By Femi Fani-Kayode
“Those that are
calling for restructuring are looking for appointment. When they say they want
restructuring what they mean is that they want an appointment……. some people
told us Nigeria
is a “geographical expression” although it was not even original to them”- Acting President Yemi Osinbajo.
Your Excellency,
I
trust that you are well despite the fact that your principal is still at large.
Permit
me to take this opportunity to respond to your gratuitous insult and your
irresponsible and irreverent assertion about those of us that have been at the
forefront of the fight for restructuring our nation for many years.
However
before doing so I shall make a few observations and assertions of my own.
You
have constantly condemned and warned against what you call “hate speech” in our
nation yet you indulge in it more than anyone else.
I
say this because you constantly call others, particularly members of the
opposition, “looters” and you take pleasure on demonising them before the world
even before a court of law has pronounced them guilty of any wrongdoing.
You
also call them “plunderers”, “liars”, “clueless” and “destroyers”. If this is
not hate speech then I really don’t know what is!
You
have stigmatised and criminalised every single leading member of the opposition
PDP, including our leader President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, over the last
three years and you have sought to paint us as reprobates and evil souls that
are not fit to hold public office and that have destroyed the very foundation
of our country.
One
of your most prominent and vocal sympathisers, supporters and leaders even
called President Jonathan’s wife, our former First Lady, Mrs. Patience
Jonathan, an ugly and illiterate hippopotamus! Are these sentiments not
motivated by pure hate?
Yet
you know very well that all that you and your associates have said about the
PDP and our leaders is not only a lie from the pit of hell but also a carefully
crafted, purposely contrived and premeditated false narrative.
Worse
still you are fully aware of the fact that over sixty percent of your party
elders and APC governors, ministers, legislators and public office holders
were, up until three or four years ago, all elders, leaders and members of the
PDP, including President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
If
the PDP was so bad why did you give those that came from there such prominent
positions and key roles to play at both the state and federal level before,
during and after the presidential election of 2015?
You
claim that those that are calling for restructuring are only doing so in order
to get an appointment. You measure others by your own squalid standards and you
do nothing but take shameless dictation from a tiny cabal of faceless
shape-shifting reptilians, corpsocrats,
bloodsucking demons and vampires.
You
cover up their atrocities and you endorse their wicked ways and their evil
persecution.
You have forgotten who you are and where you are coming from.
You have forgotten who you are and where you are coming from.
From
the outset and as far back as the early 1940’s the Yoruba particularly, and
indeed the people of the south generally, have wanted and fought for nothing
but a restructured Nigeria where power is devolved from the center and now you
insult those that support it and pooh
pooh the whole idea.
As
a Christian you have joined forces with those that hate your faith and that
have sought to denigrate it and wipe it off the face of the earth.
Those
that are behind this hideous and satanic agenda are not even real or true
Muslims but rather they are Islamic fundamentalists and believers in radical
and political Islam.
They
call their fellow Muslims who do not share their radical and bigoted views
“infidels” simply because they believe that religion is a personal issue which
must never be brought into or used in partisan politics and simply because they
are prepared to support a non-Muslim for the Presidency or indeed any other
political office.
Your
new found friends and those you front for hate Christians and they hate real
Muslims. Yet you do not care about this deviant disposition as long as you are
given the opportunity by them to remain in office even though they treat you
like filth and they regard you as nothing more than a mere quisling, puppet and
puffed up, highly celebrated “national co-coordinator”.
What
a sorry impasse you have brought us to. We had hoped that you would be a man
and stand up like one whilst your “father” was away trying to recover from his
ill-health and many afflictions in London
but this was not to be.
Under
you no Fulani herdsmen have been arrested. Under you Boko Haram has gone from
bad to worse. Under you the Arewa Youth threatened a whole ethnic race with
eviction and genocide yet none of them were arrested.
Under
you the Yoruba youth have said they do not want restructuring anymore but what
they want is secession. Under you IPOB brought the whole of the south east to a
stand-still and today they reign supreme in that region and zone.
Under
you stage-managed pictures of our ailing President were put out with visiting
governors which were proof of life but which did not indicate whether he was
mentally or physically well enough to come home and rule our nation. 90 days
down the line and we still don’t know what is wrong with him and how much
longer he will be away.
Not
only has the President gone missing but even the presidential jet that took him
to the UK and that was
parked at Stansted
Airport waiting for him
for the last three months has now reportedly also gone missing.
Ours
has become an international shame and we are now the laughing stock of the
world because you find it very hard to tell us the truth. Even CNN and the
Washington Post, your good friends that helped to bring you to power, are now
mocking you.
Yet
you do not care and you continue to act as if all is well. Are you not
provoking the Living God? Did the respected General Overseer of your Church,
the Redeemed Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adegboye (a profoundly good man who is
undoubtedly one of God’s end-time generals) not teach you that a heavy price
will be paid by those who join forces with the Amalekites to hurt, wound, crush
and destroy the children of light and the sons and daughters of promise?
What
is your fear and what is the source of your cowardice. Can light overcome
darkness? Did David not survive the wilderness? Did he not survive the brutal
onslaught of Saul, the rebellion of his own son Absalom and the vicious attacks
of the Philistines?
Did
he not defeat and destroy Goliath and redeem the honor of the children of Israel and the
Living God? Is that God dead to you now?
Whose
report do you believe? Do you believe the report of the Lord of the report of
man?
He who created the eyes and the ears, can He no longer see and hear? Is the arm of the Lord too short to defend and deliver?
He who created the eyes and the ears, can He no longer see and hear? Is the arm of the Lord too short to defend and deliver?
Is
there anything too big or too difficult for our GOD? Is He that created the
universe and who chose to make the earth His footstool so weak that He cannot
honor His word and deliver His people?
The
truth is that if you fail to do the right thing and you turn your back on Him
and His purpose, He will spew you out and find another that will effect His
purpose and will in our country. We are not in by our hands but in His.
Mordecai
told Esther this over three thousand years ago and I am telling you the same
thing today.
If
you need to be reminded about the veracity and efficacy of the Holy scriptures
when it comes to the truisms and strictures of leadership and governance and
you are reluctant to hear them from your spiritual father because you are
ashamed of the fact that you have gone astray then please do the following.
Ask
for a secret audience with either Bishop David Oyedepo, Bishop Mike Okonkwo, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, Apostle Suleman, Bishop Danson, Pastor
Paul Adefarasin, Bishop B.O. Ezekiel or any of the other great men of God in
our nation who will undoubtedly have the courage and the conviction to tell you
what the Lord is saying and the bitter truth.
You
need help and you need it fast. The politicians cannot help you now and neither
can your new-found friends on the corridors of power or your beleaguered,
divided and dying party the APC. Only the Living God can help you.
It
is so bad that you did and said nothing when your fellow Redeemed Pastor (who
happened to be a woman) was slaughtered right under your nose in Abuja recently. You did
not even attend her burial.
Instead
of doing the right thing and soothing frayed nerves you are encouraging division
in our nation and you are consolidating and perpetuating a ruthless and
heartless quasi-apartheid system of government which has no basis in decency,
rationality, justice or fairness.
It
is a cruel and barbaric system which sees a few as the master race and the rest
as slaves. Given all this how can you possibly live with yourself and how can
you hold your head up high?
You
join common slaves and ride on horseback whilst you condemn and confine the
princes of the realm and the sons and daughters of the Most High God to walk
around barefooted.
This
is not only sacrilege but it is indeed a great evil under the sun. May god
forgive you and may He deliver you before it is too late.
All
those that said that we should have faith in the APC and the Acting President
should carefully meditate on and consider his words and categorisation of those
who believe in restructuring and self-determination.
He
says that they are just looking for an appointment. Permit me to ask the
following questions.
Is
it the leaders of the south, Afenifere,
Ohaeneze and the Niger Delta that are
looking for appointments? Or is it the leaders of the Middle Belt?
Is
it Baba Fasoranti, Baba Ayo Adebanjo, General Alani Akinrinade, Chief Amos
Akingba, Bishop Gbonigi, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi or Chief Olu Falae?
Is
it Chief John Nwodo, Governor Victor Ezeife or Chief Arthur Nwankwo? Is it
Chief E.K. Clark, Chief Solomon Asemota SAN or Chief Albert Horsefall?
Is
it General TY Danjuma, General Dogonyaro or General Zamani Lekwot? Is it Atiku
Abibakar who was the Vice President that you are today 18 years ago?
Is
it the respected Baba Bisi Akande who has been calling for us to go back to the
1963 regional structure and form of government? Is it General Ibrahim Babangida
who was Head of State 32 years ago?
What
appointment can you or Buhari possibly offer any of them at their age and with
their wealth of knowledge and experience? Why should you measure these
distinguished and respected people, most of whom are old enough to he your
father, by your own sordid standards?
The
other day you stood at a public function and clapped heartily when our father
and leader President Olusegun Obasanjo said that the way to stop the Biafran
agitation was to offer the Igbo people a slice of cake?
Does
that make sense to you? Is this whole thing about cake and appointments as far
as people like you are concerned?
Why
do you seen to take pleasure in denigrating those that do not believe in a nation
that has all the powers of government concentrated at the center and that has
dashed the hopes and dreams of millions?
Does
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the man that brought you into politics and that
single-handedly made you Vice President, agree with you on this? Does he also
believe that everyone that believes in restructuring is just looking for an
appointment?
If
so that would be very curious because he once believed in it and we used to
discuss it extensively when we were closer. I am sure that at some point he
would have lectured you on its merits and rudiments.
Honestly
you have lost it completely. You have betrayed your people and jettisoned their
cause. You have ignored their call for justice and equity and you have turned a
deaf ear to their cry for deliverance.
Some
will call you a shameless coward but I will not go that far out of respect for
your office. I am however constrained to say that I have lost the great respect
that I once had for you.
Like
the biblical Demas you have turned your back on your primary calling and you
have gone the other way.
You
have been seduced and overwhelmed by a Demastic
anointing. You have fallen in love with the awesome power of governance at the
Villa and all worldly things.
In
short you are a self-serving modern-day Afonja who will eventually be consumed
by those who he has joined forces with to destroy his own people and the
children of the Living God. Thus sayest the Lord.
My
regards to your family Your Excellency and kindly convey my warmest greetings
and special felicitations to your brother “Jebi” who I am very fond of and was
very friendly with whilst at London
University in the early
1980’s. Shalom.
*Chief Femi
Fani-Kayode is a former Aviation Minister
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