Islamist Jihadists of the Hausa-Fulani and Kanuri ethnic nationalities, who are Negroid immigrants to Nigeria, are pushing the nation to an implosion. It is therefore imperative that the remaining 386 ethnic nationalities of Nigeria should, as a matter of priority, convene a conference to demonstrate to the few Islamist Jihadists of the three ethnic nationalities the grave danger of Islamism as a system of governance. Nigerians are reminded that the present distress in the country is not an act of God, but man-made.

The brazen and audacious imposition of Islamist Jihadists into key positions in the country is not an expression of religious piety but a deliberate manipulation of religion for cultural and political domination by three Ethnic Groups. This agenda commenced in 1975, after the overthrow of General Yakubu Gowon (retd).

The Islamist Jihadists are a violent and domineering strain of Islam rejected by mainstream Muslims. We are reminded that after the Arab Spring, Tunisia and Egypt elected Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood into power. One year later, the two Arab Islamic nations staged another revolution and sacked them. If Arab nations could not tolerate Islamist Jihadists’ domination, we wonder how Nigeria, a multi-cultural, multi-religious, multi-lingual, and multi-ethnic nation would cope with the dire consequences of flooding government with Islamist Jihadists. The signs are ominous that the Islamist Jihadists, a minority in the three ethnic nationalities of Arab ancestry, have contrived a malevolent agenda against the other 386 Negro ethnic nationalities that make up Nigeria. These Negro ethnic nationalities and non-Islamist Jihadists must rise to contain the present challenges, especially the activities of the murderous Boko Haram and Fulani Herdsmen that is now being strengthened with the discriminatory appointments that weighs very much against non-Muslims in Nigeria. The distinction between Negroes and Negroid is necessary to reject the assumption of superiority of the Negroid of Arab descendants in Nigeria.

It is pertinent to explain that there is a difference between Islam and Islamism. While Islam is a religion, Islamism is a political ideology which holds that Islam is not only a religion but a political system that must dominate wherever it is practised in the world. Islamism is the ideology driving the Taliban, Al Shabab, Al Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram, Fulani Herdsmen, and others. Islamism operates through religious terrorists and stealthily through “Civilisation Jihad” (deceit): both seek to undermine democratic societies and convert them forcefully to Sharia states.

All attempts to draw the attention of the President Muhammadu Buhari Administration, through previous press releases and press conferences, have mischievously been interpreted as politics. We are also dismayed that the Christian Coalition Group as well as other arms of Christians in Nigeria that have expressed concern about evolving issues in the nation have been described as members of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP). This is a very disappointing response to very serious national issues. As Nigerians, we have the right to comment on issues that are of great importance to the nation, especially when our elected representatives chose to be silent. While we were worried about the lopsided appointments in the Security Services, we also noticed, a few days ago, that the Education Sector has been privatised in the hands of only the Fulanis and Islamist Jihadists. Virtually all strategic federal educational offices/appointment, have gone to persons with Islamist Jihadist tendencies as heads in the universities, polytechnics, colleges of education, the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB), educational funding and policy departments, etc. Our concern is not about the job and appointments, but the fundamental Islamist Jihadist Agenda that is playing out in Nigeria. We are constrained to ponder what the list of students’ admission will look like in the nearest future in our nation with an Islamist Jihadist in charge of JAMB.

During the 2015 General Election a major apprehension was the possibility of President Buhari dividing Nigeria along religious lines. This apprehension has now been justified as the President has officially completed the last phase of the Islamisation exercise by instituting a strong Islamic foundation throughout the Nigerian Education Sector. Most functional boards in the civil service are headed mostly by Muslims and Fulani, which is becoming a threat and danger to the very foundation of Nigeria. We, as Christians, pray that God will save us from the hands of the Islamist Jihadists. We appeal to Mr President not to set a record as the most insensitive President ever in the history of Nigeria. Mr President assured the nation during his inauguration, that he belongs to everybody: "I Belong To Everybody, I Belong To Nobody" he said. Unfortunately, since coming into office, President Buhari has consistently proved that he belongs only to Muslims and the Fulani. Mr President has finally confirmed what he affirmed in his BBC Hausa interview in 2003. According to ‘Hope For Nigeria’, he stated that he would continue in the “quest to ensure that Islamic Sharia is spread across Nigeria."

Violation of principle of Federal Character in federal appointments

Section 171 sub-section 5 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) stipulates that the President, in exercising his powers of appointment under this section, shall have regard to the Federal Character of Nigeria and the need to promote national unity. A critical look at the list of appointments by this administration shows utter disregard for issues that promote national unity and a gross violation of the Constitution. We wonder how Mr. President can relate the impunity of his administration to his mantra: fight against corruption. By flagrantly violating Sections 171(5) and 10 of the Constitution, the President has presented himself as corrupt.

Below are some of the very important appointments made by “Federal Islamist Jihadist’s Imperial Government” to confirm our apprehension:

Chief executives of educational institutions:

1 Head, National Universities Commission ( NUC), Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed (Hausa/Fulani Muslim)

2 Head of Polytechnics: Hausa/Fulani Muslim

3 Head of Colleges of Education: Prof. Bappah Aliyu, Hausa/Fulani Muslim

4 Head of TETFUND: Dr. Abdulahi Baffa, Hausa/Fulani Muslim

5 Head of JAMB: Prof. Ishaq Oloyede (Professor of Arabic studies), Muslim

6 Head of UBEC, Dr Hameed Bobboyi: Hausa/Fulani Muslim

7 Head of NABTEB: Hausa/Fulani Muslim

8 Head of NTI: Prof Garba Dahuwa Azare Hausa/Fulani Muslim.

From the foregoing list, 88 per cent of the appointments are Northern Muslim/Fulani Muslim. (Only one person is from South-west, nevertheless, a Muslim.) This is in addition to handing over security outfits of the federation to Muslims. President Buhari has masterfully completed the configuration of the entire national security structure/architecture firmly in the hands of the Northern Hausa-Fulani Muslims alone, to the exclusion of all other ethnic groups in Nigeria. This is definitely unfair, not just to Christians but to all non-Muslims in Nigeria.

Security units are configured as follows:

1. Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Alhaji Ibrahim Idris Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

2.Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Yusuf Buratai, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

3. Minister for Defence, Mansur Mohammed Dan-Ali, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

4. Minister for Internal Affairs, Gen Abdulraheem Bello Danbazzau, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

5. National Security Adviser, (NSA) Mohammed Babagana Monguno, Northern Muslim Hausa-Fulani

6. Director-General, Department of State Services (DSS), Lawal Musa Daura, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

7. Commandant-General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

8. Chief of Staff to the President, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

9. ADC to the President, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

10. CSO to the President, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

11. Principal Secretary to the President, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

12. Private Secretary to President, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

13. Chief Protocol Officer to the President, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

14. Director-General of Customs, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

15. Chairman, EFCC, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

16. Director-General, Nigerian Prisons, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

17. Director-General, Immigration, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

18. Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),Prof Mahmud Yakubu, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

19. Minister for Petroleum, President Muhammadu Buhari, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

20. Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Alhaji Mohammed Bello, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

21. President and Commander-in- Chief of the Armed Forces, President Muhammadu Buhari, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani.

Fellow Nigerians, added to the above disturbing appointments are:

1. Head of National Assembly/Senate President, Northern Muslim

2. Head of Judiciary/Chief Justice of Nigeria, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

3. Head, Federal Courts of Appeal, Northern Muslim, Hausa-Fulani

4. All Registrars/Principal Officers at all levels of the Federal Judiciary, Northern Muslims, Hausa-Fulani

5. Clerk of the National Assembly, Northern Muslim.

Police officers announced as new Assistant Inspectors-General (AIGs)

1 Ibrahim Adamu, AIG, Zone 1

2 Abdulmajid Ali, AIG, Zone 2

3 Usman Tilli, AIG zone 3

4 Dorothy Gimba, AIG, Investment Formation

5 Mohammed Mohammed, AIG Special Protection Unit

6 Mohammed Katsina, AIG National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Jos.

It is noteworthy that State Commissioners of Police were also promoted, making it a total of 18 new AIGs.

Other appointments of President Buhari:

1. DG, Directorate of Petroleum Resources: Mordecai Ladan, North-west

2. Accountant-General of the Federation: Ahmed Idris, North-west

3. Chief of Protocol: Lawal Kazaure, Kano, North-west

4. Chairman INEC: Mahmoud Yakubu, North-east

5. Chief of Staff: Abba Kyari, Borno, North-east

6. Director-General of NIMASA: Dr Dakuku Peterside, Rivers, South-south

7. Head of Service: Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita, South-south

8. SSA Media: Shehu Garba, Kano, North-west

9. SA Media: Femi Adeshina, Osun, South-west

10. CG, NSCDC: Abdulahi Mohammed, North-central

11. Director-General: SSS, Lawal Daura, Katsina, North-west

12. National Security Adviser: Alhaji Babagana Monguno, Borno, North-east

13. Chief Defence of Staff: Abayomi Gabriel, Ekiti, South-west

14. Chief of Army Staff: T. Y. Buratai, Borno, North-east

15. Chief of Air Staff, Marshal Sadique Bauchi North-east

16. Chief of Naval Staff: Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas: Cross River, South-south

17. DG Presidential Amnesty (Niger Delta): Brig PT Boroh, South-south

18. ADC, Mohammed Lawal: Kano, North-west

19. CSO: Abdulrahman Mani, North-west

20. Executive Vice Chairman, NCC: Umaru Danbatta, Kano, North-west

21. Chairman, Transition Committee: Ahmed Joda, North-east

22. Managing Director, AMCON: Ahmed Lawan Kuru, North-west

23. Controller-General of Customs: Col Hameed Ali, North-west

24. Aliyu Yahaya Gusau, Director-General, Budget Office:North-west

25. EC Federal Inland Revenue Service: Dr Williams Babatunde Fowler, Lagos, South-west

26. Babachir David Lawal, SGF: North-east

27. CG Immigration: Kure Martin Abeshi, North-central

28. SSA National Assembly: Suleiman A. Kawu, North-central

29. SSA National Assembly, Ita SJ. Enang, South-south

31. MD/CEO Nigerian Ports Authority: Hajiya Habibu Abdulahi, Kano, North-west

32. DG Budget: Aliyu Gusau, Zamfara, North-west

33. Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission: Ibrahim Magu, North-west

34. Director-General, NOTAP: Dan Azumi Mohammed, North-west

35. Head, NIMC: Engr Aliyu M Aziz, North-central

36. MD/CEO, NDIC, Umaru Ibrahim, Kano, North-west

37. Federal Character Commission: Shettima Bukar Abba,Borno, North-east

38. SA Social Protection, Maryam Uwais, Kaduna, North-west

39. Chairman, NDLEA: Muhammad Abdallah, Adamawa, North-east

40. MD/CEO, Niger Delta Development Commission: Sam Ekere, Akwa Ibom, South/South

41. SA New Media: Bashir Ahmed, Kano, North-west

42. MD/CEO, NEITI: Waziri Adio, Osun, South-west

42. Director-General, SMEDAN: Dr Dikko Umaru Raqqa, Katsina, North-west

43. DG National Maritime Administration and Security Agency: Dakuku Peterside, Rivers, South-south

44. Secretary-General of OPEC, Mohammed Barkindo, North-west

45. DG, NYSC: Kazaure, North-west

46. SA Prosecution: Okoi Obono-Obla, Cross River, South-south

47. CG Prisons, Ahmed Jafaru, Jigawa, North-west

48. CG Immigration: Mohammed Babandede, Jigawa, North-west

Let us attempt a tally of the last set numbered 1-48 only

North-west, 25

North-east, 9

North-central,4

South-west, 4

South-south, 6

South-east, 0.

Following is full list of Army officers compulsorily retired by President Muhammadu Buhari. They are 90 per cent non-Muslims. It projects that Buhari’s programme of Ethnic and Regional cleansing continues:

Maj-Gen TC Ude (SE-)

Maj-Gen LC Ilo (SE)

Maj- Gen IN Ijeoma (SE)

Maj-Gen O Ejimai (SE)

Maj-Gen PAT Akem (SS)

Maj-Gen ED Atewe(SS)

Maj-Gen Letam Wiwa (younger brother of murdered Environmental Rights activist and author, Ken Saro-Wiwa) (SS)

Maj-Gen FO Alli (SS)

Maj- Gen Mobolaji Koleoso (SW)

Maj-Gen SD Aliyu (MB)

Maj-Gen MY Ibrahim

Brig-Gen GO Agachi (SE)

Brig-Gen Okonkwo (SE)

Brig-Gen Ogidi (SS)

Brig-Gen Koko Essien (SS)

Brig-Gen PE Ekpeyong (SS)

Brig-Gen Bright Fiboinumama (SS)

Brig-Gen M. Onoyiveta (SS)

Brig-Gen IMD Lawson (SS)

Brig-Gen Oyefesobi (SW)

Brig-Gen AI Onibasa (SW)

Brig-Gen Bashir Mormo (SS)

Brig-Gen AH Sa’ad (SS) Former ADC to late President Musa Yar'Adua

Brig-Gen MG Ali

Brig-Gen LN Bello

Brig-Gen D Abdusalam

Col CK Ukoha (SE)

Col OU Nwankwo, (SE)

Col Nicholas Achinze -Dasuki’s ADC (SE)

Col Tonye F Minimah –Younger brother of former Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Kenneth Minimah (SS)

Col FD Kayode (SW)

Col Ojogbane Adegbe –ADC to former President Goodluck Jonathan (MB)

Col Audu (MB)

Col DR Hassan

Col MA Suleiman

Lt Col GC Nyekwu (SS)

Lt Col C Enechukwu (SE)

Lt Col CO Amadi (SE)

Lt Col Adimoha (SS)

Lt Col OC Egemode (SS)

Lt Col TE Arigbe (SW)

Lt Col TO Oladuntoye (SW)

Lt Col Baba Ochankpa (MB)

Lt Col DB Dazang (MB)

Lt Col A Mohammed

Lt Col AS Mohammed.

With the above statistics, it is fair to suggest that President Buhari is promoting division between Muslims and other Nigerians.

We wonder, whether Islamism has something to do with the abolition, by President Buhari, of the single four-year tenure for permanent secretaries and two-term of four years (eight years) tenure for directors in the Federal Civil Service, in order to entrench Islamism and neo-colonialism in Nigeria.

Collaboration and acquiescence of elites

There is need to define imperialism and what it stands for: especially because the Fulani Jihadists, after having been conquered by the British imperialists, were appointed junior partners in imperialism and colonialism by way of Indirect Rule throughout Northern Nigeria. This form of colonial policy was adopted with some modifications to suit Southern Nigeria. Imperialism is a type of advocacy of an empire. Its name originated from the Latin word imperium, which means to rule over territories. Imperialism is “a policy of extending a country's power and influence tough colonisation, use of military force, or other means". Imperialism also includes a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. Imperialism is particularly focused on the control that one group, often a state power, has on another group of people. This is often through various forms of racial, religious, or cultural stereotypes. There are ‘formal’ or ‘informal’ imperialisms. ‘Formal imperialism’ is defined as ‘physical control or full-fledged colonial rule’. ‘Informal imperialism’ is less direct. However, it is still a powerful form of dominance. Northern and Southern Nigeria ceased to exist as political terminologies with the creation of states in 1967 by General Gowon. There cannot be a political North, when there is no such South. Unfortunately, the ghost of colonialism continues to haunt Nigeria with the Fulani as the ‘ghost’ and neo-colonialists of Arewa (North) with a perceived South. The South, as is employed, is used merely to promote Arewa (North) as a political terminology. After independence, the Fulani decided that they were successors to the British imperialism in Nigeria, and, thereby have become the neo-colonialists with military arsenal and manpower to continue where the British stopped. This backward policy is not in accord with democracy, 21^st Century Africa and the civilised world.

Collaborators

In the book titled Empire, the British Imperial Experience from 1765 to the present, the author, Denis Judd, wrote: “Faced with the onward march of British imperialism and European civilisation, local peoples had to make a choice between acceptance and defiance, collaboration and resistance. It is small wonder that for the most part, collaboration with the imperial authorities became the inevitable consequence of imperial expansion and control. Without the collaboration - the acquiescence - of local elites, tribal and religious groupings, the different castes and sub-divisions of colonial society, the British would never have been able to carry out their stupendous task of conquering, ruling, dominating and controlling so large a proportion of the planet, without also the collaboration and acquiescence of the educated elite.”

The same neo-imperialist can be said of Fulani Empire in present day Nigeria. Nigerian Christians in 2015 substituted a substantive President with a Vice-President and with the discriminatory appointments and action listed above, the question Nigerians are asking is: “Where were the non-Islamists in partisan politics who, by their conduct are members of the ruling party and opposition, when the Islamist Jihadists decided to take over the country? Have they been paid off so that Nigeria can become a true Islamist Jihadist country?” If that is the case, Christian elites in partisan politics have promoted the worst form of neo-colonialism bordering on slavery, where the ‘Christian’ South provide the funds for the Fulani to extend the Sokoto Caliphate Empire and influence through Islamic Jihad, Boko Haram and the stealth Jihad Taqiyya to the rest of Nigeria.

History will be very harsh on non-Muslim Nigerians, especially the ‘Christian elites’ if we do not let President Buhari appreciate that Democracy, not Islamism, is the best form of government invented by humans. Only democracy can save Nigeria from the paths treaded by Pakistan, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Eritria, Burundi, Southern Sudan, Central African Republic, Syria, Iran and Yemen, etc. We therefore draw the attention of all non-Muslims in government (past and present) from presidents, heads of state, vice-presidents, presidents and deputy presidents of the Senate, speakers of the House of Representatives, governors, members of the Senate and House of Representatives and state assemblies, Church leaders, cardinals, overseers, archbishops, bishops, pastors and priests to realise that Christians constitute 50 per cent of the population of Nigeria; and that it is only with their collaboration and acquiescence that the Islamisation of Nigeria can be accomplished.

This appeal also goes to professional groups such as the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), Nigerian Institute of Estate Surveyors and Valuers of Nigeria (NIESV), Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN), Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN), Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Nigerian Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN), Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS), Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM), Nigeria Institute of Architects (NIA), National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM), Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS), National Union of Petroleum & Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), National Union of Textile & Garment Workers of Nigeria (NUTGWN) and other professional and industrial associations trained in Western democracies. Surely, they do not want to leave the country once again as some did during the 1975 purge of educated Nigerians. They must all speak out to save their country, Nigeria, and its young democracy. Boko Haram, Fulani Herdsmen are not alternatives. We, Christians, will be called to question in the world beyond if we do nothing. We the elites will appear before God to explain why we failed to utilise God’s gift to us, especially our knowledge to solve our country’s problems by working to stop the backward policies of Islamist Jihadists. Christian elites who are vocal in condemning Christians in authority cannot remain silent now unless, of course, they have sold out to the Islamist Jihadists in Nigeria.

We must conclude by pointing out that imperialism rested on and, indeed, was sustained by “assumptions of superiority”, where one white person or Negroid, in the case of Nigeria, was thought to be worth literally any member of Blacks”. In Nigeria, the Arab descendants who partnered the British in Indirect Rule believe that they are superior to Negro tribes that make up over 80 per cent of the population. Nigerian non-Muslims who acquired Western education over 70 years before the Arab Negroid are being regarded ‘technically’ as inferior to those with Arabic education: Boko Haram, which means that Western education is ‘worthless’. Thus, Western educated collaborators are promoting unwittingly, the superiority of the Arab descendants over the other 386 nationalities that make up Nigeria, with Islam as superior to Christianity and other Religions. Not only are these Jihadists’ assumptions false, wicked and devious, they are also backward, retrogressive, undemocratic and against the rule of law.

Our answer is to show that while arms and Taqiyya (deceit) win Jihads, it takes ideas to win the peace. The options open to us non-Islamist Jihadists in Nigeria today are dialogue, reconciliation and restructure in that order.

God Bless Nigeria

•Being a statement signed dated August 8, 2016, signed by Solomon Asemota, SAN (shown in photo), for and on behalf of the Coalition of Christian Groups, namely: National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF), Nigerian Christian Graduates Fellowship (NCGF), Think Tank For The Body Of Christ, Christian Lawyers Fellowship of Nigeria (CLASFON), Association of Christian Schools in Nigeria (ACSIN), Students Christian Movement (SCM), Christian Professionals Forum (CPF), Ministers Prayer Network (MPN), International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem (ICEJ), Nigeria Evangelical Missions Association (NEMA), International Prophetic Ministerial Association (IPMA) Inc.,Worldwide College of Bishops & Ministers, Africa, UK & USA, Intercessors Without Walls (IWW), Wailing Women International (WWI), Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship, Nigerian Fellowship of Christian Students (NIFES), University Joint Campus Christian Fellowship (UJCM), Nigerian Christian Corpers Fellowship (NCCF), Nigeria Supreme Council For Ecclesiastical Affairs (NSCEA), African Association for Ecclesiastical Affairs (AAEA) and The Preacher (TP).

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