The greatest threat to national
security and the national interest is a President that cannot appreciate the
sanctity of the rule of law and the sacrosanct nature of the constitution.
If this rhetoric of national
interest and national security being more important than the rule of law
continues it will have grave, disasterous and cataclysmic consequences for our
country. It will lead to strong resistance, subversion of the state, conflict,
war and the disintegration of Nigeria.
This is because we are not
prepared to live in or accept the imposition of a totalitarian police state
where dissent, opposition, free speech, human rights and civil liberties have
no place.
This is Nigeria where freedom
flourishes and where democracy thrives and not Saudi Arabia or North Korea
where it is dead.
Martin Luther King said “if you
are not prepared to die for something then you are not fit to live for
anything”.
He said “If we are wrong, justice
is a lie and love has no meaning”.
Every Nigerian was born free: we
will not allow anyone, including a lifeless President, to turn us into slaves.
The only things that we have
asked for and are insisting on are the preservation of our liberty and
cherished values, the right to an unhindered and unencumbered life and the
establishment of an equitable, multi-cultural, multi-racial and multi-religious
modern and plural nation-state in which there are no masters and servants and
in which every man, woman and child is regarded as being equal and having equal
opportunities regardless of his or her faith, ethnic nationality and
circumstance of birth.
We insist on the establishment of
a nation in which we are free to make our own choices and in which our respect,
pride, sense of self-worth and dignity are guaranteed and preserved. Anything
less than that is unacceptable.
We hear the threats and boastful
words of those that are in authority today, that control the levers of power
and that man the organs of state.
We see and acknowledge their
awesome power to crush, kill, maim, jail and destroy those of us that they hate
and that they consider to be their enemies and adversaries yet we are not
intimidated and we harbour no fear.
We refuse to bow and tremble
before them or to bend the knee. We refuse to be cowered or to be silenced.
Instead we challenge them do
their very worse because we serve an awesome God whose name is the Ancient of
Days and the Lord of Hosts, who is mighty in battle.
We defy them and laugh them to
scorn because the things that we have asked for are worth fighting and, if
necessary, dying for.
We would rather live as free man
for a single day than live as slaves for one thousand years. And make no
mistake about it: we are not alone.
We are the voices of the
voiceless and the servants of truth: when we speak, we speak for millions.
When we are killed, locked away
or declared missing in action, in the name of the Living God, others will rise
and continue the noble struggle and glorious fight.
We cannot be deterred, we cannot
be defeated, we cannot be subdued and we cannot be overwhelmed.
Ultimately, in the name of God
the Great and He who holds the universe together by the power of His word, you
will fall and we shall prevail.
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Femi fani kayode the biggest idiot ever...you will get the results surely...wisdom will teach you never to mock anyone over their health ..I am counting down waiting
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