UMARU YAR'ADUA, KILLS FEDERAL CHARACTER IN NIGERIA?

When will Southern Nigeria wake up from their slumbering and let the North realize that they are not so entitled to hijack all there is in Nigeria, just for themselves alone? Since the inception of the sicko of Katsina, every office worth a few million dollars in budgetary allocation has been given to a Northerner. And what does the South do, remain the timid bride waiting on the table of the arrogant mallams up North, who are growing more empowered every day?

Just few weeks ago, President Umaru Yar'Adua reorganized the federal media in Nigeria and brazenly put three Northerners to head the three organisations and this is in a country where there are so many tribes with three principal ones, two of which is based in the south. The three directors-general of the national broadcast organisations, notably the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and the Voice Of Nigeria (VON) are all from the core North. Alhaji Abubakar Jijiwa, Director General of VON is from Adamawa State; Malam Usman Magawata, Director General of NTA is from Kebbi State and Malam Yusuf Nuhu, Director-General of the FRCN hails from Katsina State. Icheoku asks, would the North accept such disproportionate appointments from the south were the tables to suddenly turn?

This total and bullish disregard of the principle of federal character by the mallams of the North, which principle is the bond holding Nigeria together, Icheoku says is tasking the continued existence of one "Nigeria"? If there is nothing there for other component parts of Nigeria, the question remains, why continue a non-working order? Should anything happen and Nigeria is no more, blame the North for their speed-balling of Nigeria's disintegration by their unbridled self-centered indifferent attitude to other stake-holders of the Nigeria experiment.

To further add insult to injury, the Northern oligarchs are going full steam and aggrandising and gulping down what remains of the Nigerian federation. Just recently, President Umaru Yar'Adua made additional appointments, using his fellow mallams to fill the positions. The new Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Yusuf Bomoi is from Yar'Adua's home state of Katsina and new Director General of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), Alhaji Muhammad Nadada is also from the north, Bauchi to be precise? And they are doing this without any regard to the federal character or quota-system operating principle in Nigeria. Were it JAMB or Law School or WAEC, the north, because of their learning-disability (a bunch of retards), will insist on quota system to get their fair share of the slots but when it comes to them usurping everything Nigeria, then such a proportionate system is jettisoned out the window? Who says these cattle-rearers are fools? Icheoku says, when will enough be really enough with these kola-nut chewers? Needless to mention that both the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal has both mallams as their respective heads.

It has been the same pattern since the inception of the Umaru Yar'Adua's administration and nobody appears to be perturbed, not even the Vice President Jonathan Goodluck who supposedly is representing the southern interest in the government? What will it cost him to speak out against this northern arrogation of what belongs to everybody, after-all he was elected alongside Umaru Yar'Adua and cannot be just sacked? What will it take to make these mallam realize that Nigeria is not their sole property? What is the south waiting for or is it when the north produces both the president as well as the vice president of Nigeria? From posting of ministers, ambassadors, permanent secretaries and officers of the directorate cadre in the federal service, each has been made to particularly favor a section of the country up North, and one wonders, were the reverse to be the case, would the North accept what they are forcibly shoving down the throat of Southerners?

Take a look at all the prime ministries of Defence, Finance, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Petroleum, Agriculture, Justice, Water Resources, National Planning and Natural Resources etc and tell Icheoku which of them is not commandeered by a Northerner?

Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources - Abba Sayyadi Ruma
Minister of Defence - Shettima Mustapha
Minister of Environment and Housing - Halima Alao
Minister of FCT Administration - Adamu Aliero
Minister of Justice (Attorney General) - Michael Kaase Aondokaa
Minister of Women Affairs - Saudatu Bungudu
Minister & Chairman National Planning Commission - Shamsudeen Usman
Minister & Chairman National Sports Commission - Abudlrahman Gimba

Federal Ministry of Works & Housing - Hassan M. Lawal
Federal Ministry of Police Affairs - I.Y. Lame
Ministry of Petroleum Resources - Rilwanu Lukman
Federal Ministry of Science and Technology - A. B. Zaku
Federal Ministry of Sports and Social Development - Engr. S.M. Ndanusa
Federal Ministry of Transport - Ibrahim Bio

Icheoku would not have a problem with any Nigerian occupying any position, but in a country like Nigeria where unwilling nations are unequally yoked together, it makes better sense were things to be more equitably distributed. Also were these mallams capable and productive, nobody will raise too much of an eyebrow, but they are known failures whose stranglehold on Nigeria has kept Nigeria down all these years since her independence. It is time to speak up Southern Nigeria, or forever remain enslaved by the North who does not have the common decency or sense to discern that their crass appropriation of all the goodies in Nigeria can only mean one thing, and one thing only, a rise-up! Northern Nigeria, please put yourself in the shoes of the south and see if you can take what your dishing out to them?

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