In both 2008 and 2012 I warned the world and particularly
Africa and the Middle East about the evil of Barack Obama. No-one listened.
In 2011 I warned the world about the consequences of
removing Muammar Gadaffi for Africa and the Middle East. No-one listened.
In 2015 I warned the world and Nigeria about supporting and
electing Muhammadu Buhari as President of our country. No-one listened.
In 2016 I warned Nigeria and the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP) about making Ali Modu Sheriff National Chairman of our party. No-one
listened.
In 2015 I told the world that Donald Trump would win the
nomination as flag-bearer for the Republican party and that he would go on to
win the American presidential election in 2016. No-one listened.
In 2016 I warned Nigeria and the world that Buhari’s health
would present a major challenge for the rest of his tenure. No-one listened.
In each of these cases I have been proved right.
Now I shall give two more warnings and whether anyone
listens to me or not takes absolutely nothing away from me. Mine is to pass on
the message and it is left for those that hear it to accept it or not.
The first is that if Nigeria makes the mistake of bringing
back Buhari in 2019 that will be the end of our country as a viable, cohesive,
tolerant, medium-power democratic nation-state where the rule of law, the
principle of equality and the most fundamental civil liberties, human rights
and basic freedoms for the individual are guaranteed and respected. Worse still
she may NEVER recover.
The second is that if those of us in the PDP, Nigeria’s
leading opposition party, fail to make the right choices for the Presidential
and Vice Presidential ticket of our party for the 2019 election we will not
only lose woefully but the country will suffer the consequences of our abysmal
error and lack of good judgement for the next 50 to 100 years. In short future
generations of our people will suffer for it.
Think about that and let it sink in.
We should stop listening to what those that believe that
they are the gods of Nigeria and those that we consider to be the “big” and
“untouchable” men in our country say.
We should stop sheepishly accepting their self-seeking and
self-centred choices, we should stop allowing them to impose their will on our
future and our nation and we should stop following them like mesmerised and
bewitched zombies.
Instead, like the great 19th century poet William Ernest
Henley counseled, we must be “the master of our soul and the captain of our
ship”.
We must understand and appreciate the importance of the prophetic,
seek the face of God, listen to what He says, be guided by His leading and
accept only His choices.
The result of our consistent subtefuge, ignorance, folly and
sheer obstinance over the last 57 years in Nigeria is that our people have
suffered immeasurably.
We were once the giant of Africa but over the last two years
we have been reduced into a weak, impoverished and inconsequential vassal state
made up of quislings, cowards and slaves and whose people are bought and sold
in distant foreign lands for as little as $200.
Consider what is happening to Nigerians in Libya and yet
there are no consequences. That is what we have now been reduced to: a nation
whose people can be castrated, murdered, enslaved, caged, bought and sold like
cattle and whose organs can be removed and harvested for ungodly gain and
profit.
Nothing can or will change until we get the right leaders. Nothing
can or will change until we reject the counsel and leading of the devil and his
human agents that hold sway in our country and instead listen to and
courageously enforce the counsel of God.
The choice is ours.
Permit me to conclude this contribution with the following.
I watched a video of a press conference that President Nana
Akuffo-Addo of Ghana and President Emmanuel Macron of France gave a few days
ago and I was not surprised by Akuffo-Addo’s sheer courage and refreshing
eloquence because I have known him for at least 45 years.
his speech, which touched on the issue of African
slavery in Libya and the migration problem, he did not just do Ghana proud but
the whole of Africa.
No other African leader has been able to articulate the
issue as cearly and succintly as he did on that occassion and I urge every
Nigerian to google the speech on Youtube and listen to him carefully.
He brings hope to a continent that is stark, dark, poor,
weak, corrupt, cowardly, self-destructive and plagued with tyrants, despots and
ignorant and incompetent leaders who delight in shooting down bright young
stars, shattering dreams and destroying the future and destiny of their own
people.
Akuffo-Addo is the exception and his words in that short
press conference inspired millions of black people all over the world.
This is what happens when you have a brilliant, British
public school-educated, Oxford University graduate as your President.
In that intervention he was profound, insightful and
incisive and I am proud of the fact that we went to the same prep school
(Holmewood House in Langton Green, Kent) many years ago.
He attended the school a number of years before I did and
went on to Lancing College in Sussex and when I finished there I went on to
Harrow School in Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex.
The only mistake he made was that he went to Oxford and not
Cambridge but I guess we can live with that!
I am very proud of him and what he is doing for his people
in Ghana. Even Emmanuel Macron was clearly surprised and impressed with his
foresight, knowledge and understanding
Sadly in Nigeria we don’t have people like this as
Presidents and leaders.
Instead we have ancient dinosaurs, heartless buffoons, rnen
of questionable paternity, provincial bastards, court jesters, village idiots,
ill-bred manipulators, genocidal meglomaniacs, unconsciable mass murderers,
sociopathic narcissists, ill-educated gutter snipes and sadistic slave-dealers
who kow tow and bow to the western world, who tremble and quiver before the
Arabs, who are agents, spies and informants of western intelligence agencies
and who have gladly and willingly sold the future, destiny and fortunes of
their people for a mess of pottage and a pittance.
Those that I am referring to know who they are. These are
men who play God and who believe that they must impose their will on our nation
and our people until the day that they die.
Yet thankfully all hope is not lost. We must not despair
because our future and destiny lies in our hands. If we make the right choices
I have no doubt that we shall achieve our full potentials and take our rightful
place in the comity of nations.
I say this because despite all our challenges and
mind-bending viscititudes and in spite of our dearth of good quality
leadership, we remain a nation of proud and noble souls and great and beautiful
people.
Nigeria is a lion. She is powerful and resilient. She is
enduring, long-suffering, irresistable and irrepressable. She is more than a
nation. She is an inexplicabe monuement of irreconcilable contradictions.
She comprises of many countries all wrapped up in one
awesome mighty mega-nation. She is a life-force. She is both a tangible and an
intangible entity all at once. She is a living spirit and a powerful soul.
She is the only country on the African continent that has a
true identity and whose people yearn for her when outside her shores. Everyone
on the continent looks up to Nigeria. She is their heart and their hope.
Even if she is restructured or if she breaks up tomorrow and
goes under a thousand different names we shall still see ourselves as first and
foremost Nigerians. Nothing can take away the strength and essence of a mighty
and roaring lion.
We are many nations within a nation. We are a
multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-religious mega-nation of God-loving and
God-fearing believers.
We are the pride of Africa, the hope of the black man and
the beloved of the Lord.
We shall endure, we shall excel and by the grace of the
Living God, we shall rise again.
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