The former minister of Aviation Fani Kayode has said openly to some of his Yoruba brothers and other southerners condemning the recent announced visit of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to Lagos, that they are talking nonsense as Nnamdi Kanu's visit to Lagos can not be stopped and it's a welcome one, read his comments below...
NNAMDI KANU: THE RISE OF BIAFRA AND THE COMING OF ODUDUWA
Permit me to begin this weeks contribution with a brief aside. My
dear friend Major Hamza Al Mustapha was reported to have said the
following a few days ago:
“Those who strive to keep Nigeria one find themselves as enemies of a
certain category of Nigerians. I don’t see those who hate to see
Nigeria as one as a group but a clique that
exploits the country, a clique that mismanages the future, a clique that
invests in disintegration, a clique that invests in misinformation and
creating division among Nigerians, a clique that promotes hatred, a
clique that distorts our
history, so that when Nigerians are divided and can no longer think
together, they can make gains and continue to steal from Nigeria’s
commonwealth. But the moment you realize what they are doing and resolve
to fight them, they will stop at nothing to destroy
you. Any call to divide Nigeria is unacceptable".
One wonders whether these were the thoughts of Major Hamza
Al-Mustapha when he was the Chief Security Officer to General Sani
Abacha and when Mrs. Kudirat Abiola, the courageous and outsoken wife of
Chief MKO Abiola the winner of the June 12th 1993 presidential
election, was brutally murdered in cold blood by agents of the
governmrnt that he served so diligently and with such ruthless
precision.
One wonders whether she was murdered alongside many other gallant
sons and daughters of the south west by the Abacha regime in the name of
maintaining the national cohesion and unity that he claims to love so
much. I will grant my brother Hamza the opportunity to answer this
question before going any further but for now I will just say the
following.
I rather think that it is the clique of those that kill with
impunity, that supress dissent, that demonise their peresceived enemies,
that believe that the rest of us are slaves and that believe that they
were born to rule that present the greatest threat to peace and national
unity in this country.
If they want peace and unity they must humble themselves and beg God
and the Nigerian people for forgiveness for 103 years of cruelty,
ruthless domination, arrogance, genocide and impunity.
They must get off their high horse, purge themselves of their
notorious insolence and insufferable contempt and they must stop the
historical distortions, the insults, the killings and the threats.
Whether Mustapha likes it or not the days when anyone will invoke the
spirit of national unity and one NIgeria just to perpetuate injustice,
bondage, slavery, subjugation, mass muder, genocide, ethnic and
religious cleansing and core northern domination are long over.
All the insults and threats in the world cannot change that. I await his response.
Permit me to continue this contribution by stating loudly and clearly
that those that have told Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOB to steer clear of
Lagos and Yorubaland and that have said that he must not go there for
any rallies are talking bunkum.
Apart from the fact that milions of Igbos that reside in Lagos and
many other parts of the south-west would welcome him with open arms and
thunderous jubilation, millions of Yoruba youth would also rejoice at
his coming simply because they have been inspired and stirred by his
sheer courage and dedication.
To the Yoruba nationalists and believers in the right of
self-determination Kanu is a hero and they not only admire him but they
also revere him.
This is especially so given the fact that he has long since withdrawn
and renounced many of the misconceptions and views that he once
espoused and expressed about the Yoruba and their leaders before his
incarceration.
Had this not been the case this writer would not and could not possibly have had as much respect and affection for him as I do.
As a matter of fact since his release he has not only stood by the
Yoruba nation publicly but has also spoken up for a number of Yoruba
leaders who are suffering persecution from the Federal Government and
who have been issued with life-threatening and physical threats from the
Arewa Youth.
Yours truly is one of those that both IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu has stood
by and spoken up for consistently and I consider it to not only be an
honor but also a gesture that I shall never forget and that I shall
always endeavour to reciprocate.
Without any fear of contradiction, I can boldly say that this
courageous young man has nothing but respect and affection for the
Yoruba nation today.
He has renounced all his past comments about our people both
privately and publicly and he will do so again in a big way when he
comes to Lagos.
We spent a lot of time together in Kuje prison and we learnt a lot
from each other whilst there. We are fighting the same cause against the
same enemy.
Those that believe that he and IPOB have no friends amongst the
Yoruba are misguided and misinformed. They have lost touch with reality
and they are living in the past.
The truth is that IPOB has friends amongst both the elders and the
youths in the south-west and, most importantly, millions of Yoruba sons
and daughters share their vision of and belief in the right to exercise
their God-given right of self-determination.
They crave for and believe in the establishment of Oduduwa Republic
in much the same way and for the same reasons that Nnamdi and members of
his IPOB crave for and believe in Biafra.
The bridge of commonality of purpose between the south west and the
south east has been rebuilt and re-established and none shall ever break
or burn it again. Whether anyone likes it or not, in this struggle, we
are one.
I would also add this. Those in igboland and indeed throughout the
south that have openly opposed, insulted and sought to chastise those
gallant men and women that support the idea of restructuring our country
or that consistently resist and denigrate the concept of establishing
the sovereign state of Biafra are mischevous and disingenious.
They are nothing but gutless traitors, blacklegs and turncoats that
have no sense or knowledge of history and that have been contracted by
the powers that be to shatter the dreams and aspirations of millions of
young Igbos from within.
Worst still they are simply voicing the views and sentiments of the internal colonialists and our collective slavemasters.
These turncoats and traitors have fed fat on Nigeria and have
consistently cornered the market of all that is due to the Igbo from the
Federal Government for themselves over the last thirty years.
Such beneficiaries of a skewered, inequitable and unwholesome system
who have no empathy for the suffering and humiliation of their own
people and who cannot feel their pain forget that, with God, all things
are possible.
If one million Igbo youths were slaughtered in the north or in the
streets of the east by northern mobs or our security forces respectively
these people would not voice a single word of protest but would instead
try to defend and rationalise it.
This brings me to the meat of this essay. The Arewa Youths that
demanded that the Igbo must leave the north by October 1st and that have
now given the Federal Government an ultimatum to arrest Nnamdi Kanu in
the next 10 days are stoking a fire that may end up consumming Nigeria.
They must be gagged, put in chains and spanked hard!
Nnamdi Kanu is a hero and his call for independence for the Igbo is
legitimate and lawful. Any attempt to arrest him will have consequences.
For those that still do not believe that the Biafra phenomenon and
message is here to stay and that are still guided by the erroneous
notion that "all is well" in Nigeria I share the following.
Dr. John Dan Fulani, a cerebal and well-respected activist, human
rights crusader, intellectual and academic from Southern Kaduna with a
large following, has said that if Biafra is established the people of
Southern Kaduna will leave Nigeria and go with them.
This unprecedented assertion and declaration has caused panic,
consternation and alarm in many core northern conservative circles.
Again Professor Jerry Gana, a respected former Minister from Niger
state and a reasonable, well-known and well-liked leader that has been
deeply involved in politics and entrenched in the corridors of power for
the last 32 years has said that if Nigeria were ever to break up the
people of the Middle Belt would leave the north and go with the people
of the south.
Again the Solomon Asemota SAN and T.Y. Danjuma-led Christian Elders
Forum has warned the Federal Government and the Nigerian people about
what they have described as a subtle and dangerous application of
"stealth jihad" by the Federal Government in our country and what they
see as an attempt to islamise Nigeria.
Again a well-organised and credible Yoruba group called the Yoruba
Liberation Command (YOLICOM) has said that it was "too late for
restructuring" and that they want Oduduwa Republic to be established.
They also threw their weight behind the establishment of Biafra.
This is the sad and sorry impasse that the ailing President Muhammadu
Buhari and his cult of ecstatic cheerleaders and super worshippers have
taken Nigeria in just two years.
Whilst the dangerous ethnic, religious and regional divisions in our
country are getting wider by the day His Royal Highness is busy holding
court in London and desperately trying to prove to the world that he is
not dead, that he is much better and that he can rule our nation from a
distant foreign land indefinately. What a country! What a people!
The truth is that the President and the Presidency is not meant to be
a tourist attraction, a museum of old fossils or a mausoleum of
decaying bodies to be viewed by curious dignitaries in a distant foreign
land.
Despite the pretty group pictures with a handful of selected
governors I believe that it is an act of cruelty to expect this poor and
obviously very sick man to lead a nation of 180 million.
In spite of my views about his glaring incompetence and his many
atrocities, weaknesses, eccentricities and shortcomings I believe that
even he deserves far better than that.
My counsel, which is borne out of compassion and nothing else, still
remains that he resigns and that he goes home and rests before he
suffers yet another replapse and returns to nether nether land!
The truth is that the only thing that competes with our never-ending
film show of "do you have a President or do you not have a President" in
Nigeria today is the much-awaited and newly released 'season 7' of
HBO's "Game of Thrones" which I watch religiously and which I enjoy
enormously.
That is what the serious business of governance has been reduced to
in Nigeria. Is it any wonder that CNN's Fareed Zakaria mocked us about
our absentee President before hundreds of millions of viewers from all
over the world just the other day?
The truth is that we deserve even worse. May God judge those that
have brought us this unquantifiable and unbearable calamity and national
shame.
Meanwhile I urge the wise and the discerning to pause and consider the following.
Those that dismiss the widening divisions and agitations in our
country with disdain and contempt and that underestimate the resolve of
those that are behind them are not only naive but they also do so at
their own peril.
It is only a matter of time before something gives. I say this
because national cohesion and unity can only be established, entrenched
and sustained by the accomodation and toleration of dissenting views,
the constant expression of love and the regular and consistent
application of leadership by consensus.
It cannot be sustained by brutality, murder, injustice, lies,
supression, persecution, tyranny, manipulation, deceit, propaganda and
coercion.
You cannot hold a people down by the usage of threats, the shedding of blood and the force of arms forever.
Even slaves rise up in bloody rebellion and resist tyranny when the
time is right, when the wind of liberation blows and when the freedom
bell tolls.
The south west, the south south and the south east yearn for that liberty and freedom and the Middle Belt craves for it.
The only thing that they are waiting for is the emergence of a set of
bold, clear-thinking, inspirational and focused leaders that have the
courage, the tenacity of purpose, the unrelenting fortitude and the
purity of spirit to lead the struggle and to take them out of the
bondage of Egypt and into the Promise land.
The bottom line is as follows: I would rather live and die as a free
man in an independent Oduduwa Republic than continue to live and die as a
slave in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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