SELF-HELP AND THE WAR BUHARI CANNOT WIN.

The right of self-defense is not only Legal and Moral, but it is also Inherent - a vital part of our being. I write this essay in reaction to the reported invasion and occupation of the entire Esan  Ancestral Tribal region by armed Fulani Herdsmen and Boko Haram warlords. President Buhari and his enablers should discard those age-old illusions of moral and military superiority; the Hausa/Fulani folks standing alone did not defeat Biafra Forces during the Nigerian Civil War. The Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigerian, made up of Esan, Yoruba, Efik, Edo, Hausa, Fulani, Afemai, Jukun, Igara, Ebira, Urhobo, Itsekiri, Kanuri, Ibibior, Igbira, Ogoja, Ezon, Idoma, just to name a few, did. They fought collectively as a team - a unified federal army won the war. Think about that. No tribe and no region in Nigeria has a monopoly of chaos and infliction of emotional trauma. The Esan tribal region was never at any time in history a conquered territory. We became part of the Nigerian nation-state as a result of the 1914 British amalgamation. Not even the Great Benin Empire, our closest neighbor, and elder brother could conquer us or annex us. 

Therefore, in the event of self-defense, that is, in the event, the Esan local communities are forced to take up arms to defend themselves and their farmlands against external threat or invasion, rest assured that the Nigerian Armed Forces that is shamefully pro-Fulani Herdsmen and Boko Haram sect, would suffer massively in logistics maneuvering. Deploying military trucks and personnel to every corner of the country as they did in Ugwuneshi community in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State a few years ago to arrest the youths and the elders of the community who were accused of planning reprisal attacks on Fulani Herders, would kaput the Armed Forces.

The Nigerian Armed Forces, though dominated at the Officers level by the Hausa/Fulani folks is not a tribal military establishment. It is the Nigerian Armed Forces, and not the Hausa/Fulani Armed Forces. Invading numerous villages at the same time to strengthen the onslaughts of the Boko Haram sect and the land appropriation mission of the herdsmen would be the fastest way to escalating a mutiny in the Nigerian Army.

It is the mischievous appetite and religious zealotry of the untouchables few who are heading the Buhari Administration that would hasten the culmination of a total dismantling of this country. Not me. And certainly not Obasanjo.

Your inauguration ceremony was an empty ritual - a caricature and a national embarrassment. No pop and no pageantry. And no dignity, foreign or domestic, on sight. A day later, you went overseas to attend the IOC global conference, while your house was on fire.

Think about Burundi. And think about Rwanda. We will not standby and allow you and your swindling cabal to turn Nigeria into a war without end. The Esan Homeland can never play host to any Cattle Colony. You have the rights to rear your cattle. And the Esan people have the rights to farm their land and grow their crops unmolested and undisturbed. Nigeria is ours, not for the Fulani exclusive use. Where is the Niger Delta today? We know what you did to Yoruba-Kwarans and the peaceful natives of the Middle-Belt who welcomed you to their ancestral homeland many years ago with open arms. It will not happen again.

To be continued.