Recently, Northern leaders met. Their Governors, Traditional Rulers and others met in Kaduna and decided that –

1. Nigeria is indivisible (whatever that means)
2. #EndSARS is targeted to bring down Buhari’s govt
3. Social media must be regulated.

Now, do you know that if there was an ‘expanded’ meeting of all Northern leaders, similar to what happened that day, it would have in attendance all who control the entire Nigerian governance structure today? Do you understand the implications in that?

See, if they want to meet now as they met yesterday, the President, Senate President, Chief Justice of Nigeria, SGF*, Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Air Staff, NSA, IGP, DG DSS, Heads of the four major revenue earning agencies (NNPC, FIRS, Customs and NPA), Heads of Immigration, Prisons and NSCDC…all would be present at such a meeting.

So if they really want to have a kindred meeting of the North…that is, to join their Governors and Traditional Rulers as some of them (like Buhari’s Chief of Staff and Senate President) did yesterday, they will simply drag the ENTIRE apparatus of government to their sectional meeting and take decisions that will be enforced on EVERYBODY.

So you see the reason some of us shout foul at the utter sectional character of this govt? You see the danger now? Now they’re meeting for their own sectional purposes, carrying the weight of their offices with them and using those offices to implement sectional decisions. You know what that means, don’t you? No need elaborating.

NB: When I say North, we need to see this in context – look at the offices I listed there, apart from the asterisked SGF, there’s not a single Christian among them….

~ Ikechukwu Obi