by Femi Fani-Kayode
Usman Jimeta Wrote:
”All Northern Muslims must know that the killings in the North of Muslims is solely sponsored by Goodluck Jonathan. Jonathan agreed with his people of South East and South South that our population must be eliminated through massacres.
Those carrying out the massacres in the different States of the North are well trained Igbos and former Niger Delta militants who were trained in Israel and clandestinely in some countries. President Jonathan, once told a Northern elite that a revolution must be started in the North to pave the way for killing all our elites.
Jonathan, assassinated Gen. Mohamme D. Shuwa, assassinated Jarman Katagum, attempted to eliminate Ado Bayero, Kwankwaso, Sultan of Sokoto, to mention but a few.
Jonathan has declared a genocide on Northern Muslims!
President Goodluck Jonathan, gave orders to the Military to wipe off Fulanis in Nigeria.It is now clear to even skeptics that Boko Haram is trained and funded by CAN, Christian Association of Nigeria and in collaboration with President Goodluck Jonathan. Under the design, Muslim clerics, Muslim elites, Muslim cities obliterated under the watchful eyes of the Ethnoreligious Goodluck Jonathan.
Why is Ayo Oritsejafor, the CAN President not talking, because a job well done is carried out by Boko Haram, the Militant wing of CAN, in their desire to wipe off Muslims in Nigeria!”- USMAN JIMETA
In my view Mr. Usman Jimeta’s dangerous assertions deserves a response and my response is as follows. I, more than anyone else in this country, has criticised the Federal Government and it’s handling of the Boko Haram crisis over the last three years. In numerous essays and contributions over that period of time I have continuously deplored the slaughter of our citizens by this evil sect, the horrors of this terrible war and the weakness of our government when faced with this terrible challenge.
I have also urged our President to do far more and a better job in this respect and I will continue to do so. However,I believe that the sort of rhetoric that is being churned out by some of our northern muslim brothers like Mr. Usman Jimeta is not only completely unacceptable but it is also extremely dangerous. Jonathan may not have done too well in handling Boko Haram but the suggestion that he is BEHIND Boko Haram and that he and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) are using it to attempt to ”wipe out northern Muslims” is absurd and reckless.
In case those that are peddling this divisive rubbish did not know, thousands of Christians have been killed by Boko Haram in the last few years as well and hundreds of churches burnt to the ground. Are CAN and Jonathan behind that too? Equally importantly thousands of southerners that live in the north have also been butchered by Boko Haram. Was that the handiwork of CAN and Jonathan as well?
I have been one of the greatest critics of this administration in the last few years and I still believe that they have a lot of work to do in virtually every sphere and sector. However, this does not mean that we ought to peddle lies and falsehood in order to create even more division and strife in our land.
People like Mr. Usman Jimeta are being misled by some of his own leaders and it is those same leaders that secretly rejoice whenever Boko Haram strikes and kills our people. For example the northern Muslim former minister that has consistently peddled the idea that Boko Haram is a creation of CAN, MOSSAD and the Jonathan administration and that they are using it to fight and destroy northern Muslims and the entire northern region has to desist from doing so otherwise he should provide us with his evidence.
His covert campaign to to try to discredit the leadership of CAN particularly and to divide the north and the south in an attempt to create a political constituency for himself must stop. If he does not do so we shall take up his challenge, rise to the occasion, call him out on it and join issues with him in a very forceful manner indeed.
Unless it was true, I would never seek to undermine, discredit or falsely accuse the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs or the JNI for terrorism, mass murder, child abduction, slavery, waging war against the Nigerian state and subversion without any tangible evidence against them out of respect for the Muslim community and out of my fear of God.
He should stop doing the same to CAN unless he can provide us with the necessary evidence to back up his claims. Boko Haram is an enemy to EVERY Nigerian, whether northerner or southerner and whether christian, Muslim or traditional worshiper.
They are not a creation of CAN that are designed to wipe out northern Muslims. Rather they are a creation of satan that are designed and mandated to wipe us ALL out, to destroy our collective destiny, to put us back in the stone ages, to shroud us with a cloak of darkness and to capture and steal the very soul of our nation. They are of the devil and they are from the devil. Anyone that suggests otherwise is simply insane
Femi Fani-Kayode is Nigeria’s former minister of aviation. He is a member of All Progressive Congress (APC).
The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author.
