“Answer: UNPRECEDENTED BRAIN DRAIN! And today, the nation is not only the loser, but the worse for it. Whilst it can be said the military destroyed everything that was the best of Nigeria and dearest to the Nigerian people, it will be recorded for posterity that Ibrahim Gbadamosi Babangida was the lead locust, revelling in purposeless malignity while militarism lasted, and Muhammadu Buhari, the evil Sasabonsam!”
A Diaspora Note to Wole Soyinka and other Buharists on the current blackness of darkness in Nigeria
“Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for someone else?”, Matthew 11:3.
Without any iota of doubt, Wole Soyinka was amongst those whose opinions swayed Nigerians, especially all those Nigerians suffering collective amnesia and those naturally gullible who made up the band of Rehoboam Muhammadu Herod Buhari (RMHB) is a Jolly Good Fellow.
Other Nigerians in that ignominious band are those who presented the “horse rider” with the horse and the sword with which, Rehoboam has been using to kill Nigerians – in this rank are Olu Obasanjo, Yakubu Danjuma, Bola Ahmed Tinubullion, Bisi Akande, Segun Osoba and all those who did not allow the universities they attended to pass through them as students in these citadels of learning.
Whilst all the intrigues and the open hostility against Ebele Jonathan was ongoing, I was not amused in any least way, because it is impossible to turn a tiger, a carnivorous monster/beast to a herbivore all of a sudden, but W.S. thought so, hence he teamed up with the band of the Alleluia Boys to package a boa constrictor and sold it to the Nigerian people, all persons of African ancestry and the world as a dove and as a BORN AGAIN DEMOCRAT, whilst to the enthusiastic first time voters, W.S. wrapped the same ‘killer product’ and distributed it to them as choco.
Ironically, it was the same W.S. who together with fellow Nigerians at the time, having found themselves, where the nation is today under the same evil leopard – AMOTEKUN OF DAURA - who was erroneously given a human name – Muhammadu Buhari, spluttered in extreme frustration and captured then by the Nigerian newspapers thus: I DON’T TALK TO DEAF PEOPLE!
He was then angrily reacting to the gruesome public execution of the three young Nigerians by Hitler of Daura, the military Head of State of Nigeria and the then de factor ruler, the military Idiagbon - Major-General Babatunde Abdulbaki Tunde Idiagbon as the nation now has his alter-ego – the CIVILIAN IDIAGBON in Abba Kyari, Rehoboam’s current Chief of Madness (COM), who is in fact, the one roaring BOAT NIGERIAYANA, as it buffets fiercely against the unprecedented stormy gale in the mid ocean, going nowhere, but swirling and swirling in a circle.
W.S. then in an interview with the press in Nigeria had thus exploded following the inhuman execution by the Buhari-military/khaki Idiagbon administration after they had via retroactive Decree 20 of 1984 executed by firing squad on April 10, 1985, the trio of Bartholomew Owoh, 26, Bernard Ogedengbe, 29, and Lawal Ojuolape 30, for drug offences, which were committed before that decree was promulgated.
I hear that W.S. has again caught the Buhari bug, otherwise known as BUHARINIASIS or just BUHARI SYNDROME (BS) and has been barking at his friend’s shadow like an “African dog.”
ZEAL FOR GOD, ZEAL FOR DEMOCRACY, BUT NOT ACCORDING TO KNOWLEDGE
Anyway, whilst the Buhari Syndrome is making our W.S. to holler all over the place out of unparalleled frustration and helplessness, others like Obj and T.Y., Ipoola Akinrinade, BAT and the Mediator-General of the Federation Abdulkareem Adebisi Bamdele Akande who all like W.S. have caught the Buhari disease, but unlike W.S., have lapsed into political stupor or passivity, probably ‘sleeping’ now in churches and mosques or inside their cars or ancestral shrines, making supplications to the gods in order to avoid MB’s mad dogs and all the savage wolves now on the prowl, seeking lands to grab for the ‘brethren’ coming from other ECOWAS, and African states to settle here as Nigerian citizens through the policy of visa on arrival (VOA); and whom to bite and devour.
FOR THOSE WHO BROUGHT INTO THE HOUSE OF NIGERIA THE ANTS-INFESTED FAGGOTS
But my only question at this time is, why have the likes of W.S., Olu who has suddenly gone mute over AMOTEKUN, T.Y., Ipoola, W.F. Kumuyi, Tunde Bakare, the proud owner of the new CHURCHDUSTRIAL ESTATE worth N13 Billion, Oko “Lady B” and the owner of the planned 3 kilometre Shosh (church), Enoch Adejare Adeboye, so soon forgotten that whenever and wherever Rehoboam Herod Muhammadu Buhari appears on any human scene/space, there are usually harvests of violence, deaths and sorrows?
Anyway, they had better not moan any further, for they who brought ants-infested faggots into the House of Nigeria must not cry when they are visited by ants.
A TIME COMES…
“They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service”, John 16:2.
I hear say Rehoboam wan go for him medical vacation for 20 days, make his attack dogs no deny this, as me ma kuku ma dey rejoice over here in the UK on hearing that, because whenever Rehoboam commot go outside, our people the know peace. But why have all these evils been befalling we country and people?
Answer: it is simply because the wicked are in power, just as the Bible says the city rejoices when the righteous are in authority, so also, do blood flow, so also do people agonise and sorrow when the wicked are in authority.
Thus, the city weeps when the wicked are in authority as it is now with our country and our people – since Muhammadu Buhari’s second and third Intifada; blood has been flowing ceaselessly and our people have since like Rachel of Ramah been weeping very profusely and refusing to be comforted.
We are again at a time in our national life when once more, the past has crept into the present with MB in power, but not in charge and as in the past, so it is now – our people are heard from far and near weeping in a manner reminiscent of Rachel of Ramah – cries, wailings and sighing everywhere – women suddenly widowed, men had their wives raped and afterwards beheaded before their very eyes, but whilst they wept inconsolably for their beloved wives now beheaded, the murderers of their wives like mad dogs suddenly turned on them and threatened them to convert to Islam or die like their wives; from North to South, East to West, in all the present six geo-zones of Nigeria, men and women, boys and girls are suffering under the Buhari yoke/plague and scourge, and all have refused to be comforted – pregnant women had their pregnancies terminated prematurely, monarchs and church heads under the Jihadi Project backed by the people of the BIG RUGA are beheaded very mindlessly and in most cases, the jihadists whose patrons are in the Presidency, in palaces, in the academia - schools and colleges and the universities, in the civil service, in the military and in the police, in state houses, in the industry, business and the professions, at the National Assemblies, in the BLOOD SHRINES - the palaces which Sada boasted to the Nigerian people and the world that he is the leader of that bloody dynasty – the Uthman Dan Fodio’s, which no one with the love of Nigeria, having compassion and a simple sense must ever boast about or be associated with. But is Muhammadu Sa’adu Abubakar usually entertained when he sees and hears that pregnant women are having to have their tommy disembowelled by the Islamists/jihadists/extremists/terrorists/Fulani herdsmen/the so-called insurgents to force out their babies prematurely with some parts of their bodies sold to marabous in Niger, Chad, Mali, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan and in far off East! Yet the Sultan of Sokoto Muhammadu Sa’adu Abubakar III and the President in Nigeria, NOT of, but the President in Nigeria MUHAMMADU BUHARI are proud to scream to the whole of conscientious humanity that they are both Grand patron and patron of the notorious killing squad – MIYETTI WAHALA, the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria and Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore (MIYETTI KATAKATA)!
Whilst the Brits and the Germans would dissociate themselves with their ugly past and apologise to the world, just as Pope Francis had dissociated himself and his flocks from the ugliness and blackness within Catholicism, NOT so with Sa’ad Abubakar III, boasting about being the leader of the so-called UTHMAN DAN FODIO DYNASTY, that terrorist whom every generation of blood thirsty jihadists in present day Nigeria from Mohammed Marwa, the founder of Maitatsine and his Yan Tatsine through Mohammed Yusuf, the founder of Boko Haram to Abubakar Shekau/Abu Musab/Abu Abdullah Idris ibn Umar al-Barnawi – all slaughterers of human beings, and many others now dreaming and incubating for more orgiastic and bestial killings do derive inspiration from. When Sada, the Sultan ought to face the nation and be weeping very profusely and apologising to all persons that had been killed courtesy of Uthman Dan Foduye’s bestial/gruesome jihadi exploits, whose figures since 1804 till the very present throughout West Africa have surpassed 85 million, he is ALWAYS glorying in such an ancestor!
In and around the present Sultan of Sokoto since his birth on August 24, 1956 have been the ubiquitous presence of the hapless young Nigerians, some of whom have been brought into the world courtesy of the very irresponsible Fulani-Hausa and Kanuri elites who do go in vespas, picking the then under-aged mothers of these almajirai by the roadsides in all Northern cities to take advantage of by having a quickie with them, but would later abandon these baby mothers and the fruits of that sin against God and humanity to their fate.
But what has a supposedly godly and sophisticated mind like Brigadier-General Muhammadu Sa’adu Abubakar III done for this hapless Nigerian street urchins other than driving pass them in his very longish obscene cars and convoy, and perhaps only grudgingly waving back to the almajirai as they wave to greet him as they sit or stand on the Jericho Roads all over Sokoto State, all over the Northern States and now all over Nigeria.
But one thing is certain to this writer, Sada and his ilk do not have their children, grand and great grandchildren amongst them. Their children, grand and great grandchildren are in the best private schools, colleges and universities in and around the world, particularly Western nations, receiving the best education and spending our money on Western girls/women, whilst they return to Nigeria to shout SHARIA to the talakawas and their children!
The elite Arabs, the Fulbes, the Hausas and the Kanuris and other elite Muslims give sharia to the people as an opium, these category of Muslims who together with their children, grand and great grandchildren and their cronies who form the crop of leadership in every sphere of human endeavour in their various countries do indulge in all sorts of sins the fallen mankind is capable, and in most cases they go scot free without prosecution, but they are the crop of citizens in their various countries that constitute the ABOVE THE LAW GROUP.
In Nigeria, whilst the Hisbah go about snatching bottles of beer in their millions and destroy them, wasting a whole economy in an environment of joblessness infested with crimes of all sorts that beggar imagination, the elite corps in the North of Nigeria fill theirs flasks with alcohol, beer included, giving the impression such flasks are filled with beverages - coffee and tea and then go to hotels to drink them. What is more, those who arrest prostitutes during the day, sneak into hotels, brothels, motels to patronise them, with some taking them to their guest houses!
THE REVOLT OF THE TALAKAWAS AND THE PROPITIOUS REVOLUTION, BUT CAN NIGERIA EVER DEFEAT TERRORISM?
How does a nation win a war against terror when the government is full of terrorists/terrorist sympathisers/financiers/jihadists, mujahedeen, extremists; state houses are full of jihadists/mujahedeen/extremists; palaces are full of paedophiles, Islamists, Islamic fanatics, extremists, terrorists, dynasty and caliphate promoters such as the Sultan of Sokoto, Brigadier-General Muhammadu Sa’adu Abubakar III; the Ivory Tower is full of terrorists’ strategists, bomb and chemical manufacturers for Boko Haram and other terrorists groups, in addition to acting as think-tanks for the terrorists; how can the war on terror be won when the Fulani-Hausa-Kanuri elites to be referred to here as URBAN BOKO HARAM are the financiers and informants for Boko Haram and other terrorists groups, including shielding them, and collecting money from within and without for the Bush Boko Haram, and obtaining supplies (foods, fuel, uniforms, weapons and logistics for them; how can in the name of all the gods – how do you win this very protracted war against terrorists when there is a limitless supply of manpower for the Boko Haram and other terrorists groups that have invaded and overwhelmed the whole of West Africa from amongst the over 14 million almajirai; how will this war be won when the Presidency is full of terrorist sympathisers/enthusiasts, and the President in, NOT of Nigeria is their lead cheer leader and the soldiers and the CJTF ‘fighting’ terrorists are the Boko Haram informants, hand clappers and praise singers? How? How?
How can any nation under the circumstance win this war, for Boko Haram has the largest stock of manpower supply and procurement in the world, hence it is the biggest and the largest employer of labour on the planet earth with the ready availability of almajirai and other mujahedeen all over Nigeria, particularly in the Northern states of Nigeria.
THE ZUWOAN LOGIC AND THE WILD, WILD NORTH
Of the Fools of the North and the Enslavement of the Talakawas
In his days as the Governor of kano State under the platform of the Talakawa Chief Priest, Mallam Aminu Kano’s People’s Redemption Party (PRP), Bakin Zuwo was said to have named soft drinks such as Coke, Fanta, 7Up, etc as the mineral resources that Kano State was endowed with when asked by a reporter.
Today, were Zuwo still alive, and if asked by reporters about the export produce of Kano State in the 21st Century, and having the crime-infested violent and the now Wild, Wild North (WWN) in mind, he would probably in his list and as his answer to that question include: terrorism and the so-called insurgency as perpetrated by Boko Haram, Ansaru, ISWAP, international terrorism, banditry, kidnappings, rape, armed robbery, cattle rustling, Almajirai, mass wedding, IDPs, under-aged mothers, IVF, abductions, sharia, Hisbah, dethronement, attacking and booing the President of Daurageria, paedophilic activities, Madrassas, scopophilia, BORN TO RULE mentality, pastoralists terrorism, “kill, kill and kill/blood-letting, land snatching or RUGAdity, “Born-Throway” (apologies to Patience Jonathan), etc, etc.
It was also said about $10, 000 was found in the official residence of BZ, who was to later earn 300 years as prison terms for various offences after having been found guilty by the Muhammadu Buhari inquisitorial trial, and when asked by the men of the SSS as to why he had such a large amount of money in his house, and Zuwo was said to have retorted: “You find Government money in Government house, what is your problem?”
Well, BZ probably would not bat an eyelid to hear that even Governor’s Aides in today’s Nigeria keep more than that in their private residences, and common ordinary Media Assistants to Exthievesllencies today stand trials for embezzling billions of pounds of Government money in Nigeria – a nation whose corruption now surpasses that of Sodom and Gomorrah and Corinth of old!
Fellow Nigerians, with tears welling out of my eyes for our Nigeria, all I can say to those suckling in the Parliament, and those at the Bayelsa State House of Assembly crying for new four-wheeled toys in the face of the current national adversity, grave threats to national security, extreme poverty and the nation’s now DARKEST BLACKNESS is that they should first write their wills.
ARAB COLONIALISM IN NIGERIA/AFRICA AND THE MODERN FULANI EMPIRE - MUHAMMADU BUHARI AND THE BRETHREN’S SCORCHED EARTH POLICY AND TACTICS
My fellow Nigerians and Nigeria’s friends across the globe, there is weeping in the land, and in every home throughout the entire nation, there is loud lamentation of people, and amongst all those weeping now include those whose loved ones have been killed and barbecued or just beheaded under the very watch of our supposed watchman, the gatekeeper of the House of Nigeria and the keeper of the city, Rehoboam Muhammadu Buhari, and that Dididri of Aso Rock, Pastor Oluleke Osinbajo; also, those now weeping are people whose loved ones have been imprisoned; those standing endless trials, in detention; those who have been forced to flee because of one evil man, Herod of Daura, his mad dogs; those whose loved ones have been abducted, kidnapped; those suffering extra-judicial killings and the so-called strayed bullets; those who had been gruesomely murdered; those released and kidnapped again; those abducted like the Chibok and Dapchi girls and many others in similar situation too numerous to list here; pastors disappearing, those who have been beheaded under the very watch of the patrons of the murdering squads – MIYETTI WAHALA (Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria – MACBAN), Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore (MAKH) Muhammadu Buhari and the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, talking about his leadership of the gambit and bloody dynasty in the 21st, the very delusion of grandeur and warped mindset that have been fuelling these mindless and orgiastic killings across centuries; IPOBs and other fellow Ndigbo who can no longer do business in Nigeria because of Jihadi Buhari’s wealth redistribution and financial jihad strategy/policy, which seeks to put wealth only in the hands of his fellow Fulbes and the two other ethnic nationalities in the Triangular/Pyramidal/Tripodal Alliance to under develop Nigeria – the Hausas and the Kanuris; activists who have lost their voices; journalists whose pens, computers and type writers have been snatched from them by the Pharaoh of Daura and his street dogs called SSS/DSS/SARS, thus turning them into social and political eunuchs; pastors who can now take permission from Governors before they can preach the gospel under the Government of Muhammadu Buhari – the same MB who was frequenting E.A. Adeboye’s Holy Ground for endless prayers; opposite politicians who have had their throats ‘slashed’ and now left with broken tongues; Ndigbos who have been chased aground to make the horse rider or his anointed one to ride back to power in 2023 through crises of immense proportion to be deliberately fomented by the Herod of Daura and his agents; the desecration of the pantheon of justice and service; the academics and their students who perpetually have been silenced, etc, etc. The list is inexhaustive, but welcome still to the STATE OF LAWLESS, where prevail THE RULE OF LAWLESSNESS!
COMETH THE TIME, “COMETH THE HOUR”, BUT COMETH NOT THE MAN!
THE CASE OF THE CARETAKER GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA…PHONE BACK NEXT TIME, YOUR EXCELLENCY. MR PRESIDENT IS NOT ON SEAT
Whilst Nigerians and friends across the globe should now be concerned about the fact that a once beautiful and very peaceful nation has been turned into a State of Lawlessness by a band of efulefu or egboda or eunuchs – thoroughly worthless fifle, intellectual pygmies and moral Lilliputians with very convoluted minds, to W.S., I say behold your Nigeria under your BORN AGAIN DEMOCRAT.
And for posterity, this monstrosity and bestiality in jungle Nigeria shall for them be penned thus by students of Nigerian history: Of National Gullibility, Collective Amnesia and the Dictatorship of the Cabals.
Dear W.S.,
Were I to write to you as an artist and as a literary scholar, the topic of this discourse would probably have been titled: The Impact of an artist in influencing or tilting national behaviour in a politico-socio-cultural and economic discourse in a multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-faith society.
After a reflective examination of the current ontological disequilibria in our body politics, you would agree with me that your opinion as one of the unsolicited Public Relations Officers for the APC, particularly its then presidential candidate, Muhammadu Herod Buhari, and those of others as mentioned earlier, contributed in no small measure to swaying the behaviour of most of your fellow country men and women during the February 19, 2015 Presidential Poll, thereby putting other candidates at gross disadvantage.
Kwensquently (Consequently), as a journalist, a chronicler and a scholar of the Nigerian story/event – pleasant or unpleasant, it would therefore, be my incontrovertible and an inevitable conclusion that whilst summoning you to the universal tribunal and the court of posterity, after having been convinced beyond every shadow of the doubt, that your action then in confusing the Nigerian people, has acted unarguably as a catalyst to bringing the nation, all persons of African ancestry to the present DARKEST BLACKNESS.
Before arriving at a verdict on you, Amotekunist W.S., I’m therefore inclined to ask you and others who form the crop of this generation of the Nigerian intelligentsia, particularly the artists/writers: to what extent should the artist be involved in politics of their country – participant observer; passive observer; total/full/partial/half-hearted participant; taking sides; partial or impartial observer; bystander, moderator, as a guide; as an unofficial spokesperson or public relations executive for the political officials/elites/metropolitan elites or as a plate-licking courtier or as a political prostitute, political egret perching on the hunchbacks of politicians, moving with any politicians/political officials of whatever hue and party – the highest bidder…or any who can spend the most to hold birthday parties for the artists?
Thus, should the artist’s participation be:
- Partial-Active Participation (PAP);
- Partial-Passive Participant (PPP);
- Impartial-Active Participant (IAP);
- Impartial-Passive Participant (IPP) or
- Siddon Look Complaining Citizen (SLCC) – Bees
- Siddon Look Non-Complaining Citizen (SLNCC) – Wasp
- Siddon Look, Say Nothing and Do-Nothing Citizen (SLSNDNC) – Dead fish or Oku Eko?
THE PREVAILING ‘ATTACHMENT’ CULTURE IN THE NIGERIAN POLITY AND ECONOMY…HOW TO SURVIVE AT NIGERIA PLC
Within the Nigerian transportation sub-sector of the economy, the word “Attachment” is commonly used amongst those who patronise luxury buses on long journeys through the nation’s many highway arteries. Attachments are usually extra small-small seats provided by drivers and conductors of luxury buses to augment their income/wages by charging commuters/passengers who cannot pay the official fares and such extra bucks are usually not accounted for. It should be noted that it does not often always mean that attachees or prospective attachees cannot afford the actual fares as some passengers go for attachment just to cut cost. But the option is more for the poor who cannot afford the real fare or original fares.
During this writer’s service year at the Bendel Newspaper Corporation, publishers of The Observer and the Sunday Observer, a kinsman of his suggested it to him, so he could have some change in his pockets going from Benin City, the place of his service to Lagos. But the experience was such that he vowed never to embark on such indignity any more in his life, whether he had money or not for a long journey throughout Nigeria. There is no way that experience could be fully recorded here for the reader, except the reader themselves undertakes the option of attachment when on a long journey, just for the experience of it, and not necessarily because they do not have the money for the official fares. If you were an attachee on a luxury bus, you would be treated like the dreg of the earth, an outcast and throughout the journey, the ‘big people’ who had paid the official fares would rather kiss and embrace a leper than touching an attachee. As an attachee, you lose your pride and dignity, just as the journalists, the intellectuals, the metropolitan/colonial elites milling around Bola Ahmed Tinubu, owner of wealth without working/without sweating. Although some of them were given posh houses at Abiola Garden, Ikeja, to this writer, they are nothing but intellectual Almajirai or mere political egrets or better still, KILE JEKUN(?) journalists and academics who are turned around at will and at the pleasure of TINUBULLION. By the way, how did Bola get the promised N200 million he has promised the COVID-19 Funds, where he and fellow economic cannibals and predators now outdo one another to donate for nothing but headline purposes.
Also, as an attachee, woe betides you, if you touch the ‘big men and women’ with what probable they regard as Ebola or COVID-23 infested body.
Yet politically speaking, this is what the business community, the professionals – journalists, academics and many an elite have turned themselves into in Nigeria of today. And in order to survive in today’s Nigeria, journalist colleagues, whom I’d like to refer to as political egrets or kile jeku (?) journalists, pastors, imams, intellectuals, professionals, those of the business community, Agberos, Islamists, bandits, actors and actresses, etc have all severally attached themselves to every Lagbaja and Jalagba politician in Nigeria of today – and amongst the academics, it had been so since the days of Ibrahim Gbadamosi Babangida who poached Dr Yemi Ogunbiyi from the Ife Collectives and appointed him the Chairman/Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc. The same IBB poached the like of Chiji Amuta from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Pini Jason from the Vanguard newsroom, others from the newsroom IBB turned into flies to be following him about the place were: Duro Onabule, Ray Ekpu, Dan Agbese and Yakubu Mohammed and a host of other journalistic and academic stars, too numerous to mention here. By this act, IBB inadvertently inaugurated the culture of MAKE NOISE OR CRITICISE AND BE CALLED TO GO AND CHOP IN ABUJA AND IN STATE HOUSES!
And by taking the best and the brightest out of the academia to go to Government and chop, IBB made our academics to lose concentration, and it was such that the nation’s teachers/lecturers had pieces of chalk in one hand, whilst constantly placing the other on the wall, looking through the academic wall to see which of their colleagues had been given the COME AND CHOP INVITATION or rather when they themselves would receive the national invite of COME ABUJA, COME CHOP, TEACHING WORK NO PAY, NO HALA COME DIE WITH YOUR IJAPA – and for those in the writer’s constituency, IBB’s distraction was interpreted: JOURNALISM NA THANKLESS JOB, DROP DEY PEN AND COME ABUJA, COME CHOP!
It was the same IBB and his wife Maryam who destroyed our NATIONAL MORALITY AND STANDARDS; it was the same IBB who introduced the culture of OPEN TODAY, CLOSE TOMORROW at all levels of our educational institutions – and his mindless and bestial high handedness was such that the vocal elements in the academia and the newsroom were hounded and chased out of the newsroom – Patrick Wilmot who wrote AFRICA HAS COME OF AGE for Murtala Muhammed was kicked out of Amadu Bello University, members of the IFE COLLECTIVES were chased and hounded, Paul Adams, a British journalist, then reporting for the Financial Times from Nigeria was kicked out! And the result of all these?
Answer: UNPRECEDENTED BRAIN DRAIN! And today, the nation is not only the loser, but the worse for it. Whilst it can be said the military destroyed everything that was the best of Nigeria and dearest to the Nigerian people, it will be recorded for posterity that Ibrahim Gbadamosi Babangida was the lead locust, revelling in purposeless malignity while militarism lasted, and Muhammadu Buhari, the evil Sasabonsam!
As a further lament, has not BAT poached the best from the academia to form his CATTLE EGRET – COW ALLIANCE with the nation’s intellectuals, some of whom were this writer’s former lecturers at Ife?
And without much ado, W.S., you are hereby pronounced guilty as charged! This therefore is the verdict of history and posterity on you and such others, W.S.
OUR GOD IS ABLE
The John Odey Aduma’s Prayer for Nigeria…Dear God, MR PRESDENT IS AWOL!
Lord, your people are hurting, they are sorrowing, they are carrying burdens that have overwhelmed them and these have pushed them to a breaking point.
Lord, your children are weeping and crying very profusely.
Lord, your people who are my people, even the great Nigerian people are dying needless deaths, and these ought not be so.
Lord, there is sadness everywhere, tears everywhere, sorrow everywhere; blood ceaselessly flowing everywhere; sickness everywhere, yet our hospital still remain “mere consulting clinics” – and whilst the crooks can go abroad for their treatment, your people have not the money to do so.
Please dear Lord, give us compassionate and caring leaders, please Lord, give us a proper President because Muhammadu Buhari is just a political neophyte, social eunuch, an intellectual Lilliputian and a moral pigmy, thus thoroughly useless to your people!
Lord, please give us proper men and women as leaders, for the times in which we are, demand proper men and women of courage and conviction and compassion - visionary men and women who will know how to steer the ship of state off the impending storm;
Lord, give us leaders with listening ears and all-seeing eyes.
Lord, please give us proper men and women as leaders – full men and women; total men and women; complete men and women; real men and women, genuine men and women, true men and women with sound minds and sound bodies.
Above all else, please dear Lord, give us a compassionate and a caring President – a proper, full and total President who will listen to us, care for us – a genuine person who will care, love cherish us just as we are in our diversity and as ONE PEOPLE, a President who will lead from the front, pointing the light so your people will follow, and not the one leading from the rear, running a CARETAKER GOVERNMENT or perpetually AWOL, and taking delight in tearing down your people, causing division amongst them and going on to destroy your TEMPLE.
O’ Lord, please give us a President who will be in the forefront leading these thy great people, even the peoples of Nigeria, promoting, encouraging, supporting and celebrating our diversity, and not a president who will like Rehoboam divide us into ISRAEL AND JUDAH and tear us apart and make us to fight one another as if we were enemies.
Lord, Muhammadu Buhari is COVID-23, and this type of virus is more wicked, capricious and malevolent than COVID-19.
Therefore, Lord, give us a President who is a friend and a brother or a sister.
Lord, we do beseech you, give us such a person at this time, moment, hour and season.
NIGERIA SHALL BE FREE
Fellow Nigerians, let our faith not be shaken in this our collective GETHSEMANE experience nor be weakened at GOLGOTHA, and let us be conscious of the fact that the valley of death cannot swallow us all up and be certain of the fact that OUR GOOD FRIDAY will sure usher forth both the effulgent glory of EASTER SUNDAY and the bright sunny light of EASTER MONDAY and we shall as a renewed people proceed to the NEW JERUSALEM, where shall spring forth a new crop of leaders to lead us to the PROMISED LAND, a NEW NIGERIA of our dream, even the NIBE FEDERATION, the city set on a hill for all humanity to behold, and where our sons and daughters shall prophesy, our young people shall see visions and our old men and women shall dream dreams.
Therefore, WEEP NO MORE, GREAT NIGERIANS!
God bless our Nigeria still in spite of.
Yours in the service of God, our nation and humanity,
ODEY OKABO OBOYA ADUMA
SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM.
** *The Voice of One crying from the Diaspora…proudly leading the NATIONALISTS UNITY MOVEMENT OF NIGERIA (NUMON).
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
WITHOUT VISION, WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE
“Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he”, Proverbs 29:18.
But why cannot the womb of Mother Nigeria bring forth into the world visionary, purposeful, compassionate, honest and great leaders?