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The triumphant victory, against all
odds, of Mr. Donald Trump as the 45th President-elect of the United States of America reminds us at Intersociety
of the popular slogan of a leading wrestler in the World Wrestling
Championship, Mr. Jack Swagger. Mr. Swagger’s popular slogan is: WE
ARE THE PEOPLE! Trump victory, therefore, is an indication that power
truly resides on the people or the masses and not on bourgeois and establishment
class.
Mr. Trump’s triumphant victory also
reminds us of the core foundational statement contained in the American
Independence Declaration of July 4, 1776, authored and delivered by enigmatic
Thomas Jefferson; who, in turn, was inspired by John Locke’s 1690 Book-the
Second Treatise of Civil Government.
The immortal statement, which has
remained till date the major trust of US Statehood and liberty; holds as
follows: We hold these truths to be self evident that all men (and women)
are created equal and endowed with certain natural and inalienable rights, and
most important being of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And to
protect these rights, men set up government whose authority rests on their
consent. And whenever a government ceases to do what it has been set up for,
its citizens have a right to change it or its order and put in place a new
government or a new order that will provide for their safety and happiness.
As we earlier educated in our public
statement of 5th of July 2016, titled: In Solidarity With The United States
At 240: To Whom Much Is Given, Much Is Expected; the areas now called
“Americas” (inclusive of the United States, North and South American
Continents) were discovered through voyage expeditions between 1492 and 1504,
with the first expedition undertaken by Christopher Columbus De Great, born in
Genoa, Italy about 31st October 1451, lived for 55 years and died in 1506. Following his
successful exploration, he later named the areas “the New World”, which also
opened same up for European colonization and Atlantic Slave Trade for the
purposes of agro-slavery and colonization.
But the mother of all
explorations/expeditions to the “New World” was that undertaken by another
great Italian-Spaniard sailor named Amerigo Vespucci; which
extensively covered a long period from 1497 to 1504. Amerigo Vespucci
De Great was born in Florence, Italy in 1454 and he died in 1512. Vespucci’s
expedition was expansive and extensive covering the “South” and “North”
Americas put together. The areas so discovered were later named after him
following a historical suggestion made by a German humanist and cartographer: Martin
Waldseemuller in his 1507’s Quattour Americi Navigatiniones or
Four Voyages of Amerigo; in which he seminally suggested that “the newly
discovered new world should be named ab Amerigo Inventore
or the Land of Americus or America. In other words, the word “America”
was invented in 1507 by a German cartographer (map maker) called “Martin
Waldseemuller”.
The historical rewinding above is to
remind all and sundry that “America” is created by God, but founded by THE
PEOPLE of all races, which is why it will always be defined as: a
melting pot where people from all walks of life get melted and turned into
finished products of: Igbo Americans, Yoruba Americans, Ijaw Americans, Tiv
Americans, German Americans, Indian Americans,Japenese Americans, Chinese
Americans, African Americans, Christian Americans, Hindu-Americans, Buddhist
Americans, Muslim Americans, Judeo-Americans, Mexican or Hispanic Americans,
etc. In other words, every American citizen, dead or alive, is a
visitor!
While we have congratulated Mr.
Donald Trump for his Peopling Victory as the 45th President-elect of the United
States; we must as a matter of conscience and godliness, pay special tribute to
the duo of Amerigo Vespucci and Christopher Columbus in their hallowed graves;
the two founders of today’s “Americas”, particularly the United States; a
country of 50 States and Puerto Rico. Also remembered and commended in his hallowed
grave is then King Ferdinand of Spain, who sponsored Christopher Columbus
maiden expedition that later gave birth to “the New World” and “Americas”.
It is also worth reminding all and
sundry that though the Independence of the United States was proclaimed on 4th of July 1776 by 13 American
Colonies led by John Adams and other leading pro independence
activists, but the American true independence and statehood did not come until
30th of April 1789, a period of 13 years, following violent struggles
against the American colonial masters particularly the Britain, leading to
emergence of George Washington as the first President of the United States on
30th of April 1789, who left office on 4th of March 1797.
Since then or from 30th of April 1789 till date, the United
States of America have produced a total of 45 Presidents including
President-elect, Mr. Donald Trump. They generationally include two presidents
in the 18th century, 23 in the 19th century, 17 in the 20th century and now three in this latent 21st century in the persons of George
Walker Bush, 20th of January 2001 to 20th of January 2009, Barak Obama, 20th January 2009 to 20th of January 2017 and Donald Trump, 20th of January 2017 to 20th of January 2021 or to 20th of January 2025.
Apart from the above mentioned; the
leadership of International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law,
particularly see Trump’s triumphant victory as the return of world
police and a red card to antagonists of international peace and
security. Leading the dark way are the outgoing Obama Administration
and the Buhari Administration in Nigeria. The Obama Administration may have
commendably rescued the American economy from recession, but its foreign policy
is totally genocidal and antagonistic of the international peace and security
as well as the dreams of the founding fathers of the United States.
Until the Peopling emergence of
Donald Trump, the Obama Administration had steadily provoked the
Peoples of Nigeria and promoted genocidal diplomacy and deepened
ethno-religious divisions in the country. By sending its outgoing Secretary of
State, Senator John Kerry, to embark on highly provocative and selective tour
of a section of the country (i.e. north and its predominant Muslim population),
the Obama Administration had dangerously deepened the already existing
ethno-religious divisions and rivalries. As if that was not enough, the Obama
Administration selectively and provocatively invited 19 northern Governors to
Washington DC, ignoring their southern counterparts with their predominant
Christian population; by way of “arming the north against the south”.
Contrary to clear provisions of the Leahy Law, the
Obama Administration has illegitimately gone ahead and co-armed the atrocious
Administration of Gen Muhammadu Buhari, which has over 1500 State murders and
scores of political prisoners to its disastrous credit. For purpose of clarity,
the Leahy
Law is
a U.S. human rights law that prohibits the U.S. Department of State and
Department of Defense from providing military assistance to foreign military
units that violate human rights with impunity. It was named after its principal
sponsor, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
To implement and enforce
this law, it expressly directs U.S. Embassies, the Bureau of Democracy, Labour
and Human Rights and the appropriate regional bureau of the U.S. Department of
State to vet potential recipients of security assistance and if a unit is found
to have been credibly implicated in a serious abuse of human rights, assistance
is denied until the host nation government takes effective steps to bring the
responsible persons within the unit to justice. In this context, the Obama
Administration has observed these sacred provisions in breach with reckless
abandon.
It is on the ground of the
foregoing that the Buhari Administration is emboldened and aided by the likes
of Obama Administration to continue to commit heinous rights abuses and other
regime atrocities with utter vehemence and reckless abandon. The Buhari
Administration must have felt that “with the backing of Obama Administration or
the world most powerful country, it can kill and detain unarmed and innocent
citizens in droves and at will and nothing will happen municipally, regionally
or globally”.
Therefore, the triumphant
emergence of Donald Trump may most likely have saved Nigeria from intractable
brink and Nigerians from genocide of unquenchable proportion, aided and
encouraged from outside through blanket diplomatic assistance; which was why we
got shocked and alarmed when the spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari
offered “congratulatory” message to Mr. Donald Trump over his triumphant
victory at American Presidential Poll.
We see the said
congratulatory message and its “offer of readiness to work with Mr. Donald Trump
in many areas which include cooperation on many shared foreign policy
priorities, such as the fight against terrorism, peace and security, economic
growth, democracy and good governance”, as shameless, double-mouthed and a
height of diplomatic prostitution. Agreed that the “world has become a global
village”, making international isolation an impossibility; but we see the
“Buhari’s Congratulatory Message” to the U.S. President-elect as irreconcilable
and fundamentally defective.
Every Tom, Dick and Harry
knows the gravity of diplomatic partisanship and hostility displayed by the
Buhari Administration towards Mr. Donald Trump and his Republican Party during
their electioneering campaign. While we are not opposed to the Buhari
Administration working with the incoming Trump and Republican Administration in
the United States, but that can only happen where there is total policy
reversal on the part of the Buhari Administration; particularly in the areas of
regime image and communications (i.e. moving away from regime
falsehood, deceit and propaganda); trade and investment; human rights,
rule of law, good governance, security and criminal justice administration.
Such policy reversal must
include unconditional release of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu and all other political
detainees as well as de-criminalization and de-stigmatization of the Indigenous
People of Biafra, Islamic Movement of Nigeria and their lawful activities. It
must also include bringing to domestic or international justice those involved
in various regime atrocities such as killing of over 800 unarmed and innocent
members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) and over 250 unarmed and
innocent members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and other Pro Biafra
campaigners as well as over 300 wounded Pro Biafra campaigners and hundreds of
members of IMN also wounded by the Nigerian Army. High profile regime
atrocities’ perpetrators like Lt Gen Turkur Buratai, Retired IGP Solomon Arase
and their then sub-commanders must particularly be brought to justice.
Finally, by the triumphant
emergence of Mr. Donald Trump as the 45th President-elect of the
United States, a red card is going the way of African dictators and
tyrants. Those who have remained in power for life and refused to
vacate office in countries like Angola, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Algeria,
Gambia, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo Republic, Togo,
Chad, Uganda, Sudan and host of others must be compelled to quit office or face
international and diplomatic isolation, or better still, be edged out through
International Peace Support Operations under the auspices of the United
Nations.
Radical Muslim groups and
their global sponsors must also be made recipients of Donald Trump’s Red
Card. Freedom of Conscience, Thought and Religion must be globalized
and those threatening it must be globally tracked and brought to justice in
accordance with the Principles and Purposes of the United Nations. Muslims;
likewise their Christian counterparts and other religious faithful, should be allowed
access to global movements, provided they are not in conflict with
international laws and norms or constitute threats to international peace and
security.
Robust U.S.-Russia
relations are direly needed to end the bloody Syrian conflict that has killed
over 260,000 people and generated over 9million internally displaced persons
and refugees since March 2011. To ensure this, the Syrian dictator, Bashar
al-Assad and his atrocious lieutenants must be ousted and brought to justice.
The promotion of international
peace and security has remained at its lowest ebb throughout the eight years of
the Obama Administration; following acute weakness and double standard of the
Administration in foreign policies and international relations; forcing THE
PEOPLE to desperately yearn for the return of the world police in
global affairs vide triumphant election of Mr. Donald Trump as 45th
President-Elect of the United States of America.
Signed:
Emeka Umeagbalasi, Board Chairman
International Society for Civil Liberties &
the Rule of Law (Intersociety)
Mobile Line: +2348174090052
Obianuju Igboeli, Esq.
Head, Civil Liberties & Rule of Law Program
Mobile Line: +2348180771506
Chinwe Umeche, Esq.
Head, Democracy & Good Governance Program
Mobile Line: +2347013238673
Email: info@intersociety-ng.org
Website: www.intersociety-ng.org
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