Yesterday,
Hajo Sani prepared to leave Nigeria by British Airways to underscore her undue
supervisory role over Aisha and be the chaperon again! She wasn't with Aisha
when she gave the BBC interview, she's scrambling to go to London before Aisha
proceeds to Brussels and say more stuff. They are angry as hell and are
smarting from the exposé. Unfortunately for them, they cannot prevent BBC from
airing the remaining part of the interview tomorrow and we are waiting with
bated breath to hear it and to read it.
Buhari
is a thorough Northern conservative who loves his wife. His winning the
election changed all that as power mongers encircled him and stifled his wife.
Aisha must have had it up to her neck and totally exasperated before she
spilled it all out in London. My sources told me the influence of Hajo dates to
when Buhari married Aisha. Hajo was like her supervisory guide. After she grew
and carved her own niche and the husband won the presidency, the cabal
engineered Hajo as her SA to cage her. There is no love lost between them. Hajo
at about 10 years older is very overbearing. They hate each other like satan
and Angel Michael - bare knuckle hatred. Hajo was a minister under Abacha. Like
people with her kind of mold, she hugs power like bodysuit. The BBC interview
was not a mistake. She has been totally encircled an alienated from her husband
with Hajo usurping her role. She had to spill her frustrations and prod her
husband to leave a legacy.
How
does this concern you and I? The same poweful forces who emasculated Yar'Ardua
are back in business. Kingibe is back! Imagine! Hajo Sanni, Gen monguno NSA,
Abba Kyari and the big Cahuna - Mamman Daura. One of my sources this morning
told me; "there is nothing human about Mamman Daura. He is evil. He does
not talk. Nigeria cannot progress if he is alive and near Buhari." I was
shaken!
Who
is Mamman Daura? Why is he very powerful? Mamman Daura is one of the vestigial
remains of the Kaduna Mafia. A dying breed whose grip on power receded after
the death of Abacha. The origins of the Kaduna mafia revolves around the demise
of the first republic. The loss of many Northern leaders in the 1966 coup
prodded a group of Northern civil servants to rally around and oppose the new
government of General Aguiyi Ironsi. The group, a diverse mixture of
aristocrats and civil servants were predominantly Muslim and based in Kaduna.
Many of its members were educated at the famous Barewa College in Zaria, and
had demonstrated a certain level of managerial competence in comparison to some
of their older contemporaries.
They were known for their intelligence,
commitment to the traditional values and socio-political interests of Northern
Nigeria. Members were involved in varied aspects of the Nigerian nation, they
were bank directors, ministers, military colonels and owners of business; their
main differentiating symbol was the prominence of economic interest as a
driving factor in their activities.
The group thrived on an elaborate network
of power alliances among northern aristocrats and government sympathizers who
favored the groups pro-northern and Islamic bent. Famous members and allies
includes Adamu Ciroma, Mamman Daura, Ibrahim Tahir, Mahmud Tukur, Gen.Shehu
Musa Yar'Adua and Muhammadu Buhari. Unfortunately, as time revealed, they all
departed from the ideals championed by Sir Ahmadu Bello. They looked after
themselves and cared less about the people they had planned to protect. It was
all about power. By the 1980's Buhari took a nationalistic view with a mission
to restore values and put Nigeria straight. He did not hesitate to jail anyone
from anywhere. His reputation as a patriot and lover of Nigeria as an
indivisible entity emanated from there. He burnished his credentials by
decisively destroying the Maitatsine sect and putting Islamic extremism out of
the North until Babagida happened to us.
Can
Buhari be trusted to take the necessary step to retrieve Nigeria from the grip
of his uncle - Mamman Daura? I am not sure. He once withdrew Mamman Daura's
aides, revoked his security and instructed them not to allow him into Aso Rock.
Somehow, Mamman Daura found his way back and became more virulent. A grip on
Buhari by Daura is a grip on Nigeria. Can Buhari be trusted to do the needful?
I don't think so.
We
must help him. He is helpless and totally caged! He cannot transcend the old
order. His wife is way ahead of him on this and she wants her husband's name in
gold. The BBC interview is a cry for help. For Aisha to take that step in a
conservative Islamic family is an unusual step. To do it in London is very
telling. It is a very bold, courageous and calculated step. I respect her
courage. This morning, my sources fear for her life in the hands of this cabal.
We must let them know that Aisha must not be silenced. She must not be killed.
Those around Buhari are great power mongers with careless disregard for
Nigeria. Just power for its own sake. Power that has not translated into
anything for the teeming Northern youths and Nigerians in general.
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