No matter the explanation anyone might want to advance for the seemingly advanced conspiracy to make the current Senate President, Distinguished Ahmed Lawan, a Northern Muslim, succeed President Buhari, another Northern Muslim, those who are behind such conspiracy need to be reminded that the delineation of Nigeria into six geopolitical zones is an afterthought and merely for administrative convenience. Nigeria’s original delineation is into Igbo-Hausa-Yoruba sections of the country, and in rotating the presidency, it has always been by North/South arrangement.
The argument that the Northeast like the Southeast is yet to produce the President of Nigeria is mischievous because the average Nigerian might recognize a slight difference between Sokoto and Plateau State but never between Katsina and Yobe. To the average Nigerian, especially of the Southern divide, Ugwu Hausa is Ugwu Hausa.
If the Northeast truly feel shortchanged, then they should sort that difference out with their brothers in the Northwest. It is because there is no dichotomy between the Northeast and the Northwest that the entire North overwhelmingly voted for a Katsina man as President when another Katsina man recently left the Presidency.
If the Northeast wishes to make any equal claim to marginalization as the Southeast, then, they have to wait for the next eight years when power would have rightly rotated to the North, then, they might wish to put pressure on other Northern geopolitical zones to cede the power to them. At this time, it is the turn of the Southern part of Nigeria, and every Southern Nigerian who wishes to be taken seriously knows that no other part of the South deserves to produce the President at this time than the Southeast.
It would be the highest level of sabotage against Nigeria’s unity for some individuals, because of their selfish political interests to thwart the age long political tradition of power rotation in this country. Rotation of power has remained one of the tiny threads that have kept Nigeria together and those who wish to throw this to the dogs should be around to answer for the guaranteed fatal fallout of such traitorous politicking.
Overtime, our politicians have always been nonchalant about very serious issues, and this is what has brought us to where we are as a nation. It is because our political leaders take serious issues lightly, that we have Boko Haram terrorists almost overrunning the entire Northeast. It is because our political leaders went partying when they should be sobber, that our Commander-in-Chief cannot comfortably take a walk to his hometown as bandits are overrunning the entire Northwest. It is this same attitude of not giving serious thoughts to the long-term consequences of our political choices that the Southeast has been turned to a killing field. That is why the North Central is a war zone between herders and farmers, and that is why oil bunkerers are in regular shootout with the Army in the Southsouth and smugglers are killing our Customs officials every other day along our borders in the Southwest.
Any political conspiracy that denies the Southeast the presidency might as well be the final trigger that would set off the fire that will consume Nigeria. Those who are behind this had better retracted quickly if they still want to have a country they can rape and plunder.
For those who think this might be another game they can get away with, they should take a trip to Ethiopia, Sudan, Yemen or Syria. Nigeria’s situation might be worst if those in charge continue to act without care of any consideration for our peculiarities.
WITH JUSTICE, NIGERIA SHALL PREVAIL!