MUAMMAR GADDAFI'S ADVICE AND NIGERIA'S PRETENSES

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We are a nation of pretenders, cheats and lairs. We are never honest enough, bold enough to face up to the truth. We have leaders - most of them self-appointed lowlifes - who will rather "confide" the truth to their wives and sidekicks than say it in the open and to the world. It is in this light that I read the response of those in Abuja and the pretenders to nationalism and Nigerianism. Those legislooters who are calling Muammar Gaddafi names for telling them the obvious are the real problem of Nigeria.



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Nigeria for them is just a cash cow, an opportunity for stupendous wealth and untold greed. The love of the Oligarchy for Nigeria, along with their errand boys from the West, the East and the South-South, is the romance between the rich and the praise-singer. The only thing in the mind and brain of the praise singer is the dollar gracing his forehead from the bags of loot kept nearby by the rich man. When the Libyan leader first spoke about the need for Nigeria to break into two many of us felt the man obviously do not know much about the history of Nigeria. We were right about that impression as Gaddafi had spoken again. The BBC reported him as making some amends to his earlier call. Now Gaddafi, and rightly so, wants Nigeria to break into several states - and along ethnic lines.

It is heart-warming that Mr. Gaddafi realized that Nigeria's problem goes way beyond Christian-South and Muslim-North dichotomy. There are legions of ethnic issues that have long been swept under the carpet by the ruling and powerful Northern Oligarchy who have held the nation bondage for decades. Gaddafi's ambassador to Nigeria has been sent back home from Abuja, but that has not dissuaded him from speaking the truth about the need to divide Nigeria "along the lines of India and Pakistan." The hardship of the Ogonis, the Ijaws and the Ilajes is not so much different from what the people of Darfur are going through in Sudan today. The people of Southern Sudan own the oil that the supporter of APC from Northern Sudan hold tight to and use to live a good life and to subdue South Sudan. The Northern Nigeria Oligarchy are the supporter of APC of Nigeria; they loot and exploit the nation's oil wealth, they created imaginary population figures that make the population of savannah grass lands and states far more than the population of coastal states and oil rich communities, and they encourage religious riots and hold down the Almanjeris and his ilk from knowing any other life than the life of poverty and want. But those at the Nigerian National Assembly, a group of grabbers and greedy men, who are looting the nation's treasury with legislative fiat and self-fixed salary and allowances, prefer to pretend all is well and chose to call Mr. Gaddafi "mad man."


I challenge any of the lowlifes at the National Assembly to express an opinion on the following sentences of Colonel Gaddafi:

"The Yoruba people in the west and south demand independence, while the Igbo people live in the east and south."

"It became clear that the Ijaw people demand independence and the [Hausa] people in the north call for the establishment of the [Hausa] state."

What is false in the fact that Nigeria is not a united state? How many times have well-meaning Nigerians demanded that a Sovereign National Conference be called? Is anyone at the National Assembly ignorant of the fact that the Ogonis are prepared to (have been long prepared to) go it alone as an independent nation long ago? The people of Sango Kataf and the Tivs do not see themselves as part of Northern Nigeria; when the chips are down and truthfulness is held in high esteem the people of Brass and Bayelsa will prefer to be left alone as a nation of proud and prosperous fishermen and oil merchants. No one in Brass will want an Hausa man to own an oil block any where around Brass, and to learn that such oil blocks bring dividends of more than a billion dollars to a man who did not sweat give my Brass friends a big headache. Major General Zamani Lekwot must be smiling and sharing tombo liquor with some of his comrades now. Many in the Ogoni land will be thanking Ken Saro-Wiwa for spearheading the fight to free the Ogonis and for demanding self-determination. The liars in Abuja are afraid of self-determination because it will make a mess of the loot they want to keep to themselves. A forcefully united Nigeria is useful to them and it fits in well into their agenda of greed and looting. Nigeria's forced unity and the co-mingling of peoples and ethnic nationalities who share very little in common is the result of decades of military dictatorship and Northern dominance.


The Nigerian civil war would have done more good for the people had the Igbo succeeded in breaking away. The development and growth of many regions and ethnic groups have been held back by the steady decline in the Northern part of the country. I do not consider it wise to hold back the progress of any part just to be sure that part is not moving too fast for the comfort and peace of mind of another part. There is peace and calm in the old Yugoslavia following the division of that extinct nation into ethnic states. The people of Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, Albenia, Macedonia, Slovenia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina have been set free from a cauldron built on force, ego and hunger for power. We do not have to wait for ethnic cleansing at the level it got to in former Yugoslavia before we do something. Josip Broz Tito who put all the republics together to create Yugoslavia in order to prevent the domination of the whole by any one of the ethnic groups eventually became the dominant figure and dictator of the whole. Boko Aram and Maitasine have unleashed terror in the name of religion and, in some way, ethnic duty, on non-Hausas and Fulani in Nigeria. What Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is saying is that this is a good time and opportunity to divide without acrimony and without shedding blood. Nigeria is not one, it will never be one nation, and we all know that for a fact. All liars and looters who deny these facts will be shamed.

Nigeria for them is just a cash cow, an opportunity for stupendous wealth and untold greed.

True words.

What Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is saying is that this is a good time and opportunity to divide without acrimony and without shedding blood.[size=18pt]Nigeria is not one, it will never be one nation[/size], and we all know that for a fact. All liars and looters who deny these facts will be shamed.  

We know this, but we pretend like we can't see it. It's not like we're disgruntled, we actually benefit from Nigeria as it is but we know it is on a path to destruction. Time will tell.

Real talk

Tell it like it is bro.

We are a nation of pretenders, cheats and lairs. We are never honest enough, bold enough to face up to the truth. We have leaders - most of them self-appointed lowlifes - who will rather "confide" the truth to their wives and sidekicks than say it in the open and to the world. It is in this light that I read the response of those in Abuja and the pretenders to nationalism and Nigerianism. Those legislooters who are calling Muammar Gaddafi names for telling them the obvious are the real problem of Nigeria.

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Gbamology!