
First it was the Sunni Islamists Boko Haram backed by the Wahabist Saudi Arabia and now the Shiites Islamists with Iranian backing are now ready to join the confrontation with the authorities in Nigeria. The only good news is that the president of Nigeria, President Dr Muhammadu Buhari is himself a Sunni, the reason he was initially defending Boko Haram and would readily crush the Shiites, a rival sect to his Sunni sect. Icheoku calls for other religions as well as secular Nigerians to remain on eternal vigilance and plan contingencies on defending themselves as this two foes are now set on a course to ravage Northern Nigeria the same way they have laid waste the Middle East with Syria and Iraq being their current theater.

May be this will be yet another ground for the demand for an independent secular Biafra State, where all these religious manipulations will not be tolerated nor accepted. Icheoku however says that the Nigeria government of President Buhari can ill-afford another front on its war against Islamic terrorists, with the already Boko Haram raging inferno in Northeastern Nigeria. Icheoku warns that adding yet another merchants of death in the name of Shiites Islamist warriors, opening another front in the middle of the North, in Kaduna, is rather too risky a proposition for Buhari's government to fathom nor handle. Therefore whatever be the cost or sacrifice, the government must firmly sit on the situation in order not to let it slip out of control.
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