Buhari statement that he didn’t respond directly to Obasanjo’s letter, because they are from the ‘same constituency’ is further proof that there are only two political parties in Nigeria – the army and the politicians.
This also supports the view that only the army class of 66 can determine what happens in 2019 presidential election. Less than 9 months to the election and there is no viable presidential candidate on the horizon.
Everyone is scared of intimidation and arrest by EFCC and DSS. So, it is either Buhari steps down due to Obasanjo pressure or they work/fight it out amongst each other. The rest of us are just spectators.
There are only two organized power blocs in Nigeria – the Army elite, trained, indoctrinated and armed by the Western military industrial complex like those of Egypt and the Caliphate elite mainly headed by Fulani Islamists following Usman Dan Fodios vision.
While the army elite are united with Esprit De Corps and the Fulani elite are united according to the ideals of Usman Dan Fodio, Original Africans, concentrated in Southbelt, forming 70% of the Nigerian population, have not found a strong binding agent due to their long term cultural disorientation.
Therefore the two organized power blocs win over each other by dividing the majority Original Africans into different camps in every election cycle.
Many were amused to see Chief Bode George, who was believed to have been wrongly jailed by Obasanjo, pled to Obasanjo and Buhari not to fight in public for the sake of their military constituency. This is an example of the political cohesion and unity among the military constituency, especially the Class of 66.
The Fulani power structure is also cohesive since no Fulani will go against their collective will. They rarely accuse each other of corruption or other immorality and will be ostracized if they fall out of line. Just like the army boys who respect army seniority, at the pinnacle of the Caliphate is the Sultan followed by Emirs.
Unfortunately, indigenous African political sphere has no such order or binding factor. On a few occasions, the Original African leadership has tried to create political unity across the Southbelt, but it lacked the ingredients to make it sustainable.
Currently the political mantra is restructuring but it will amount to nothing if not cemented with common origins and order. A movement should not only be based on the destination but the identity and organization of its passengers.
Successful political movements in the Western world have always had the two factors – origins/identity and destination. The Conservative movements formed around the 1850s that led to the US Republican, UK Conservative and European Christian Democrats parties were based on White Supremacy inspired indirectly by their monarchs. This gave them identity, order and collective aspirations.
The most viable opposition parties in the western democracies were based on Labor Unions – Democratic, Labour and Social Democratic Parties – whose unionist identity had a structure tied to labour unions and Marxist ideals.
The point is Original/Indigenous African leadership can’t carry along the people with only a political destination. It will suffer from voter apathy and its leadership will be split by other blocs that court some of their leaders with false promises of fulfilling their political aspirations.
To form a viable sustainable political platform, the Original African leadership must use the concept of common origins to stimulate the masses and to enforce a blood bond among the ranks of its leadership.
Just as the European Conservatives use racism, immigration and homosexuality to stimulate and energize their White masses, the Fulani Northern political blocs main rhetoric in 2014 to mobilize the Islamized masses was to vote out the corrupt infidel.
Original African leadership must use the sons of the soil versus the marauding colonists to agitate its constituency.
For order and cohesion, the movement must be led by the cultural leadership, the paramount Monarchs of each group. Ultimately, they would provide the order and long term guarantee for the short termist politicians. They will be responsible for the political actors from their ethnic groups.
Awolowos Egbe Omo Oduduwa was a more sustainable platform than that of the Igbos because it was supported by Yorubas paramount Monarch, Ooni Aderemi. To work against Action Group that came out of the Egbe Oduduwa cultural platform was often regarded as selling out Yoruba interests.
Now, what is regarded is a mix of Awolowos cultural cum political platform with Azikwes pan-Africanism based on the realization that the fight was against the united Western and Islamic imperialists, who couldn’t be defeated by single tribal political platforms.
Luckily, we now have genetic and cultural anthropological evidence to prove that all indigenous Africans have a single common origin and have the same cultural foundations, which has resulted in common collective aspirations.
Original African cultural leadership are ready and have been waiting on the line for the political class since they have already organized into traditional vs caliphate monarchs.
I have personally visited majority of the Original African paramount monarchs, who informed me that they are willing to work with the Ooni of Ife, who shares the leadership of all Nigerian traditional rulers with the Sultan.
Obviously, they are not happy that their group is the weaker partner because the Fulani political class has successfully organized, to not only take power at the center but used it to empower the Sultan over the Ooni.
Therefore, they will welcome a movement that unifies all Original Africans to take power and make them more relevant like the Fulanis did to the Sultan. It is a two way route, a win win scenario, the Original Africans will use their cultural leadership to gather people on a single platform that will win and further empower them. This will bring identity, order and direction.
Charity begins at home and until the political class goes back home to build the movement, they will always fail against those who are tied to their roots.
Until then, the Nigerian political landscape will be defined as Officers, a few Islamist gentlemen and a horde of disorganized area boys, as the Emir of Kano Lamido Sanusi defined Yoruba political leadership!
