In both 2008 and 2012 I warned
the world and particularly Africa and the Middle East about the evil of Barack
Obama. No-one listened.
In 2011 I warned the world about
the consequences of removing Muammar Gadaffi for Africa and the Middle East.
No-one listened.
In 2015 I warned the world and
Nigeria about supporting and electing Muhammadu Buhari as President of our
country. No-one listened.
In 2016 I warned Nigeria and the
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) about making Ali Modu Sheriff National Chairman
of our party. No-one listened.
In 2015 I told the world that
Donald Trump would win the nomination as flag-bearer for the Republican party
and that he would go on to win the American presidential election in 2016.
No-one listened.
In 2016 I warned Nigeria and the
world that Buhari’s health would present a major challenge for the rest of his
tenure. No-one listened.
In each of these cases I have
been proved right.
Now I shall give two more
warnings and whether anyone listens to me or not takes absolutely nothing away
from me. Mine is to pass on the message and it is left for those that hear it
to accept it or not.
The first is that if Nigeria
makes the mistake of bringing back Buhari in 2019 that will be the end of our
country as a viable, cohesive, tolerant, medium-power democratic nation-state
where the rule of law, the principle of equality and the most fundamental civil
liberties, human rights and basic freedoms for the individual are guaranteed
and respected. Worse still she may NEVER recover.
The second is that if those of us
in the PDP, Nigeria’s leading opposition party, fail to make the right choices
for the Presidential and Vice Presidential ticket of our party for the 2019
election we will not only lose woefully but the country will suffer the
consequences of our abysmal error and lack of good judgement for the next 50 to
100 years. In short future generations of our people will suffer for it.
Think about that and let it sink
in.
We should stop listening to what
those that believe that they are the gods of Nigeria and those that we consider
to be the “big” and “untouchable” men in our country say.
We should stop sheepishly
accepting their self-seeking and self-centred choices, we should stop allowing
them to impose their will on our future and our nation and we should stop
following them like mesmerised and bewitched zombies.
Instead, like the great 19th
century poet William Ernest Henley counseled, we must be “the master of our
soul and the captain of our ship”.
We must understand and appreciate
the importance of the prophetic, seek the face of God, listen to what He says,
be guided by His leading and accept only His choices.
The result of our consistent
subtefuge, ignorance, folly and sheer obstinance over the last 57 years in
Nigeria is that our people have suffered immeasurably.
We were once the giant of Africa
but over the last two years we have been reduced into a weak, impoverished and
inconsequential vassal state made up of quislings, cowards and slaves and whose
people are bought and sold in distant foreign lands for as little as $200.
Consider what is happening to
Nigerians in Libya and yet there are no consequences. That is what we have now
been reduced to: a nation whose people can be castrated, murdered, enslaved,
caged, bought and sold like cattle and whose organs can be removed and
harvested for ungodly gain and profit.
Nothing can or will change until
we get the right leaders. Nothing can or will change until we reject the
counsel and leading of the devil and his human agents that hold sway in our
country and instead listen to and courageously enforce the counsel of God.
The choice is ours.
Permit me to conclude this
contribution with the following.
I watched a video of a press
conference that President Nana Akuffo-Addo of Ghana and President Emmanuel
Macron of France gave a few days ago and I was not surprised by Akuffo-Addo’s
sheer courage and refreshing eloquence because I have known him for at least 45
years.
In his speech, which touched on
the issue of African slavery in Libya and the migration problem, he did not
just do Ghana proud but the whole of Africa.
No other African leader has been
able to articulate the issue as cearly and succintly as he did on that
occassion and I urge every Nigerian to google the speech on Youtube and listen
to him carefully.
He brings hope to a continent
that is stark, dark, poor, weak, corrupt, cowardly, self-destructive and
plagued with tyrants, despots and ignorant and incompetent leaders who delight
in shooting down bright young stars, shattering dreams and destroying the
future and destiny of their own people.
Akuffo-Addo is the exception and
his words in that short press conference inspired millions of black people all
over the world.
This is what happens when you
have a brilliant, British public school-educated, Oxford University graduate as
your President.
In that intervention he was
profound, insightful and incisive and I am proud of the fact that we went to
the same prep school (Holmewood House in Langton Green, Kent) many years ago.
He attended the school a number
of years before I did and went on to Lancing College in Sussex and when I
finished there I went on to Harrow School in Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex.
The only mistake he made was that
he went to Oxford and not Cambridge but I guess we can live with that!
I am very proud of him and what
he is doing for his people in Ghana. Even Emmanuel Macron was clearly surprised
and impressed with his foresight, knowledge and understanding
Sadly in Nigeria we don’t have
people like this as Presidents and leaders.
Instead we have ancient
dinosaurs, heartless buffoons, rnen of questionable paternity, provincial
bastards, court jesters, village idiots, ill-bred manipulators, genocidal
meglomaniacs, unconsciable mass murderers, sociopathic narcissists,
ill-educated gutter snipes and sadistic slave-dealers who kow tow and bow to
the western world, who tremble and quiver before the Arabs, who are agents,
spies and informants of western intelligence agencies and who have gladly and
willingly sold the future, destiny and fortunes of their people for a mess of
pottage and a pittance.
Those that I am referring to know
who they are. These are men who play God and who believe that they must impose
their will on our nation and our people until the day that they die.
Yet thankfully all hope is not
lost. We must not despair because our future and destiny lies in our hands. If
we make the right choices I have no doubt that we shall achieve our full
potentials and take our rightful place in the comity of nations.
I say this because despite all
our challenges and mind-bending viscititudes and in spite of our dearth of good
quality leadership, we remain a nation of proud and noble souls and great and
beautiful people.
Nigeria is a lion. She is
powerful and resilient. She is enduring, long-suffering, irresistable and
irrepressable. She is more than a nation. She is an inexplicabe monuement of
irreconcilable contradictions.
She comprises of many countries
all wrapped up in one awesome mighty mega-nation. She is a life-force. She is
both a tangible and an intangible entity all at once. She is a living spirit
and a powerful soul.
She is the only country on the
African continent that has a true identity and whose people yearn for her when
outside her shores. Everyone on the continent looks up to Nigeria. She is their
heart and their hope.
Even if she is restructured or if
she breaks up tomorrow and goes under a thousand different names we shall still
see ourselves as first and foremost Nigerians. Nothing can take away the
strength and essence of a mighty and roaring lion.
We are many nations within a
nation. We are a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-religious mega-nation of
God-loving and God-fearing believers.
We are the pride of Africa, the
hope of the black man and the beloved of the Lord.
We shall endure, we shall excel
and by the grace of the Living God, we shall rise again.
All what is happening like starvation and thuggery is due to the how PDP looted the country for some years ago. GOD forbid PDP to come back to center again.
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