By Igbotako Nowinta
It is quite unfortunate that the Nigerian House is being consumed by the selfish, egocentric fire being stoked by some elite, who have succeeded to carve a bottomless tunnel of resources for themselves, and their generations yet unborn, leaving millions of fellow Nigerians in the grave of untold hardship and death. How do we place the likes of Minister Isa Pantami and his links with the dreaded terrorist networks? How did we get here? This is how the types of Pantami have continuously ignited a blaze of ethnic nationality and fury in our land. Certainly, l don’t know of any government in Nigeria’s history before now, that has presented a more severe threat to our national security, mutual economic, peace and democratic interest like the Muhammadu Buhari negative phenomenon. For a country that succumbed to a senseless civil war, and has refused to forgive the lgbos, more than 50 years after, we all must seek urgently to force open a new chapter of hope, security and respect for sanctity of human lives and property. We must agitate stridently for a new democratic order. If the present secessionist fever blowing riotously in the name of Oduduwa Republic and elsewhere in the Federal Republic of Nigeria will hasten that process, let it be.
The latest sensational Yoruba activist in town, Sunday Igboho, has been having a fair share of media attention in recent months, along with his seemingly large crowd of sympathizers for obvious reasons.
That Sunday Igboho is one of the staunch Yoruba ring leaders currently carrying the flag of Oduduwa Republic and singing aloud the song of succession, is not an unusual development, looking at how our so called Federal Republic of Nigeria, has been terribly sucked into a vortex, by a group of demented, reckless Fulani morons and idiots.
We are being confronted by a special class of ruthless killers wearing the demonic toga of Fulani Herdsmen. This is the saddening sense of where we are today. The late Chief Anthony Enahoro was one of the nationalistic fire-eaters that fought the British colonialists to a standstill.
Enahoro was in his thirties when he joined the ranks of the late sage, Obafemi Awolowo, late journalistic war-lord, Nnamdi Azikiwe, etc. before independence was wrought from the British in October 1960.
In moving the historic motion for the independence of Nigeria in 1953, on the floor of the Western House of Assembly, Anthony Enahoro was optimistic that the proposed ‘new nation’ would be far better than what the colonialists dished out to the people who harrowingly lived in pre-independent Nigeria. He was wrong!
Fifty six years later, in October, 2009, l met Chief Anthony Enahoro, in his country home, located in the Government Reservation Area, Benin City, when l went on a promotional visit of one of my highly successful books: ” Where We Are – A Call for Democratic Revolution in Nigeria.”
Chief Enahoro was in a relaxed mood when l was ushered into his palatial sitting room; his face lighted up when l told him about my book; he was utterly pleased flipping through the pages of my work, and fascinated with the ideas raised in it.
Chief Enahoro was brutally frank when he gave me his piece of mind thus: “l must commend your efforts young man because we need a change. But, l don’t think we still have a country, the gains of independence which we fought for have been eroded by the elite, who have regrettably constituted themselves into new masters over the people of Nigeria.”
Twelve years later, after my meeting with the late sagacious and uncompromising Nigeria’s nationalistic ancestor, millions of our people have become deeply traumatized and afflicted by a monstrous conservative systemic, being run by sick political despots.
Today, we are being confronted by a tragedy more sinister, daring and draconian than what was prevalent under the condition which l met the late Chief Anthony Enahoro – a selfish, solo, furious, greedy and lunatic Fulani nationalistic agenda.
The tragedy we had even before Chief Anthony Enahoro joined his ancestors on December 15, 2010, were more of political, social, economic dislocations that sufficiently dumped millions of Nigerians into the graves of impoverishment and fatally trapped them in unimaginable backwardness.
But, since 2015, what the present masters, who found shelter in the corrupt and deceptive All Progressives Congress (APC) have been dishing out to the bewildered citizens via monumental incompetence is nothing but a story of horror.
How could we explain the fact that security of life and property, a constitutional provision, is what the current President of Nigeria is indirectly using to push some highly dissatisfied and disturbed ethnic nationalities like the Oduduwa Republic to the avenue of succession?
The situation with our country is dramatically likened to a case of a father who has many children, but stupidly decided to favor only one of the children with unspeakable protection and glories, while the rest are neglected to rot away.
Certainly, the others will naturally choose to rebel, to yank themselves free from such un-fatherly yokes; this is the stark scenario that the Sunday Igbohos, Nnamdi Kanus and the rest conscientious agitators have found themselves today.
It is only a captured and bastardized children or citizens that will confine themselves to look sheepishly or watch akimbo as their means of livelihood are being destroyed and worsened by an already grave economic and political conditions, in a nation plagued by unprecedented banditry and despicable violence.
The interpretation of the current agitation for Oduduwa Republic and the secessionist fever in Nigeria, is very clear; it is simply because people’s frustrations have gone beyond the limits, even as huge security expectations or protection from the Federal Government of Nigeria have been severally torpedoed.
In a pathetic situation, where countless millions of Nigerians have been dragged into a most bloody, bitter, biting and continually suffocating scenario, abandoned to die slowly in the valley of squalor, distress and degradation, it is crazy nonsense for anyone to condemn the secessionist fever spreading around the country today.
As it is glaring that the current Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria is not only hibernating in a fantasy planet, but is completely not in the mood to navigate the market place for paradigmatic shift in our horrendous insecurity menace.
It is sad that with the House of Nigeria already turned into a den of unprecedented sorrow, anger and pains, with many ethnic nationalities being treated as third class citizens, our southern gate keepers (politicians and businessmen) are acting as if everything is normal.
In a situation like this, who says secessionist agitators and their sponsors would not take a bloodless walk out of Nigeria, and if challenged in the process, summersault into a violent walk out, saying goodbye to the nation they once called their own?
Obviously, in the Nigeria House, a single, ethnic nationality and its desperate insensitive crowd, is carrying on as if other ethnic groups are inferior, unwanted and uninvited when Nigeria was concocted in 1960.
This most suffocating signal coming from the Fulani rascals is nothing but a direct message being passed around, forcing extreme agony and anguish on those currently carrying secessionist flag like MASSOB, IPOB, to explode into irreconcilable point of no return.
If the present custodians of supreme political power in Nigeria have branded themselves as blind, deaf and dumb entities, to the constantly infuriating realities, the Oduduwa Republic secessionist agitators, such as it is playing out in the Southwestern part might not be able to be plucked back.
It is quite unfortunate that the Nigerian House is being consumed by the selfish, egocentric fire being stoked by some elite, who have succeeded to carve a bottomless tunnel of resources for themselves, and their generations yet unborn, leaving millions of fellow Nigerians in the grave of untold hardship and death.
How do we place the likes of Minister Isa Pantami and his links with the dreaded terrorist networks? How did we get here? This is how the types of Pantami have continuously ignited a blaze of ethnic nationality and fury in our land.
Certainly, l don’t know of any government in Nigeria’s history before now, that has presented a more severe threat to our national security, mutual economic, peace and democratic interest like the Muhammadu Buhari negative phenomenon.
For a country that succumbed to a senseless civil war, and has refused to forgive the lgbos, more than 50 years after, we all must seek urgently to force open a new chapter of hope, security and respect for sanctity of human lives and property.
We must agitate stridently for a new democratic order. If the present secessionist fever blowing riotously in the name of Oduduwa Republic and elsewhere in the Federal Republic of Nigeria will hasten that process, let it be.
