Our growing willingness to compromise and the making of more allowance to compromise further still, has allowed the caliphate Fulani to take up the driving seat where this country is being taken on a daily ride into anarchy, endless bloodshed and unimaginable poverty. One thing that is absolutely assured is that separation will come and we can see the shadow of things to come in the rapidly unfolding impracticability of lumping different nationalities together and worse, they are crushed, shamed, humiliated and tyrannised by a caliphate Fulani central government that controls the armed forces which they deploy when it suits them to suppress other nationalities in its foolish wisdom to unite a bitterly divided people.
Nigeria in unity is a broken nation. Nigeria in unity is a wounded nation. The caliphate Fulani has built a false altar on to themselves. They want us to worship them and not bow down to other gods. But sad to say, we are not going to bow down to their crude false image of who they think they are. The south must serve its interest and its interest alone just as the caliphate had been doing since our independence.
First published in an article, titled: “Amotekun and the crisis of co-existence (1),” on February 2, 2020.
We have all been living in the dark for 60 years but a small spark of light is all we need to usher in the illuminating joy of separate destiny. Our political longitude, forever steered to favour the caliphate Fulani and their southern cronies needs to be re-navigated and the error corrected. We cannot continue to cohabit with duplicitous, conservative caliphate Fulani cabal that use intimidation, threat, propaganda, money and the use of force to deny Nigerians their right to self-determination. It is provocative when I observe a tiny, cow-loving, greedy, myopic, fear-driven, caliphate Fulani political cabal orate publicly as if Nigeria is their private fiefdom. What we urgently require is more inclusive conversation beyond our narrow fear and prescriptive parameter, especially among caliphate Fulani ex-military officers that our unity is non-negotiable. Brexit is a shining light for us – anything can be negotiated! What is disengaging the whole raft of our national discourse is the caliphate Fulani stubbornness, dark vision, fear, greed, corruption and selfishness. It is time to wake up. We have to keep the momentum and pile the pressure and more pressure until we seize our moment.
First published in an article, titled: “Amotekun and the crisis of co-existence (1),” on February 02, 2020.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s façade of buoyant optimism of winning the war against the insane recklessness of bloody insecurity is punctured by the daily servings of more tragic news of kidnappings and deadly killings by bandits in our society. How long must we wait for events to reveal itself to the world that our caliphate Fulani emperors have no clothes. The delusion that they still have clothes is the direct result of our ongoing national calamities. The contraption called Nigeria is no more than a mosaic of nationalities on one hand, and a concentration of sub-tribes on the other hand. We co-exist uneasily side-by-side and eye one another with intense jealousy and mutual suspicion. The creation of Amotekun represents the symbol of that jealousy and suspicion. Caliphate Fulani has just reinforced that jealousy with their own Amotekun clone called, Shege Ka Fasa! We live in a heady, adversarial atmosphere where caliphate Hausa/Fulani have perfected a prebendal political formula where each state goes to Abuja to receive crumbs thrown at them. It is like a penitent Christian who goes to meet the priest to receive his monthly communion. Monkey dey work, baboon they share the banana!!!
First published in an article, titled: “Amotekun and the crisis of co-existence (2),” on February 09, 2020.
Buhari’s dream of Nigeria as one nation of political and social utopia is a pipe dream. Our continued unity cannot, and will not guarantee that sinless state of paradise. He lacks the vision and the political wisdom to leap that great wall of fear and clan interest to lend support to rational thinkers agitating for separate nations from Nigeria. Self-determination combatants who have been side-lined, shot, shutdown and rebuked are sick and tired of the tawdry pretences of our unity. Out there on the streets, there is a huge sense of disillusion compounded by the daily genocide of insecurity going on in virtually all the states of the federation. This government should know that the same old cyclical appetite for dominance, islamisation, totalitarianism will continue to inflame resentment, anger and mass resistance. One cannot restate it enough that power in Nigeria is wielded by the caliphate Fulani because of their unfettered access to all the coercive instruments of brutality and fear that has helped in ranking Nigeria as a Police state.
First published in an article, titled: “Amotekun and the crisis of co-existence (2),” on February 09, 2020.
What caliphate Fulani has perfected is to convert the power of federalism and deploy it to pursue impunity and vendetta against anyone seen to be advocating for restructure and separate identity. That is why this administration is waging a war on civil discourse. The rising cry for autonomy, dissolution, separateness or independence is our best hope of meeting the developmental aspirations of our growing population. The strident agitation for self-determination is the answer to caliphate Fulani’s hegemonic aloofness, remoteness and disconnection from reality. This is the crisis of political disengagement that is tearing at the heart of our coexistence. Our unity is going through a meltdown because caliphate Fulani are unjust and grossly unfair in its total capture of every important institutions of this nation. Buhari brought in high nepotism and the islamisation of governance to an audacious and provocative level. There is a political disaster on the way. The caliphate Fulani is now box into a valley of decision: it is either to continue to satisfy the narrow agenda of tiny Northern elites or accede to the genuine desire of millions of long-suffering Nigerians yearning for their own republic. Biafran nation is on standby. Oduduwa nation is on standby. Ijaw nation is on standby. Middle Belt nation is on standby.
First published in an article, titled: “Amotekun and the crisis of co-existence (3),” on February 17, 2020.
He was a one-man study in intellectual integrity, pleasing balance, thought dynamism, word smithery, libertarian sentiments and excellent journalism. For the first time in the history of Nigerian journalism, Macebuh changed our old sated and dated appetite to offer an alternative diet of colliding and competing paradigms between the forces of liberalism and its arch enemy, illiberal tradition. He energised and enriched the character of public/social discourse and his masterpiece of masterpieces: “The Liberal Tradition and its Enemies,” became the defining paradigm of the inherent contradictions and deadpan unintended ironies of midwifing an important newspaper like The Guardian at the crossroad of our political history. Shehu Shagari electoral victory of 1983 was a febrile and dirty political lie that heralded negative new behaviours that would lay the foundation for the utter destruction of Nigeria’s voting etiquette that still persists till date. The illiberal liberalism of The Guardian’s long silence at the onset of Shagari’s political robbery brought a whole universe of devastating polemical discourse. Liberalism, Macebuh’s ideological battle cry was caught in a web. Professor Adebayo Williams was the then standard bearer for intellectual reproach who questioned The Guardian’s liberal somersault. The rest is now history.
First published in an article, titled: “10 Years On: Remembering Stanley Macebuh (1942-2010),” March 08, 2020.
Yearly, Ibadan provides me a rural dream, a chance for creative recuperation, some community participation and a passion for the needy Ramonus, Laniyans, Lasisis, Lamidis, Lanihuns and Lahans of this world. Ibadan has proved its worth both in gold and silver. Ibadan has accommodated the Egbas, Ijebus, Ijeshas, Ekitis, Deltans, Igbo, Hausas and other nationalities for centuries. Jonathan, my man Friday and gardener is from the Delta region. Pa Joseph, my gateman is from Kogi State. There is peace, intermarriage, social and cultural synergy with the people of Ibadan. This particular historical recollection is still intensely strong and continues to place Ibadan uniquely as a cultural confluence for all Nigerians. Ibadan! Ibadan!! Ibadan!!! You are like the ancient city of old civilization. You are my place of beginning — my Garden of Eden. You are the prehistoric city that produced my stock from generation to generation. You are the fearful domain of brave warriors–brave, old warriors who feared nothing but dared all. You are not the smoky, choky, concrete jungle like Lagos but a snaily, sleepy, relaxed and unperturbed land of peace and tranquillity. You are the prime artery, the passageway for the lorry juggernauts from the North. You guide them through the snaky lane of Ojoo and pour them onto the Lagos-Ibadan expressway to their timeless, Lagos destination. Ibadan, ha, you are the citadel, no, the portal, no, the Valhalla, yes, of the valiant Lagelu whose voice was like thunder on the fevered hearts of kings who warred against him.
You are the undefiled land of amala; the land of e wa se gbe ibehun, the land of ageshin kole, the land of cusin cia ni, the land of wetie, nihilistic temper that raged like a bestirred ocean wave.
First published in an article, titled: “A Proudly Ibadan ‘Kini So’ Celebrates Ibadan Week,” on March 15, 2020.