Former
Minister of Aviation and spokesman for the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign
Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has written yet another explosive piece
to Nigerians. It's a must read!
Femi Fani-Kayode
Professor Ango Abdullahi is the spokesman and de facto leader of the Northern Elders Forum.
His notorious mendacities and constant submissions and assertions
remind me of Shakespeares’s profound words in his classic play titled
‘Macbeth’ where he spoke of “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and
fury, signifying nothing”.
A few days ago the Professor claimed that, “the north sustained the entire Nigerian state from 1914 up to 1974”.
This is a lie from the pit of hell. The truth is that the opposite
is the case: it is the south that sustains the north and it has been
doing so from 1914 up until today.
Lord Lugard was the first Governor-General of colonial Nigeria and
the architect of the 1914 amalgamation between what were formerly known
as the “northern” and “southern” protectorates of Nigeria.
In 1914 he described the north as “the poor husband” and the south
as “the rich wife”. Can someone please tell me how a “poor husband” can
sustain a “rich wife”?
It is rather the “rich wife” that sustains the “poor husband” and
this has been the case in Nigeria despite the fact that he has been
pillaging, raping, beating, abusing, sodomising and cheating on her for
the last 103 years.
If not for the south with its kind and gentle disposition, its
liberal and cosmopolitan tendencies, its intellectual virility, its
generous and accomodating population, its massive mineral and human
resources and its never-ending and charitable quest and desire to be its
brother’s keeper, the core north would be the poorest and most barren
place on earth today. Professor Abdullahi knows this and so do all those
that think like him.
Without the south the core north would have been a poverty-striken,
land-locked, waste-land and barren desert with little hope and few
prospects.
Despite all their pretensions they owe everything to the south That is the bitter truth.
With his disdainful and disrespectful comments Professor Abdullahi
has distorted the truth, attempted to revise history, insulted the south
and been uncharitable and unfair to his benefactors.
This is a monumental error and a grave miscalculation on his part
because gone are the days when southerners can be intimidated into
silence.
I say this because a new crop of southern and Middle Belt leaders
are silently on the rise. They are proud of their identity, history,
culture and ethnic heritage, they have wholly espoused the nationalist
cause, they refuse to be cowered, subjugated, intimidated or enslaved
and they reject the notion of being being labelled as second class
citizens or “drawers of the water and hewers of the wood”.
The problem with people like Abdullahi is that falsehood is in
their genes. Their submissions are manisfestly dishonest and their words
are rooted in deceit, mendacity, doublespeak and, worst of all,
misplaced and baseless arrogance.
I believe that 103 years of a forced marriage, an unhappy union and
an abusive cohabitation is long enough. There can be no fellowship with
the core north because there is no common ground and many northerners
view southerners as nothing more than serfs.
We have tried for many years to plead with them to see reason and to let us live together peacefully but they have refused.
Instead they have taken us for granted and they have taken our
charity, generosity, kindness and meekness for cowardice, stupidity and
weakness.
They insist that In all matters they must always have their way and
they must always dominate. They claim that they were “born to rule” and
that we were “born to serve”.
They assert that the rest of us are subhuman slaves and serfs. They
insist that we live and flourish at their pleasure and that they have
the power of life and death over us.
They are the poorest and most backward zone and they have little or
nothing to offer yet they insist that they must always wield the power
and that they must always lead and rule.
Yet all they bring to the table is rancour, division, strife and
conflict, whether it be the quest for perpetual domination or covert
support for Boko Haram and the Fulani militias and herdsmen.
I say enough is enough! The only way forward is to restructure Nigeria or break her.
Whether anyone likes it or not I have spoken the bitter truth. I
have reflected the minds and hearts of millions of people from the south
and the Middle Belt.
Abdullahi and those that think like him must understand that their
insults, their arrogance, their lies, their dangerous nonsense and their
reckless and provocative historical revisionism must stop.
The south has come of age and more than ever before southern unity and a common resolve has become a reality.
He would do well to learn from the timely interventons of his core
northern brothers like Governor Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna state and Emir
Muhammad Sanusi 11 of Kano.
Last week, in a direct response to his welcome assertion that “the
north is now ready to divide Nigeria”, the two of them said that the
core north would not only be the “poorest place on earth” if Nigeria
were to break up but that the zone would also be “worse than
Afghanistan”.
They are absolutely right.
Instead of insulting our sensibilities with false tales of a glory
that never was, Abdullahi should get on his knees and beg the people of
the Middle Belt and south for forgiveness for 103 years of core northern
and Hausa Fulani cheating, lying, violence, aggression, insults,
domination, subjugation, mass murder and ingratitude that we have had to
put up with. They should be begging and pleading with us not to go.
It is in the interest of his people to do so and anything less than that would be spitting in the wind.
Permit me to take this opporrunity to respond to Alhaji Tanko Yakasai who is often referred to as an elder statesman.
However when he described those that wish to restructure our
country as “misguided” and those that wish to exercise their God-given
and lawful right of self-determination and peacefully leave Nigeria as
“shortsighted irritants” he did not speak or behave like one.
A few months ago he also said that the Yoruba were to blame for
everything under the sun and that it was the people of the south west
that are “misleading the Igbo” into wanting to seceed.
He appealed to the Igbo “not to trust the Yoruba” because they would “lead them astray and later betray them”.
My response to him is as follows: the days of trying to divide the
south with absurd and nonsensical tales that are spun and woven by
desperate core northern bigots who secretly tremble at the thought of a
united southern front are long over.
Again the days of divide and rule and internal colonialism are
dead. Whether the likes of Alhaji Tanko Yakasai and Professor Ango
Abdullahi like it or not, It is only a matter of time before the people
of the south and the Middle Belt liberate themselves from the evil
subjugation and bondage of the Hausa-Fulani core north.
If it is the Nigeria that the Legal Advisor of Miyetti Allah (the
umbrella group for the Fulani militants and herdsmen), one Mohammed
Bello Tukur, has just been appointed as the Secretary of the Federal
Character Commission by President Muhammadu Buhari, I assure you that
its days are numbered.
If it is the Nigeria where 808 Christians were slaughtered by those
same Fulani herdsmen in Southern Kaduna on Christmas day, 1000 others
were butchered in Agatu, Benue state sometime last year and yet another
13 were massacred in Southern Kaduna on Easter Sunday, I assure you that
the die is cast.
If it is the Nigeria where Igbo youths that belong to IPOB and
MASSOB are slaughtered at will, where Shiite Muslims are massacred in
their homes and where the sons and daughters of Ile Ife are killed like
flies on their own land just for being accomodating, kind and generous
to the Hausa Fulani setters, I assure you that the bell is tolling.
Finally if it is the Nigeria in which more Christians have been
butchered and martyered than ANYWHERE else in the world in the last 67
years I assure you that the countdown has begun.
The latest round of mass murder in Southern Kaduna just last Sunday brings bad memories of this Easter.
Yet today permit me to plant a seed of hope for a brighter day. Our
oppressors may have today but tomorrow belongs to us. As long as Jesus
sits on the throne ultimately the victory shall be ours.
The price for our new nation has already been paid in blood and nobody can stop it from coming to pass.
For centuries these Amalekites, Chaldeans and Janjaweed butchers
have been raiding our cities and villages, setting them ablaze and
kidnapping our people to sell as slaves.
We have to fight for our children now or there will be no place left for them to call home.
The fact that some misguided individuals actually believe that this
can never happen and that Nigeria can never break serves to prove the
level of confusion, ignorance, darkness and delusion that flourishes in
their sordid little minds.
Whether they wish to acknowledge it or not, the truth is that If
the core north does not retrace its steps, not only will Nigeria break
into two or more pieces but people like Professor Ango Abdullahi, Alhaji
Tanko Yakasai and all those that come from that zone will suffer
immeasurably as a consequence of it.
It is at that point that they will rue the day that they once shed
so much innocent blood, that they once subjugated and enslaved the
people of the Middle Belt and that they once poured scorn and contempt
on the people of the south.
About the Author:
Femi Fani-Kayode was former Minister of Aviation and spokesman for the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation.
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