Buhari, The Efulefus And A Dance of The Forest

For the past few months that I dedicated my pen for the destruction of the British edifice called Nigeria, I have been missing my writings on other passions such as my usual scientific articles, international politics, conspiracy theories and decoding of classified information, all because the events emanating from Nigeria on daily basis is so disheartening that I couldn't temporarily take off my pen from her sorry state.

I laugh whenever I hear armchair critics calling Biafran agitators miscreants and urging them to channel their energies towards the fight for the betterment of Nigeria instead of fighting for the restoration of a Biafran State.

Well for the armchair critics, if you have never protested for Nigeria in the field before, especially The Unity Fountain, Abuja, then you have no moral justification to abuse the Biafran agitators because most of them had, at one point in time, fought for the betterment of this country only to realize that it was a mission impossible. The problem of Nigeria does not lie in its leadership but on its structural foundation.

In early 2010, when we were still fighting for the betterment of Nigeria during the constitutional crisis occasioned by the Yar'adua's absence and the inability of Jonathan to assume full leadership from the cabal, I travelled to Abuja from the East on my own expenses just to join the Save Nigeria Group's protest. Then I had not lived in Abuja so I took care of my expenses throughout my stay in Abuja. I was a Graduate student and was even writing exams but have to travel in between of my papers, just to see the little I  can contribute for this dubious entity called Nigeria.

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But having seen the post-election violence of 2011, the rise in Boko Haram bombings and the thinking pattern of the Hausa/Fulani Oligachy, I abhorred anything protest in the context of 'One Nigeria.' I was called again in 2012 during the widespread protest on fuel subsidy, but I turned it down and wrote an article entitled, WHY I DID NOT SUBSCRIBE TO FUEL SUBSIDY REMOVAL, AND WHY I REFUSED TO PROTEST IT. I was never in support of the Jonathan's administration, but I declined because I have understood the Nigerian politics by then. 

I find it disheartening that my Igbo brothers are trying to become more Nigerian than others, by dancing around the streets of Abuja in the name of "Resume or Resign," and #OurMumuDonDo protest. In short, let me be honest with them their 'mumu never do, na now their mumu just start.'

Is Osibanjo not the Acting President? Won't the Yoruba's benefit if he becomes the substantive President? Weren't the likes of Tinubu, Falana, Bakare, Soyinka, others, fought against Jonathan? So where are they now? The should be the ones taking the lead now, not the Igbos.

In the 2012 fuel subsidy protests, after the NLC called off the protests, funny enough the Yoruba and Hausas all disappeared from the streets, it was our own so called leaders in Lagos, Dr. Idika Kalu Idika, and Prof Ben Nwabueze, that continued their dancing on the streets of Lagos. If not for the democratic handlings of the Jonathan's government, they would have being meted with Okadigbo's treatment.

Fast forward it to 2014, during the Chibok girl saga, our once respected Oby Ezekwesiri, a Havard graduate of Economics, began sitting down on the streets of Abuja like an Almajiri, jumbing and dancing everywhere in the name of #BringBackOurGirls. What shocked me is why an intellectual like Madam Oby could not decipher the conspiracy surrounding the Chibok girl saga.

Anyway, one year later Jonathan was chased out, and Buhari came in. All the principal actors of the Chibok saga were rewarded: The Chibok Principal was made a Commissioner; Madam Oby's deputy, Hajia Hadiza, was made el-Rufai's Chief of Staff, and later, DG of the Nigerian Ports - a money spinning agency. Oh let me quickly add that other participants in other northern conspiracies were all rewarded as well: the Katsina Principal who gave us Buhari's WAEC result in which the Lion King was wearing a cap and a sunglass on a Waec result (laughs), was made an Education Board Chairman. Also the dismissed Commissioner of Police, Zakari Biu, under whose watch the Christmas bomber Kabiru Sokoto escaped, was recalled, promoted to AIG, and then retired with full benefits.

But in all these appointments, the Chairperson and CEO of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign our own Madam Oby, was no where to be found, all because she came from the 5% constituency. All her efforts of sitting under the rain and under sun were all wasted. The owners of Nigeria have used her, achieved their aim, and finally dumped her. I think she has learnt her lessons.

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Today Charly boy, the Area Father, and Jim Iyke, another Igbo son want to show their love for One Nigerian, by dancing again on the streets of Abuja. A Chinese proverb said, "Fool me once, shame to you; but fool me twice, shame to me." I want to say it loud and clear that Igbos are not partakers in this dubious entity called Nigeria. The earlier we fight for our own nation, the better for us.

A country whereby celebrities are tear-gassed for exercising their fundamental rights, while hired Fulani Almajiri protesters are escorted by the police to the presidential villa. Another batch of Fulani protesters even left the issues at hand, and were protesting for Nnamdi Kanu to be re-arrested.

Igbos should not love Nigeria more that Nigeria loves her. We are regarded as slaves in this criminal enclave called Nigeria and no amount of dancing on the streets of Abuja, which is a dance of the forest, can make us equal partakers of this criminal contraption.

Chike Nnamani, a public affairs analysts, writes from Abuja, Nigeria.