WHAT BUHARI’S CANDIDACY REPRESENTS: THE IDEOLOGICAL WAR IN NIGERIA

It’s time for Christian leaders in Nigeria to recognise what is
going on in their country. There is war in Nigeria, and it is not
a remote or unidirectional war. It is total, national and
belongs in a coordinated global chain. There is economic war
by the ruling elite on the poor. The prototype of this war is
what we see in the almajiri children. This is a picture of what
the Northern elite wants to make of all the children of Nigeria.
If they can do this to their own kith and kin what won’t they
do to others?


There is also a political war of domination, whereby the
Fulanis have cast themselves as the native colonizers and
feudal lords to rule the country with Hausa hegemony, and
they achieve this by playing the rest of the country one
against the other. They watch in amusement as other groups
in the country fight dirty over the crumbs. Nobody gets or
becomes anything in the land unless with the permission of
this retrograde group. The undeclared objective is to
progressively ground Nigeria economically, politically and even
militarily; reduce the nation to near destitution; sabotage the
nation’s economy and security; sap its resilience; weaken its
institutions; make democracy unworkable while progressively
pushing the Sharia into our political, judicial, national and
private space. Hospitals, schools, everything is marked for
destruction so that there will not be any alternative way to
the Sharia and the Islamic way of life.

The Islamic jihad is a mass movement with volunteers stepping forward periodically to execute the same mandate and working assiduous and progressively towards the determined goal. They don’t mind how long it will take them. They will wait and keep making it impossible for any good thing to happen until such a time
when they have weakened every resistance and then they
strike with the most horrendous violence imaginable. The
more people they can kill, the happier they become with the
success of their mission. They are not afraid to die like rats in
the process. Ghatti, Saddam Hussein, and Osama bin
Laden are examples of the incurability of the lunatic affliction
under discourse here. As it happened in other cases, the
programme is to sabotage the nation’s progress in every way
and by all means to make it easy for Islam to walk over the
nation at the appropriate time. It is an agenda for all Muslims
whether in the universities, the armed forces or in the Boko
Haram dug-outs. The Islamic world is resolved on only one
point of agenda: to destroy and never build. This evil alliance
has determined that Nigeria will not arrive at the door of its
destiny. They have determined to substitute God’s glory over
the nation with their satanic programme.

But of all the wars ravaging Nigeria, the most debilitating is
the religious war. It is self-deception to think we can avoid it.
It started the day Nigeria got its flag of independence as a
nation. It has become deep and entrenched, leaving us no
alternative. We either pretend that it doesn’t exist and we are
consumed, or we decide to stand and fight it out spiritually
and physically. Incidentally, the resolution of the religious war
in Nigeria will be the beginning of the resolution of all the
types of war currently pillaging the nation.

The Church must understand that Nigeria cannot continue as
a nation without resolving the ideological war which His
Eminence Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, the National President of the
Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has striven strenuously
to explain but which the Church doesn’t seem to have
understood.

The ideological war proceeds from the irreconcilable differences, to wit, that all the Constitutions of Nigeria from independence proclaim that Nigeria is a SECULAR STATE, meaning that: (i) Nigeria has no state religion; and (ii) every Nigerian has inherent rights which
allow them the freedom to choose their religion and mode and
place of worship. But the post-Independence Constitutions,
especially the military-inspired ones, have sabotaged the
secularity of the Nigerian nation by inserting Islamic codes
that breach our secularity and limit the space and freedom of
non-Muslims to freely worship according to their conscience.
They are denied spaces to build churches; they are refused
employment and school admission from elementary to
university levels unless they convert to Islam or change their
names to Islamic names. Now they are being wiped out
systematically in well-organized and well-funded pogroms.
The sad implications of the mass murder of Christians in the
North (not restricted to North East, remember) are many:

1. They strike terror in the hearts of Christians in the North
2. They put them on the alert that they are in constant danger
of death
3. They mark their churches, schools and hospitals for the
bonfire
4. They make an already educationally disadvantaged people
balk at education
5. They sentence the Northern Christians to economic,
emotional, social and political distress
6. They waste their children
7. They force parents to prefer to keep their children illiterate
to protect them from being exposed to worse fate (the Islamic
sermon on Chibok)
8. They reduce progressively and aim at total annihilation of
Christianity in the North through unending attack on
Christians
9. They attack moderate or non-supportive Muslims
(sometimes with greater violence) to give a false impression
of their real motive and to give the pretentious international
community an excuse to turn a blind eye or be outrightly
biased
10. They create a foothold from which to spread their gospel
of hate and death across the nation without hindrance.
The dark intents of the jihadists are worse and more than
pictured here.

The irreconcilable differences behind the ongoing ideological
warfare in Nigeria are premised on the fact that Christians
and all other religious groups in the country want to live in a
secular state, as stated in the Constitution, while Muslims
insist that they cannot live in a secular state. They must live
in an Islamic State and under Sharia rule. All Muslims are
united on this point and they fight for that common position
everywhere.

The university professors, Supreme Court judges and military generals are fighting it with the same intensity as the Boko Haram terrorists. In the 1999 Constitution that the Abdusalami Abubakar regime bestowed on Nigeria, Christ, Christians and Christianity are not mentioned even once; whereas Islam, Sharia and other Islamic signposts are strewn all over the Constitution as if Nigeria is an Islamic state. That Constitution was written solely by one Muslim named Professor Auwalu Yadudu, a former Special Adviser to Gen.
Sani Abacha on Constitutional Matters. The 1979 Constitution
of the Obasanjo administration was written by the so-called
50 wise men led by Chief Rotimi Williams. While the 1979
Constitution gave emphasis to Nigeria’s secularity, the 1999
Constitution of Yadudu abridged Nigeria’s secularity by
making it an Islamic Constitution in content, and he was there
to fight that position in the National Political Conference of
2014.

Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has done an incredible job as the
spiritual pastor of Nigeria by correctly interpreting the danger
the Church is in. The Nigerian Church stands the chance of
annihilation if it fails to correctly read the signs of the times
and take decisive steps to checkmate the enemy. The Church
Fathers in Nigeria are in the crucible of God’s gaze; and He is
watching keenly to see what they will do with the Cross of the
salvation and the sheep he has bestowed on them.

THE CHURCH HAS AN ANSWER

The only institution today that has an answer to the many ills
of Nigeria is the Church. Christianity is the largest religious
group in Nigeria (notwithstanding the Muslims’ propaganda to
the contrary). The Church must take a number of steps that
must begin to manifest from the next general elections in
Nigeria. Among these are the following:
1. The Church must sit soberly to consider what it has failed
to do in the past and how many lives have been lost
needlessly because of its inattention.
2. As the Church goes into a default mode of spiritual warfare,
it must research the entire realm of human experience called
Arabism and Islam and then deploy Spirit-directed weapons
against them.
3. The Church must learn the warfare strategies of Arabism
and Islam and mount its counter measures to contain them.
4. The Church must find the mechanism to unite under
charismatic, visionary and spirit-filled leadership and use CAN
and PFN as strategic planks to shape the destiny of Nigeria
and defend the Church. The Church must build itself into a
mass-educated mass movement backed with a war chest.
This is the last war Nigeria will have to fight, and it is the
most decisive war. It is the war that will determine whether
Nigeria will live or not. It is the war that will determine
whether this generation will pass on Christianity to their
grandchildren. The Church must work out its unity as Christ
prayed:

Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also who shall
believe on me through their word; That they all may be one;
as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be
one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me
(John 17:20-21).

It must be emphasized that most Christians will cooperate
under a formidable Christian umbrella once they are properly
schooled on the issues at stake. If it is taken as a major
agenda and prosecuted with all diligence, the possible
dissenters (such as the catholic leadership) will be in the
minority. With effective education, most individual Catholics in
Nigeria will eventually come to take a stand for Christian
survival, irrespective of what their priests are saying (a
discernible pattern in the Catholic fold globally is that many
have already taken individual positions on church doctrines
which they consider unacceptable or opposed to the Bible).

5. The Church must defend its position vigorously and fight
until justice and righteousness is enthroned. The Church must
never tire or give up, and must always choose its leaders
carefully to lead the Lord’s army.
6. The Church must begin to use its numerical advantage to
influence decisions for good in the land.
7. The Church should take interest in the emergence and
choice of candidates for political and decision-making
positions in the country
8. More than any other thing, the Church should do whatever
is legitimate to ensure that the Church of Christ is not overrun
in Nigeria. It must reverse its losses and make the Islamic
Agenda dead on arrival.
9. If the Church chooses to continue to bicker and fight
private wars or promote private enterprises instead of
labouring collectively to advance the Kingdom of God on earth,
we will wake up some day – or maybe our great/grandchildren
will wake up – and find that the Church belonged to
prehistory. It did in Turkey, as is famously known now.
10. The day Nigeria will be officially proclaimed “The Islamic
Republic of Nigeria” as it is secretly done for now in the OIC
and other Islamic documents around the world will never arise
if the Church stands united on Isaiah 7: 7 and fights the
Lord’s battle with everything at its disposal.
11. The battle for the liberation of the Nigerian Church from
Islamic stranglehold begins with the Presidential election on
28 March, 2015. The emergence of Goodluck Jonathan in
the 2011 Presidential Elections was a big blow to the Islamic
Agenda, and that explains the massive bloodletting that
followed it and the graduation of political and religious
violence to an unmanageable state.

The sabotage of the nation’s security and economic interest, as well as the widespread violence, massive bloodshed, political and social
destabilization of the country are an organized platform of
political blackmail of the Jonathan Presidency and an indirect
campaign for a Northern Muslim Presidency to take over. To
be sure, the violence will not cease automatically even if a
Muslim becomes President; it will attenuate because the
Muslim President will begin to endorse and implement the
Islamic Agenda and legitimizing all official and unofficial
actions taken in the land without necessarily resorting to open
violence. Violence doesn’t need to be physical to be violence.
Hunger and poverty could be more strategic weapons of
warfare. These were the tools the Babangida regime used to
castrate the middle class, and it has not recovered till today.
12. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the APC, based on his
antecedents and what he currently represents, is another
delegate of the Fulani political domination of Nigeria and an
agent of the Islamic Agenda. He is not Nigeria’s Messiah and
the Church will be signing a suicide note by empowering him
to become the President of Nigeria.

THE MUHAMMADU BUHARI FACT SHEET

1. General Muhammadu Buhari, the APC Presidential
candidate, is one of the Nigerian army generals who has not
amassed wealth on the ludicrous state that others have. It is
however wrong to state that he is not corrupt, as it is often
claimed, because:

• He is a product and primary beneficiary of the political,
ethnic and spiritual corruption that breads economic
corruption in Nigeria. He is the current face of the Caliphate
and Fulani stranglehold on Nigeria. His double-face
campaigns suggest a sinister objective other than personal
ambition or patriotic zeal. He is the current champion of the
feudal hold on Nigeria’s progress. Feudalism is antithetical to
democracy.

• As Petroleum Task Force (PTF) Chairman under Gen. Sani
Abacha, Buhari recruited his relation as a consultant to run
the organization, and the fellow stole all the money that
needed to be stolen (about N25 billion, according to some
sources).

• As PTF Chairman, 80% of projects executed by the PTF were
located in the North. Someone should ask what he did for
Lagos from Bola Tinubu or what he did in the South generally.

• Buhari has been quoted in the press as saying Abacha was
not corrupt. All the Abacha loot seized in foreign countries is
balderdash to incorruptible Buhari.

2. General Buhari did not fight corruption, and cannot. When
he seized power in the December 1983 coup, he kept Shehu
Shagari, the profligate President in an Ikoyi Guest House and
sent Alex Ekwueme, his Deputy, who had no official portfolio,
to Kirikiri prison. All the UPN and NPP Governors were sent to
Kirikiri. When the courts tried them and found them not guilty
Buhari refused to release them. Governor Adekunle Ajasin was
tried thrice and absolved thrice, yet Buhari refused to release
him. He only released them after their health had failed, and
they died one after the other soon after. Is that how to fight
corruption? How many Fulanis did Buhari jail? Or were they all
angels?

3. You surely remember that it was the Buhari military regime
that changed the colour of the Naira to beat supposed
economic saboteurs in 1984. Most Nigerians were caught at
the wrong end. You could only withdraw a limited sum of your
money in the bank, and you could not deposit beyond a
decreed amount. Many people lost their legitimate earnings
because of Buhari’s brand of economic management. But
guess what? One whole year after the currency had been
changed, the old currency which was no longer legal tender
was still circulating freely in Sokoto. It was front-page news
in the Nigerian Tribune. Can you then see to what intents the
rigid rule of Gen Buhari was deployed? The laws were made
for the South, definitely not for the Caliphate.

4. Remember the Emir of Gwandu story? While Buhari was
waging his economic war, all travellers’ luggage to and from
Nigeria was rigorously searched by security agents to prevent
the importation of the naira. In the midst of this policy, the
Emir of Gwandu arrived Nigeria with 53 suitcases which the
Airport Command of the Customs under Atiku Abubakar refuse
to clear. But within a moment, Gen Buhari’s ADC Major Jokolo
surfaced at the Airport and forcefully cleared the suitcases. Do
you know the implication of the ADC to the Head of State
personally clearing goods at the airport?