TINUBU’S GAMBIT TO TURN NIGERIA INTO A THEATRE OF RELIGIOUS WAR
Basil Okoh
Bola Tinubu is diving head first into the deep ends of international sectarian politics without the knowledge of the stench and intrigue in the pool.
He is inviting Turkey, an old player in religious politics to join the murky waters of stopping terrorism in Nigeria, when Turkey itself is often accused of financing terror across the world including Nigeria. Turkey will waste no time to come to Nigeria and save the Muslim faith and the faithful. That’s Turkey’s sworn duty to Islam.
The state of Israel has also invited itself to save Nigerian Christians from Muslim genocidal attacks. Israel has suffered most in world history from genocide. The word “genocide” rankles among Jews.
Radical Islam is secretly supported worldwide by Turkey, defender of the Muslim faith, which is the ostensible reason Tinubu and the Fulani are inviting Turkey to come and save radical Muslims in Nigeria from American Tomahawk missiles.
So a grand fight of the religions is been set up in Nigeria by President Bola Tinubu, ably supported and goaded on by the Nigerian Fulani oligarchy.
Now here’s where the trouble has deep roots: For over a thousand years, the Ottoman empire, now renamed Turkey, has provided protection for Muslims across the world and helped defeat their enemies, no matter how dastardly the crimes muslims commit.
Islam does not need provocation to kill you. The fact alone that you’re not Muslim is good enough reason to kill you. So for Turkey, the fact that a radical Muslim kills you is not a bad thing.
The Ottomans were the warriors who finally overran Constantinople in its dying days and forcefully converted the Eastern Roman empire to Islam. It destroyed and renamed all the great temples and churches of the Roman empire and finally renamed Constantinople itself to Istanbul, which it still bears to this day.
Istanbul today is the Constantinople of old, the Roman capital that converted to Catholicism and led to the vast acceptance and expansion of Christianity.
Since 1453AD, the Ottoman empire led by Mehmed 11 conquered Constantinople from the Byzantines, the Ottomans have through wars and conquests, expanded the frontiers of Islam, mostly at the expense of Christian dominion. The Ottomans devastated the Byzantine, Central Asia, Southern Europe, including Southern Spain and Portugal, all of North Africa from Egypt to Morocco and forcefully converted from Christianity to Islam. The Ottoman empire now renamed Turkey, are Central to the expansion of Islam across the world. Turkey today still bears the name: “Defender of the faithful” among Muslims.
Without any knowledge or sense of history or perhaps out of his own mischief, Bola Tinubu, President of a multi-religious Nigeria, has turned to Turkey to call in military support for the mediation of what he calls a religious conflict in northern Nigeria. Turkey does not mediate in religious conflicts, Turkey fights for Muslims and for the advancement of Islam.
In the frenzy of the American bombardments of terrorist enclaves in Sokoto area of Nigeria, Tinubu is undergoing a devastating meltdown, revealing his lack of willpower, utter cluelessness and weakness both as a man and as leader of a country.
The picture of Bola Tinubi that is emerging is ugly, so ugly indeed that we believe Tinubu has not only lost control of the instruments of governance, but that he is ready to hand Nigeria to ancient enemies Turkey and Israel and submerge it in a sectarian conflict that will reduce the country to a burning vast land.
Bola Tinubu has proceeded secretly to Istanbul after a secret meeting with the Sultan of Sokoto and what can be called the war council of the Fulani oligarchy. By his actions so far, Tinubu is pitching tent with the Fulani against the rest of Nigeria and the American establishment. He is abandoning the ship of state and inviting Turkey, an established sectarian interloper that can only take sides with Muslims in the face of a challenge in Nigeria.
The person without good breeding and education is finally showing in Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Two days ago Tinubu himself announced to the leaders of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) that his government has extended formal invitation to the government of Turkey to intervene in the fight against insecurity in the country. The Christian leaders, obviously without knowledge and no sense of history themselves, nodded in approval and ended the meeting carrying gifts home. What they did not know is that Bola Tinubu, out of his own mischief, is moving to take Nigeria into a vortex of religious conflict that see no end in a thousand years. Palestine, check. Lebanon, check. Syria, check. Iraq, check. Iran, check. Afghanistan, check. Somalia, check.
Turkey is the acknowledged leader of the Muslim world and is seen to this day as the defender of the Islamic faith. Saudi Arabia and Mecca may be the birthplace of Islam but the historical expansion and propagation of the faith across much of Arabia, Palestine, Southern Europe and Central Asia was led and achieved by the Ottoman empire, now renamed Turkey. Turkey, has maintained political leadership of the Muslim world and has remained the defender of the Muslim faith for hundreds of years.
Today, the military and political power of Turkey is only checkmated by the state of Israel but Turkey remains a formidable force as member of NATO. The projection of its power northwards to Russia through the Strait of Bosphorus and the black sea and through countries of the Muslim Central Asia (Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and up to Indonesia). Turkey however has never been able to challenge or outflank Israel because of the overwhelming power of Israel itself and the guaranteed protection of America.
Bola Tinubu’s invitation of Turkey to intervene in the resolution of Islamic terrorism in Nigeria is dubious and lacks sincerely. Turkey has long been suspected of providing armament, intelligence and logistics to the Nigerian terror groups with international affiliations like ISIS and al-Qaeda. So Bola Tinubu is not fooling anyone by going to Istanbul to seek friends. He is seeking to open up Nigeria to international sectarian conflict. By siding with Fulani who have been hurt by the American bombardment of Fulani Lakurawa terrorists in Sokoto, Bola Tinubu has chosen to take side against peace and the people of Nigeria.
The trenchant Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, takes serious steps to ensure that Islam continues to flourish in Turkey and expand across the world. So Turkey can only come to Nigeria to support the forceful conversion of people to Islam. That is the sworn commitment of Turkey for hundreds of years. Turkey has never really been able to untangle itself from international accusations of cavorting with implacable Islamists and Jihadi across the world.
Now just at the very time Nigeria is contending with different groups of murderous Islamists and when America and Israel have come to help wipe out the insurgency, Bola Tinubu’s government is inviting Turkey into the fray as a counterforce to Israel and America. His invitation is to help defend the Islamic faith against a perceived Christian onslaught in Nigeria, no matter the fact that it enjoys Muslim support. Tinubu and the Fulani are hoping to make Turkey to defend Islam by helping to counter and stop the elimination of terrorists in Nigeria.
This action is evidence that Tinubu is seeped in deep conceit and is taking terrorism as another side to his politics while working to make Nigeria the cauldron of international conflict of faith between Christianity and Islam. Bola Tinubu in collusion with the Fulani whose hegemony is being threatened by American actions against terror groups, are trying to set up a violent clash between Christianity and Islam in Nigeria. Every other ethnic group, including the Hausa, have welcomed and endorsed the American actions to wipe out Islamic violence in Nigeria.
The danger of the growing convergence of terrorist organizations in Nigeria has not been of any serious concern to the Tinubu government or the Fulani oligarchy. The Fulani want to continue to use the terrorists to perpetuate fear and further their hegemony in Nigeria while Tinubu wants to use them to foster instability which will be exploited to give him a second tenure.
Dr. Ahmad Gumi was denied ingress into Saudi Arabia last year for championing terrorism in Nigeria. The very pro-Western Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern States will not be lured to support groups advocating violent Islam when their own tegimes stand at the risk of been overthrown by violent Islam. They rely on America for protection against violent Islam. The Saudi government had previously expressed outrage at the philosophy of Nigeria’s Boko Haram (book is Haram or forbidden) scorching at the statement which ostensibly denies Arab and Muslim contribution to world scholarship.
The Arabs know that Tinubu and the Fulani want to set up a fight between Christian America and the Muslim world and most would have no part in such a conflict that will be difficult to resolve. Arabs will be morally guilty from the start, backing Muslims who are guilty of committing genocide on Christians without provocation. So the Fulani pursuit of partners and supporters in a war of blame will be a no-win situation. Turkey will be foolish to be goaded into such a conflict as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has expressed Israeli commitment to do what is necessary to stop Christian genocide in Nigeria.
All considered, Turkey can never take up a fight against America in Nigeria. They are both members of NATO and Nigeria will be too inconsequential in their power and relationship consideration. So will Turkey not take up a fight against Israel in Nigeria, no matter how clandestine. Turkey watched Gaza razed down and could not do a thing. Nigeria is an outlier compared to Palestine and Turkey is not about to lose its men and equipment challenging Israel in a distant Nigeria.
So what does Bola Tinubu and the Fulani hope to gain by planting conflict and confusion in Nigeria and inviting international religious war in Nigeria? The naiveté of Tinubu’s government and their low understanding of world politics can be shameful. To think that their low acumen can provoke conflict between America, Israel and Turkey is laughable. Nigeria is of very low strategic interest to these countries and their perception of the integrity and quality of Nigeria’s leaders is low.
But for the missing rare earth minerals from the northeast and the new interest in uranium mining, Nigeria is of low strategic interest to America, Israel and Turkey. Oil or no oil.
Basilokoh.
Basil Okoh
Bola Tinubu is diving head first into the deep ends of international sectarian politics without the knowledge of the stench and intrigue in the pool.
He is inviting Turkey, an old player in religious politics to join the murky waters of stopping terrorism in Nigeria, when Turkey itself is often accused of financing terror across the world including Nigeria. Turkey will waste no time to come to Nigeria and save the Muslim faith and the faithful. That’s Turkey’s sworn duty to Islam.
The state of Israel has also invited itself to save Nigerian Christians from Muslim genocidal attacks. Israel has suffered most in world history from genocide. The word “genocide” rankles among Jews.
Radical Islam is secretly supported worldwide by Turkey, defender of the Muslim faith, which is the ostensible reason Tinubu and the Fulani are inviting Turkey to come and save radical Muslims in Nigeria from American Tomahawk missiles.
So a grand fight of the religions is been set up in Nigeria by President Bola Tinubu, ably supported and goaded on by the Nigerian Fulani oligarchy.
Now here’s where the trouble has deep roots: For over a thousand years, the Ottoman empire, now renamed Turkey, has provided protection for Muslims across the world and helped defeat their enemies, no matter how dastardly the crimes muslims commit.
Islam does not need provocation to kill you. The fact alone that you’re not Muslim is good enough reason to kill you. So for Turkey, the fact that a radical Muslim kills you is not a bad thing.
The Ottomans were the warriors who finally overran Constantinople in its dying days and forcefully converted the Eastern Roman empire to Islam. It destroyed and renamed all the great temples and churches of the Roman empire and finally renamed Constantinople itself to Istanbul, which it still bears to this day.
Istanbul today is the Constantinople of old, the Roman capital that converted to Catholicism and led to the vast acceptance and expansion of Christianity.
Since 1453AD, the Ottoman empire led by Mehmed 11 conquered Constantinople from the Byzantines, the Ottomans have through wars and conquests, expanded the frontiers of Islam, mostly at the expense of Christian dominion. The Ottomans devastated the Byzantine, Central Asia, Southern Europe, including Southern Spain and Portugal, all of North Africa from Egypt to Morocco and forcefully converted from Christianity to Islam. The Ottoman empire now renamed Turkey, are Central to the expansion of Islam across the world. Turkey today still bears the name: “Defender of the faithful” among Muslims.
Without any knowledge or sense of history or perhaps out of his own mischief, Bola Tinubu, President of a multi-religious Nigeria, has turned to Turkey to call in military support for the mediation of what he calls a religious conflict in northern Nigeria. Turkey does not mediate in religious conflicts, Turkey fights for Muslims and for the advancement of Islam.
In the frenzy of the American bombardments of terrorist enclaves in Sokoto area of Nigeria, Tinubu is undergoing a devastating meltdown, revealing his lack of willpower, utter cluelessness and weakness both as a man and as leader of a country.
The picture of Bola Tinubi that is emerging is ugly, so ugly indeed that we believe Tinubu has not only lost control of the instruments of governance, but that he is ready to hand Nigeria to ancient enemies Turkey and Israel and submerge it in a sectarian conflict that will reduce the country to a burning vast land.
Bola Tinubu has proceeded secretly to Istanbul after a secret meeting with the Sultan of Sokoto and what can be called the war council of the Fulani oligarchy. By his actions so far, Tinubu is pitching tent with the Fulani against the rest of Nigeria and the American establishment. He is abandoning the ship of state and inviting Turkey, an established sectarian interloper that can only take sides with Muslims in the face of a challenge in Nigeria.
The person without good breeding and education is finally showing in Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Two days ago Tinubu himself announced to the leaders of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) that his government has extended formal invitation to the government of Turkey to intervene in the fight against insecurity in the country. The Christian leaders, obviously without knowledge and no sense of history themselves, nodded in approval and ended the meeting carrying gifts home. What they did not know is that Bola Tinubu, out of his own mischief, is moving to take Nigeria into a vortex of religious conflict that see no end in a thousand years. Palestine, check. Lebanon, check. Syria, check. Iraq, check. Iran, check. Afghanistan, check. Somalia, check.
Turkey is the acknowledged leader of the Muslim world and is seen to this day as the defender of the Islamic faith. Saudi Arabia and Mecca may be the birthplace of Islam but the historical expansion and propagation of the faith across much of Arabia, Palestine, Southern Europe and Central Asia was led and achieved by the Ottoman empire, now renamed Turkey. Turkey, has maintained political leadership of the Muslim world and has remained the defender of the Muslim faith for hundreds of years.
Today, the military and political power of Turkey is only checkmated by the state of Israel but Turkey remains a formidable force as member of NATO. The projection of its power northwards to Russia through the Strait of Bosphorus and the black sea and through countries of the Muslim Central Asia (Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and up to Indonesia). Turkey however has never been able to challenge or outflank Israel because of the overwhelming power of Israel itself and the guaranteed protection of America.
Bola Tinubu’s invitation of Turkey to intervene in the resolution of Islamic terrorism in Nigeria is dubious and lacks sincerely. Turkey has long been suspected of providing armament, intelligence and logistics to the Nigerian terror groups with international affiliations like ISIS and al-Qaeda. So Bola Tinubu is not fooling anyone by going to Istanbul to seek friends. He is seeking to open up Nigeria to international sectarian conflict. By siding with Fulani who have been hurt by the American bombardment of Fulani Lakurawa terrorists in Sokoto, Bola Tinubu has chosen to take side against peace and the people of Nigeria.
The trenchant Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, takes serious steps to ensure that Islam continues to flourish in Turkey and expand across the world. So Turkey can only come to Nigeria to support the forceful conversion of people to Islam. That is the sworn commitment of Turkey for hundreds of years. Turkey has never really been able to untangle itself from international accusations of cavorting with implacable Islamists and Jihadi across the world.
Now just at the very time Nigeria is contending with different groups of murderous Islamists and when America and Israel have come to help wipe out the insurgency, Bola Tinubu’s government is inviting Turkey into the fray as a counterforce to Israel and America. His invitation is to help defend the Islamic faith against a perceived Christian onslaught in Nigeria, no matter the fact that it enjoys Muslim support. Tinubu and the Fulani are hoping to make Turkey to defend Islam by helping to counter and stop the elimination of terrorists in Nigeria.
This action is evidence that Tinubu is seeped in deep conceit and is taking terrorism as another side to his politics while working to make Nigeria the cauldron of international conflict of faith between Christianity and Islam. Bola Tinubu in collusion with the Fulani whose hegemony is being threatened by American actions against terror groups, are trying to set up a violent clash between Christianity and Islam in Nigeria. Every other ethnic group, including the Hausa, have welcomed and endorsed the American actions to wipe out Islamic violence in Nigeria.
The danger of the growing convergence of terrorist organizations in Nigeria has not been of any serious concern to the Tinubu government or the Fulani oligarchy. The Fulani want to continue to use the terrorists to perpetuate fear and further their hegemony in Nigeria while Tinubu wants to use them to foster instability which will be exploited to give him a second tenure.
Dr. Ahmad Gumi was denied ingress into Saudi Arabia last year for championing terrorism in Nigeria. The very pro-Western Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern States will not be lured to support groups advocating violent Islam when their own tegimes stand at the risk of been overthrown by violent Islam. They rely on America for protection against violent Islam. The Saudi government had previously expressed outrage at the philosophy of Nigeria’s Boko Haram (book is Haram or forbidden) scorching at the statement which ostensibly denies Arab and Muslim contribution to world scholarship.
The Arabs know that Tinubu and the Fulani want to set up a fight between Christian America and the Muslim world and most would have no part in such a conflict that will be difficult to resolve. Arabs will be morally guilty from the start, backing Muslims who are guilty of committing genocide on Christians without provocation. So the Fulani pursuit of partners and supporters in a war of blame will be a no-win situation. Turkey will be foolish to be goaded into such a conflict as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has expressed Israeli commitment to do what is necessary to stop Christian genocide in Nigeria.
All considered, Turkey can never take up a fight against America in Nigeria. They are both members of NATO and Nigeria will be too inconsequential in their power and relationship consideration. So will Turkey not take up a fight against Israel in Nigeria, no matter how clandestine. Turkey watched Gaza razed down and could not do a thing. Nigeria is an outlier compared to Palestine and Turkey is not about to lose its men and equipment challenging Israel in a distant Nigeria.
So what does Bola Tinubu and the Fulani hope to gain by planting conflict and confusion in Nigeria and inviting international religious war in Nigeria? The naiveté of Tinubu’s government and their low understanding of world politics can be shameful. To think that their low acumen can provoke conflict between America, Israel and Turkey is laughable. Nigeria is of very low strategic interest to these countries and their perception of the integrity and quality of Nigeria’s leaders is low.
But for the missing rare earth minerals from the northeast and the new interest in uranium mining, Nigeria is of low strategic interest to America, Israel and Turkey. Oil or no oil.
Basilokoh.
TINUBU’S GAMBIT TO TURN NIGERIA INTO A THEATRE OF RELIGIOUS WAR
Basil Okoh
Bola Tinubu is diving head first into the deep ends of international sectarian politics without the knowledge of the stench and intrigue in the pool.
He is inviting Turkey, an old player in religious politics to join the murky waters of stopping terrorism in Nigeria, when Turkey itself is often accused of financing terror across the world including Nigeria. Turkey will waste no time to come to Nigeria and save the Muslim faith and the faithful. That’s Turkey’s sworn duty to Islam.
The state of Israel has also invited itself to save Nigerian Christians from Muslim genocidal attacks. Israel has suffered most in world history from genocide. The word “genocide” rankles among Jews.
Radical Islam is secretly supported worldwide by Turkey, defender of the Muslim faith, which is the ostensible reason Tinubu and the Fulani are inviting Turkey to come and save radical Muslims in Nigeria from American Tomahawk missiles.
So a grand fight of the religions is been set up in Nigeria by President Bola Tinubu, ably supported and goaded on by the Nigerian Fulani oligarchy.
Now here’s where the trouble has deep roots: For over a thousand years, the Ottoman empire, now renamed Turkey, has provided protection for Muslims across the world and helped defeat their enemies, no matter how dastardly the crimes muslims commit.
Islam does not need provocation to kill you. The fact alone that you’re not Muslim is good enough reason to kill you. So for Turkey, the fact that a radical Muslim kills you is not a bad thing.
The Ottomans were the warriors who finally overran Constantinople in its dying days and forcefully converted the Eastern Roman empire to Islam. It destroyed and renamed all the great temples and churches of the Roman empire and finally renamed Constantinople itself to Istanbul, which it still bears to this day.
Istanbul today is the Constantinople of old, the Roman capital that converted to Catholicism and led to the vast acceptance and expansion of Christianity.
Since 1453AD, the Ottoman empire led by Mehmed 11 conquered Constantinople from the Byzantines, the Ottomans have through wars and conquests, expanded the frontiers of Islam, mostly at the expense of Christian dominion. The Ottomans devastated the Byzantine, Central Asia, Southern Europe, including Southern Spain and Portugal, all of North Africa from Egypt to Morocco and forcefully converted from Christianity to Islam. The Ottoman empire now renamed Turkey, are Central to the expansion of Islam across the world. Turkey today still bears the name: “Defender of the faithful” among Muslims.
Without any knowledge or sense of history or perhaps out of his own mischief, Bola Tinubu, President of a multi-religious Nigeria, has turned to Turkey to call in military support for the mediation of what he calls a religious conflict in northern Nigeria. Turkey does not mediate in religious conflicts, Turkey fights for Muslims and for the advancement of Islam.
In the frenzy of the American bombardments of terrorist enclaves in Sokoto area of Nigeria, Tinubu is undergoing a devastating meltdown, revealing his lack of willpower, utter cluelessness and weakness both as a man and as leader of a country.
The picture of Bola Tinubi that is emerging is ugly, so ugly indeed that we believe Tinubu has not only lost control of the instruments of governance, but that he is ready to hand Nigeria to ancient enemies Turkey and Israel and submerge it in a sectarian conflict that will reduce the country to a burning vast land.
Bola Tinubu has proceeded secretly to Istanbul after a secret meeting with the Sultan of Sokoto and what can be called the war council of the Fulani oligarchy. By his actions so far, Tinubu is pitching tent with the Fulani against the rest of Nigeria and the American establishment. He is abandoning the ship of state and inviting Turkey, an established sectarian interloper that can only take sides with Muslims in the face of a challenge in Nigeria.
The person without good breeding and education is finally showing in Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Two days ago Tinubu himself announced to the leaders of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) that his government has extended formal invitation to the government of Turkey to intervene in the fight against insecurity in the country. The Christian leaders, obviously without knowledge and no sense of history themselves, nodded in approval and ended the meeting carrying gifts home. What they did not know is that Bola Tinubu, out of his own mischief, is moving to take Nigeria into a vortex of religious conflict that see no end in a thousand years. Palestine, check. Lebanon, check. Syria, check. Iraq, check. Iran, check. Afghanistan, check. Somalia, check.
Turkey is the acknowledged leader of the Muslim world and is seen to this day as the defender of the Islamic faith. Saudi Arabia and Mecca may be the birthplace of Islam but the historical expansion and propagation of the faith across much of Arabia, Palestine, Southern Europe and Central Asia was led and achieved by the Ottoman empire, now renamed Turkey. Turkey, has maintained political leadership of the Muslim world and has remained the defender of the Muslim faith for hundreds of years.
Today, the military and political power of Turkey is only checkmated by the state of Israel but Turkey remains a formidable force as member of NATO. The projection of its power northwards to Russia through the Strait of Bosphorus and the black sea and through countries of the Muslim Central Asia (Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and up to Indonesia). Turkey however has never been able to challenge or outflank Israel because of the overwhelming power of Israel itself and the guaranteed protection of America.
Bola Tinubu’s invitation of Turkey to intervene in the resolution of Islamic terrorism in Nigeria is dubious and lacks sincerely. Turkey has long been suspected of providing armament, intelligence and logistics to the Nigerian terror groups with international affiliations like ISIS and al-Qaeda. So Bola Tinubu is not fooling anyone by going to Istanbul to seek friends. He is seeking to open up Nigeria to international sectarian conflict. By siding with Fulani who have been hurt by the American bombardment of Fulani Lakurawa terrorists in Sokoto, Bola Tinubu has chosen to take side against peace and the people of Nigeria.
The trenchant Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, takes serious steps to ensure that Islam continues to flourish in Turkey and expand across the world. So Turkey can only come to Nigeria to support the forceful conversion of people to Islam. That is the sworn commitment of Turkey for hundreds of years. Turkey has never really been able to untangle itself from international accusations of cavorting with implacable Islamists and Jihadi across the world.
Now just at the very time Nigeria is contending with different groups of murderous Islamists and when America and Israel have come to help wipe out the insurgency, Bola Tinubu’s government is inviting Turkey into the fray as a counterforce to Israel and America. His invitation is to help defend the Islamic faith against a perceived Christian onslaught in Nigeria, no matter the fact that it enjoys Muslim support. Tinubu and the Fulani are hoping to make Turkey to defend Islam by helping to counter and stop the elimination of terrorists in Nigeria.
This action is evidence that Tinubu is seeped in deep conceit and is taking terrorism as another side to his politics while working to make Nigeria the cauldron of international conflict of faith between Christianity and Islam. Bola Tinubu in collusion with the Fulani whose hegemony is being threatened by American actions against terror groups, are trying to set up a violent clash between Christianity and Islam in Nigeria. Every other ethnic group, including the Hausa, have welcomed and endorsed the American actions to wipe out Islamic violence in Nigeria.
The danger of the growing convergence of terrorist organizations in Nigeria has not been of any serious concern to the Tinubu government or the Fulani oligarchy. The Fulani want to continue to use the terrorists to perpetuate fear and further their hegemony in Nigeria while Tinubu wants to use them to foster instability which will be exploited to give him a second tenure.
Dr. Ahmad Gumi was denied ingress into Saudi Arabia last year for championing terrorism in Nigeria. The very pro-Western Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern States will not be lured to support groups advocating violent Islam when their own tegimes stand at the risk of been overthrown by violent Islam. They rely on America for protection against violent Islam. The Saudi government had previously expressed outrage at the philosophy of Nigeria’s Boko Haram (book is Haram or forbidden) scorching at the statement which ostensibly denies Arab and Muslim contribution to world scholarship.
The Arabs know that Tinubu and the Fulani want to set up a fight between Christian America and the Muslim world and most would have no part in such a conflict that will be difficult to resolve. Arabs will be morally guilty from the start, backing Muslims who are guilty of committing genocide on Christians without provocation. So the Fulani pursuit of partners and supporters in a war of blame will be a no-win situation. Turkey will be foolish to be goaded into such a conflict as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has expressed Israeli commitment to do what is necessary to stop Christian genocide in Nigeria.
All considered, Turkey can never take up a fight against America in Nigeria. They are both members of NATO and Nigeria will be too inconsequential in their power and relationship consideration. So will Turkey not take up a fight against Israel in Nigeria, no matter how clandestine. Turkey watched Gaza razed down and could not do a thing. Nigeria is an outlier compared to Palestine and Turkey is not about to lose its men and equipment challenging Israel in a distant Nigeria.
So what does Bola Tinubu and the Fulani hope to gain by planting conflict and confusion in Nigeria and inviting international religious war in Nigeria? The naiveté of Tinubu’s government and their low understanding of world politics can be shameful. To think that their low acumen can provoke conflict between America, Israel and Turkey is laughable. Nigeria is of very low strategic interest to these countries and their perception of the integrity and quality of Nigeria’s leaders is low.
But for the missing rare earth minerals from the northeast and the new interest in uranium mining, Nigeria is of low strategic interest to America, Israel and Turkey. Oil or no oil.
Basilokoh.
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