A retired military officer and a former member of the Presidential Advisory Committee (PAC), Colonel Tony Nyiam, has backed former President Dr. Olusegun Obasanjo’s claim of alleged grand plot to Fulanize Nigeria.
Nyiam, a former member of the PAC that packaged the National Conference during the Jonathan administration, said there was observable high level of mutual distrust between the original land owners of Nigeria and the settlers in their midst.
According to him, “There is emerging alliance of the South-West, South-East, South-South, North-Central or Middle Belt and the Hausa people on one side, versus the armed Fulani herdsmen invaders.”
DAILY POST reported that Obasanjo had last week raised the alarm over Fulanisation and Islamisation of West Africa.
Also the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, on Friday, condemned Buhari’s presence at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, OIC, summit.
Also, two socio-cultural groups, Afenifere and Ohanaeze Ndigbo joined CAN in frowning against Buhari’s decision to attend the summit.
Nyiam told Vanguard that “Former President Obasanjo’s crying out against what he sees as the ongoing Islamisation and Fulanisation of Nigeria in particular and West Africa as a whole, and the Ohanaeze, Afenifere and PANDEF support for Obasanjo and the fact that almost all the critics of the former President’s remarks are almost all Fulani, have all collectively seen to the widening of the gap through which Nigeria’s enemy within and their external bosses would penetrate our fold and kill more thousands of innocent Nigerians.
“Our continuing to be afraid of each other is what our enemies’ desire and are exploiting to their warfare advantage.
“There is now an opportunity for a strategic resolution of the recurring Nigerian security problems. The rare occasion is now made available by the unprecedented national insecurity development.
“And this is by virtue of the irony that the terrorist chickens have come home to roost amongst those who believe they are born to rule others against their wishes and in the sacred cows region of the North-West of Nigeria.
“The Niger and Chad foot soldiers who the far North political elite use to either inflate the population of North-West region during national headcount or to rig presidential election in Nigeria are now forcefully demanding payback for the services they have rendered to the parasitic Fulani elite.
“Don’t mind the far North leaders pretexts; they are facing the greatest danger to their lives from the Talakawas (the poor).
“The Fulani herdsmen insistence on nomadic grazing rather than cattle ranching leaves one with the impression that their real aim is to cleverly and, if that fails, forcefully take over other people’s land.
“This is why the Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo people and those of the smaller ethnic nationalities of the South-South, North Central or Middle belt of Nigeria, need to watch out for the Afonja type of traitor to his ethnic kinsfolk amongst their politicians.
“Afonja was the ambitious political power seeker who betrayed the Yoruba people to the crafty Fulani hegemonist, Alimi.
“This is why beginning from Ilorin, a minority settler ethnicity is lording over the majority Hausa and Middle Belt people of the North-West and North-Central.
“Nigeria can only return to normalcy if President Buhari has the political will to keep the promise of restoring Nigeria to true federalism which he himself made in this month of Muslims fasting. The pretexts and deceptions of the Nigerian majority have to stop.
“How long do these power mongers think they can exist? Where is the fear of Allah which they outwardly profess?
“Like I humbly suggested before, the commander-in-chief can begin the process of change of Nigeria for good by the assemblage of not more than 36 wise-men to use the principles of federalism underlying the 1963 Nigerian Constitution and the 2014 National Conference resolutions as the authoritative references document to draft a genuine liberal democracy and federal constitution for Nigeria.
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