Professor Ben Nwabueze Chairman, the Patriots; Project Nigeria Movement; and Igbo Leaders of Thought has said that President Muhammadu Buhari owes it to the Nigerian people to admit that the divisions tearing the country apart are caused by his actions and utterances.

Prof Ben Nwabueze and President Buhari Professor Nwabueze in Press statement said: ‘In an Interview with the Vanguard dated Monday, October 16 2017, Chief Emeka Anyaoku said: “Since the 1967 Civil War, I do not think this country has ever been as divided as it is now.” ‘This statement, coming from a man known for his unstinted objectivity on matters of public affairs, represents the undeniable truth about the situation facing our country today.

There are separatist agitations for the Republic of Biafra, Niger Delta Republic and Oduduwa Republic. There is the Notice issued by the Arewa Youths Coalition to Ndigbo to leave the North by 1st October 2017. There is the menace of Fulani herdsmen rampaging the whole country, killing and maiming innocent people and destroying their farms and properties. These divisive events are pushing Nigeria to the brink of disintegration. ‘To these must be added the divisive turn or course the issue of Re-structuring is taking. Instead of a principled approach based on its merits and demerits as it affects the whole country as one entity, Re-structuring has divided the country into North and South, according to how it is perceived to affect the interests of the North, or, as it is put in a report in the Vanguard of 15 October, 2017, in order to “ensure that the North is not shortchanged” by Re-structuring.

The interest of the North in the matter is defined to be to keep it (i.e. the North) “united” within a united Nigeria. The interest of the North, said Governor El Rufai of Kaduna State, is not Re-structuring, but to “address the dual challenge of poverty and deficiency in education in the region”. In his own contribution, even former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar said : “The North has nothing to fear [from Re-structuring] because we have the land, we have the population and we have the resources. The North has nothing to fear because oil will soon become history.” It is indeed lamentable that a matter touching on the vital interests of the whole country as one entity is being viewed and treated as a matter in which the interest of the North predominates and overrides everything else. But the critical question, which disquietens me deeply, is as to why the division along the lines mentioned above is occurring just at this time, during the 2½ years rule of President Buhari, and why they had not occurred at any other time during the 46 years since the end of the civil war in January 1970.

This is a question the Presidency appears never to ask itself, as it should. It (i.e. the Presidency), busies itself instead in self-justification and self-praise and in issuing stern rebukes and threats of repressive action against those who threaten the unity of the country. The President constantly regales us with the hackneyed talk about the unity of the country not being negotiable, forgetting that the unity of the country is yet to be created by the coalescing of the over 300 ethnic nationalities comprised in Nigeria into one united nation. The game of self-justification and self-praise in which the Presidency constantly engages itself precludes self-examination, without which there can be no self-correction.

President Buhari owes it to the Nigerian people to admit that the divisions tearing the country apart are caused by his actions and utterances; he should now begin the process of self-correction which involves the making of amends for his misguided past actions and utterances. His actions and utterances under reference manifest a pre-determined Islamisation/Northernisation Agenda with the war against corruption serving as a cover. The existence of such Agenda is not something conjured up just to discredit him; on the contrary, it is an irrefutable fact. His commitment to the Islamisation Agenda was heralded in a speech at a seminar organised by the Supreme Council of Sharia in Nigeria in August 2001 where he (Gen Buhari) publicly declared that he was committed to implementing Sharia law all over the country. The Islamisation Agenda was a significant factor in the APC presidential primary for the 2015 election.

The voters at the said primary, the majority of whom were moslems from the North, wanted a presidential candidate whom they could confidently rely upon to implement the Sharia agenda, and so voted overwhelmingly for Buhari as the man to be relied upon for the job, giving him 3,430 votes, as against 954 votes for Atiku Abubakar, also a Moslem but not a diehard Islamist like Buhari.

His position as a fervent apostle of the Islamisation/Northernisation agenda was re-affirmed in a speech he, as President-elect, delivered before an audience of exclusively prominent Northern Moslem leaders on 2 May, 2015 at Queen Amina Hall, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. “I charge you”, he said with the ardour of a zealot, “to join me as we build a new Northern Nigeria in a generation ………the best investment we can make in the North is not finding oil in the Chad Basin……..we will start with one local government in each state until we get to every school in all of Northern Nigeria……. To achieve this, I have secured a Northern rehabilitation fund……..to rebuild the North after the devastation of Boko Haram insurgency…… Join me my brothers and sisters and let us finish the work our forefather, Ahmadu Bello, started.” This was coming from a President-elect who, in his Inaugural Speech, designed to charm and beguile his listeners, said : “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody”?

His actions under reference consisted in the main of appointments to strategic positions he made since assuming office as President on 29 May, 2015. Of the altogether 31 such appointments, 24 (or nearly 80%) go to Moslems from the North, 7 to the South, distributed 4 to the South-West, 3 to the South-South and nil to the South-East. To underscore the strategic nature of the 24 appointments, they include Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), National Security Adviser, Chief of Staff to the President, Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Chairman, Independent Electoral Commission, Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Inspector-General of Nigeria Police Force, Director, Department of State Security (DSS) and most of the top offices in that Department; Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC); nearly all the Service Chiefs – the South-East was again excluded from the appointment of the Service Chiefs.

The Northernisation Agenda is further carried into action in the recent appointments to 15 top offices in the NNPC, distributed 10 to the North, three to the South West, two to the South-South, and Nil again to the South-East. The Islamisation/Northernisation Agenda, as it is faithfully being implemented by the Buhari Federal Government, shows that Government to be a government for one section of the country, the North, to be precise. It is not the all-inclusive government that Nigerians desire. These appointments, the concentration of 80 per cent of them in the North and the total exclusion of the South-East from them, is an affront to justice, social justice and equality in the administration of government.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/divisions-tearing-nigeria-apart-caused-buhari-nwabueze/

This is just the first half




2nd half still dey till 2023




When Buhari/APC is done with Nigeria, Nigeria will be divided the way Moses divided the red sea




Una never see anything sef

His infamous 97% And 5% statement comes into mind.

Nwabueze is a sick tribal gingoist that should not be listened to. May he rest in peace when he does die if he is yet to die.

Nwabueze (the prof) has spoken well.

If he is wrong, then those with clearer facts should counter him

Shawnnn01:
Nwabueze is a sick tribal gingoist that should not be listened to. May he rest in peace when he does if he is yet to die.

Did you read the story? If Nwabueze is a tribal jingoist, what would you say of Islamic religious fundamentalist northern ruler, called Buhari? A deep-seated sectional despot...

Deep within him, buhari knows he has nothing to offer.

Turning logic on its head.
GEJ/PDP were the first to bring tribal politics to Nigeria. They started by terming APC a northern party because most of the care taker members were either northerners or muslims. Who will forget that Sambo went to the North and said APC was party for Christians because a pastor was the VP candidate, while GEJ was in Enugu to call APC a party for Northerners. Mama peace took it to a whole new height by calling the northerners as people who "born throway".

APC needed to get as much votes from a nation that had been ruled by PDP for a long time, it would not make sense therefore to try to alienate any part of the country when you are begging for votes, only a party who had begun to take people for granted could have done that.

Cooly100:


Did you read the story? If Nwabueze is a tribal jingoist, what would you say of Islamic religious fundamentalist northern ruler, called Buhari? A deep-seated sectional despot...

There is no difference btw the emboldened. They are both side of the same coin. Simply because the Igbo glorify their bigot and slander other tribe's bigots does not makes yours beta. Ojukwu who went to war is one of the biggest bigot I have known in history yet the Hausa do not slander him. The same goes for the Igbo lunatic that orchestrated the first Nigeria coup. If the Northerns are as devilish as some of you Igbos they would have released tones of gibberish like you just did on Buhari to prove how the likes of Azikwe who imposed Igbo as the first VC of UI while there are beta qualified Yorubas. In fact many of you Igbos make me sick when you make senselessly outrageous claim of Buhari being a bigot but never see the bigotry in the likes of Ojukwu Azikwe, Ezeife, Abaribe & many others.

hucienda:
The country has never been so divided since 1970 as we've seen these past 2-1/2 years. It's terrible. The next president has a lot of healing, reconciliation and bonding among the people across lines. S/he has a lot of work to do thanks to Buhari.

There's no need for any healing because nobody get injury. Igbo for all we care can keep hurting on the sideline or come on the mainstream. They have both APC & PDP as options.

Shawnnn01:
There is no difference btw the emboldened. They are both side of the same coin. Simply because the Igbo glorify their bigot and slander other tribe's bigots does not makes yours beta. Ojukwu who went to war is one of the biggest bigot I have known in history yet the Hausa do not slander him. The same goes for the Igbo lunatic that orchestrated the first Nigeria coup. If the Northerns are as devilish as some of you Igbos they would have released tones of gibberish like you just did on Buhari to prove how the likes of Azikwe who imposed Igbo as the first VC of UI while there are beta qualifies Yorubas. In fact many of you Igbos make me sick when you make senselessly outrageous claim of Buhari being a bigot but never see the bigotry in the likes of Ojukwu Azikwe, Ezeife, Abaribe & many others.

To end you misery and rabid sickness would have been for you to support that every people should go their way and continue their bigotry as they deem fit...Everyone agrees that the union isn't working...but you won't as you continue to leech on others...

Cooly100:


To end you misery and rabid sickness would have been for you to support that every people should go their way and continue their bigotry as they deem fit...Everyone agrees that the union isn't working...but you won't as you continue to leech on others...

The senselessness of Igbo at work again. The Northerners never wanted any part of this union. Did your father/teacher not lecture you on that aspect of history ? The demented Azikwe wasted almost 3 yrs to beg, lobby and plead for them to be part of the union you called Nigeria.

Here you are with your mindless stupidity wanting out of the union you forced everyone into. You not only did that but I repeat the lunatic Azikwe ensured there is no way out for you by not allowing the succession clause but like the average clueless Igbo without functional brain you have me or Buhari to blame for that.

Sir, the foolishness of some of you Igbos is like ZeeWorld "extraordinary everyday". One more thing, have you seen the movie "the lion king" ? Did you watch the part the monkey herbalist told Sinbad to look closer to see his later father ? Boy ! Look closer, you'd see Igbos are bigger leech in this union than the Yorubas. Like the monkey said you just have to look closer.

Ipod** vs Afonj.a Thread. Let the war begin.

@Shawnnn01 reading from ur last reply, u must really be demented..u said that zik lobby, begged for nigerian unity for three years but suddenly u then turn around to say that zik forced unity on igbos.or does it mean that u are not knowledgeable enough to understand the meaning btw beggin and forcing?? if u know, then ur nothing but a propagandist.. hypocrisy will kill u one day.

9jatriot:
Turning logic on its head.
GEJ/PDP were the first to bring tribal politics to Nigeria. They started by terming APC a northern party because most of the care taker members were either northerners or muslims. Who will forget that Sambo went to the North and said APC was party for Christians because a pastor was the VP candidate, while GEJ was in Enugu to call APC a party for Northerners. Mama peace took it to a whole new height by calling the northerners as people who "born throway".

APC needed to get as much votes from a nation that had been ruled by PDP for a long time, it would not make sense therefore to try to alienate any part of the country when you are begging for votes, only a party who had begun to take people for granted could have done that.

Absolutely.

unohbethel:
@Shawnnn01 reading from ur last reply, u must really be demented..u said that zik lobby, begged for nigerian unity for three years but suddenly u then turn around to say that zik forced unity on igbos.or does it mean that u are not knowledgeable enough to understand the meaning btw beggin and forcing?? if u know, then ur nothing but a propagandist.. hypocrisy will kill u one day.

Mumu, Zik forced unity on the Hausa comprehension de worry u. It is obvious you are chronic dullard. If your father could not pay your fee through history classes that is no responsibility of mine.

Any how your deluded mind chose to twist n turn history or words, go figure who forced begged cajoled the North into being a part of Nigeria and made the rest of Southern Nigeria wait 3 yes till the Hausa are ready in 1960. There is a constant figure there he is an Igbo.

He's to be blamed for why you can never have Biafra because he singlehandedly ensure the clause that could lead to Biafra was never part of Nigeria independence constitution. This is too technical for you to comprehend, so I will just watch your folly from afar. You definitely do not own a brain worth debating.

@unohbethel

Shawnnn01:


Mumu, Zik forced unity on the Hausa comprehension de worry u.

ur an idi..ttc parole..but u said that zik beged the hausa and yoruba leaders for three years for unity.and they agreed..so how come he forced the hausa now? wat bout the yorubas? did he also forced them too? mumu