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Why President Jonathan Lost The 2015 Presidential Election And Things To Come Under President Muhammadu Buhari (2015-2019) Part One
By The Christian Walk
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I promised two months ago to write series of articles on why the first incumbent president of Nigeria, Mr. Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan lost the last 2015 presidential election and how that monumental event will affect the future of Nigeria. The defeat of the former president and the successful installation of President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29, 2015 will bring a lot of changes to Nigeria, never witnessed in the annals of Nigeria. Many political analysts were still apprehensive of a major event that would kibosh the colorful inauguration and as insiders know, Nigeria is a land of anything goes. In fact, the sabre rattling of some aides of former president Jonathan that over their dead bodies would President Buhari govern Nigeria were enough teases for bloodbath and uncertainty in the Nigerian landscape. Shortly after President Goodluck Jonathan conceded victory to Muhmmadu Buhari in April 2015, there were subterranean forces by the of Gen Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida to ensure that the inauguration of President Buhari didn’t take place, including contemplating killing Buhari.

The characters are still much around and we are calling them out to deny our story. The reasons why the Babangida Camp didn’t want President Buhari govern Nigeria are not far- fetched. Any one conversant and on the know with Nigeria’s contemporary politics will tell you that former Nigeria military dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babngida has not been able to sleep well since President Buhari won the 2015 Presidential Election. No one was taken aback by his presence at the inauguration on Friday May 29, 2015. Nigerians should know all the backhand deals he made with Asiwaju Bola Tinunu to scuttle the inauguration but Asiwaju stood his ground and delivered Nigeria from the PDP’s 16 years furnace. Buhari has been sworn in and is now the fourth executive president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It is now a fait accompli, in spite of all the manfiki moves and intrigues of Babangida and his cliques on the Buhari Presidency.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo knew the forces of power play beyond the established media report when he remarked during the electioneering campaign that President Buhari was an intelligent army officer, a former military head of state and a man that could not be compared with the late Chief MKO Abiola over the June 12, 1993 political saga in our nation. As I disclosed in this column last month, attempts were made by the fifth columnists in the outgone Jonathan Administration to take out then President-elect Buhari at all costs so Nigerians would not witness the May 29, 2015 Inauguration Day, but Buhari listened to our prophetic warning and escaped the booby traps laid for him. He was also wise enough to travel out of the country to the UK ten days to his inauguration.

No one should even be surprised that General Ibrahim Babangida showed up very early with his ubiquitous sidekick, Gen Abdulsalam Abubakar at the Eagle Square on Friday May 29, 2015 for the epochal event of President Buhari’s inauguration. No one also is yet to know whether or not Gen. Ibrahim Babangida will soon go into exile or commit suicide under a Buhari Presidency, but whatever he does, his comeuppance is on the way and several events and actions of President Buhari will presciently prove these assertions. Nigeria will never be the same again under President Buhari in the next four years.

President Buhari said in his inauguration speech that the past is gone, and no one should be afraid of persecution. We disagree with him, because the Word of God says in Exodus 20: 5: “…for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me…” Similarly, the True Lord God Almighty promised in Isaiah 13: 11: “I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless,” and assured us in Proverbs 11: 12: “Be sure of this: The wicked will not go unpunished.” Yes, the past is past, but those who perpetrated the evil and wickedness of the past must not be allowed to get away with evil. Gen Ibrahim Babangida must not be allowed to get away with the monumental evil he perpetrated in Nigeria. But before we go into the specifics and politics of the Buhari Administration and the fate of Gen Ibrahim Badamasi Bangida and his group; it is apposite to go into condensed history of Nigeria.

A nation is like an individual, perpetually in motion. Our Lord Jesus Christ looked at the City of Jerusalem in His Day and addressed her metaphorically thus in Matthew 23: 37-38: "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. Behold, your house is being left to you desolate…” Again, the Lord looked at two other cities; Chorazon and Bethsaida and proclaimed a curse on the twin cities in Luke 10: 13-14 thus: “"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.…” Why are nations treated as humans in the spirit realm as our Lord Jesus Christ did many times in the Word of Life? Simple, cities, towns, villages and nations are governed by principalities that in turn use their human agents to foist satanic agendas in the affairs of human beings.

Take for instance my city of Chicago here, there are about six to eight high-ranking principalities that control people and leaders in the Windy City and when their agendas are carried out, they manifest in the spate of gangland activities and perennial violence among our youth here in Chicago. The same for all other towns and cities around the world; principalities are fallen angelic beings that supported Satan in heaven during their rebellion (Revelation 12: 7-9: “Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth and his angels with him”). Those fallen angels are what human beings referred to as gods and goddesses.

They are divided into six cadres namely: Satan, Beelzebub and as Ephesians 6: 12 pointed out: “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” We have detailed the modus operandi of these fiendish forces in my co-authored book: “The Kingdom of Satan Exposed: Activities of Principalities and Demons in Our World.” “Unlike demons that inhabit the physical bodies of human beings, principalities are so malevolently wicked and fiendishly strong that they can’t inhabit the physical human flesh, rather occupy topoi from where they control human beings to do their biddings. They are fiercely territorial and are worshipped by human beings in the forms of festivals and entertainment under the veneer of culture, custom and traditions as Apostle Peter declared in 1 Peter 1: 8-9: “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.…” (KJV).

Consequently, in Nigeria the principalities that have at various times held the nation prostrate and chained were hamstrung as evinced by the eventual results of the last presidential elections and the Lord God Almighty will pass over the Nigeria Land between 2015 and 2019 and judge the principalities as He did in Egypt of Old as He disclosed in Exodus 12: 12: “"On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.” You may ask: But what has all these ancient stories got to do with Nigeria and the Buhari Administration? Unless your spiritual eyes are open, you may not be able to grasp the Divine Judgment that has begun in Nigeria since 2014 when the True Lord God Almighty showed us President Goodluck Jonathan would not return as president and why the Good Lord had made the move to prepare retired Gen. Muhammadu Buahri to return to power and execute Divine Judgment.

This was the first reason President Jonathan lost his re-election and he knew, because as we revealed then, God Almighty Himself showed President Goodluck Jonathan his defeat in the 2015 presidential election. A friend called me from Dallas, TX two years ago and asked; “Dr, Moshood, what is God doing to all the atrocities committed by Gen Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, the death of Dele Giwa, the Gloria Okon drug episode, the June 12, 1993 palaver, the murky events surrounding the deaths of Sani Abacha and Chief MKO Abiola and all the rest? Will the characters that perpetrated these and many atrocities go unpunished as it appears they are getting powerful daily?” I told the Nigerian friend he should wait a while to see what the Lord God will do very soon in accordance with His Words in Psalm 37: 1-2 & 7: “Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong; for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away…. Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.” How will the Lord God Almighty carry out His Divine Judgment on the principalities of Nigeria and their human agents beginning this June 2015? We will not understand such heavenly arrangement unless we dial the historic Snooze back to the beginning of Nigeria and take a capsulized account of epochal events that defined the present and will shape the immediate future of the Nigerian nation.

THE BIRTH OF A NATION: 1900-1960
NIGERIA WAS at the ferment of political and nationalistic agitations immediately the British imperialists invaded the geographical space known as present-day Nigeria. Nigerian historians and political humorists commonly assert that, prior to 1960 when the British colonial authorities ceded the political stage for the local politicians to govern themselves; Nigeria was sitting on three legs. The western region was administered by the Action Group (AG), political party led by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo; the eastern region was controlled by the National Citizens of Nigerians and the Cameroons (NCNC), led by the late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, while the Northern People’s Congress (NPC) was led by Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, the late Sardauna of Sokoto. Awolowo ruled western region with administrative capital in Ibadan, Azikiwe held court in the coal city of Enugu, while Bello ruled in the northern region’s town of Kaduna. The seat of the federal government was in commercial Lagos. Between 1887 and 1900, the British colonial authorities brought all the disparate towns, villages, cities and regions in the areas known as Nigeria together under British colonial rule and divided the large swath of land in the north and south into what it referred to as the northern and southern protectorates of Nigeria. In 1903, the British colonial authorities conquered the Hausa-Fulani Caliphate based in Sokoto, which had in turn conquered much of what eventually became northern Nigeria during the Jihad waged by the legendary Othman Dan Fodio. Three years later, Lagos was annexed to become part of the southern protectorate of Nigeria just as Sokoto became part of the northern protectorate of Nigeria.

Following the outbreak of WWI, the British colonial authorities were concerned about the costs of the global war and dwindling budgetary allocations to run and administer their foreign colonies. This necessitated the merging of the colony of Lagos and the southern and northern protectorates together as Nigeria. The 1914 annexation and unification of both the north and south were later referred to as the amalgamated territories of Nigeria. Conscious of the impact of WWI on the psyches of other peoples of the world toward foreign domination and imperialism, especially colonial territories that fought in the global war, the colonial government in Nigeria began to chart ways to disengage from Africa so the natives could govern themselves. This was to materialize in the next three decades after several outspoken Nigerians; especially the early educated elites who studied in the United Kingdom, the Americas and other parts of the world led the nationalist struggles for political independence. In the next three decades, the British colonial authorities took Nigeria through five constitutional arrangements and tried successfully to weld all the centrifugal and centripetal territories of Nigeria into a single whole.

In 1922, the Clifford Constitution was born, which allowed Nigerians to stand for elections as legislative members for Lagos Council. The signals that the British colonial government gave that it was preparing Nigerians for self-government coupled with the push on the path of the early Nigerian nationalists led to the formation of the Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM) in 1936. For administrative convenience and to ensure the autonomy of the constituents’ parts of Nigeria, Governor Bernard Henry Bourdillion (1935-1943), who took over from Mr. Donald Charles Cameron (1931-1935) in the fall of 1935 divided southern Nigeria into two separate entities known as western and eastern regions in 1939. Seizing on the political ferment in the country, some southern politicians coalesced round the great Nigerian orator, journalist, philosopher and the bête noire of the British colonial administration, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe to float a political party known as the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons in 1944. Notable foundation members of the NCNC were: Mr. Herbert Macaulay who co-founded the NCNC-Nigeria’s first political party with Mr. Azikiwe- Messrs.’

Theophilus Olawale Shobowale Benson, Adeniran Ogunsanya, Patrick Nwakama Ottih of southern Cameroons, Harold Dappa-Biriye, Kenekueyero B. Omateseye, and Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, the first treasurer and women leader of the party among several notable leaders. In 1946, a new colonial governor-general of Nigeria was sent from Britain, and a new constitution known as Richard’s Constitution named after Mr. Arthur Richards (1943-1947) was passed into law. Seizing the initiative of their southern counterparts that had formed a political party five years earlier, politicians in the northern region of Nigeria met in Kaduna and formed the Northern People’s Congress (NPC) in 1949. The main movers behind the formation of NPC, which began, first as a cultural organization before it morphed into a full-fledged political party were Messrs.’ Ahmadu Bello and Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa. Other notable foundation members of the NPC were Mr. Maitama Sule, Mr. Shehu Shagari, who was to become Nigeria’s first executive president (1979-1983), and others. Gov. Richard left Nigeria and was replaced by Mr. John Stuart McPherson in 1947. The latter was instrumental in setting the stage for regional elections in Nigeria a year later.

Three year later, a political magus in the western region, who had just returned from the United Kingdom as a lawyer, just 41 years old, rallied all traditional rulers, the intelligentsia and elites in the western region of Nigeria to form a political party known as the Action Group (AG). The young attorney was the legendary Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo, and the launching of the political party took place in April 1951. The AG was initially a cultural association called; “Egbe Omo Oduduwa.” Other foundation members of the AG were Messrs.’ Samuel Ladoke Akintola, Adekunle Ajasin, Shonibare, S.O. Gbadamoshi and others. As if the British colonial authorities had clearly read the political mood of Nigerians aftermath of WWII, in 1951, Mr. Macpherson passed a new constitution into law and elections were held in the three regions of the north, west, and east. The 1951 regional elections were held in the three regions with the British regional governors as chief electoral officers. In the northern region, Mr. Bryan was the governor and twenty out of the ninety seats allocated to the northern region were to come from Kano alone. The NPC controlled most of the seats in the northern house of assembly and among some of the notable members were; Messrs.’ Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Ahmadu Bello, Ibrahim Imam of Yerwa representing the Bornu Youth Movement, Muhammadu Mustapha Made Gyan, A.A. Agogede, Iya Abubakar, Malam Mukhtar Bello, Mr. Shehu Shagari, Mr. Ado Bayero, Bello Malabu, Malam Bashir Umaru, Malam Ibrahim Mwa, Alhaji Usman Liman, Malam Ibrahim Musa Cashash, and Malam Mohammed Dangote,

The 1951 regional elections in the northern region and the other two western and eastern regions of Nigeria laid the foundations for the constitutional conferences that were held in London between July 30 and August 22, 1953 on how a future independent Nigeria would be governed. Gov. McPherson left Nigeria in 1955 and Mr. James Robertson took over and prepared Nigeria for independence in 1960. At the epoch-making event attended by equal representatives of the three regional governments of NPC-northern Nigeria, AG-western Nigeria and NCNC-eastern Nigeria, the AG and NCNC jointly canvassed for a federal government. On the other hand, the NPC listed a-10-point political agenda which should govern the future federal arrangement in an independent Nigeria namely: higher education, defense, power (electricity), insurance, foreign trade, water control, and central court of justice, industrial development, external relations, and the issue of southern Cameroons. The delegates from the southern Cameroons told the conference they wanted to opt out of future Nigeria but were told to submit the request for a referendum when they returned home. The referendum eventually passed and southern Cameroons joined with the northern Cameroons to become today’s independent nation of Cameroon on October 1, 1961 while the French-controlled northern Cameroon had earlier gained independence on January 1, 1960. Following the successful conclusion of the London Constitutional Conference, a new constitution known as the Lyttelton Constitution came into effect in 1954, which retained the political restructure of the country as it was fashioned out under the Macpherson Constitution three years earlier: 184 members in the federal legislature in Lagos with a speaker and three ex-officio members; 92 members from the northern house of assembly, eastern and western regional houses of assembly had 42 members each, and 6 for southern Cameroon and 2 for Lagos. At the regional houses of assembly, 90, 80 and 84 legislators were in Kaduna, Ibadan and Enugu in the north, west and east respectively.

In 1957, the British colonial authorities were preparing to depart Nigeria for Britain, preparatory to Nigeria’s attainment of political independence in 1960. There were flurry of conferences in Britain by the various stake-holders toward working out modalities among the various ethnic and tribal groupings that make up modern Nigeria on the future independent nation. The British Government sent Mr. Westray Gawain Bell (1909-1995) to serve as the governor of the northern region that year and was told to stay in this position till Nigeria attained political independence, but after independence, Mr. Bell stayed till 1962 and Malam Kashim Ibrahim (1910-1990) took over as the governor of the northern region. Meanwhile, the indomitable and legendary Sir Ahmadu Bello (1910-1966), who had won the April 1954 regional elections became premier and his administration had the following cabinet ministers: Mr. Ali Monguno, minister of agriculture; Malam Mua’zu Lamido, minister of animal and forest resources; Mr. Hedley H. Marshall, minister of justice and attorney-general and Malam Abdullahi Danburan Jada, minister of northern Cameroon affairs. The northern part of Cameroon was initially slated to be a part of independent Nigeria but when a referendum was conducted in that part of Nigeria, the Nigerians inhabiting that geographical area chose to be a part of independent Cameroon rather than be with Nigeria in 1960. Other ministers in the administration of Sir Ahmadu Bello were: Mr. Isa Kaita, the Madawaki of Katsina as minister of education; Mr. Abba M. Habib, minister of trade and industry, the minister of works was Mr. George U. Ohikere; the minister of finance was Mr. Aliyu, the Makama Bida; Mr. Abdullahi Maikano Dutse was minister of local government affairs, while Mr. Ahman, the Galadima of Pategi was minister of health; and Malam Shehu Usman, the Galadima of Maska was minister of internal affairs; Mr. Michael Audu Buba, the Waziri of Shendam and Mr. Ibrahim Musa Gashash as minister of land and survey.

In order to bring governance to the grassroots level and involve all important stake-holders in the Nigerian People’s Congress (NPC) administration of northern Nigeria before the attainment of political independence in 1960, first class traditional rulers were constituted into a ministerial council but were assigned no portfolios: Sultan Abubakar III of Sokoto; Emir Muhammadu Sanusi of Kano, Emir Usman Nagogo of Katsina; Emir Sulu Gambari of Ilorin; Atta Ali Obaje of Igala, and the chief of Wukari, Mr. Atoshi Agbamanu. Six ministers of state were equally appointed namely: Mr. Abutu of Obekpa; Malam Muhammadu Kabir, the Ciroma of Katagum; Mr. Samuel Aliyu Ajayi; Malam Umaru Abba Kaam, the Wali of Muri; Mr. D.A. Ogbadu and Mr. Aliyu, the Turaki of Zazzau. In the October-November 1956 regional elections which produced the Ahmadu Bello Administration, 134 members were elected into the northern house of assembly and the region’s minister of justice and attorney-general, Mr. Hedley. H. Marshal became an un-elected ex-officio member.

Another London Constitutional Conference was again held between May 23 and Jun3 31, 1957, as regional governments were being constituted in the north west and east. The two conferences were charged with the task of deliberating on the political structure of a future independent Nigeria. Among the delegates that attended the conferences were: the Action Group delegates (western region); Oba Adesoji Aderemi, the Oni of Ife; Messrs’ Bode Thomas.; Samuel. L. Akintola, Arthur Prest, and Obafemi Awolowo, who was then western regional minister of local government. The following people were chosen as advisers to the western region delegates: Messrs’ Rotimi Williams; S. O. Shonibare, Samuel. O. Awokoya, the western region minister of education; Anthony Enahoro, Justice Latifu J. Dosumu.; Mrs. Tanimowo Ogunlesi; G. C. Nonyelu, Alfred O. Rewane; Mallam Mudi Sipikin; Oba Timothy Olateru- Olagbegi II, the Olowo of Owo, who was western regional minister without portfolio and the Obi of Idumuje Ugboko.

The National Council for Nigeria and the Cameroons (eastern region) delegates were led by Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe comprising Messrs Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe, E. O. Eyo, Esq., Mallam Bello Ijumu and Kolawole Balogun. The following were chosen as advisers to the NCNC delegates: Messrs Mbonu Ojike, T. N. P. Birabi, V. A. Nwankwo.; N. N. Mbile, L. P. Ojukwu; E. G. Gundu, and Dennis C. Osadebe.; Mrs Margaret Ekpo; Mr H. Omo Osagie; Mr Yamu Numa, and Mr F. S. Edah. The Northern People's Congress northern Nigeria) had the smallest number of delegates led by Alhaji Ahmadu Belo who was the northern region minister of local government and community development. Other members were; Messrs Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the central minister of works and transport; Aliyu Makaman Bida, the northern region minister of education and social welfare; and Emir Usuman Nagogo, of Katsina, who was the central minister without portfolio. The following people served as advisers to the NPC delegates: Messrs Abba Habib, Ajiyan Bama; Pastor David Lot, from Benue-Plateau; Mallam Ibrahim Imam from Bornu; Mallam Saladu Alamanu, Mr. G. U. Ohikere, Benjamin Akiga, Mohammadu Ribadu, the central minister of natural resources, mines and power; Mallam Dauda Kwoi; Mr Shehu Ahmadu, Mallam Sarkin Shanu and Mallam Nuhu Bamalle.

The ancient city of Kano had always acted independently from the northern region political mood, because the people of Kano traditionally had always registered their political uniqueness by voting for the Northern Elements Progressive Union (Northern Nigeria, Kano) or NEPU. At the constitutional conference in London, they demanded and got a separate delegation led by one man; Mallam Aminu Kano. He came with his only adviser: Mallam Abubakar Zukogi. The northern Cameroon was still a part of Nigeria and was equally represented by one delegate and one adviser: Mr E. M. L. Endeley, the central minister of labour and Rev. J. C. Kangsen, respectively. The south-eastern people or those referred to as the Niger Delta, had always claimed and still claim that they are a distinct people from their Ibo eastern Nigerians and canvassed for a separate delegation. They got their request at the second London Conference and two delegate leaders under the aegis of a minority party; the National Independence Party (NIP). These were: Messrs Eyo Ita., who was eastern regional minister of natural resources and A. C. Nwapa, who was the central minister of commerce and industries. Three delegate advisers: Messrs Okoi Arikpo, the central minister of lands, survey, local development and communications. Jaja A. Wachuku, and E. U. Udoma, completed the pack.

The deliberations of the second independence conference in London led to the 1959 general elections, which eventually formed the basis on which the federal and regional governments ruled Nigeria at independence on October 1, 1960.

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