After
reading your long letter to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, I came face to face with a
man who is eager to side with the oppressor against the oppressed.
Reuben Abati
Dear Reuben Abati,
Just as you have never met Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, I have never met you. I
only started hearing your name during the government of Ex President
Goodluck Jonathan. I have really not taken much notice of you until your
recent open letter to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). I am hopeful this letter will get to you wherever you are.
As the special Adviser on Media and Publicity to Ex president
Goodluck Jonathan, I never really wrote anything ill about you. Even
when EFCC arrested you for alleged mismanagement of the nation’s funds
during former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, I didn’t
border myself much to shout ‘LOOTER’ because I know what EFCC stands for
under APC government led by President Muhammadu Buhari. Sir, I am not
here to talk about your corruption charges, neither am I here to talk
about how you failed your President and made him look like he performed
very low in the eyes of Nigerians, until he left office. I am only here
to give justice to the tiring and boring letter you wrote to the
courageous and uncompromising leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra,
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. My leader, our leader.
After reading your long letter to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, I came face to
face with a man who is eager to side with the oppressor against the
oppressed. A man who could not come out straight in mocking the
oppressed, but chose to but hide behind the play of words to serve his
masters well. But fortunately enough, we Biafrans are smarter than you.
We were able to decode your words and whom you are working for. We know
you are standing with every other person but not IPOB nor Mazi Nnamdi
Kanu. We know that since Ex-President Jonathan lost 2015 election, you
have been nichodemously fighting tooth and nail to find yourself in this
APC led government. You were the first to openly abandon the one that
made you who you are today. We Biafrans were able to point out the
intent of your letter to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. You tried to force gullible
Nigerians to accept that President Buhari has decimated IPOB and Nnamdi
Kanu. You wanted to sell the lie that Nnamdi Kanu’s supporters and his
trusted IPOB followers have deserted him. This you did by saying that
since Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was attacked, Igbo land have remained as if
nothing happened. You made it sound as if Igbos have rejected Mazi
Nnamdi Kanu and referendum for Biafra. Sir, I can see that Igbos really
disappointed you. The bloodbath you saw wasn’t enough for you. I know,
you really wanted all Igbos to go to war immediately so that the support
we enjoy from international community will be punctured. The truth is
that this is 2017, and not 1967. We are not going to answer rebels this
time around, and no one, not even you will make us answer that.
Sir, if you must work for Buhari against the oppressed, at least
you should do that openly and be proud of it. Take responsibility and
stop being a hypocrite. You see, in as much as I have no single respect
for the five governors of South Eastern States, I still respect them
more than you. You know why? These governors made their stand known.
They were not hypocrites like you. They were very open in their support
for President Buhari over their own people, people they swore to
protect, people that gave them their votes. Their proscribing of IPOB,
without condemning the Nigerian military’s Python dance that led to the
inhuman torture and killing of their youths like mosquitoes and their
support for the senseless tagging of IPOB as terrorist group by
President Buhari’s APC government differentiates them from you. As bad
as their actions were against their own people, they were not
hypocritical about it. But you hid under useless words of praises to
mock a man that have stood against all odds to question how bad things
are done in Nigeria. Something you had the opportunity of doing for a
whooping five years, but lacked the courage and political will to do.
Reading the replies from your Facebook page I can’t but marvel at
the gullibility of Nigerians. Some were actually praising you. This
group of Nigerians were not able to see what you came for. They were
blinded by the subtle praises you showered on Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, without
seeing the damage your letter did to the person of Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB
in general. I am proud of those that were able to see that you only came
to mock and not to praise.
“Some people said you were called the lion, but when trouble came,
you were the first to run away from the zoo”. Who and who is saying this
to you if not yourself? “You had boasted that you will deal with any
invading force from Abuja. You also said it would be Biafra or Death.
But when death came calling in the shape of operation Python dance II,
your enemies insisted that you should have waited”. Who is the enemy
here if not you Sir? You have shown how good you are at twisting words. I
give it to you Sir. You are supper intelligent. But we caught you red
handed here.
We know that you are disappointed that up till now the Nigerian
government has not brought out Nnamdi Kanu’s lifeless body. Nnamdi Kanu
has been a terror to people like you that have held Nigeria down.
Nothing have shaken Nigeria like the fearless and courageous Nnamdi
Kanu. That’s why all of you want him dead. His death will be the
greatest good news leaders like you crave. A good man with conscience
should be mocking Nigerian government who unleashed terror on armless
youths and not on a man that sought to change the status quo. A man that
have the interest of the common man at heart.
That you even tried to use your letter to create division and
suspicion among the leadership of IPOB shows how desperate you are to
impress your masters. That you now tell Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to fear people
who have given their lives, taken bullets for him and to now fear them
is very pathetic and mischievous. Unless you are indirectly telling us
that Nigerian military who are currently holding Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wants
to poison him.
You said that Biafra Security Service are nowhere to be seen, that
Igbos have deserted Kanu. That we have thrown away our Biafra flags.
What an insult to all of us. Who can throw away his country’s flag? Who?
Sir, the unfortunate thing is that people like you always think that
everybody is like them. That is why mad people are always quick to call
others mad, and a snitch thinks everybody snitches. It is known to
everybody that more than 95% of Igbos are still behind Nnamdi Kanu. When
next you want to know what IPOB is saying and the events concerning
Biafra, go to Family Writers Press (FWP) and stop forming your opinion
out of people like you, who can sell even their boss, for political
relevance. The only gold digger I see here is you Sir.
Let it be known that since the genocidal invasion of South East by
Nigerian military as ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari, IPOB
supporters and sympathizers have tripled, both local and international.
So for somebody to say that IPOB supporters have dwindled is just no
other thing than being mischievous. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu remains our leader,
we listen to no senator, no king and no governors except Mazi Nnamdi
Kanu. You have no right to speak on whether IPOB have deserted Mazi
Nnamdi Kanu because you are not a Biafran nor IPOB member.
Biafrans have not been going about their businesses like nothing
happened, just like you projected. Biafrans have felt the pain and have
remained strong. Our children goes to school bearing in mind that their
lives stands on a precipice. They go to school with every alertness,
knowing that a fighter jet can cross their path at any given time. Their
fathers have given them lectures about bunkers, and they now know what
to do, just like their grandfathers did in 1967. We are preparing burial
ceremonies and burying our many youths that died prematurely in the
hands of Nigerian soldiers. You can not stay in Abeokuta, Abuja or Lagos
and claim to know how we in the South East go about our business. We
actually go out these days hating Nigeria more, with greater
determination to exit Nigeria.
We have a smart leader whose actions and inactions rattles the
Nigerian government. A leader that have refused to be bought and
controlled by the Fulani controlled Federal government of Nigeria. We
now have a leader who God himself sent to us just like Moses and Joshua.
We will courageously walk in line with his instructions until we walk
into Biafra the Land of the Rising Sun.
The best thing will be for your race to discover it’s own Moses and
Joshua, otherwise your lowly slave status and the suffering of your
people will become worse because Biafra will not be there to share the
burden of slavery with you. Continue serving Hausa-Fulani interest out
of morbid fear and cowardice, no one is begrudging you but please don’t
expect we Biafrans to join you. We are republicans and will always
prefer death over servitude.
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By: Elochukwu Nicholas Ohagi, a Political Analyst for DailyPost.
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