One Contraption, Different Nations!

Source: Anthony C. Konwea, PhD, P.E.
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It is true former President Goodluck Jonathan's performance in office was poor, objectively speaking, but his laissez-faire approach, and remarkable policy of not spilling blood of either his rivals for power, or the peasantry for their ancestral lands, meant that Nigeria grew in leaps and bounds, under his Administration, albeit unequally.

President Muhammadu Buhari has been worse than horrible. He has ruined and destroyed everything in sight. His greatest crime against Nigerians however is his determination to resettle his Fulani ethnicity on other ethnicities’ ancestral lands. Creating a permanent, irrevocable, Fulani overlordship in Nigeria, that, is the sum and totality of his perfidious mission in Government. Nothing more, nothing less.

Now what amazes I and I profoundly is the amount of latitude he has enjoyed and continues to enjoy from a large segment of Nigerians, including otherwise educated and intelligent people.

People who shouted on the rooftops and cried to lungs-bursting point over Jonathan's non-performance, suddenly became mute, subdued, and acquiescent in the face of Buhari's worse than perfidious performance.

The Fulani quietude at best, or conniving, and active support for Buhari at worst, is understandable, even if tragic. Afterall, it is to, and supposedly, for their ultimate benefit that Buhari is mal performing.

The connivance of misinformed and misguided, non-ethnic Fulani is something else altogether. It is a pointer to the very dark, self-harming, downright suicidal tendencies of certain segments of the Nigerian populace.

This mentally damaged segment of Nigeria's elite population ostensibly seek a better society, but it is not a better society for all.

They do not care about equality or equal opportunity. What they really care about is to see their perceived tribal enemies, read the Igbo, situated beneath them, regardless of how far below, they unjustifiably find themselves on the national totem pole.

All that said and decried, given the scope of their stupendous failures, and the deliberate, systematic, manner their violent mischief was perpetrated on Nigeria and Nigerians, it would be a crime against society, if this Maladministration is not impeached and booted out of office, even if only on the eve of their final day of disengagement from office.

For performing much worse than the Jonathan Administration, the Buhari Maladministration deserves a far more severe constitutional rebuke, than merely losing an election, which is now impossible, or peacefully concluding their 8-year tenure, which is totally undeserved.

If that rebuke is not forthcoming for ethnic or religious reasons, then Nigerians would have ipso facto confirmed that there are different strokes for different people. This is short term for saying, Nigeria is one contraption with altogether different nations, treated unequally.

For those misguided Nigerians who see nothing wrong in replacing one mal-performing President of Fulani extraction from the APC, by electing another President of Fulani extraction, from either the PDP or the NNDP, I and I ask but one question.

Before posing that question, I and I must confess that I once belonged to that category of people who see beyond ethnicity, concentrating solely on merit. But the Buhari Maladministration’s disastrous tenure has destroyed all that.

Within eight years of promoting everything Fulani as President of Nigeria, while totally neglecting merit, simply because he is Fulani, even to the point of trying to capture other ethnicities ancestral lands for the Fulani, Muhammadu Buhari has set Nigeria back by at least two generations.

Now what I and I champions is simultaneous satisfaction of the demands of merit and diversity in all things. Until Nigeria recovers from the Buhari nightmare, merit plus diversity, is the path to tread.

The simple question I and I want to pose to all Nigerians, which demands serious, honest, soul-searching, is this.

Hypothetically given a current 8-year tenure Southeast Igbo Presidency, will they be as willing to replace such an Igbo Presidency, even a highly performing one, at the end of their maximum tenure, with another President of Igbo extraction, say from the South-South geopolitical region, under similar circumstances?

Will they be willing to replace such an Igbo President even with a non-Igbo from Southern Nigeria? The short answer to this simple question is NO.

Why then should there be different strokes for different folks, except only in one Contraption with different nations?

If that is indeed truly the case, that Nigeria is merely one Contraption, with different nations, what is the rationale and justification, except malicious perfidy, for trying to nationalize all the waterways in that one Contraption, with already confirmed different nations?

This is a very weighty question, demanding an honest, serious answer.

Waterways or Land Resources nationalization is one crime too many, from which one Contraption with different nations, will never recover. Don’t even go near it.

We are watching.......
Anthony Chuka Konwea, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, MNSE, FNIStructE, MNICE.

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