“Nigeria is not one and has never
been one. It is a ‘state of nations’ and not a ‘nation-state’. The traitors in
the south are heroes in the north whilst the heroes in the south are traitors
in the north. The value system of the north is totally opposite to that of the
south. The lenses through which we see justice and equity can never be the
same. The Nigerian state is the tragedy of 20th century in Africa”- Aare
Kurunmi Kakanfo, “Nigeria Is Burning”, Facebook, 30th September 2019.
I could not have put it better
myself. Today our nation celebrates 59 years of independence from our external
colonial masters and 59 years of servitude, subjugation, tyranny and oppression
by our internal colonial masters. Permit me to share the following.
In August 1958 my beloved father
of blessed memory, the Balogun of Ife, Chief Victor Remilekun Adetokunboh
Fani-Kayode Q.C., S.A.N, C.O.N successfully moved the motion for Nigeria’s
independence. Parliament passed the motion and the British colonial authorities
acquiesed to it.
Two years later, on October 1st
1960 (which is 59 years today) amidst great joy, hope, promise and fanfare, the
first of our two chains of servitude and bondage was broken and Nigeria became
an independent nation.
I commend Papa and his generation
for this great achievement. His motion freed us from the chains and shackles of
the external colonial masters and I am very proud of that.
However, there is still much work
to do. 59 years later we still have the second chain and shackle of bondage and
servitude to remove and that is the chain and shackle of our internal colonial
masters who have proved to be even more relentless, ruthless and murderous than
the first.
Since the end of our civil war in
1970, which resulted in the ethnic cleansing, mass murder and genocide of no
less than 3 million innocent Biafran civilians, and despite all acts of
provocation and injustice from those that see us as nothing but conquered
vassals, the good people of the south and the Middle Belt have been reasonable
and restrained and have refused to react violently.
Instead they have patiently and
politely protested against and peacefully struggled with that chain and shackle
of Fulani bondage.
Since independence we have
attempted to get a better deal for our people from within a united and
“indivisible” Nigeria but we have failed woefully.
Rather than getting better,
things are actually getting significantly worse and the noose of slavery and
handcuffs of servitude are getting tighter.
The last four years under
President Muhammadu Buhari, who is undoubtedly more of a President of the North
than a President of Nigeria, provides an eloquent testimony to that.
His Government is shamelessly,
unapologetically and unabashedly a Government by the Fulani, for the Fulani and
of the Fulani sprinkled with a small handful and pitiful coterie of southern
and Middle Belt useful idiots and accursed slaves who have no sense of decency
or self-respect, who, like Esau, have traded their future and destiny for a
mess of pottage and who have sold their souls to the devil and their people
down the river.
For the Yoruba people
particularly I am convinced that the only way to break that second and last
shackle and chain of servitude and bondage is for the South West to exercise
her inalienable right of self-determination and leave Nigeria.
The battle for restructuring
which many of us have supported and fought for over the last 25 years is long
lost and its advocates are no longer being heard.
We have failed to succeed in that
noble cause because those that believe that they own Nigeria and that they were
born to rule her in perpetuity have treated that quest with contempt and
ignored it with disdain.
They have met our reasonable
demands for devolution of power and the establishment of an equitable and true
Federation where all men, regardless of ethnic nationality or faith, are
regarded as being equal before God, with an uncharitable and unreasonable
display and unequivocal and unprecedented degree of arrogance and impunity.
As a consequence of their
unbridled intransigence, insatiable lust for power and control and inexplicable
desire to dominate and enslave each and every one of us, it is increasingly
clear to me and millions of others that Nigeria can never change as long as she
continous to exist as one.
Yet we as a people those of us
that are interested in freedom can no longer continue to subject ourselves to
the indignity of living in the insufferable bondage that they have forced and
foisted on us.
Given the foregoing, the only
option left for us if we are to maintain our self-respect and dignity and win
our freedom is division and separation.
I am therefore glad to publicly
identify myself with the proud Yoruba nationalists of the Balogun Collective
and other Yoruba self-determination groups who have risen to the occassion, who
have said enough is enough and who believe that it is time for the rise and
establishment of the mighty nation of Oduduwa.
The Yoruba people, always so
ready to accept and accomodate others and always so liberal and generous,
deserve no less.
Though ours is a peaceful and
passive struggle and not one that is interested in the usage of arms or
indulging in any form of violence, anarchy or lawlessness, it would be a grave
error on the part of anyone to underestimate our determination or test our
resolve.
My father and his generation
broke the first chain of servitude which was the bondage of the British.
It is my sacred duty and divine
obligation and that of members of mine to break the second chain which is the
bondage and subjugation of the Fulani. We shall not fail.
Happy Independence Day Nigeria!
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