“My brethren the Infidels in this
country are pointing their fingers to our faces we also should do the same.
After the message I gave in Rijau Niger state and presently am in Kontagora the
message was delivered to the President through a reliable source. I stand by
the existing code that all Muslims must rise and defend ourselves from all
Infidels and all Muslim uniformed men must stand and defend Muslims at all cost
for every one should know the road to his or her fathers home. We have sent our
message to the President and I was assured he got it. He is with us and
believes in our cause. Every Muslim in Nigeria must be ready. We will never
allow any infidel to come to power again. We want our Muslim soldiers in the
barracks to be on their guard and never allow these infidels to intmidate us
again. Whether we are prepared or not every soldier must answer his fathers
name”- Sheik Abubakar Gero Argungu, Sawtul Hikmah, March 9th, 2018.
This man is playing with fire.
Such threatening words in a multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-cultural,
multi-ethnic nation and plural society like ours where over 100 million
Christians live and reside? Such madness is rarely seen.
I am constrained to ask, who is
this uncircumcised Phillistine that has chosen to defy the armies of the Living
God?
Who is this reprobate unbeliever
that seeks to challenge Christendom and to dare and denigrate the Christian
faithful?
Who is this son of perdition that
mocks our God and that seeks to demean the sons and daughters of light?
Who is this blood-lusting
barbarian who seeks to unleash the dogs of war on our nation?
Who is this ranking pagan who
loves the shedding of innocent blood and who brings nothing but threats,
division, bloodshed, conflict, strife, violence and destruction?
The truth is that this Abubakar
Shekau in the making, this demon in human flesh and this servant of satan
should have been arrested long ago for his dangerous and provocative words and
his reckless disposition, both of which are capable of setting Nigeria on fire.
And neither is he a real Muslim
or truly representative of the mhajority of Muslims in our country.
His utterances are unacceptable
and the fact that, rather than caution him, the Buhari administration has
instead encouraged, pampered, protected and supported him speaks volumes and
gives cause for concern.
Those that welcome such
sentiments, that encourage such words, that are stoking this dangerous fire and
that are fanning the embers of sectarian strife, religious bigotry and hateful
intolerance would do well to recognise the fact that no-one and no group of
people will come out as the winner in a religious war in this country.
Worst still if such a
conflagration were ever to be ignited we would all, both Christians and
Muslims, suffer the heinous, horrific and unimaginable consequences, we would
all witness the wholesale slaughter of millions of our compatriots and we would
all watch our nation burn to ashes around us.
When one reads the contributions
of such mad men and couples it with the credible assertion and legitimate
concerns of no less a person than Vice President Mike Pence of the United
States of America who recently said that “the most dangerous place in the world
for Christians to live is Nigeria”, one cannot but conclude that the massive
Christian population in Nigeria is not only under a serious existential threat
but is also gradually becoming an endangered species.
It is therefore with the greatest
incredulity that one considers Vice President Yemi Osinbanjo’s latest contribution
to the public space when he said, “Christians and southerners are the greatest
beneficiaries of Buhari’s government”.
One wonders just how far this man
is prepared to go to please his Fulani masters. Surely even misplaced loyalty
and what can only be described as the madness of blind fanaticism and the
bedlam of quisling servility has its limits.
If there was ever a need to
provide any evidence to prove that Dr. Reuben Abati’s “Villa curse” is real,
this is it.
Claiming that southerners and
Christians are the greatest beneficiaries of Buhari’s government is rather like
saying that human beings are the greatest beneficiaries of hell.
The truth is that Nigeria is as
much of a paradise for southerners and Christians as hell is for damned and
lost souls.
I am constrained to ask the
question: is my old friend Yemi Osinbajo alright upstairs? Given what he has
said, I really do have cause to question his sanity. I am convinced that he
needs help.
First he said Nigeria cannot be
restructured and that those leaders that have called for restructuring were
just looking for government appointments.
Then he said that we must forgive
the Fulani terrorists that have been slaughtering and maiming thousands of
innocent and defenceless Christians in the Middle Belt and the south over the
last three years.
Finally he said that we must not
attempt to defend our loved ones, our families, our homes, our farms and our
land when the Fulani attack and that instead we must allow them to do as they
plesse and pray for them.
Strange counsel indeed. Yet when
it comes to the activities of his fellow Christians and southerners his tune
changes, he becomes aggressive, unforgiving, war-like and bellicose and he
proudly proclaims that the Federal Government and the Nigerian people must
crush and kill members of Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB even though there is no record of
them attacking or murdering anyone or of carrying arms.
How does the Vice President
explain this glaring double-standard? How does he rationalise this
schizophrenic ‘Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde’ disposition?
How does he manage to show his
face in public and still hold his head up high when it is increasingly obvious
that he has been struck with an affliction that is commonly referred to as the
‘Stockholm Syndrome?’
In his world there appears to be
one law for northern Muslims and another for southern Christians.
When a northern Muslim Fulani
terrorist slaughters innocent and defenceless men, women and children he is supported
by the state, given free reign, forgiven and prayed for.
Yet when a southern Christian
Igbo dissenter voices his support for the right of self-determination and does
so in a passive, peaceful, lawful and legitimate manner without physically
attacking or killing anyone or carrying arms he is labelled as a terrorist and
slaughtered in his home and in the streets by our security forces.
How can Osinbajo, who claims to
be a Christian and indeed a Pastor, justify this and how does he sleep at
night?
This unacceptable application and
display of double-standards, skewered values, institutional racism,
preferential treatment and nonsensical implementation of an absurd and
self-serving policy can best be described as ‘the gospel according to
Osinbajo!’
Yet his latest contribution,
namely that Christians and southerners are the major beneficiaries of Buhari’s
government, makes his previous utterances pale into insignificance.
His latest ‘faux pas’ can best be
described as the mother of all lies and the most shameful and dishonest
contribution that ANY Vice President has EVER made to public discourse in our
entire history.
Osinbajo’s nauseating mendacities
and his sickening attempt to further ingratiate himself to his master Buhari
and the Fulani ruling class at the expense of the welfare and safety of the
Christian community and southern Nigerians is as repugnant as it is repulsive.
Simply put, he turns my stomach.
The truth is that he betrayed the
south and Christendom long ago by standing shoulder to shoulder with a man and
a people whose hatred and sheer contempt for southerners and Christians can
hardly be disputed and can barely be hidden.
Worst still, Osinbajo makes no
apology for his servile and cowardly disposition, he is totally unashamed and
unrepentant of it and he can never be redeemed.
They say destiny speaks at the
end. The fact of the matter is that history will judge him harshly and at the
end of the day he will not only sink with his principal Buhari but he will also
be dumped and forgotten in the dustbin of history.
For him I have the following
questions.
Firstly, what profiteth a man to
gain the world and lose his soul? Is the Vice Presidency of Nigeria worth your
eternal and precious soul?
Secondly, other than death,
destruction, opprobium and eternal damnation what did Judas Iscariot’s
treachery and betrayal of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ buy for him with
his 30 pieces of silver?
Thirdly, what price does a man
pay for betraying his calling, his faith and God’s people in their time of need
and, as it was with Ichabod, has the glory of God not departed from you
already?
Finally when a great and
courageous Queen and Daughter of Zion by the name of Esther proclaimed “if I
perish, I perish”, went before the King, spoke up for the people of God and
thereby saved the children of Israel, were there no lessons to be learnt?
Is Buhari more intimidating, more
terrifying, more awesome, more deadly, more captivating and more powerful than
the great King Xerxes of Ancient Persia and the glory and splendour of the
mighty Persian empire?
Whatever his answers are let me
set the record straight: Buhari’s government is a government that was put in
place and in power by the northern Muslim Hausa-Fulani ruling class and it is a
government whose primary purpose and objective is to further and protect the
interests of that class at the expense of all others.
It was never designed or
conceived to benefit southerners and Christians and neither has it ever done
so.
His administration is not only
hostile to southerners and Christians but it has persecuted and marginalised
them more than any other government in our history, treated them with the
utmost derision and contempt and demeaned, insulted, maligned and denigrated
them on a daily basis and in an unprecedented fashion.
Anyone that doubts that should
ask the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) or should consult the leaders of
Afenifere, Ohanaeze, the Niger Delta Elders and the Middle Belt Forum.
More Christians and southerners
have been targetted, slaughtered, persecuted, humiliated and denigrated under
the watch of the Buhari government than ANY other government in the history of
our country outside of the civil war.
It is not about how many
Christian or southern junior or senior Ministers there are in Buhari’s Federal
Executive Council or cabinet: it is about respect, dignity, security and equity
for the Christian community and the people of the south. It is about giving us
our dues and treating us as equal citizens.
The fact that every single
security agency and branch of our Armed Forces in the our nation, except for
the Navy, is headed by a northern Muslim speaks volumes.
The fact that every single major
department of NNPC is headed by a northern Muslim, that the northern Muslim
Group Managing Drector calls all the shots in the oil sector and that the
southern Christian Minister of State for Petroleum Resources has been hopelessly
sidelined and marginalised says even more.
The fact that 808 Christians were
butchered in their homes in southern Kaduna on Christmas day alone in 2016 by
Fulani terrorists and that not one of the perpetrators has been apprehended or
brought to justice makes the point eloquently.
Yet it does not stop there.
Consider this:
Mr. Charles Ogbue, one of
Nigeria’s keenest minds and most brilliant writers, in an essay titled
“Buhari’s Boko Haram War Is An Organised Crime” wrote the following:
“Make no mistake, most of these
soldiers laying down their lives in the wild goose chase known as the Boko
Haram war are drawn from the soithern part of the country and non-Caliphate
part of the north. The Fulani soldiers are mostly here in the peaceful south
and the southeast to be more precise. Come to 82 division here or go through
southeast roads and see for yourself. The soldiers on all our peaceful roads
are 90% Fulani soldiers. This whole thing would be comically entertaining if it
wasn’t such a national tragedy. Shame, isn’t it?”
Mr. Paul Achalla makes a similar
point in his essay titled “The Undeclared War On The South”. He wrote as
follows:
“I lost a cousin to Boko Haram
last year in Sambisa forest. He has been in the military since 1983 and was due
to retire last month (February 2018). Just a few months to his retirement, he
was sent to fight the dreaded Boko Haram and was declared dead on specifically
the 18th day of April, 2017. He was one of the over 200 soldiers that were
killed in that operation. And not less than 100 soldiers in that operation got
missing and their bodies are unaccounted for till now, putting the number of
deaths to about 300. This news was kept away from the public. Of striking
importance is the fact that none of the soldiers killed in that operation was a
northerner. The allegation is that over 90% of the soldiers fighting Boko Haram
directly are of southern extraction. While the brutal harmful northern soldiers
are sent to fight harmless “pythons” in the south, armless southern soldiers
are sent to fight the harmful terrorists in the north. Those who are
unfortunate to find their names enlisted for such suicide missions almost never
come back alive. Unfortunately the pawn in this chess business is the south. We
want to be more Nigerians than the real Nigerians”.
Can anyone legitimately dispute
what Mr. Ogbue and Mr. Achalla have said? Is this absurd arrangement and state
of affairs one of the major benefits that Chrisians and southerners are
enjoying under Buhari? Is this what Osinbajo was referring to?
Or is it the fact that Taraba,
Plateau, Benue, Adamawa, Nassarawa, Kaduna and other Middle Belt states that
have a Christian majority and virtually all the southern states have been
especially and specifically targetted by the Fulani terrorists and subjected to
genocide, ethnic and religious cleansing and mass murder whilst the Fulani and
Muslim-led Federal Government conveniently turns a blind eye and does nothing
to protect them or bring their killers to justice?
Is that another of the great
benefits that the Christian community and southerners are enjoying under the
Buhari administration?
Is it not clear that Baba Ayo
Adebanjo, one of the most reverred elderstatesmen, nationalists and patriots in
our country, was absolutely right when he said that “villa juju” had turned
Vice President Osinbajo into “the worst devil”?
In my view any southerner or
Christian that is part of the Buhari administration or that refuses to call
them out or still supports them is nothing but a shameless underling, a
self-deprecating slave, a gutless quisling, a modern-day “Uncle Tom”, a
self-hating field-hand and a miserable and feeble-minded appendage.
And that includes our dimunitive
Vice President who believes that the constant repetition of the most despicable
and filthy lies somehow turns those lies into truth.
May God deliver him from his
self-serving delusions.
Permit me to conclude this
contribution with the famous words of Rev. (Dr.) Martin Luther King jnr.. He
said,
”Cowardice asks the question: is
it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it political? Vanity asks the
question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And
there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor political,
nor popular – but one must take it simply because it is right”.
This is deep wisdom and these
words are not ordinary. They are the oracles of God, spoken by the Sprit of
God, through a great and annointed man of God.
Those that believe that we must
remain silent and not speak truth to power when men like Sheik Abubakar Gero
Argungu and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo foul up the space with their deceit
and tyrannny and their hurtful, irresponsible and dangerous assertions have
much to learn from Rev. (Dr.) Martin Luther King.
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