The
greatest crime that man has inflicted on his fellow man in the last 50 years is
the evil concept of unrestrained globalisation coupled with the incremental
evolution, unacceptable espousal and wholehearted acceptance of the artificial,
man-made, mongrel nation-state which is made up of ethnic and religious
incompatibles.
Yet
thankfully there has been a backlash.
The forces of the far-right and ethnic nationalism are marshalling and are on
the rise all over the world. Consequently a laudable, unprecedented and
irresistable counter-offensive has begun.
We
see this in Trump's United States of America, Putin's Russia, Great Britain,
Germany, Austria, Israel, France, Holland, Hungary and many other parts of the
civilised world.
We
have witnessed it in Catalonia, Biafra, Scotland and Kurdistan where the
oppressed are fighting for the establishment of their own nation.
All
over the world we hear the cry of those that are struggling for their
emancipation and deliverance from alien and foreign oppressors with whom they
share no history or have any cultural or religious links or affiliation.
Throughout
the comity of nations we hear the desperate lamentations and compelling words
of those great and noble patriots and souls who take pride in their history,
cultural heritage, ethnicity and religious faith and who refuse to allow their
identity to be redefined, watered down, eradicated or decimated in the name of
unrestrained and unfettered racial integration with those that they have
nothing in common.
We
hear the voices of those who refuse to be robbed of their heritage and persona
by a godless horde of ranking unbelievers, murderous religious extremists,
barborous aliens and desperate usurpers who come from a distant land and we
acknowledge the concerns of those who refuse to be ensnared by false, bogus and
long-discredited notions of political correctness and the wholesale adoption of
discredited and nonsenical liberal values and philosophies.
The
bottom line is as follows: there is no crime in flying the flag of ethnic
nationalism, in rejecting the idea of a nation of hybrids and in wanting to
take your nation back for its people. There is no sin in the desire to
re-establish pure and unpolluted ethnic bloodlines and racial stock.
There
is no shame in chanting "blood and soil" whilst marching in the
streets with torch in hand as others once did many years ago.
It
is indeed the procession of the faithful: it is the march for freedom and the
song of liberty.
It
is an attempt to restore, defend and preserve the very essence of who we are.
It is an attempt to break the shackles of bondage and the chains of slavery. It
is an attempt to liberate us from those with whom we share no history, no
heritage and no values and yet who insist on imposing their will on us,
controlling and dominating our very lives and insisting that they were born to
rule.
This
is all the more so given the fact that, in the Nigerian context, we are saddled
with the most bloodthirsty, sadistic, sectional, extreemist, bigoted,
tribalistic, vicious, bitter, narrow-minded and ignorant President that our
country has ever known.
This
is a man that was once a profoundly good man but that has now become one of the
worlds greatest ethnic cleansers. I say this because under his watch more
Shiite Muslims, northern Christians, Igbo youths, Middle Belters and
southerners have been slaughtered and butchered than at any other time in our
history other than during the civil war.
Worse
still, this is a man who, according to the President of the World Bank, Kim Yong Jim, said that his organisation should
concentrate their efforts on developing northern Nigeria alone as if the rest
of our country does not even exist.
Yet
why am I not surprised? After all as far as Buhari is concerned the people of
southern Nigeria and the Middle Belt are nothing but low-lifes, vassals and
slaves who are only relevant at the time of a presidential election.
This
is a man who had the sheer effontry and nerve to insult us all by addressing
the entire nation in the Hausa language on the occasion of the Islamic Ramadan
observance.
This
is a man who boastfullly and openly told the world that he would favour those
who voted for him in the 2015 Presidential elections (meaning his core Muslim
northern base) and that he would not favour those who voted against him
(meaning the predominantly Christian south).
This
is a man who the celebrated writer Bashorun Akin Osuntokun rightly described in
his latest column as a President "who is firmly wedded to the politics of
division and of pan northern Nigerian Muslim irredentist politics".
This
is a man under whose watch as Minister of Petroleum in 1977 $2.8 billion
dollars went missing.
This
is a man under whose watch as Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund in 1997 $500
million dollars went missing.
And
this is a man under whose watch as President of the Federal Republic and again
as Minister of Petroleum and Energy in 2017 $26 billion dollars has gone
missing.
A
leader must put the good of his country before his own inclinations and that of
his party. This is something that is clearly lost on Muhammadu Buhari and his
core northern Hausa Fulani supremacist supporters.
Nigel
Farage MEP, the founder and former leader of Great Britain's United Kingdom
Independence Party (UKIP) and one of the most formidable and potent
voices behind BREXIT recently said,
voices behind BREXIT recently said,
"The
establishment media across Europe and the West despise me. They cannot accept
that people still believe in the nation state".
I
know precisely how he feels. The walk of the ethnic nationalist in todays
globalised world is more often than not a lonely one. Farage places his english
heritage and identity before he does his British one. He also places his
British heritage before his European one and he outrightly rejects the concept
and notion of a fully integrated and amaglamated European super state where
various and disparate ethnic nationalities are merged into one.
I
share his vision and ethos and I superimpose it on the Nigerian plain. I am an
Ife before being a Yoruba, I am a Yoruba before being a Nigerian and I refuse
to have it any other way.
This
is especially so when one considers what has been going on in the last two
years in our country. A monster from Futa Jalon has been foisted upon us. And
that monster uses misplaced notions of ethnic supremacy, religious bigotry,
intellectial intolerance, radical islam, selective justice, hidden agendas,
vicious coercion, secret and ruthlesss cabals and state-sponsored terrror to
impose his will and effect his purpose.
Consider
the events in Plateau state a few days ago.
No
less than forty (and according to some reports as many as one hundred) innocent
and defenceless indegenous Christians, including women and children, were
butchered in their homes by Muslim Fulani herdsmen.
President
Muhammadu Buhari, who is himself a Muslim, a Fulani and indeed the Life Patron
of the Fulani Herdsmen Association (Miyetti Allah) has offered no
commiserations to the families of the dead, has refused to visit the state, has
expressed no genuine regrets or remorse, has failed to arrrest any of the
perpertrators and has refused to declare the Fulani herdsmen as terrorists.
Instead of doing any of the above he said there must be no reprisals against
his Fulani kinsmen after which he promptly flew off to Turkey for a D8 meeting.
Is
that the behaviour of a President of Nigeria or the heartless and insensitive
actions of the imperial master and overlord of a conquered people and a
subjugated vassal state?
That
is where Buhari has brought us. One is compelled to ask, is this the kind of
leadership and country that we deserve. Is that what Lord Lugard's amaglamated
super state with its annointed Fulani overlords have to offer? Is that what I
am supposed to subsume, supress and sacrifice my Yoruba heritage and my
Christian faith for? I think not!
One
thing I know is this: Buhari is a man-made President and not a God-made
President. He is the biblical Saul. And like Saul, he will end in defeat and
shame and his wickedness shall not go unpunished.The good news is that with
every Saul comes a David and I have little doubt that sooner than later David
will appear on the scene and he will rise and rule.
Permit
me to end this contribution with the words of Sir Winston Churchill, an Old
Harrovian (like yours truly) and the greatest Prime Minister that Great Britain
ever had. He said,
“Never
give in. Never give in. Never, never, never: in nothing great or small, large
or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never
yield to force. Never yield to the apparantly overwhelming might of the enemy”.
These
words inspire and I commend them to every man, woman and child in our country
who refuses to bow to tyranny and be enslaved and who takes pride in who they
are, where they come from and what their ethnic heritage, bloodlines, racial
stock and true nationality is.
Though
Buhari's darkness has covered the light and glory of Nigeria and his evil
empowers cruel men, heartless women, troubled souls and evil spirits it will
soon come to an end because joy comes in the morning.
I
conclude with the following counsel.
There
will be times that we are powerless when we face evil, injustice and tyranny but
there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
This
man Buhari is a cancer that keeps growing and the only proper thing to do is to
cut it out.
Some
say that the path of uncompromising and relentless opposition that we have
chosen is a dangerous and unpredictable one. They forget that the wounds of
honor are self-inflicted.
If
you want to be set apart and regarded as a man of courage, truth and honor or
the champion of the oppressed and the voice of the voiceless you must be ready
to take the blows, wounds and oftentimes dire consequences that go with it.
William
Shakespeare wrote "cowards die many times before their time but the
valiant die but once" whilst our very own Wole Soyinka wrote "the man
died in him who remained silent in the face of tyranny".
The
great American patriot and hero of the war of independence, John Mchenry, told
King George 111 of England to "give me freedom or give me death"
whilst George Washington, the leader of the American forces in that war and the
first President of the United States of America said,
"the
thing that sets the American Christian apart from all other people in the world
is that he will die on his feet before he will live on his knees".
To
top it all one of the most courageous souls of the 21st century, Edward
Snowden, who is the American spy that defected to Russia two years ago, wrote
"speak not because it is safe but because it is right".
Given
the circumstances that we have found ourselves in Buhari's Nigeria, EVERY
single person in our country has much to learn from the profound words of these
deeply courageous men.
Some
of us have chosen to be courageous and valiant and have refused to remain
silent. We made a choice to stand up and resist the chicanery and wickedness of
this administration and we are prepared to pay the price for the choice that we
have made.
I
for one would rather live a short life and die as a free man than live a long
life as a slave. The Bible says "he who holds on to his life will lose it
and he who is ready to give up his life for my cause will gain it".
I
do not fear any man or any circumstance because I know the God that I serve. I
am a servant of truth, a warrior of light and a child of the Living God: I bow
to no man and I do not tremble before tyrants.
I
will endure anything and pay any price to liberate my nation and deliver my
people from the chains of perfidy, ignorance and oppression and from the
tyranny, evil, manifest corruption and double standards of the Buhari
administration.
Finally
I will resist the inequalities, cruelty and bondage of the unconsciable vassal
state that Nigeria has been transformed into in the last two years with every
fibre of my being in the full knowledge that in the end we shall prevail.
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