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This is a fight to finish that must be embraced with all dedication. It is either we get this fight over with, this once and for all, or we will ever be enslaved in it’s entrapment. “No one man, can  rise above the condition of his people“ according to the Honourable Louis Farrakhan. This dictate regretfully, it is clear. is alien to the mentality of a self absorbed,  self serving power hungry “North”.

 

A FIGHT TO FINISH
 by Uyi Edogamhe
 

These are turbulent, trying times no doubt in Nigeria’s political sphere. The attack dogs are on the prowl and the political environment is unduly being heated. The powers that be are in a self preserving fight to reassert their relevance again. Fear, which is a potent weapon of oppression, is the singular most deployed armoury in this fight to finish.

There is a generational, class, and a cultural struggle with  a hegemonic opportunist very powerful few elites, that have savagely held the collective destiny of the Nigerian nation, in  a misanthropic check. The political act of  trickery has been a constant, in this near incontestable and irrefutable  act of  total mental and psychological subjugation of the hearts and minds of a vast number of the Nigerian people. Moreover, there is this dangerous pretext that is ludicrously dominating logic and common sense, with the ethno religious colouration the attempt at breaking loose from this suffocating grip has assumed.

We have been too cowardly accommodating for so long and too long. The masterminds and lie spewing,  feudal, aristocratic self ordained leaders, are fiercely at it again with their political manipulative theatrics.  There is no mincing of words as to what their intentions are: the continuous subjugation of the hearts and minds of Nigerians, especially the “talakawas” of Northern Nigeria.

The ever dicey North South political configuration is being exploited once again, in the vexing issue of PDP zoning arrangement which willy-nilly, have been thrown into the centre stage of our national discuss, right now. The Old North versus South polemics is revived with a frivolous deceptive objective.

This is not a struggle between the North and the South in the real cognitive sense, as is being falsely propagated, or the Hausa-Fulani against their other brethrens  in the Nigerian geographic constriction. It is a fight between forces of change and a few very entrenched bigots, who are mostly of Hausa- Fulani extraction, that have gotten egocentric with the media hype, and have lived under the delusional self assured certainty of political domination in Nigeria.  These guys have exulted in the long held believe that national political calculation and expression revolves round them.   

Tanko Yakassai and Yahaya Kwande have become two of the most vociferous agitators for the  sustenance of a system of deceit, lies, manipulation and unbridle exploitation.  This duo are spearheading a callous campaign of misinformation, fear mongering and outright duplicity in a desperate attempt to sustain, the subjugating domination of the mostly misinformed, ill educated and  the usual majority of the outright illiterate population.  Their animating contention, is not based on any pragmatic rewarding practical principles, but purely on tribal, religious and ethno geographic patronage.

It is important that these people with their displayed, loathing vicious intentions, should be marginalised and put in check. Let’s bring to the fore, their deceit and their fraud for what it is . It is time to unmask these bigots and their deceptive rabble rousing antics. Let us expose the fallacy and skulduggery, on which their unmerited statesmanship is built.  This should be a patriotic duty, of every enlighten discerning Nigerian, irrespective of tribe, region , religion or state of origin.

This fight to finish should be made oblivious in our quest to wrestle the destiny of Nigeria from the hands  of a dysfunctional generation that had thrived on pitching the people against one another. Their principals are at variance and inimical to building a thriving  responsive egalitarian society. This is the proverbial fight of good over evil as contained in the holy books; and good has always triumph over evil.

Most of the dramatis personae in this sad saga of concocted indignation, are people of established dubious characters, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Atiku Abubakar, are two of some of the spooky personalities who are eminently fanning, this amber of discord, in the hope of some kind of political dividend. They are throwing their financial weight behind hijacking public opinions in the North by appealing to mostly religious and tribal sentiments.

The North as propagated by these internal colonisers, is not consistent, with the hard working, opportunity lacking, materially deprived, oppressed and marginalised “talakawas” of northern Nigeria. The subsisting present political class in the North, who are products of this old order,  have cowardly acquiesced to their manipulative benefactors and are a willing participants in this grand deceit.

Governor Mauzu Babangida Aliyu  of Niger State, who happens to be the chairman of the Northern Governors Forum; sudden three hundred a sixty degrees turn in the question of PDP zoning, is a sad testament to the powerful enslaving hold and grip, this politically self centred contrived North, have, on most of the political office holders from Northern Nigeria.

Governor Aliyu who had on the onset spoken very energetically against zoning of the PDP presidency, have suddenly become an astute non compromising agitator of  zoning the PDP presidency to the North.

Is Governor Aliyu’s sudden turn, like some of the Northern governors who had initially voiced support or sympathise with jettisoning the zoning principle, out of real progressive  political expediency, or a cowardly surrender and submission to fear? Some supposed political gladiators have become hapless nonentities in this self serving political chess game.

These spoilers are getting all the political news space, spewing their contortions and lies and they revile and distort at every opportunity and appear to be having an upper hand in this information war.

However, there are countless number of honourable Nigerians  from the North who have been striving to build a progressive society  for the emancipation of the poor, the deprived and down trodden, but they are a drowning voice that needs to be empowered and given a resounding voice in this fight to finish. These rogue elites will have to be soundly marginalised and vanquished by all means necessary. They are the singular most abiding threat to the peaceful coexistence of the Nigerian people.

This con “North” have not shown any indignation at the recent lead poisoning in Zamfara State that killed hundreds of children, they have not gotten together to show any indignation at the numerous moribund industries in the North that have been forced to close shops all these years with the attendant unemployment, they have not shown any indignation at the continuous high mortality rate in the North, no indignation at the ravaging scourge of guinea worm and river blindness, no indignation at the low school enrolment for children, mostly female children in the North. It is very apparent that, these efforts  do not carry with them, immediate rewarding pecuniary incentives, as much as political horse trading and power joggling.

This is a fight to finish that must be embraced with all dedication. It is either we get this fight over with, this once and for all, or we will ever be enslaved in it’s entrapment. “No one man, can  rise above the condition of his people“ according to the Honourable Louis Farrakhan. This dictate regretfully, it is clear. is alien to the mentality of a self absorbed,  self serving power hungry “North”.


 

 

 

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