastest route to economic diversification , citizenry prosperity and political greatness

So who can implement them?