By Femi Fani-Kayode
"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I fear no evil for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort
me"- Psalm
23.
I recited this
scripture three times and waited on the Lord quietly and calmly when I heard
that my wife and son had been unlawfully apprehended and detained in a bank in
far away Ado Ekiti on the orders of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) whilst I was in Lagos .
Somebody should
tell President Muhammadu Buhari to stop sending his goons to abduct other
peoples’ wives and eight month old
infant babies and to stop trying to traumatise them, lock them up and
destroy their lives simply because they are married to or fathered by
opposition politicians and those he hates.
He should leave my
wife Precious Chikwendu, my eight month old son, Aragorn, and other members of
my family alone, face me directly and be a man. Even in war the wives and
children of the enemy are out of bounds.
The truth is that
Buhari is nothing more than a coward and a bully and he will suffer the
consequences of his actions because God will punish him.
I give thanks to
the Living God, the fearless lion that is known as Governor Ayo Fayose and the
good people of Ado Ekiti for saving the lives of my loved ones and protecting
them from the barbaric and illegal actions and tyranny of the fascists of the
EFCC.
I have nothing but
contempt for these people. They are the scum of the earth and by the time this
is all over they will know that I serve a mighty God.
Despite the
threats, persecution, violence and intimidation that my family and I have been
subjected to over the last one year my opposition to the Buhari government
remains implacable and unrelenting and I refuse to be silenced.
I said that Buhari
was an evil man right from the outset and that he would prove to be an
incompetent and disastrous President if elected into office and I have been
proved right.
If he and his
security forces are not killing Shiite Muslims, marginalising Christians,
silencing and intimidating critics, locking up members of the opposition,
storming the homes of judges or threatening bloggers and journalists they are
sponsoring Fulani militants and herdsmen to commit acts of barbarity and terror
against their fellow Nigerians.
If they are not
impoverishing Nigerians, decimating the economy or freezing the bank accounts
of innocent men and women and their family members they are tormenting,
abducting and locking up the wives, infants and babies of opposition
figures.
If they are not
intimidating and charging leaders of the Senate and other senior legislators to
court on trumped up charges, murdering IPOB youths, butchering Niger Deltans,
humiliating and cheating their own party leaders or discrediting and jailing
dissenters they are denigrating women and confining them to the kitchen and
bedroom.
Buhari has divided
our country along ethnic, religious and regional lines as never before and he
has subjected the Nigerian people to levels of starvation, deprivation, poverty
and suffering that were hitherto unknown.
And it is not just
southerners and Christians that are feeling the pinch and suffering the pain
and affliction. Millions of northern Muslims are feeling it as well. If anyone
doubts that I challenge Buhari to walk the streets of Kano today and see what happens.
One wonders how
things got so bad? One wonders what engendered this terrible affliction and
what attracted this deep-rooted curse of a government?
*Fani-Kayode with 8 month old son |
One wonders how a
country of 180 million resilient, hard-working, educated, enterprising,
adventurous, courageous, cheerful, charitable, forgiving, kind, God-loving,
God-fearing and strong-willed people ended up with a President from the dark
ages like this?
Even members of the
President's own constituency in the core north, his leading party members from
all over the country, his greatest allies and erstwhile friends and now his
beautiful young wife are complaining bitterly and openly. They are all wailing
as loudly and as frantically as the traditional wailers of the wailing
opposition.
The response of the
President is to dismiss their concerns with contempt and to describe his young
wife as nothing more than something akin to a kitchen maid, a glorified cook
and a slavish bed wench before a shocked German audience and an utterly
dumbfounded world.
His media aides and
apologists tried to spin the whole thing by suggesting that he was just joking
but this did not go down well with Buhari.
The very next day
he told yet another group of foreign journalists that he meant every word of
what he had said earlier and that as far as he was concerned "women
had no place in politics" and they belonged to the "kitchen
and the bedroom".
Now the question is
this? How can any sane man describe his wife as only being fit for the kitchen
and the bedroom let alone the President of the largest and most densely
populated black nation on earth?
What does that tell
the world about us as a people? How is that supposed to make our women feel?
Does the President know the damage he has done to us by that single statement
which he made in distant Germany
at the very heart of the European Union?
One of his media
aides has already told us that he cannot read newspapers and that he can only
manage to comprehend the cartoon section of any paper but even at that his
latest comments go beyond the pale.
By his shameful and
ignorant assertions about women in Germany Buhari has confirmed the fact that
he has no respect for himself, for his people, for his continent, for his women
or even for his host, Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is a woman and her German people.
Not only did he say
those shameful things about his wife and women but he also said it in Merkel's presence
and on German soil.
No wonder there was
deep outrage in Germany and
indeed throughout Europe and the civilised
world and no wonder leading feminist and human rights organisations and
respected members of the German community were demanding for his expulsion from
that country.
It is only in Nigeria that
some ignorant, sorry and hapless opportunists and hungry government apologists,
freeloaders and beggars tried to play the whole thing down by claiming that the
President was "just joking".
Shameless are those
who say so.
Gov Ayo Fayose |
The bitter truth is
as follows: Nigeria
is being run by a small cabal of hardened, violent, merciless, paranoid, incompetent,
relentless, cow-loving religious bigots who are also closet paedophiles,
chronic misogynists and ravenous sodomites.
Such people are
happy to marry nine-year old brides and to confine their wives to the kitchen
and bedroom for the rest of their lives.
Such people hate
criticism or opposition in any shape or form because they believe that being in
power confers some degree of divinity and deification upon them.
Such people believe
that to challenge their authority is to challenge God and they see themselves
not as elected servants of the people but as divinely ordained representatives
of God on earth.
Such people believe
in crushing, destroying, humiliating, killing and jailing their perceived
enemies and political adversaries for no just cause the moment they feel
threatened or intimidated.
Yet the truth is as
follows: no matter how many Sambo Dasukis, Nnamdi Kanus, El Zak Zakys, Olisa
Metuhs, Justice Niyi Ademolas, Warimpo Dudafas, Patience Jonathans, Ayo
Fayoses, Nyesome Wikes, Seriake Dicksons, Iyiola Omisores, Segun Mimikos,
Robert Azibolas, Bukola Sarakis, Bola Tinubus, Ike Ekweremadus, Femi
Fani-Kayodes, Goodluck Jonathans, Cletus Ibetos, Ayo Adeseuns, Precious
Chikwendus, Bintu Dasukis, Patrick Akpobolokemis, Kimes or any of the thousands
of others that you constantly malign, harass, falsely accuse, lock up,
terrorise, intimidate, charge, traumatise, demonise, malign, misrepresent,
beat, spit upon, insult or humiliate, your time is running out and you cannot
escape God's wrath and judgement.
No matter how many
of their families members you seek to shame, humiliate, traumatise, pauperise,
break and bring to their knees it changes nothing and it cannot slow down the
ticking of the clock or stop the disaster that is coming your way.
The truth is that
the fear has gone and no-one is intimidated by you, your goons, your henchmen
and your security agencies any longer.
The worse you can
do is to kill us all in order to remain in power and even if you do that others
will rise up against you in our stead.
As the great
American freedom fighter, founding father and patriot Thomas Jefferson said,
"the tree of liberty is
watered by the blood of patriots and tyrants". Again as another great
American patriot by the name of Patrick Henry once said "give me liberty or give me death".
Yet the clock is
ticking and your time is almost up. I pray that you repent before it is too
late. I say this not out of malice or in an attempt to seek revenge but with
love and compassion from the bottom of my heart.
I say it by the
leading of the Holy Spirit of the Living God. If you do not repent and desist I
assure you that the very pit that you are digging for others may well be your
final resting place.
No man is greater
than the Living God and no government can successfully and indefinitely resist
the will of the people. In your attempt to silence me, God will silence you.
It is just a matter
of time before the good Lord strikes back and pulls you down. Why? Because your
wickedness knows no bounds and because you take pleasure and delight in it.
Why? Because there
is a God in Heaven who rules in the affairs of men. Why? Because you have
touched the anointed of the Lord and you have troubled His beloved
people.
Why? Because He is
the father of the fatherless, the defender of the weak, the provider of the
needy and the husband of the widow.
Why? Because the
Nigerian people are praying morning, night and day that your cancerous evil and
reckless insensitivity and brutality must be brought to an end.
This is a wake up
call and your final warning. Desist from troubling the Nigerian people Mr.
President and stop trying to destroy the lives of innocent men and women.
If you do not God
will not only bring you to your knees and humiliate you to a point of ridicule
and contempt but he will also sweep away your government, remove all your
clothes and strip you naked before the entire world.
In your desperate
attempt to silence me, the Lord of Hosts and the Ancient of Days will silence
you. Thus sayest the Spirit of the Most High God and His zeal shall surely
perform it.
Sooner than later
He will deliver us from this evil and wicked President who hails from the Darrk
Ages.
Sooner than later He will rescue us from the cruel and
unrelenting claws of the Dark Angel that presides over the affairs of our land.
Blessed be His name forever.
*Femi Fani-Kayode is former Nigerian
Minister of Aviation
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