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Having conquered all of Nigeria by
means of the Civil War, and by using
the Nigerian armed forces that
were mostly filled with non-Caliphate
soldiers led by non-Caliphate generals,
the Caliphate schemed to remove the
non-Caliphate Gen. Yakubu Gowon
as Head of State and replace him with
one of their own (i.e. a member of
the Caliphate sarkuna or ruling class).
Accordingly, a Caliphate coup on July
29, 1975 deposed Gowon and replaced
him with Murtala Mohammed. When
Gowon’s fellow Middle Belt soldiers
tried to snatch back power through the
anti-Caliphate Dimka coup on
Feb. 13, 1976, they were defeated and
slaughtered. But the assassinated
Murtala Mohammed was replaced
by a Yoruba Caliphate agent, Gen.
Obasanjo (a.k.a. obj) who ruled as
figurehead or front man. In 1979, obj’s
government duly rigged the elections
for a Caliphate politician, Shehu Shagari
of the npn and handed power to
him through the bizarre and disputed
Supreme Court ruling on 2/3rds
of 19 States: Awolowo V Shagari.19
When election time came again in 1983
and a non-Caliphate man, Chief mko
Abiola, sought the nomination of the
ruling npn, he was rebuffed. Shagari
contested and was re-“elected”.
Then, to prolong Caliphate rule without
running the risk of free and fair elections,
the Buhari coup, on December 31, 1983,
deposed Shagari, the Caliphate civilian
President, and replaced him as Head
of State with a Caliphate military man,
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. Thus their
dreaded loss of power through elections
and the risk of rotation was postponed.
The Caliphate then became determined
to tolerate an election only if it could
have them rigged for its politicians,
as had happened in 1959, 1979 and 1983.
That determination sowed the seeds
of the annulment of the June 12, 1993
election.

Though two Caliphate generals, Buhari
and Idiagbon, were in power from
December 31, 1983, a struggle among
the Caliphate military agents caused
Ibrahim Babangida (a.k.a. ibb) to oust
Buhari in 1985. (As far as can be
ascertained, ibb is not of sarkuna
stock.) But then, to the dismay of the
Caliphate, ibb embarked on a transition
program which sought to install the
very democracy that the Caliphate
thoroughly fears and detests. Though it
disliked the ibb transition program,
the Caliphate initially could do nothing
to stop it, and so bided its time and
organized the forces it would eventually
use to scuttle ibb’s transition program
when the opportunity arose.
While the Caliphate was waiting for its
opportunity, the Orkar coup of 1990,
which announced the excision of the
Caliphate territory from Nigeria, gave
the Caliphate a great scare. The ibb
regime, in self-defense, crushed the
Orkar coup.
But three years later the ibb transition
program was itself terminated by the
Caliphate, by using the Association for
Better Nigeria (abn), a Southern group,
as well as Caliphate-loyal generals
largely from the Middle Belt. The irony
here is that ibb’s transition program
and the Orkar Coup would each
have terminated Caliphate power, the
one through the ballot and the other
through the bullet; but they fought
each other, only for the victor to be
overwhelmed by the Caliphate overlord
through its orchestrated annulment
of June 12. The Jellaba-Arab colonialists
in Khartoum have a name for this
maneuver: “using a slave to kill a slave.”
The Caliphate used this maneuver
twice in the early 1990s: ibb to kill the
Orkar coup, and then the abn and
Middle Belt Generals to kill the ibb
transition program.

In the protracted struggle between
the Caliphate and its subject peoples,
the Caliphate has been quite clear
about its objectives and has fought
without confusion. Unfortunately
the anti-Caliphate forces have never
thoroughly understood the enemy
they are up against. As a result, they
have fought like a blind man battling
in the ring with a Muhammad Ali
or a Mike Tyson. So they were
overwhelmed, often by the Caliphate’s
use of some other non-Caliphate
forces. As happened in June 12.
The anti-Caliphate forces have also
been deeply divided by their own
rivalries and quarrels. But for the feud
between Awo and Zik in the 1950s, the
Caliphate would not have inherited
power from the British. Sir James
Robertson would have found it
impossible to install Balewa as the Prime
Minister of Nigeria. And the sad saga
of Nigeria under Caliphate colonialism
might have been avoided. Now that
the anti-Caliphate forces have been
attempting to come together to demand
a Sovereign National Conference (snc)
and a truly federal constitution to
replace the fraudulent 1999 constitution,
they need to understand the hidden
dynamics that has dominated Nigerian
history since the 1950s, and then
unite to get rid of it once and for all.
Fighting among themselves will only
help the Caliphate to climb back and
hang onto power.