Every Nigerian has the legitimate
and constitutional right to protest and demonstrate peacefully in a democracy.
It is NOT an act of treason to march against the President and to protest about
the insecurity in the country.
The publisher of Saharareporters
and a presidential candidate in the just-concluded presidential elections, Mr.
Omoyele Sowore, expressed his desire to demonstrate peacefully against you (President
Muhammadu Buhari) and your Government.
He chose to call his protest a
“revolution” in order to emphasise his zeal and the importance of the event.
He has no arms, he has not
threatened to conduct an armed struggle or engage in an armed insurrection or
to kill anyone so this can only be a “revolution” in name and by words.
Yet you are such a COWARD, you
are so timid and you are so fearful of your own shadow that you storm his home
in the middle of the night, arrest him and threaten to charge him and his
supporters with treason if the demonstration holds.
Meanwhile various murderous
northern supremacist and hardline Fulani extremist groups, all armed and “fully
loaded”, have stated their intention to kill every southerner in the north
unless and until RUGA is accepted and implemented in the south.
They are filled with hate, they
have arms, they are racists, they are ethnic supremacists, they have a
publicly-stated murderous intent and they have already killed many in the
south, the Middle Belt and even in the north itself yet you did not see fit to
arrsst even ONE of them or declare them as terrorists.
It is those that do not kill,
that do not have arms and that do not threaten to kill that you threaten with
treason, detain, jail, kill and call terrorists like IPOB, IMN, the civil
rights groups and activists and members of the official opposition.
I am constrained to ask you, why
are you such a coward? Why do you always target those that cannot fight back,
that do not kill, that do not threaten the peace and that do not carry arms?
The only thing they have are
their words, their feet, their hands, their pen and the courage of their
convictions yet you are so intimidated by them and so frightened of them simply
because you cannot bear to be exposed for what you are.
You silenced and clamped down on
the official opposition, on IPOB, on IMN and on all the civil rights groups but
you bow and tremble before the Fulani herdsmen and covertly protect and support
them whilst you pamper Boko Haram, secretly empower them and fight against them
with kid gloves.
You do not even honor our gallant
soldiers that fought Boko Haram in battle but instead you bury them like stray
dogs in unmarked mass graves after they are killed on the frontline!
Meanwhile your military
commanders are openly telling Boko Haram fighters that if they put down their
arms they can end up being President of Nigeria! That is the pitiful level thst
you have dragged your nation and the Nigerian military to.
I must ask you: why this glaring
double standard? Why are you such a bully and why are you so hell bent on
dividing and destroying Nigeria?
I guess that you have already
achieved that objective because I doubt that our country can ever be the same
again but yet you are still not satisfied. You want to do more!
You want even more turmoil,
strife, division, violence, mayhem, confusion, slaughter, carnage and conflict
and you are trying desperately to provoke a violent reaction from your
targetted victims and those that you secretly hate and despise.
This surely is the work of the
devil and you sir are satan’s demonically-annointed and satanically-inspired
emissary.
I warned the country about you
before and during the presidential election in 2015 but they would not listen.
People like President Olusegun
Obasanjo, General Ibrahim Babangida, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, Chief Ernest
Shonekan, Professor Wole Soyinka, Sheik Ibrahim El Zak Zaky, Mr. Omoyele
Sowore, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Senator Bukola
Saraki, Mrs. Oby Ezekwezile, Mr. Femi Falana SAN, Chief Dele Momodu and many
others supported you then but I, by divine insight and prophetic perception,
saw through you, knew what you stood for, knew what you planned to do and knew
what you represented.
So did my friends and brothers
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Governor Ayo Fayose, Lt. Colonel Abubakar ‘Dangiwa’ Umar
(rtd), Pastor Bosun Emmanuel and a few of our fathers in the Lord like Bishop
David Oyedepo, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, Prophet T.B. Joshua and a number of
others.
Even the leadership of the PDP at
the time and top members of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, with
the possible exception of Prince Deji Adeyanju and Pastor Reno Omokri, did not
see you for the great evil that you are at that time but now they all do.
The bad news is that you are
going to plunge Nigeria into a major crisis and conflict and a terrible,
protracted and bitter civil war which most do not see coming and which no-one
wants or prays for but which will come if you do not change your ways or if you
are not stopped.
This is very sad. It is a great
tragedy yet that is precisely what you secretly crave for and want. Bloodshed,
the suffering of others and turmoil brings you and your supporters pleasure and
joy but permit me to tell you this: warmongers, bloodthirsty and blood-lusting
sadists and evil men never end well.
This matter and this story will
not end the way you want or expect it to. Your power is not divine: it is
temporal and temporary. Others have come and gone before you and you will go in
the same way as them: in God’s way and in God’s time.
We are not violent and lawless
revolutionaries or irresponsible and reckless anarchists and neither do we
believe in doing anything outside the constitution or the law. We are committed
democrats and great believers in the rule of law, the constitution and the
democratic process.
We are also believers in the
power and efficacy of the Lord of Hosts, the Alpha and the Omega and the
Ancient of Days and we know that sooner or later, no matter how long it takes,
He will honor His word and make all things beautiful in our country.
In the end the forces of light
and the children of God will prevail against your great wickedness,
unconsciable malevolence and evil plan to destroy Nigeria and throw our people
into a cauldron of raging fire.
You can lock us all up and
torment us for as long as you want. In the end you shall fail, you shall fall
and you shall be ashamed and God’s counsel alone shall stand.
Those of us that oppose you from
the heart, spirit and soul have lost all sense of fear. We will stand against
you until the end of time. We will sacrifice all, including our very lives, if
that is what is required for us to break our chains of servitude and slavery
and win our freedom.
Our message to you is simple and
clear: do your worse because we expect no less. God gives and God takes,
blessed be the name of the Lord.
Permit me to conclude this
contribution with the following.
It was brought to my attention
that my friend and brother Governor Nyesome Wike of Rivers state condemned the
planned demonstration and put the security agencies on full alert to arrest
anyone that dared to come out to protest in his state.
With the greatest respect to my
brother I believe this was wrong and that it was a mistake. He and I both know
that Sowore does not have the intention or the capacity to effect a violent
revolution and that the planned protest would only have been a revolution in
name.
It would have been a harmless
exercise, with relatively small numbers and an opportunity for the activists
that often collaborate with Sowore to come out and express themselves.
It would have begun and ended
there without much drama and rather like the harmless protests about the Chibok
girls at Unity Fountain in Abuja. There is not a hope in hell that it would
have turned into a violent attempt to overthrow the Government and, as far as I
am aware, neither was that ever the intention.
I suspect that the reason Wike
has taken the position that he has taken and the reason that so many other
leading figures in the official opposition PDP has taken a queue from him and
distanced themselves from the protest is because of their personal dislike and
disdain for Sowore who really has very few friends in the political class or in
the ranks of the official opposition party.
Yet I believe that those that
have fallen into the trap of not standing by Sowore or speaking up for him when
they know that he is being treated unjustly, his rights are being violated and
he is suffering persecution are being shortsighted and naive.
In a time of crisis and
especially when we are contending with a dangerous and merciless despot we all
need each other regardless of how we feel about one another or whatever
contentious issues, conflicts, disagreements and fights we may have had in the
past. That is common sense!
In a time of war my enemie’s
enemy, out of expediency, necessity and good old-fashioned pragmatism,
automatically becomes my friend.
Failing to grasp that point and
holding on to it could prove to be fatal to our collective cause and objective.
No man can take on Government on his own: we all need each other.
Permit me to go further. If
anyone should have an axe to grind with Omoyele Sowore that person is me.
He has never been my friend, I
have never met him and I have never liked him.
He has offended me on many
occasions and he has also offended many of my closest friends, political
associates, family members and relatives.
Worse still his website,
Saharareporters, which has a massive reach all over the world, has slandered,
libelled, villified and defamed me and mine more than any other media outlet in
the world and has consistently done so since 2005!
There is no love lost between us
but that does not mean that I will remain silent, sit back and gloat when his
rights are being violated or when he is suffering persecution from a Government
that can, at best, be described as paranoid, vicious, cruel, desperate,
mendacious, relentless and dangerous and, at worse, genocidal, murderous and
evil.
When I was detained in a
specially built Boko Haram terrorist facility (which only had Boko Haram
suspects and convicts in it) at Kuje prison in 2016 and my life was purposely
put in danger Sowore, his Saharareporters and some of his colleagues and
activist friends made mockery of me.
I was reliably informed that some
of them were hoping and praying that I would be killed or maimed by the
terrorists whilst I was there. I have little doubt that that was Buhari’s
intention and desire as well and it would have surely come to pass had the Lord
not been with me.
Yet I will not repay Sowore in
the same coin. Only fools mock others when they are going through hard times,
challenges, difficulties and travails and this is especially so when they are
going through those travails and hard times for a noble and worthy cause.
It is enough vindication that the
same people that he was once in bed with, that he once collaborated with, that
he helped bring to power and that he once wined and dined with are now
humiliating, demonising and terrorising him too.
The same people that have
continously insulted, persecuted, villified, demonised and denigrated me and
mine for the last four years are now persecuting him as well.
To hear about him being roughed
up, dragged out of his home, arrested in the middle of the night and detained
by the DSS and to hear that there is a possibility that he may be faced with a
charge of treason or treasonable felony for doing no wrong does not give me
joy.
Instead it saddens me and
confirms my greatest fear that the Buhari administration has lost its marbles,
gone totally insane and is capable of doing absolutely anything to those that
it perceives and it regards as being its critics, its adversaries and its
enemies.
It is Sowore today but it could
be anyone else tomorrow. And neither do you have to break the law or do
anything wrong before they come for you.
As one of my tormentors and
jailers eagerly and gladly told me when I was in detention for three months in
2016, he said,
“We know you have done nothing
wrong but we can keep you here for as long as we like and charge you to court
for breathing air if we choose. Whatever it is you will spend the next few
years trying to clear your name even though you have done nothing wrong”.
He concluded by saying,
“We are here to torment you and
that is what we are going to do. In case you make it out of here alive and you
are still whole, if you like keep criticising and abusing Buhari: we will bring
you back and teach you the lesson of your life!”
That is the deplorable and
degenerate mindset of our collective oppressors and that is why it is important
for us all to stand up and speak up for one another in trying times, whether we
like each other or not.
There is nothing illegal in
conducting a peaceful protest, even if you choose to call it a revolution for
the purposes of theater and drama. You don’t plan a revolution and an armed
insurrection and sleep in your home!
As long as it is only a
demonstration and nothing more there is absolutely no reason why the Buhari
Government should behave like the bunch of cowardly, paranoid, lily-livered and
vicious Nazis that we know them to be.
By arresting and detaining him
they have only made Sowore more relevant and more popular.
If that were not the case I would
not be moved and honored to lend my humble voice to his cause and to join
millions of others from all over the world to call for his immediate release.
He is not my friend and I do not
like him yet on this matter I stand shoulder to shoulder with him.
May God guide and protect him and
may he be returned to the land of the living at the soonest.
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