BUHARI'S RIVERS OF RIGGING FOR OIL
PART 2b
VITAL INTEREST 2: BURATAI'S
COMMENDABLE ACTION AND THE THREE FOLD VITAL INTEREST OF THE NORTH
(By Amaso Jack)
"THE Nigerian Army on Monday
vowed to investigate and punish all the culprits involved in the violence that
characterised the March 23, 2019 presidential election in Abonnema, Akuku-Toru
Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The Army’s fact-finding panel led by Maj. Gen. Taritimiye Gagariga disclosed this in Akuku-Toru LGA. It added that the mission was aimed at getting to the root of the crisis and not to cast aspersions on anyone."
https://www.google.com/…/rivers-election-violence-army…/amp/
The Army’s fact-finding panel led by Maj. Gen. Taritimiye Gagariga disclosed this in Akuku-Toru LGA. It added that the mission was aimed at getting to the root of the crisis and not to cast aspersions on anyone."
https://www.google.com/…/rivers-election-violence-army…/amp/
COMMENDABLE ACTION OF BURATAI
The Chief of Army Staff, of the
Nigerian army, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai must be commended for
establishing the fact finding panel under Major-General Taritimiye Gagariga,
this action has redeemed the reputation of the army. However the following
vital questions, must be noted:
1 What were the terms of reference
of Major-General Taritimiye Gagariga's committee?
2 Were their terms of reference
limited to Abonnema, Akuku-Toru?
3 What about the other disturbances
in other parts state that involved the army, will Gagariga's committee also
investigate them?
4 What about the issues of the
Army's involvement in voter manipulation by the evidence of "Olufemi Aduwo
as an individual (by his international pedigree has demonstrated it) the
Tribune that interviewed him, the Punch, Daily Post, the EU observer mission,
Channels TV, Femi Falana and Ambassador John Campbell" as was revealed in
Part 1.
Important Observations:
The norm in any investigation is
that the principal officer involved would be required to step aside while
investigations are on. This is the procedure that was adopted for the chief
justice of the Federation, Justice Onnoghen, but was not adopted in the case of
Jamil Sarham and his boss Buratai.
"General Tukur Yusuf Buratai
bought a second choice property in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, days after
his appointment as Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS), an investigation by
SaharaReporters has revealed." http://saharareporters.com/…/general-buratai-bought-second-…
Question 5: Why was Major-General
Jamil Sarham the General Officer Commanding the 6 Division of the Nigerian
army, who was the ranking officer under whose command the army was reduced to
an election manipulating thug force, not asked to step aside, and recalled to
the army headquarters in Abuja for the duration of the investigation, while the
2ic or the most senior brigade commander hold fort for him, for the duration of
the investigation?
Question 6: Is the sudden romance
with the people of Abonnema by the military that seems to exclude the
"extra electoral atrocities" of the same army in larger Rivers State
an attempt at divide and rule?
Important observation. The
Riveriners people of the state have never ruled since the return to democratic
rule. However the attempt by the FULANI to install a stooge from the area with
the view of controlling the oil resource while refusing the host communities
their right of ownership, is a clear attempt at the colonial practice of
indirect rule and divide and rule.
THE THREE FOLD VITAL INTEREST OF THE
NORTH:
1 POLITICAL ECONOMIC VITAL INTEREST:
SUMMARIZED IN OIL.
BUHARI by his trademark nepotism,
has no interest in the people of the Niger Delta, his only interest in the area
is oil, for this reason.
• He is the oil minister
• He used the army to unsuccessfully
rig the governorship elections and when his lid was blown (like the bay of
pigs) he beat a tactical but clumsy withdrawal.
The main point of vital interest
conflict between the North and the South South is oil. The oil blocks are due
for renewal, Buhari needs a compromised South Southern vital interest in
control, where it matters most; Government house Port Harcourt. Just the way
president Diem was installed in South Vietnam by the Americans based on their
domino theory vital interest, the core North hope to install a stooge in Awara
to ensure complete political economic control of the resource, with Buhari as
the oil minister assisted by Baru, who are in control of the administrative
structures of oil industry.
Since Awara has no firm political
and party structures, the strategy of divide and rule will most likely be used
through Rotimi Amaechi under the pretext that the Riveriners have never ruled.
The strategy of wiping the mouth of
the oil producing people with their oil, while the North is in firm control is
the soul of divide and rule and indirect rule.
Awara has no structures, he would
really on the APC like Akintola did in the 1960s. The overall goal and vital
interest of the North is unhindered control of the oil.
By emphasis on the upland and
Riveriners dichotomy, the North hopes to induce the principle of divide and
rule as they did under Abacha when the Ogoni eight were divided against the
Ogoni four in a classic case study of divide and rule.
"SPDC stopped production in
Ogoni land and withdrew from the area in 1993 after violence against our staff
and action targeting our facilities. Violence in Ogoni land continued, and in
May 1994 four prominent Ogoni leaders were murdered by a mob. Ken Saro-Wiwa
(President of MOSOP) and eight others were accused of complicity in the
murders, tried by military tribunal in 1995, found guilty and executed." https://www.shell.com.ng/sustai…/environment/ogon-issue.html
Important Observation.
There is no evidence to suggest
Awara would compromise the vital interest of the South South, no not one!
2 GEO POLITICAL VITAL INTEREST:
captured as the divide and rule/ indirect rule through Rotimi Amaechi, using
Awara ( against which Chief Yeah, opted out) was the Colonial system of British
occupation. The fight against dominion by majority groups that culminated in
the Harry Wilink minority report of 1958 is the vital interest basis for
rejection of Buhari in the South South. Lawyers from the region like Keyamu and
highly respected Sagey in this respect are the South Southern
"Afonja" who along with Amaechi and Akpabio are regarded as having
compromised the vital interests of the region
3 ETHNO RELIGIOUS VITAL INTEREST:
Olufemi Ogunsanwo, on the 63rd page of his 2009 Pace published biography of Awolowo, he titled: "Awo unfinished Greatness", defined the vital interest of the North this way:
Olufemi Ogunsanwo, on the 63rd page of his 2009 Pace published biography of Awolowo, he titled: "Awo unfinished Greatness", defined the vital interest of the North this way:
"Ahmadu Bello and his
colleagues had declared in a parliamentary session in 1953 that they were still
determined to dip the jihad sword and Koran in the Atlantic Ocean in
continuation of the holy war (jihad) begun by Bello's grandfather, Usman Dan
Fodio, which had been halted at Ogbomosho"
MORE OF POLITICAL ECONOMIC VITAL
INTEREST OF THE NORTH
Based on Edwin Feulner's definition,
in which he said:
"vital interests as
developments that could concretely affect the security or economic future of
America and our citizens,"
the following stand out about vital
interests:
• Developments...the Ikeja
cantonment meeting of July 29-30, 1966 and subsequent political developments
like lopsided state and local government creation under the Northern control of
the military. As we shall see later
• That could concretely affect the
security: The Nothernization policy of the Army right from Ribadu the first
defence minister in the 60s when Buhari was recruited, to his 2019 lopsided
defence structure of 2019 is the grand Strategic period of over 59 years.
• Economic future of the (core North
in this context) and its citizens. The Strategic control of prime positions of
economic value, for this reason Buhari is interested in installing a stooge in Rivers
State, to make economic dominion easier.
IMPORTANT OBSERVATION BASED ON SOUTH
SOUTH VESTED INTEREST:
Political parties are costodians of
vital interest.
When a party is percieved to be a
threat to the vital interest of a people, like the PDP in Lagos and the APC in
the entire South South, the voting pattern assumes a near predictable pattern
along lines of vital interest.
BUHARI by his infamous ratio 97% to
5% formula of appointments based on nepotism, the vanguard described as:
"‘97%/5%’, a formula for
national upheaval"https://www.vanguardngr.com/…/975-a-formula-for-national-u…/
....and his subsequent lopsided
appointments in the oil industry, compromised the vital interest of the oil
producing South South in favour of his North..that threat to South Southern
vital interest reflected in the massiave votes against the president in the
region, in an attempt to secure his vital interest, the president resorted to
the last option available to him, the use of the army to influence the the
voting process through rigging, thereby attempting to subjugated the will of
the people.... It backfired!
"Reading the list of those who
benefited from the appointments, Clark said:
“The list shows that the whole of
the South has 19 positions out the 55 positions and the North, a non-oil
producing zone, has 36 positions, which include the very senior
positions." https://www.vanguardngr.com/…/reverse-lopsided-appointment…/
The ultimate political economic
power in Nigeria is our Unitary system of government, that finds constitutional
expression in our presidential system. Both have an arrested development
effect, for which the core North insists on, while resisting a restructured
Nigeria as their strategy for imposing their vital interest on Nigeria, as the
operating system of the state.
The vital interest of the North is
the control of oil, using the political structure of the APC that never gave
the people of the South South the oil Ministry and denied them the ranking
position in the NNPC, but rather sandwiched Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu ( a South
Southerner) between Buhari and Baru, this clash of vital interest over oil is a
major factor in the South South against the president and his ruling Party
getting votes from there.
While it is true that the Riveriners
in Rivers state like the Awori/Yewa in Ogun state have never ruled and indeed
deserve a slot at the governorship, the present attempt seems to be a Greek
gift in which a party (the AAC) without structures seeks power. The Riveriners
(it is believed) would have their slot in 2023 just the way the Delta North got
rulership (for the first democractic time) in 2015 and have extended it by the
ballot box to 2023.
The South South states have sought
to insulate their vital interest from the divide and rule and indirect ruling
strategy of the core North, whose only interest is perpetual control of the oil
of the South South, the South South achieved that by voting against the
President and his APC and the AAC in Port Harcourt.
Continues with part 2c
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