and destructive opposition to any government in power since Nigeria
got her Independence in 1960. The political party, APC, combined hate
speeches, religion, propaganda and bare-faced lies to dethrone Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) as a ruling party. As PDP assumes the status of
opposition party from May 29, 2015, the problem PDP will have is the
inability to match or even surpass the level of opposition the APC
wrought on the polity in the last two years. Alhaji Lai (lie)
Mohammed, the National Publicity Secretary of APC has been at his
destructive, abusive and insulting best to President Goodluck Jonathan
and PDP's government. This, he does on weekly and/or daily basis.
President Jonathan lamented last year that he has been the most
insulted and abused president in the history of Nigeria. Chief Olisa
Metuh, if he continues as the National Publicity Secretary of PDP has
said unequivocally, that he will not toe the line of Alhaji Lai
Mohammed by resorting to abusive and destructive opposition to
President Muhammadu Buhari.
The world on April 14, 2015 marked the first anniversary of the
"Chibok girls abduction".
Book Haram insurgency and Chibok girl's saga were two veritable tools
deployed by the APC to defeat President Jonathan and PDP at the polls.
Former President of United States of America, George W. Bush Jnr
sometime ago opined: "All terrorists are Muslims but not all Muslims
are terrorists". This statement is very instructive and thought
provoking. In this world, we have so many religions like Christianity,
Islam, Buddism, etc.
In the world today, wherever you hear a terror disturbances, it is
always associated with one religion. The September terror attack in
USA (9/11), the Islamic State of Iran and Syria (ISIS), the activities
of Boko Haram in Nigeria, the recent massacre of University students
in Kenya, just to name a few. Does a particular religion connote
terror and violence? Have anybody ever heard of Christian terrorist
group? Did God intend that only Muslims should inhabit the earth?
Islamic terrorist group have repeatedly said that their mission is to
wipe out all other religions from the surface of the earth which they
have termed infidels. If God intends that only Muslims should occupy
the world, does he not have the ability to ensure that no "infidel" is
given birth to?
I am a Christian because I was born in the Eastern part of Nigeria. I
did not choose where to be born. You are a Muslim because you were
born in the Northern part of Nigeria. You did not choose to be a
Northerner either. Providence brought everybody into the world as it
pleases him. If God wanted the world to be inhabited by Christians
only, he had the ability to make it such in the beginning and he still
has the ability. If he wanted the world to be for Muslims, he would
have done so. Now that the world is mixed up with different religions,
is it possible for one religion to exterminate other religions from
the face of the earth through killings and terror activities? NO. Why
then can we not live together peacefully and worship God without
compulsion?
It is against this background, that the subject of this article which
is the "Chibok girls abduction" is centred on. On April 14, 2014, the
world woke up to hear that Boko Haram terrorists abducted 219 girls
from a secondary school in Chibok town in Borno State. We were told
that Boko Haram terrorists .abducted more than 219 girls from the
schools who were billed to write their West African School Certificate
Examination. But some of the girls escaped from the terrorists and
returned to their parents. It is now alleged that the girls are camped
inside the dreaded Sambissa Forest. And occasionally, some of the
girls escape from forest into the waiting arms of their parents. For
me, all these tales are hogwash! I do not believe that there was any
abduction in the first place. All this hoopla that has attracted the
world's attention for the past one year has been a well choreographed
activities of the opposition to paint President Jonathan and PDP in
bad light before the world and gullible Nigerians so as to snatch
power. I can wager that now that APC had achieved its aim of wresting
power from PDP, one of the early feats, if not the first feat General
Mohammadu Buhari led federal government will achieve is the release of
the phantom Chibok girls.
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