Presidency, call Kwankwaso to Order or to a Conference

The entire crisis in PDP was manufactured and given breath of life by the five governors among them are those that believe that certain section of the country was born to rule.  The most dangerous but evilly quite among these five governors is Kwankwaso. This man is a tribal xenophobe in the ranks of Ahmadu Bello. Kwankwaso dislike southerners, Christians especially Igbos in the manner and level Sardauna did. Kwankwaso was the reason the national assembly jettisoned new state creation especially in the South East when he cried wolf, accused, and charged Iheodioha and Ekweremadu of leading Igbo conspiracy for more Igbo states, a similar conspiracy charge of Igbos penchant for domination that preceded the 1966 Igbo massacre or pogrom in the North and South West.  Kwankwaso government few months ago accused the Minister of Aviation Ms Oduah of abandoning Aminu Kano International Kano for the new commissioned  Akanu Ibiam International airport in Enugu even  as evidence showed the Ministry had invested more and commissioned  more renovation work at Kano airport than in any other airport in Nigeria. The Governor even shamelessly accused the Minster as being responsible for the very low patronage of the Kano Airport even when he knows that bombing and terrorism are the reason businesses and travelers are avoiding his death trap state. 
Just last week this tribal ignoramus religious zealot called for the sack of Odimegwu, an Igbo, and the chairman of National Population Commission.  He called Odimegwu a drunkard and unfit to lead NPC. Thank God Kwankwaso did not say that Odimegwu is an Islamic fundamentalist blood sucking vampire like himself.  He called for Odimegwu’s sack just because Odimegwe rightly berated the highly manipulated 2006 census and promised credible head count backed with biometric. Sources had it that Kwankwaso demanded the sack of Odimegwe as condition to reconcile and back Jonathan for 2015. And Jonathan by sending query to Odimegwu is succumbing to Kwankwaso’s mischief, antics, evil mechanization and political manipulation at his own political peril.  Jonathan should be reminded that even before Odimegwu made the statement in which he rightly criticized the past censuses, Rabi’u Kwankwaso had already mortally opposed his Presidency and 2015 ambition. He was already going all over Nigeria campaigning against Jonathan’s 2015 ambition and romancing the president’s perceived political enemies. It is on record that the Muslim North have consistently opposed credible head count in Nigeria  because the status quo benefits them. The attacked Odimewgwu today is only but a smoke screen to mask North's long opposition to accurate head count and attempt to kill Odimegwu's lofty goal of credible head count backed with Biometrics.   

Jonathan must not be naïve and must learn from recent history when during the civil war north incited the south eastern minorities against the Igbo.  To cause disaffection and disunity in the south east during the civil war north evilly manipulated the south east minorities, indoctrinating them that they would be better off in Nigeria than in Biafra. They told them falsely that the Niger Delta oil wealth would be best protected for the Niger Deltans in Nigeria than in Biafra. Lacking simple knowledge of arithmetic the South East minorities bought the North’s poisonous pill,  rebelled and abandoned their natural and cultural brothers, the Igbos. What followed immediately after the civil war was the absolute takeover of the Niger Delta oil wealth by the North; the construction of South South-Kaduna oil pipe line, (the first of its kind even in moderate economic powers of the world); the north’s complete ownerships of Niger Delta oil rings, the Yoruba complete control and administration of the production of Niger Delta oil. Not until recently, what did the Niger Delta get from the civil war deal against Igbos, environmental damage and degradation and meager 5% of oil derivative.

I am not a champion of Biafra State but knowledge of simple arithmetic and not rocket science would have been enough to intimate South East minorities that, one divided by many is far less than one divided by few; that is, Niger Delta oil wealth shared by the old south easterners Igbo included would have given more dividend per capita  than as it is being shared by the whole Nigeria today. In fact if Niger delta oil wealth was shared only among Biafrans, the dividend would have satisfied everyone’s greed no matter the degree of greed of the people.  Not only did Niger Delta Mortgaged its oil wealth to the North it also since the civil war pitched its political tent with the north and have supported the north politically.  Since that civil war anti-Igbo deal, it has been politically a one way street from the South South to northern leadership of the country. But for providence, a Niger Deltan, by God’s will was positioned to occupy the high office in the land for the first time and perhaps the only time and may be the only time in the foreseeable future  it would ever again happen. Now for their long support of Northern hegemony, for mortgaging their oil wealth to the north, for selling their brothers and next door neighbor to a faraway friend one would be compelled to ask, what has Niger Delta gotten in return from the north since 2011, when out of providence (and not out of North’s reciprocity) a Niger Deltan was position to occupy the exalted office of the presidency.  Since 2011 to present the strongest and even deadly opposition to Niger Deltan, Goddluck Jonathan’s presidency is from the north, the same North that promised the Niger Deltans comfort and equality in a united Nigeria. The North has threatened to make the country ungovernable for Jonathan and lo and behold they delivered on the threat. They threatened to make his second term ambition a pipe dream and they are currently delivering on this by splitting and weakening the PDP platform upon which Jonathan would contest for his second term.  The biggest irony yet is that Jonathan since 2011 to present enjoys his biggest unalloyed support from the Igbos, the same people his fathers and people were told to be afraid of, to not trust. The same Igbo brothers Niger Delta abandoned in time of great need, the same Igbo it conspired against with a distance northern fair weather friend are the ones hedging Jonathan’s North’s abandonment.  Yet Igbos being people with bad fate in Nigeria but love by their creator would still be despised by their Niger Delta brothers tomorrow because hate is irrational. Yet, I would still ask Igbos to continue to show leadership, maturity, big brotherliness and one Nigerianess because to err is human, to forgive is divine. Because hate only destroys the hater while the hated innocence goes home hearty and unscathed  

Among the 5 governor rampaging against Jonathan’s presidency and 2015 ambition, Kwankwaso though less boisterous, not laud like the other four is the tribal northern hegemonic brain behind the rebellious 5, he is not persuadable. Lamido is only being a politician with presidential ambition and north hegemonic, given a good deal his is persuadable.  Nyako with rebellious nature wants a northern presidency not necessarily for himself or for hegemonic control but as the North’s turn to produce the president, difficult but his is persuadable to support Jonathan, he need an assurance. Alieu Babagida have presidential ambition that is fueled by his age and his belief that the north must produce the presidency in 2015, not for hegemonic control but as north’s turn to produced the president. If not for his age he could be persuadable. He believes that 2015 is his last chance to aboard in Aso Rock. Like Kwankwaso Wamako has no strong presidential ambition. He strongly believes that it is north’s turn to produce the president.  It is difficult to read if he nurses northern hegemonic feelings like kwankwaso hence it is not yet known if he is persuadable. For a 2nd term Jonathan must find a way around these 5 Governors. He may have to cut a deal with them. Or he must have to find a way around them and then divide, conquer and reduce their influence in their states.  As for Atiku, only in Nigeria would a crook like him be walking freely on the street. His American partner in crime Congressman Jefferson is still serving his long prison term in America prison for receiving   $100,000 bribe from American oil firm that he arranged to bribed Atiku  with $3M for oil deal in Nigeria.    
              
Any decent Nigerian Knows why Kwankwaso and Islamic far North is against and will fight to finish against credible head count in Nigeria. The past manipulated censuses gave the semi-arid desert Islamic far north underserved manipulated overstated population demographic that gave them 13 states and over blown local government councils. It’s only in Nigeria that desert means tropics, where deserters are more populous than Riverain and tropical dwellers.  The past censuses under represented the Northern minority and  Christians as the past military juntas led by the far Muslim north instead of carving out minority and Christian dominant states,  shredded the northern minorities and Christians into dominant Muslim states thereby reducing  northern minority,  politically relevancy and influence. The most credible yet not so accurate census of 1959 put Hausa/Fulani, (North West and North East), Igbo, Yoruba, Northern Minority and Southern Minority at same population demographic tally. Yet Hausa/Fulani occupies the 13 states of NW and NE with ruminants scattered in the 5 other north central states. I am not a proponent of more states but for fairness since the national cake is shared on state bases and Hausa/Fulani have 13 states, Igbo, Yoruba, Northern and Southern Minorities ought to have received 13 states, each.           

In the last months this Kwankwaso used the Kano police establishment to constantly harass the Kano Igbo leader in the state just because this Igbo leader gave accurate number of victims of the last Islamic terrorist bomb attack in Kano. The Igbo leader’s figure was in variance to the reduce number of the victims reported by the Kano state government.  It have long been reported that kwankwaso has throughout his leadership of Kano embarked in anti-Igbo policies and harassment.  I think it is time that Oha-na- Eze and the presidency call this xenophobe, Kwankwaso to order to desist from harassing or targeting any Nigeria living in Kano.