By Robert Mbeyi
An Abia state traditional ruler, HRH Eze Uwadiegwu Ogbonnaya, Ojim 1 of Umuanyi autonomous community in Uturu has warned Northern leaders that theocracy being advocated by the militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram will someday sweep off the Sokoto Caliphate and the Emirate system if history is a guide to the future.
HRH drew inferences from similar radical bloody movements in Iran, Egypt and Libya where former stable but democratic regimes were overthrown in bloody uprisings causing tragic losses in lives and properties.
He recalled how the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran drove away the Shah just as King Farouk of Egypt in 1952 lost out after series of military backed revolutions. In the same way, the fiery Muaman Ghadaffi of Libya in 1969 seized power after deposing King Idris in a bloody coup.
The monarch bared his mind on these issues while reviewing the activities of the Islamic sect in parts of the Northern states with a Trumpeta reporter in Owerri.
Eze Ogbonnaya further urged the new security adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan to prevail on his boss the need to summon the political will and pick up the sponsors of the bloody sect. He disagrees with speculations that Aso Rock is unaware of their identity.
The royal father also dwelt on the effusions of late Col –Ghadeffi in 2010 when he suggested in Kano that Nigeria should be balkanized along religious lines, Northern Muslims and Southern Christians. He wondered whether the Libyan strongman was not, ab initio, one of the sponsors of Boko Haram in Nigeria.
He believes that the suggestion for a dialogue with the militant sect is unfounded as there could be no meaningful dialogue with those whose cardinal objective is the islamization of the country.
Earlier, Eze Ogbonnaya had likened Boko Haram to a creation of some selfish Northern political leaders who promised to make Nigeria ungovernable for President Jonathan and which has become a monster about to devour both the traditional and political leadership of the North. According to him, Boko Haram is like a knife pierced into the last strings holding the North together and which is about to snap.
Going down the memory lane, the nonarch recalled the supreme sacrifice of some former Northern military elites notably Lt Gen. T.Y Danjuma, Gen. Martin Adamu and Gen. Yakubu Gowan and wondered whether this brilliant cadre of officers staked their lives for what is happening today in parts of the Northern states?
He was deeply worried that Boko Haram and the present Fulani Jihadist mission in Plateau state constitute very serious danger to the survival of the North and Nigeria and implored the federal government to address the situation and abort further bloodshed.
