When in February of 2016, Benjamin Netanyahu declared that
“Israel is Coming Back to Africa and Africa is Returning to Israel” he wasn’t
joking. That is because Donald Trump must have advised Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu to get to work and make more friends on the continent so Israel is
not constantly isolated at the United Nations whenever the need for voting
arises. Israel is one of the most hated and vulnerable UN member states. If
they have more allies, more countries will vote in their favor at the Security
Council. This is very critical because Donald Trump will not always be there.
So, Bibi Netanyahu meant business and he went to work immediately.

His first move was to attend an ECOWAS meeting in Monrovia,
Liberia. That would be the first time an Israeli Prime Minister would be
attending an ECOWAS meeting ever. Funny enough, the Moroccan King was also on
his way to the same meeting. Bibi was earlier. The moment the Moroccan king
arrived at the airport and heard that Bibi was already on ground, he
immediately cancelled attendance and flew back to Morocco.

It was after this whole scenario that I heard for the first
time that Morocco, a North African Islamic Nation was strongly fighting to
become a member state of ECOWAS. ECOWAS stands for Economic Community of West
African States. It’s meant only for countries in West Africa. So why would a
North African nation want to tip the balance?

Apparently, Morocco and the rest of the Islamic world have
been understandably restless over Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration about Africa
returning to Israel. That obviously sent shivers down their spines hence the
frantic move by Morocco to join ECOWAS and use their relationship with the most
populous black nation on earth, Nigeria to hurt Israel’s new found love with
African nations. Little wonder the Nigerian government quickly exited 90
international bodies and refused to disclose their names to the Nigerian
public. It was not difficult to suspect that Nigeria had exited those, probably
non-Islamic bodies in other to enter into new Islamic alliances and further
consolidate existing ones, the reason they wouldn’t publicly declare the
international bodies they were exiting. 

For instance, Nigeria ratified and consolidated its
membership of the OIC – Organization of Islamic Communities; Nigeria became a
member of the D8 – Organization of 8 Developing Islamic Nations. In this
organization you have countries like Turkey, Pakistan, Malaysia, Iran,
Indonesia, Egypt, Bangladesh, & Nigeria; Also, Nigeria quickly joined the
Saudi – Arabian formed IMA – Islamic Military Alliance – call it the NATO of
the Islamic world. All these happened barely one year of president Buhari’s
ascent to power.

FAST FORWARD

So, I’ve been tracking a set of interesting pieces of
diplomatic puzzles for some months now. When the Nigerian presidency announced
that a meeting had been scheduled with the US President, Donald J Trump, slated
for April 30, 2018, I literally gasped with an unsettling anticipatory
spontaneity. I knew it was about to go down. How did I know?

Remember, if you’ve followed me and or my postings/writings
long enough, that I wrote a piece some time ago on why I was happy that Trump
fired Rex Tillerson, the former US Secretary of State? Sure.

In that piece, I had explained that Tillerson’s ouster was
not unconnected with his recalcitrant and insubordinate attitude of always
doing what he wanted and not what his boss, the president wanted. I explained
in little detail that his troubles began in Ethiopia and peaked in Kenya, where
he tended to sound a little like an Obama appointee, which posed a huge
National Security threat to Israel and by extension, the United States.

Israel literally runs much of East Africa in more ways than
one. They are so wary of any form of regime change that will benefit Islamists
in any way, shape or form in that region. They would fight tooth and nail to
resist the subtle Islamization of that region and they have many reasons to.
Obama did his best to neutralize Israel’s grip on the region and for some
strange reason, he came out failing with every try. Tillerson’s posturing was
toeing that path and he expectedly lost out.

Under the current US regime, an attack on Israel or her
interest is an attack on America and vice versa. I’ve never seen these two
countries so close for as long as I’ve been alive and Tillerson simply took
that for granted and he paid a huge price.

If you recall, it was reported that he got winds of the plan
to fire him while in West Africa. I don’t agree. He already knew from East
Africa. He only got wind of a possible announcement of the president’s decision
while in West Africa. That is why his Nigerian trip was cut short – almost as
if he never came, leaving behind a diplomatic deficit. Trump and Israel knew he
could no longer be trusted; they saw through his globalist posturing and unholy
alliances with anti Israel elements in Europe. This was the reason they
couldn’t even wait for him to wrap up the trip before making the announcement
that he’s been fired.

When I saw that, the first thing I said was “the next US
Secretary of State will soon visit Nigeria”. I was too sure the US was going to
make up for that diplomatic deficit left behind by “globalist Tillerson”. I
knew there was a strong message that the White House needed to pass across to
Nigeria and since Tillerson had betrayed the trust, expectedly, Trump would
still get the message across, one way or another. Interestingly, rather than
send another Secretary of State, Trump and his team decided that an invite will
be more appropriate and I totally agree. To me, that looks even more decent –
just that when the message comes from Trump himself, it doesn’t always look as
pretty. And sure enough, he lived up to expectations. But there is more.

Running up to the proposed US visit, the Nigerian presidency
was unusually excited about Buhari’s meeting with Trump and they made such a
big deal of it. They sure wanted that to be a Public Relations blow on “anti –
Buharists” in Nigeria who believe that Buhari is only friends with Islamic
nations and not in the good books of the United States. But deep down in my
spirit, I knew a drama was about to unfold. I knew Trump was about to deliver
the exact same message he would’ve loved Tillerson to deliver to the Nigerian president,
which Tillerson would’ve possibly twisted, and I knew it wasn’t going to be
pretty because Trump doesn’t know the meaning of “political correctness”, and I
proudly share that trait with him.

So when president Trump eventually “dropped the bomb”, I
exhaled. The warning to stop the killing of Christians in Nigeria or “we will
do something” came to the Nigerian President and government as a rude shock. It
was a massive spoiler to their “beautiful” PR trip to America. It was a
gigantic mess. I could imagine the face of the Information Minister, Lai
Mohammed, who was all over CNN falsely claiming that Buhari would become the
first African Head of State to meet with Trump in the oval office. No, the
Egyptian president did already. CNN expectedly let him get away with it but
they later admitted the truth. It was a disaster. Their social media handles
went into a freeze mode. Officials went cold and you could literally just hear
their hearts pounding away from a distance. Not what they expected to hear. I
was surprised they didn’t see that coming. But that’s not all that came at
them…

From my little back channels, I heard that there was
probably so much more said to the Nigerian president than was broadcast in the
news media. From what I gathered, the only way to describe the scenario is
“historic change of guards”! Power of control may have just slipped from the
bloody, guilty, filthy hands of England to the formidable, no nonsense
invincible grip of the duo of USA/Israel – controlling the two most powerful
military and intelligence outfits in the world. All of Britain’s efforts to
control or court Trump have hitherto failed and all their expectations have
been dashed. There’s a huge dilemma. Whatever Israel wants is what will happen
now. And there’s not much anyone can do about that. You’re either in or you’re
out. It’s a hot, liquid flowing nightmare to a regime that has done everything
since inception to lean absolutely Islamic by every stretch of the imagination.

Remember that on their way back from the USA, the Nigeria
government strangely detoured to England. That made some news. Mixed reports
here and there. They initially said it was a technical stop over, and then
later admitted the president saw his doctor briefly. No, I suspect it was all to
brief the English architects of the current Nigerian disaster of a regime, on
how much of a failure the US trip turned out to be. It was time to re
strategize. So he had to head to Nigeria and return to England only a few days
later. This time, the presidency said he was going to see his doctor. Well, he
went to see his doctor and he returned one day earlier! That never happened
before! Just saying though.

But trust me, I believe it was all a strategy session on
what to do next. I believe he was advised to listen and take orders from the
White House. They must have informed him that the bull in the White House has
neither control nor mercy. Isn’t that why China and South Korea quickly advised
North Korea to behave, because Trump wasn’t joking when he said he wasn’t going
to allow a nuclear North Korea to stand? He was already amassing around the
peninsular. He was and still is dead ready, not to impose sanctions but to bomb
North Korea back to stone ages. It’s no joke. The US military is ferociously
back to its number 1 position in the world, and they’re not smiling. Thanks to
Trump. North Korea saw it and knew it was game over. Buhari was served from the
same pot of soup on this April 30 trip. If North Korea were jittery, what would
Nigeria do? Exactly what the president of Nigeria did – overtaken with shock
and fear!

So what were those other things that may have been said to
Buhari behind closed doors? Well I don’t really know but I’ll try to connect a
few more dots for you. Now, remember that Nigeria has stood against Israel
since Buhari came into power and ratified Nigeria’s membership of those hard-core
Islamic organizations? Even on the floor of the UN, you could hear President
Buhari openly defending Palestine and so on. But what happened after the US trip?
What changed so much that Nigeria would dare to secretly send its ambassador to
the opening ceremony of the US embassy in Jerusalem – an occasion that has
infuriated the Muslim world so much that Nigeria’s strong Islamic ally, Turkey
had to recall its ambassadors from both the US and Israel? The Nigerian
government knew exactly how badly the Islamic world would react to this
flagrant violation, so they didn’t want the world to know they had sent an
ambassador to the event. But the media broke the news and had the Nigerian
government running for cover, denying that they sent the ambassador there, even
claiming that they were querying the ambassador for his actions, just to
assuage the Islamic block they already sold out to on multiple fronts. But the
truth would later come out on the senate floor. 

So shortly after all that show of shame and double standard,
a Northern Muslim senator, Hon. Aliyu Madaki exploded on the floor of the
senate lambasting the Nigerian government for sending an ambassador to legitimize
Israel’s claim over Jerusalem at the embassy opening ceremony. He must have
been so frustrated because strangely, Nigeria was attending an event that
England had boycotted. Unprecedented! The poor guy didn’t know that power has
smoothly changed hands. Now, the truth is out and words are flying high and
low. “What happened”? Why the sudden change”? Everybody asks.

In very plain terms, I think Buhari must have been told that
his new bosses are now Israel and no longer England, under the circumstance.
And America is standing right behind to ensure he plays the good boy whether he
likes it or not. That is why he would send an ambassador in breaking with all
the Islamic treaties that Nigeria is signatory to. That’s why that senator
freaked out because they all knew how deep Buhari had fallen into his subtle
Islamization program. Unfortunately, there’s a new sheriff in town and it’s not
the kind of sheriff you’d ordinarily see over a country that had almost been
sold out completely to Islam. Israel is now in charge and you either take what
they say or you’re out. Trump will do whatever it takes to ensure you obey
Israel. He broke ranks with European allies to ensure the Iran deal was
evacuated. And Secretary Pompeo just announced that US will unload on Iran the
harshest sanctions they’ve ever seen, and that European multinational companies
who fail to comply with US orders, no matter how big they are will be severely
punished! This is unprecedented. Never before seen. Everyone is scared in
Europe. The North Korean leadership is shivering them to stupor. China had to
quickly make a deal closing the annual trade deficit gap with the US by a
staggering $380 billion out of $500 billion. What an amazing dealmaker Trump
is!

So where does these all lead? My suspicions are that 1.
Buhari was given an option of not running for a second term, while in the White
House. 2. I believe that he probably begged to run on any conditions that the
US/Israel would lay out. 3. I believe that America laid out too much and Buhari
agreed to way too much, just to stay in power. 4. I believe that based on that
agreement, which is not cast on stone, Buhari sent the Nigerian ambassador to
the embassy opening event in Jerusalem, which means that Nigeria must have be
compelled to confess that they agree to Israel’s ownership of Jerusalem. 5. I
believe that Nigeria will begin to scale back the Fulani herdsmen crisis as
soon as possible. 6. I believe that even after the gentlemanly agreement to
allow Buhari to prove himself, that Israel may still be bent on showing him the
door. 7. I suspect that on sensing a renewed effort to remove Buhari from
office, that England and their Islamic allies may pull a surprise by telling
Buhari to ignore Trump, and I suspect that this will spell doom for Nigeria.

A fully Islamized Nigeria is an incredible security risk to
Israel. If Israel would bomb Syria just for hosting an enemy nation like Iran,
they will annihilate Nigeria for entertaining more than just one enemy –
Turkey, Iran, etc.

It almost appears as if Donald Trump came to power because
of Israel. Whichever way you look at it, the game has changed and power has
changed hands. Trust me, England is at a crossroads right now because they
can’t control Trump. The only way they get anything significant done again in
Nigeria, in terms of policy is if Donald Trump is impeached or if he’s killed.
Unfortunately, as much as these two horrifying possibilities hang in the air,
Trump’s popularity has continued to soar out of proportion, even amongst liberals.
Besides, he seems to have mastered the game so much he now has near formidable
team of diehard loyalists – that’s all it takes to assert yourself, and he has!
That’s basically why there is fire on the mountain, the world over. The days
and weeks and months ahead will unfold in such dramatic fashion that our socio
political landscape in Africa, especially Nigeria may never be the same again.

By JOSEPH OKECHUKWU