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.
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.
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,
“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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