THE FULANI "ISLAMIST" AGENDA AND GOD'S PLAN FOR NIGERIA

BY OLUROTIMI AJIBOWO

From 1804 when Uthman dan Fodio conquered Northern Nigeria, he nursed a desire to overrun the natives to the south and get to the sea. This agenda has been transferred to his offspring who have since then been ruling the Hausa peoples after their conquest through Islamic emirates by upstaging the Hausa traditional stools. Through what has been described as stealth Jihad in governance and open Jihad in the killings across Nigeria, there is a harmonised plan to snuff out Christianity. This is at the root of the crisis of violence in Nigeria and explains why the nation has refused to develop in spite of numerous endowments: the controlling background  agenda has not been development focused but taking over. And God has allowed it thus far.

The intention of God concerning Nigeria, having been declared many times through prophecies, has brought the devil into an awareness of God's purposes. How has the devil reacted? He has hatched and brought about, at different times, his three fold mission: to steal, to kill or to destroy (John 10.10) This explains the unneces­sary upheavals we have had as a nation, aimed at killing or destroying the destiny of the nation through innocent blood letting. Determined to counter the plan of God, he has stage-managed several crises at different points in our national life. And what is his greatest weapon at this time? An Islamist agenda.

At this point, it is important that we understand the difference between Islam and the Islamist agenda. In a document circulated to Christians and put in the public domain by the National Christian Elders Forum, under the title: "The Imperative of Christian Participation in Governance" presented at the RCCG Mega Political Conference on Friday 15th June, 2018 at Redemption Camp, Lagos/ Ibadan Expressway, this distinction was clearly highlighted. It begins by saying:

"One, Islam is a religion just like Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Ogun, Sango, Amadioha and a host of others religions".

"Two, Islamism is NOT a religion but a political ideology that holds that wherever Islam is, Islam must dominate. It is the narrow minded interpretation and implemen­tation of Islamism that is responsible for the worldwide Islamic insurgency. A very good example would be comparison of Yoruba Muslims and their northern counter­parts. In the South West, there is relative peaceful co-existence amongst Muslims, Christians and Traditionalists. This is because the Yoruba Muslim practices Islam as a religion while his northern counterpart practices Islam as Islamism".

It was under this guise and in continuation of the Islamist agenda that the then Sardauna of Sokoto at independence declared, "The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grandfather Othman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the north as willing tools and the south as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us and never allow them to have control over their future." (Sir Ahmadu Bello, The Sardauna of Sokoto, Parrot Newspaper October 12, 1960.) This explains Nigeria's division.

Much earlier, and to show that the agenda has been a long-standing one, transferred from generation to generation since Othman Dan Fodio, the reply Emirs gave to the Association of West African Students Union in 1942, when the students wrote to the Emirs for support in the growing clamour for independence from Colonial rule goes as follows: "Holding this country together is not possible except by means of the religion of the Prophet. If they want political unity let them follow our religion."

It was also in respect of the furtherance of the Islamist Agenda that what the Muslims called the Abuja Declaration contained a special cardinal objective: "To eradicate in all its forms and ramifications all non-Muslim religions in member nations. Such religions shall include Christianity, Ahmadiyya and other tribal religions." (In the original Declaration, it is noted that the word Christianity was underlined.) Islamism can therefore be called 'political Islam', 'radical Islam' or 'activist Islam' - a politico-religious ideology, opposed to a simple belief in Islam. Islamism demands: 

1.That society should be reconstructed in line with the religious principles and ideals of Islam;

 

2.That the modern secular state should be replaced by an 'Islamic state', in which religious principles and authority have primacy over political principles and authority; and 

3. That the West and Western values are corrupt and corrupting, justifying, for some, the notion of a jihad against them. However, distinctive Sunni and Shi'a versions of Islamism have developed, the former linked to Wahhabism, the latter to Iran's 'Islamic Revolution." [Political Ideologies: An Introduction Andrew Heywood, pg. 297]. This is the source of the conflict between mainline Sunni northern Islam and the Shiite muslims led by El Zakzaky.

All the global Islamic terrorist organizations, ranging from ISIS, Taliban, Al Qaeda, to Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen, are foot soldiers of Islamism. Therefore it should be understood that the issue is not simply Islam but Islamism. While most Muslims are peace-loving, a portion, who make up less than 5% of the Nigerian popula­tion and who are just one of the nearly four hundred tribes that make up Nigeria, adopted Islamism in pursuit of a racial agenda.

Having explained this, every discerning Christian needs to first understand that the underlying problem is that God wants to use Nigeria in a mighty way to affect the nations of the world but his greatest foe hopes that he can truncate God's agenda, Islamisation being one of his major trump cards. What will be the end of this agenda? The horse and the rider will be thrown into the sea as it is written: For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth." Rom 9:17 NKJV 

Secondly, the Nigerian Church has been beset with backslidings and compromise of the Word of God, departing from God and His precepts in the process. What God has done is to allow the agenda of the enemy to thrash His people back to Him. The adamancy of the Church in turning back to God has led to the elongation of the persecutions, with God waiting until the Church repents.

Since the Scriptures cannot be broken, we can conclude that the determined counsel of the Lord concerning Nigeria still stands in spite of our waywardness and it is a joy that He has not changed His mind concerning using Nigeria as the base and launchpad for taking the gospel of the end to all the other nations of the world. It is what may not allow Him to move in His Church that must give way. That explains His call to the Church in Nigeria to repentance which has been coming in strident messages in the last few years from within and outside Nigeria before He commences the necessary house-cleaning that enables Him to judge the world. At the end, even the Islamists will be judged. 

(For further details, please read the article God’s Coming Visitation in the second edition of ECCLESIA magazine available online at www.ecclesiachannel.org/blog)