The North Is Not Daft!! – Godwin Okpe

“The ambition of one man is not worth your soaked hands in blood. The SW has not just been hit by herdsmen invasion. You have lived with it. Like many other parts of the world, herders live and exist. Criminals”

By Godwin Okpe

The North is not daft….. Adept at what’s best for them and the system. You have fooled yourself around it for decades. You call it uneducated, undeveloped, illiterate, yet, court its benevolence and magnanimity. The North is the bride for which you can’t live without. You brag and curse it during the day and cower in submissions to it at night. Prostrating in deference and subjugation where need be.

*HRH Sultan Abubakar Sa’ad of Sokoto

The North is years ahead on any political calculations and shenanigans as may be brought by you. Yours is a violent and bloodthirsty anarchists model, the North is a grandmaster master at the game. For over sixty years, your model has not changed, and you want to be taken seriously? Nah… Politics is not your strong turf. You spill too much blood of the innocents, killing yours and others. Spare yourself the time and think, how you have sacrificed and eliminated your bests on grounds of politics.

The North in its tacit and clever political superiority will not offer you the pleasure of reprisals. It will bury its dead peacefully. Leave you to your day of judgment, which is sure, and full of fury, to not be orchestrated from without, but from within, as always the case. Same elements which you have, by your making, produced to subvert your collective good. They abound. They will be used. That’s the irony. The North will not be tempted into the silly political war building up for 2023. It is not its turn. It has served its turn. It will watch you finish yourselves, while positioning for 2031. Like it was with the First Republic, Second, Third, and the present Fourth, it is difficult to describe anything different from the early days, especially, when it is from the tortuous perspectives of X-raying a highly sophisticated civilization. An embodiment of intellects, and very rich culture of progressivism.

The North is not your problem. Do not, in your ignorance imagine what isn’t. Your conspiracists enablers think instigating a conflagration is a way out to achieving their devilish aim. They project a gloomy bait, like the red, before the bull to prod your reactions. You are falling again. The ambition of one man is not worth your soaked hands in blood. The SW has not just been hit by herdsmen invasion. You have lived with it. Like many other parts of the world, herders live and exist. Criminals also operate within every society. The SW is not just seeing it. Bandits and banditry operate nearly all over Nigeria. The worst zones being the Northwest. Even Fulanis, amongst other nationalities, have fallen victims of bandits and banditry. Same for terrorism, and other organized crimes.

I tell you this for free. The North will concede power in 2023. It will go for it in 2031, except there is a political realignment of the SE to be on the mainstream. 2023 is open for the SW, as a compensation for its support to the North. Except the goodwill is burnt out, a Yoruba will emerge. However, should the Yorubas also set themselves and their land ablaze because they must frustrate a man’s ambition?

Your political leaders including some governors, who hate Tinubu hide behind certain veils to sponsor and trigger chaos, while the hoodwinked, and many warped by prejudice project an anti Fulani sentiment because it is a very good recipe for chaos. Only cowards do that. Akintola did it to the great sage, Awo. MKO Abiola, betrayed, and Bola Ige was taken out in recent history, the mystery still unsolved. Can a people be cursed from the abundance of their blessings? Is it possible that economic prowess, vast arable lands, and beautiful vegetation, academic excellence, innate intelligence, all-around savviness, and great civilization and many more, can ricochet in such manner? Why is politics not evolving beyond a model in the SW? Why must people die? Why must it even be a fierce battle, when the options are even narrowed to the SW? Why has the SW always fought against its best?

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