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When
Buhari shut down Bibi’s (Benjamin Netanyahu) visit to the ECOWAS conference
scheduled for early 2015, the message was clear: Israeli’s are not welcome
here. Although Buhari is only one voice
within the 15 member economic zone, he is a powerful one.
Culled from Israel Rising
Written by David Mark
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, and
has been receiving advanced arms from the Obama administration to fight Boko
Haram. Despite this, Nigeria itself is on borrowed time.The movement for an
independent state of Biafra, which is in southeast Nigeria is serious and its
backers are growing. The Igbo and those
tribes that are connected to them have begun to return to their roots, which
are directly connected to the Israel.
Buhari understands this and so he pushed back
against inviting Bibi Netanyahu to the ECOWAS Summit. If he were to let the
summit go ahead with Netanyahu, Buhari would risk being the vehicle that would
allow Bibi to commandeer West African support for Israel. West Africa is key
for Israel for multiple reasons. The most important is it gives Israel an
ability to block the movement of Islam South into the heart of Africa.
Secondly, Buhari has his hands full with the
awakening of Biafra in the southeast of the country. If Biafra gains independence, Nigeria would
not only lose a third of it’s land, but the source of its oil. Besides the economic value Biafra brings, an
independent Biafra would rectify the historic wrong perpetrated by European
Christians and other colonial forces against the Igbo and the other tribes of
the Guinea Coast with Hebrew roots.
Biafra’s restoration is central to the growing rapprochement between
Africa and Israel. If allowed to
continue, leaders like Buhari are on borrowed time.
One way for Israel to pressure Buhari is to draw
attention to Nigeria’s unlawful imprisonment of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of IPOB.
Granting Kanu freedom would be the fasted way for Islamists like Buhari to feel
the force of the coming pendulum swing back towards a sane West Africa. A West Africa that cherishes its lost Hebraic
culture and works to safeguard its burgeoning relationship with Israel
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