Video: Reign of Terror in Nigeria: Government Complicity & Media Duplicity — Tony Nnadi on VOP-TV, April 10, 2023
Though the video clip above came from a live interview on VOP-TV on April 10, 2023, it speaks to the unspoken background issues that frame Nigeria’s current intractable security nightmares, which have prompted the threat of U.S. military action to halt the killings. It also gives an indication of what Nigeria can do now to arrest the situation.
As global searchlights beam on Nigeria for genocide—particularly the possibility of impending U.S. military action—and as the search for solutions intensifies from diverse quarters, NINAS invites the attention of all stakeholders to a number of largely unspoken factors driving the genocide, but which together hold the key to finding a sustainable solution to the complex problem.
Those factors are:
(1)
The fact that the invasion we see is actually a well-coordinated and heavily resourced Fulani conquest onslaught, disguised as Islamic jihad, and falsely narrated as Farmers–Herders clashes arising from climate change or mere banditry with no ethnic or religious coloration. The self-evident truth is that heavily armed Fulani militiamen, masquerading as “herdsmen,” have been killing and taking over the ancestral lands of Indigenous Peoples in Nigeria—who are predominantly Christians, particularly across the Middle Belt and the South—hence the characterization as Christian genocide (which is correct, but wider and deeper than that).
This explains why Muslim non-Fulani Indigenous Peoples in Zamfara, Kebbi, Katsina, and Niger States are also being killed and their lands taken over, since the prime objective of the Fulani invaders is to take over all lands in Nigeria and turn the entire country into a Fulani Caliphate.
(2)
The invasion is comprehensively empowered by the Caliphate-imposed Unitary Constitution of Nigeria, 1999, which also comprehensively disempowers the Indigenous Peoples of Nigeria. This Fulani conquest operation is being executed in conjunction with global terror networks (including ISIS/ISWAP, Al-Qaeda, etc.) in a sort of joint venture that would provide those terror networks with a vast sovereign space to operate in—just as they are doing in Afghanistan and Yemen.
(3)
The potent and logical solution to this conquest onslaught lies in taking down the 1999 Constitution to extinguish the source of the overwhelming powers of the Fulani/Islamist invaders, and immediately quarantining them to a smaller space. Meanwhile, the Indigenous Peoples—hitherto disarmed and paralyzed by that Constitution—must immediately take charge of armed security arrangements over their territories, along with their economic assets and developmental powers, which the Constitution currently confiscates via its 68-Item Federal Exclusive Legislative List.
(4)
The strategy put forward by the NINAS 5-Point Proposition for enacting this comprehensive solution to the bleeding Nigeria Federation is to immediately halt the voyage toward another futile and dangerous round of national elections in 2027 under the death-dispensing 1999 Constitution, and instead initiate a time-bound transitioning process to reconfigure and rework the distressed Federation of Nigeria—just as South Africa did in 1990–1994 to ease itself out of the apartheid constitutional bind.
(5)
As ethnoreligious killings orchestrated by Caliphate terror machinery continue their southward sweep across Nigeria, and as the U.S. prepares for possible military action, NINAS posits that the best strategic handle Nigeria can immediately adopt—so as to seize the initiative, as strongly advised by President Trump when he announced a possible U.S. military action—is to climb out of the embarrassing hole of denial, acknowledge the problem for what it is, and move swiftly to deploy the solution package offered by the NINAS 5-Point Proposition as outlined herein.
Specifically, an official announcement by the President of Nigeria Should Contain the Following:
(a)
Acknowledgement that the unitary Constitution of Nigeria is responsible for the deplorable security and economic situation Nigeria is currently in.
(b)
An express commitment to solving the problem through the wholesale decommissioning and reconfiguration of the untenable unitary Constitution of Nigeria.
(c)
Suspension of all preparations for another round of national elections in 2027 under the distressed 1999 Constitution.
(d)
A commitment to a two-stage transitioning process in place of further national elections in 2027, in which the constituent peoples of Nigeria would:
stage 1:
Discuss, in formations of their choice, the arrangements in which they would prefer to federate; distill and codify draft regional constitutions; and ratify them by referendums and plebiscites.
stage 2:
Negotiate, agree upon, and ratify—by referendums and plebiscites—the terms of federating afresh as one political union, following the collapse of the federal constitutional arrangements upon which the Nigerian Union was founded prior to independence in 1960.
(e)
Announcement of a time-bound transition process not exceeding 18 months, during which existing governance structures shall operate on a transitional basis to provide nominal governance, while a joint multi-regional body with constituent powers (similar to South Africa’s CODESA) shall midwife the processes outlined in (d) above, with clearly spelled-out composition, mandate, time frame, modalities, and ancillary matters.
From its vantage position of leading the Nigerian Union constitutional reconfiguration debates since 1999—and the privilege of leading the team that engaged extensively with Washington between January and July 2019 in the processes that culminated in the March 2020 CPC designation of Nigeria by the United States, which was reinstated by the October 31, 2025 CPC redesignation—NINAS posits categorically and unequivocally that this watershed announcement, if made in honesty and in good time, will provide Nigeria the handle to take the initiative in halting the genocidal killings that placed Nigeria in the precarious situation of being redesignated a Country of Particular Concern by the United States.
Most importantly, that announcement will arrest the dangerous drift of Nigeria toward catastrophic collapse, brought about by imposing an unworkable unitary Constitution on an inevitably federal union.
NINAS offers to provide necessary guidance to all stakeholders, including the Government, on how to proceed expeditiously with the urgent task of averting—or at least mitigating—the kind of military action (and other sanctions) threatened by President Trump, which might compromise the sovereignty of Nigeria.
The bottom line is that Nigeria and Nigerians must now sacrifice the illegitimate, terror-facilitating 1999 Constitution and the 2027 national elections in order to save the millions of Nigerians now in danger of a major disruption of their lives—and perhaps save the Nigerian Union itself, which is now headed either toward catastrophic collapse or being overrun by the invading Fulani/Islamic conquest operation.
SUPPORTING MATERIALS
(i) Video: CPC Designation of Nigeria, U.S. Threat of War and NINAS Pathway to Redemption
https://youtu.be/JShuU1xG6O0?si=ZCAVrMWxwY51Z13_
(ii) Video: Nigeria-in-Freefall: The Fraud of 1999, the Voyage to 2027 and the NINAS Pathway to Redemption
https://youtu.be/__0lk_Metfg?si=oxITpjvnkK26ZbfU
(iii) Video: Nigeria, Sharia & the Demise of a Secular Union: The Urgent Imperative of a Constitutional Reset
https://youtu.be/QhvySsUUkJ8?si=JGsFGHBZxSQq0yKX