Yes, there are many critical connections between USA/Israel’s war on the Islamic Republic of Iran, IRI, and the past, present and future of Nigeria. I am not talking about the general rise in living costs such as petroleum products, inflation and others due to disruptions in the flow of oil and gas in the Strait of Hormuz. Those are issues of global concern.

I am talking about the Muslim protests that erupted in Northern Nigeria when the Serpent of Tehran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his minions, were blown to eternal perdition by USA and Israel. The fact that the Muslim protests were also taken up in Lagos(the first time it ever happened in the South-West, if I am not mistaken), speaks dangerous volumes. Islamism, which has robbed the Muslim North and Nigeria of peace, security and development, has now infiltrated Yoruba land. If Muslims “face their front” (minding their own faith and letting others mind theirs), Nigeria as well as the world would be a better place for all. But Islamism, being the ideology of forcing everybody by war and subjugation into Islam, is our common enemy.

Khamenei’s Islamic Republic of Iran was built on the ideology of universal exportation of violent Islam for conquest and enslavement of non-Muslims throughout the world. Northern Nigeria used to be peaceful like Northern Ghana, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Senegal and other Muslim-majority enclaves in the Sahel. Radical Islam has always existed in the North, but political structure managed to keep it in check.

However, since 1999 when the politics of Nigeria started forcing the North to share rotational power with the South, Northern Muslim politicians have increasingly turned to radical Islam as a tool to grab power by force or make governance uncomfortable for those in power beyond their control. Many of them and their radical Islamic cleric partners forged alliances with oil-rich Middle East Muslim countries, such as Iran, to arm terrorist groups in Nigeria. These include Boko Haram, Fulani bandits and “herdsmen” Islamic militias towards eventually converting Nigeria into a caliphate.

Having overcome most of the North, the terrorists have been gradually moving Southward, with the Middle Belt and South-West as their primary focus for now. The ideology is also beginning to eat into a region that has been historically praised for its exemplary religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence. Some groups are actively clamouring to import Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar’s Sharia Council. There is a trending video of a Yoruba Muslim cleric telling his astonished audience: “Boko Haram is a blessing”. The US and Israel’s imminent defeat of the Islamic Republic of Iran, IRI, will be a major strategic blow to this vermin.

Rather than using Iran’s huge oil revenues to develop the country and making life more abundant for its citizens, the Ayatollah regimes diverted billions of dollars in a laughable effort to “wipe Israel off the map”. They saw Israel and the USA as their main obstacles in their ambition to conquer the world. They armed, trained and funded what they called a “ring of fire” around Israel – Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Assad regime in Syria, Houthis in Yemen, Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq and others. They pumped funds into their nuclear weapons programme and set up massive missile and drone armouries. In 2010, a shipment of arms was intercepted in the Lagos ports in Nigeria, showing that Iran was a major source of the sudden surge of terrorism in Nigeria and a critical driver of Nigeria Islamisation.

The imminent defeat of Iran will eliminate their quota of support for Nigeria Islamisation. But rather than the situation getting better, it might actually get worse. All the major global Islamic terrorist outfits – al Qaeda, ISWAP, Ansaru and others –are now active in Nigeria and the greater Sahel. Having been crushed in the Middle East, they are converging in safer zones in West and Central Africa, with a view to taking over Africa, exploiting its abundant natural resources and positioning for a final showdown with the West.

Informed analysts see this as the major motive for the recent keen interests shown by America and Israel, particularly in Nigeria, which is marketed as confronting Christian genocide. America and Israel will not give up the chance of taking strategic control of the continent against other major powers such as China, Russia and others. They definitely will not sit by and watch the Islamists take over and threaten them directly. In the foreseeable future, Nigeria and the entire sub-region may become the theatre of endless conflicts primarily focused on control of resources and populations.

Things are changing very rapidly. The Nigerian governmental establishment and armed forces have been infiltrated by Islamists who are increasingly ignoring critical provisions of our Constitution, the document that binds us all as citizens of Nigeria. The imposition of Sharia and many Islamic features are being done to position Nigeria to the outside world as an “Islamic republic”. The State is loose-handling Islamic terrorist groups, allowing them to gradually overpower and displace unarmed, law-abiding indigenous populations. If we continue like this, ten years is too far before we enter “Nigerianistan”.

I don’t want to go “Nigerianistan”. I wholeheartedly welcome President Donald Trump of the United States and Premier Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel’s full voltage intervention in Nigeria. I don’t want to live under any constitution that has provisions for Muslim legal codes, or portrays Nigeria as a Muslim country. I don’t want Sharia in my constitution. The religious affiliation of citizens is none of the business of the constitution except to ensure equity and protection for people of all faiths.

If getting out of Nigeria is the only way I will be free from Islamisation, then let me get out! I believe that America and Israel’s coming will help protect vulnerable indigenous people. They are welcome!