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15. the perennial religious and ethnic
violence in Kaduna and Plateau
states caused by Hausa and Fulani
hegemonists who attempt to
take over lands, and to dominate
non-Hausa and non-Fulani
peoples, that were not conquered
by the Caliphate jihadists in
pre-British times (i.e. caused by
covert pressures to expand the
Caliphate domain);
16. the (Caliphate-attempted) judicial
murder of Gen. Zamani Lekwot
and his Zango Kataf associates in
1993 14;
17. the (Caliphate’s) 1995 judicial
murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa 14;
18. the (pro-Caliphate) 1999 sacking of
Odi 16;
19. the 2001 sacking of Zaki Biam 17;
20. the (Caliphate-serving) repression
of the Niger Delta militancy;
down to
21. the (Caliphate-sponsored) Boko
Haram terrorism campaign.
These and other troubles are rooted
deep in the way, and the purpose for
which, Nigeria was put together by the
British, so we should start by looking
into that.

The founding of Nigeria
The British officially created Northern
Nigeria in 1900, and Southern
Nigeria in 1906. The separate colonial
administrations of these two entities
were amalgamated in 1914 on the
explicitly stated principle that Northern
Nigeria, “the husband”, would financially
live off the dowry/revenue/resources
of Southern Nigeria, “the wife”. Then,
during the process of decolonization,
between 1955 and 1960, the British
made the Caliphate the successor to
their colonial power by rigging the
Caliphate’s political party, the Northern
People’s Congress (npc), into office.
The Caliphate, i.e. the sarkuna or
feudal ruling class of the North [the
Caliphate-equivalent of the British
aristocracy], has ever since made that
amalgamation principle an article of
faith and has enforced its “husband”
rights as Allah-given, permanent and
unamendable. They have even publicly
declared their readiness to commit
genocide to enforce their presumed
right to plunder and squander the
resources of the South, by proposing to
kill off 20 million (i.e. 1/7th or 14%
of their) fellow Nigerians who live in
the oil-producing Niger Delta.
Their insistence on ruling Nigeria in
perpetuity, and on exploiting the South,
together with the resistance to that
insistence, is the dynamic behind the
recurring instability and mayhem in
Nigeria’s history. That is the context
to the two coups and the pogroms of
1966, the 1967-70 Civil War and to
both the Niger Delta militancy and the
Boko Haram terrorism of today.

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Here are three statements by Caliphate
spokesmen that respectively shed light
on [a] their “One Nigeria” Project,[b]
their ideology of ethnic castes, and [c]
their genocidal mindset.

a] In 1960, Sir Ahmadu Bello, the
Sardauna of Sokoto, leader of the
Caliphate politicians, described the
Caliphate’s Nige ria Project thus:
[see q1 above]
b] In 1992, Maitama Sule, a senior
Caliphate politician, shed more light
on the Sardauna’s Nigeria Project
when he detailed the Caliphate view
of the caste system they deem proper
for the relationship between the
peoples of Nigeria:

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q3) 1992
“In this country, all of us need one
another. Hausa need Igbos, Igbos
need Yoruba and the Yorubas need
the Northerners. Everyone has a gift
from God. Northerners are endowed
by God with leadership qualities.
The Yoruba man knows how to earn
a living and has diplomatic qualities.
The Igbo is gifted in commerce,
trade and technological innovation.
God so created us individually for
a purpose and with different gifts.
Others are created as kings, students
and doctors. We all need each other.
If there are no followers, a king will
not exist, if there are no students a
teacher will not be required, etc.” 26
— 1992, Alhaji Maitama Sule
in an address which was written
and spoken in Arabic during
the launching of The Power of
Knowledge authored by Alhaji Isa
Kaita, at Durbar Hotel, Kaduna
on December 22, 1992.
{26 Ayoada, J. A. A. Nigeria and
the Squandering of Hope, Ibadan:
University of Ibadan Press, 1997,
p. 14}
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