Will A Buhari Ever Concede Defeat in an Election?

by Eze Eluchie,

Ghana’s John Mahama lost the presidential elections and immediately called the winner to concede defeat and express a willingness to work towards the progress of Ghana;

When his predecessor in office, Goodluck Jonathan, had called Buhari to congratulate him on victory at elections that were yet being collated, Buhari, though he welcomed the novel show of sportsmanship, expressed surprise and palpable shock with the former President's conduct;

Can one envisage Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari, if he loses the presidential elections in Nigeria, to call the winner to concede defeat and express a willingness to work towards the progress of Nigeria? Or merely threaten that the "blood of monkeys and baboons will flow" as he did with past elections where he lost?  

When one appreciates the desperation and utter shamlessness with which thousands of armed soldiers, policemen and other security personnel were deployed by Nigeria’s ruling junta to intimidate the electorate in local elections which have thus far been organized under its watch, particularly the gubernatorial elections in Edo and serially rescheduled Legislative elections in Rivers States (held on 10th December 2016) and the deliberate mismanagement of the electoral processes by an entity that was supposed to be an impartial organizer, the INEC, to attain pre-desired objectives which were contrary to the aspirations and wishes of the electorate in those localities, it can rightly be presumed that any thoughts or hopes of having any semblance of a free and fair electioneering process come 2019, when the tenure of the current junta expires, can be dispensed with.

From all indications, Nigeria’s current ruler will not voluntarily concede when he is defeated in an election - the wishes of the people must however prevail and nothing, absolutely nothing, should be allowed to stand in the way of fulfilling the wish of the electorate.

It is increasingly becoming clear that means other than the present jaundiced pretense at democratic elections orchestrated by his crony, Mahmood Yakubu who presides over the ‘Independent’ National Elections Commission (INEC), will have to be deployed to extract the Nigerian polity from the vice grip of the head of Nigeria’s current ruling junta, a junta that has thus far in its astonishingly short period of less than 2 years in office at the helms of Nigeria’s affairs, managed to destroy and or damage virtually all facets of national life and endeavor: from the economy, to sports, to social and ethnic cohesion, to even the basic thoughts of continued sustainability and existence of Nigeria.

Let the Nigerian contraption be restructured and Renegotiated whilst there is yet time.

Picture: Nigeria’s ruler, Muhammadu Buhari and his appointee as INEC Chairperson, Mahmood Yakubu.

State Complicity In Atrocities by Fulani Herdsmen/Terrorists.

by Eze Eluchie,

First, the Sultan of Sokoto, Saad Abubakar who happens to be Fulani, announces with relish, that the Fulani herdsmen/terrorists on a killing rampage across several States in Nigeria are foreigners from other West African countries;

Now the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, who also happens to be Fulani and a very close confidant of Nigeria's ruler, announces that the murderous Fulani herdsmen/terrorists are from identifiable countries, have specific grievances against their victims and that his government has paid some monies to these terrorists to prevent further attacks#%*. Paid monies to terrorists to stop killings that continue with more viciousness by the day? - Its either Mr. el-Rufai thinks his audience are dumb or that he is invincible.

When one recollects the statement by the sly governor of Kaduna Statement on his twitter account on the 15^th of November 2012 to the effect that: “we will write this for all to read. Anyone, soldier or not, that kills the Fulani takes a loan repayable no matter how long it takes”, it begins to dawn on even the most optimistic, that the killings being effected now are really part of the payback, loan repayment, Mr. El-Rufai had assured would happen.

Yet the Department of State Security remains silent in the face of all these murders? Yet, the Immigration and Customs Services, the Police or other security authorities have not informed the polity of any massive failures at the borders.

When the Fulani herdsmen/terrorists embark on their killing sprees, there is usually no interference from the law enforcement agencies for howsoever long these killing sprees last. But the moment the herdsmen/terrorists are through with their dastardly acts, security operatives from virtually all the security agencies inclusive of the military descend on the already vanquished territories and peoples under the mien of ‘safe-guarding’ the victims. Evidence abounds, particularly in the Fulani attacks against the peoples of Uzo-Uwani in Enugu State and Uzo-Item in Abia State that State security authorities were sufficiently warned by the local authorities about imminent attacks and that the State security agencies, inclusive of the military authorities, failed to provide security and only came in after much damages and killings have been effected.

The unfortunate lack of condemnation of the genocidal and terroristic activities of the herdsmen/terrorists by Nigeria’s ruler, Muhammadu Buhari, who himself also happens to be a Fulani, serves to provide state cover for the impunity with which the killings, which in some instances have been described as acts of ethnic cleansing, are carried out.

CONCLUSION: The Fulani herdsmen/terrorists are known to the State. The Fulani herdsmen/terrorists are well paid and protected by the State, under the present rulerships, to carry out their vile killing sprees.

The interest of posterity and the peoples of Nigeria will be best served if the Nigerian contraption is Restructured and Renegotiated as soon as possible, to address fundamental faults in its structure and composition.

Governor el-Rufai of Kaduna State admits to paying herdsmen/terrorists (vanguard newspapers)  http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/weve-paid-fulani-stop-killings-southern-kaduna-el-rufai/

Picture: Armed Fulani herdsmen with their livestock

As Buhari Unleashes Soldiers on the South East Region.

by Eze Eluchie, 

Ostensibly in response to scathing reports from international human rights organizations evidencing the fact that the Nigerian military has been engaged in monstrous acts of mass atrocities against pro-Biafra activists, the ruling government in Nigeria, headed by a man who not only played an active role in the Biafra genocide (as a military officer on the perpetrators side – 1967 – 1970) but has recently, from his insider knowledge of the atrocities committed, placed the death toll in the Biafra genocide at over 2 million persons, has most unfortunately, decided to up the stakes in its efforts to strangulate any aspiration for the universally acknowledged right to self-determination for which pro-Biafra activists are agitating.  

In the wake of the yuletide and end of year seasons, when the Igbo’s who are indigenous to Nigeria’s south-east region usually travel to their homelands in their millions, the Buhari regime in a most devious manner, announced the launch of what it cynically refers to as ‘Operation Python Dance’ under which soldiers will be deployed across the southeast region on, as the representative of the regime (Nigeria Army Deputy Director, Public relations, Col. Sagir Musa) of puts it, ‘internal security measures and deal with secessionists as appropriate’ and address ‘robbery, kidnapping, herdsmen-farmers clash, communal clashes, amongst others’. The falsehood inherent in the army’s excuse for deploying troops to the south east region is exposed by the fact that in ‘National Human Development Report for Nigeria 2016’ published by the United Nations Development Program earlier in the year, the south east region of Nigeria had been declared the “most human security secured geopolitical zone of Nigeria”.

When one recollects the deplorable records of the Nigeria military in its engagement with civil society and the civilian population, and the often stated resolve by the ruling junta in Nigeria to integrate ‘reformed’ Islamist terrorists and the civilian militia in our northern regions into the Nigerian military, it becomes easier to appreciate the apprehension felt by peoples of the south east region over the unwarranted deployment of soldiers in the region.

As the provocative deployment of ‘Operation Python Dance’ to the south east region of Nigeria commences from the 27^th of November 2016, residents in the region are encouraged to recognize the deployment for what it is, a bait to violent reaction; and thus exercise utmost restraint, where possible, whenever they encounter these soldiers on the street of the various cities, towns and villages of the region. In the event of the expected, those in the vicinity are encouraged to document whatsoever atrocities are committed, and share same as widely as possible (preferably on social media)  – pending when a dedicated channel will be set up.

The disdain, bothering on a dire psychological situation, for the people of the south east which spews out from the very persona of the head of the ruling junta in Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, perhaps explains why in over one-and-a-half years (18 months) of his ascension into Office of President of Nigeria, Mr. Buhari has not bothered to visit any of the states of the South East region of Nigeria – an area which he expressly stated during a visit to the United States Institute of Peace that he must treat unjustly, or at the very least cannot be expected to treat in the same as he treats other parts of Nigeria. 

The United States is hereby called upon, in all its dealings with the present Nigerian rulership (we don’t have a leadership in Nigeria), particularly in the areas of sale and supply of military hardware to be mindful of the Leahy Law and its abhorrence of US military equipment being used to arm or beef up the arsenal of countries or entities who use such weapons against their domestic civilian populations and violate human rights with impunity. Western allies of the US and the overall international community should likewise be mindful of the use to which national security apparatus is being deployed in Nigeria. The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, the ECOWAS Court on Human Rights and all other multi-State and international mass atrocity adjudicatory, investigatory, adjudicatory and punishment authorities, and international human rights organizations are also called upon to take special and particular interest in the unfolding activities of Mr. Buhari’s ‘Operation Python Dance’ in Nigeria’s south east region.

There should and will be consequences for mass atrocities...

The Nigerian contraption simply must be restructured before the building conflagration consumes more than necessary.

                                                  

Amesty International Video on atrocities of the Buhari regime:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_oid2s9fxQ

Video of Nigeria’s ruler, Buhari, affirming resolve not to treat regions of Nigeria (the South East region which also constitute the area of the Biafra region) at the United States Institute of Peace , Washington DC:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYUBTU2ZgFY

Pictures: Flag of the erstwhile separatist Republic of Biafra and Nigeria’s current ruler, Muhammadu Buhari.