By: Femi Fani-Kayode<\/p>\n
Permit me to begin this contribution with an aside.<\/p>\n
It is only a weak, insecure, paranoid, wicked, heartless, ignorant,
\nlawless and callous government that refuses to identify, apprehend,
\nprosecute and hang the bloodthirsty, psychopathic and murdering Janjaweed
\nIslamist Fulani militants and herdsmen and instead arrests an innocent and
\naccomplished young man like Audu Maikori who simply had the courage to cry
\nout to the world about the barbarous genocide that the people of Southern
\nKaduna and members of his ethnic group and religious faith are being
\nsubjected to all over the north.<\/p>\n
I am convinced that my old friend Governor Nasir El Rufai has lost it. He
\nhas literally been driven mad by the power that he now wields. If he wants
\npeace in Kaduna state and in the entire country is this the way to achieve
\nit?<\/p>\n
Does he really believe that locking up his critics and those that have
\nexpressed concern about the mass murder and crimes against humanity that
\nare being perpetuated in his state by his Fulani friends and kinsmen who
\nhe publicly admitted that he sends public funds to is the way forward?<\/p>\n
Does he not know that the suppression of dissenting voices and
\nintimidation will only lead to more anger, resistance, violence and
\ndissent?<\/p>\n
Can he not build bridges rather than burn them? Can he not make friends
\nrather than make enemies?<\/p>\n
Here is my message to him: the people of Southern Kaduna are NOT your
\nslaves and neither are the northern minorities, the people of the south or
\nthe Christians of Nigeria.<\/p>\n
You can kill and lock up as many of us as you like: our faith will only
\ncontinue to grow, we shall continue to go from strength to strength and we
\nshall oppose and resist you till the bitter end.<\/p>\n
At the appointed time the Lord will strike back at you for your power show
\nand sheer wickedness and He shall deliver His people.<\/p>\n
I will not beg you to free Audu Maikori but instead I will strongly advise
\nyou to do so.<\/p>\n
This brings me to the meat of this intervention.<\/p>\n
One of the qualities that a Prince must have is the ability to speak truth
\nto power no matter the price, no matter the consequences and no matter
\nwhose ox is gored.<\/p>\n
Today I will share a truth which many may not like but which, as a leader
\nand a Prince, I am constrained to share.<\/p>\n
Some have suggested that every Nigerian is compelled by God to pray for
\nour ailing President. I disagree. I do not wish him ill or wish him dead
\nbut at the same time I do not subscribe to the view that I am compelled to
\npray for him.<\/p>\n
I would rather save my prayers for the thousands of Audu Maikori’s of this
\nworld who are suffering persecution and who are languisjing in dingy cells
\nall over our country for doing absolutely nothing wrong.<\/p>\n
I would rather save my prayers for the souls and families of those that
\nhave been cut short by the guns and bullets of government security forces,
\nthe bombs of radical Islamic terrorists and the matchetes and knives of
\nthe Fulani militias and herdsmen.<\/p>\n
When the Holy Bible says we must pray for our leaders the author was
\nreferring to God-fearing and Godly leaders and not usurpers and tyrants.<\/p>\n
The Bible says we must ‘resist evil’ and few would dispute the fact that
\nwith the economy in shambles, with the naira at its lowest value in its
\nentire history, with the level of impunity and corruption in government
\nand with the amount of brutal persecution, politically-motivated arrests
\nand prosecutions and the massive shedding of innocent blood that goes on
\nin our countrt today, Buhari and his Federal Government are pure evil.<\/p>\n
As a matter of fact they are a cursed government that have come to do
\nnothing but spread death, disease, poverty, tears, hardship, suffering,
\ndivision, hatred, persecution, injustice, destruction and wickedness.<\/p>\n
To those that insist that even evil tyrants are worthy of our goodwill and
\nprayers I put the following questions.<\/p>\n
Would you have prayed for Herod, Pharaoh, Belshazzar, Nebuchadnezzar,
\nJezebel, Ahab, Athalia, Nimrod, Adolf Hitler or Idi Amin?<\/p>\n
Again would you have had night vigils or made passionate supplications for
\nEmperor Bokassa, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Nero, Caligula, Sennacherub, King
\nLeopold 11 of Belgium, Count Vlad the Impailer of Transylvania and Tsar
\nIvan the Terrible of Russia?<\/p>\n
Would you have conducted Holy Mass or rolled your rosary for Osama Bin
\nLadin of Al Qaeda, Muhammed Al Baghdadi of ISIL, Abubakar Shekau of Boko
\nHaram or Usman Dan Fodio of the Fulani Caliphate?<\/p>\n
Again would you have fasted and prayed for Atilla the Hun, Genghis Khan,
\nKaiser Wilhelm 11 of Germany, the Inca and Aztec Kings of South America,
\nthe Borgias of Spain, King Darius of Persia and so many more of history’s
\nmonsters and beasts to remain alive and to continue to torment and rule
\ntheir people?<\/p>\n
Do you know that those listed above collectively killed or caused the
\ndeaths of over 500 million people between them?<\/p>\n
Do you really believe that they were God’s choices and that it was wrong
\nto pray them out or remove them from power?<\/p>\n
Did God make a mistake when He killed Pharaoh and slew Herod for their
\nwickedness and evil against the children of Israel AFTER their victims
\nrose up in prayer and cried to Him to deliver them?<\/p>\n
Did you read anywhere in your Bible that the holy Prophets and believers
\nprayed for the wicked Kings and rulers to continue to rule?<\/p>\n
Did Elijah not oppose Jezebel and did David and Samuel not renounce and
\nstand against Saul?<\/p>\n
Do you not know the difference between a righteous ruler whom God loves
\nand whom He installed and a blood-sucking demon and vicious tyrant whom
\nthe devil is using?<\/p>\n
Do you know the number of people this government has killed whether they
\nbe Biafran and IPOB youths, Shiite Muslims or Christian refugees?<\/p>\n
Do you know the number of Christians that are being slaughtered in the
\nnorth on a daily basis by Government-backed and protected Fulani militias
\nand herdsmen?<\/p>\n
Do you know that Buhari shares some of the barbaric sentiments and evil
\ngoals and objectives of Boko Haram?<\/p>\n
Do you know that he once said that an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on
\nthe north? Do you know that he once said that he believes that sharia
\nshould be spread throughout the federation?<\/p>\n
Do you know thay he once said that Muslims should only vote for Muslims?
\nDo you know that he once said that Christians should not be concerned
\nabout sharia because it is the limbs of Muslims that are being cut off and
\nnot theirs?<\/p>\n
Do you know that he once went to Oyo state and accused Governor Lam
\nAdesina’s “people” (meaning the Yoruba) of killing his own Fulani people?<\/p>\n
Do you know that the Minister of Information of his Government, a serial
\nliar by the name of Lie Mohammed, once said that it was wrong and
\nunconstitutional to proscribe and ban Boko Haram?<\/p>\n
Do you know that about one year ago the same Liar Mohammed said that Boko
\nHaram had been “technically defeated” and that a few days ago he said that
\nit was “a fallacy” to say that Muslims killed Christians in Nigeria?<\/p>\n
This was after 808 Christians were slaughtered in cold blood on Christmas
\neve and Christmas day a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n
Do you know that Buhari is the third Mahdi of Nigeria? The first was Usman
\nDan Fodio, the second was Sir Ahmadu Bello and Muhammadu Buhari is the
\nthird.<\/p>\n
Do you know that their vision and dream is for the Fulani to be the “first
\namongst equals” and to conquer, rule, dominate and subjugate the people
\nand numerous ethnic nationalities that make up Nigeria in perpetuity and
\n“dip the Koran in the Atlantic ocean?”<\/p>\n
Do you know that they have gone very far in this quest and almost achieved
\ntheir objectives? Do you know that restructuring the nation or, failing
\nthat, a complete break up of Nigeria into two or more pieces is the only
\nthing that can save the people of the south and the Middle Belt from
\nserfdom and slavery?<\/p>\n
Do you know that Herbert Macauly, Bode Thomas, Obafemi Awolowo, Kaduna
\nNzeogwu, Emmanuel Ifeajuna, Victor Banjo, Fajuyi, Emeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu,
\nJ.S. Tarka, Isaac Boro, Solomon Lar, Josiah Olawoyin, Paul Gindiri, J.D.
\nGomwalk, Silas Janfa,\u00a0 Zamani Lekwot, T.Y. Danjuma, Jolly Tanko Yusuf,
\nGideon Orkar, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Tony Nyiam, Saliba Mukoro, MKO Abiola, Bobo
\nNwosisi, Franklin Atake, Alfred Rewane, Abraham Adesanya, Ayo Adebanjo,
\nOlaniyonu Ajayi, Bola Ige and so many others that saw this satanic agenda
\ncoming and unfolding many decades and years ago and resisted it with every
\nfibre of their being have now been vindicated?<\/p>\n
Do you know that the principle of self-deterimination and the concept of
\nBiafra and southern and Middle Belt liberation is more alive today than
\never before?<\/p>\n
Do you know that there are millions of youths all over this country today
\nthat are prepared to sacrifice their lives for this principle and concept
\nand resist ethnic and religious bigotry, subjugation, domination and
\ntyranny with the last drop of their blood?<\/p>\n
Do you know that those that have been subjected to genocide by the usual
\nsuspects for the last 56 years of our existence as a nation are now saying
\n“enough is enough?”<\/p>\n
Do you know what northern Christians have been and are still being
\nsubjected to over the years and particularly today?<\/p>\n
Do you know that Igbo youths and Shiite Muslims have been subjected to
\ncrimes against humanity by the Nigerian state in the last one year and
\nseven months?<\/p>\n
Do you know that Nigeria under President Buhari is a failed state which
\nlives on lies, thrives on deceit, breathes on persecution, feeds on
\nsupression, energises on intimidation and is fuelled and propelled by the
\nmost basic, crude and primitive form of Goebellian propaganda?<\/p>\n
Do you know anything at all?\u00a0 Do you know how many people are being locked
\nup and persecuted in the name of a fake and selective anti-corruption war
\nin this country?<\/p>\n
Do you know the level of wickedness and injustice that is being
\nperpetuated by this government?<\/p>\n
Do you know how many families have suffered and been destroyed by them? Do
\nyou know about the abuse of power and the gross violation of human rights
\nand civil liberties that is going on?<\/p>\n
Do you know how corrupt and deceitful thiis government is? Do you know how
\nmuch blood they have on their hands?<\/p>\n
Then you say that we should pray and support such people? There is nowhere
\nin the Bible that we are called to pray for liars, cheats, sadists,
\nanti-Christs, cold-blooded murderers and pyschopaths as our leaders.<\/p>\n
Rather the Bible says we must resist evil and injustice and stand up for
\nthe weak, the persecuted, the hungry, the suffering, the vulnerable and
\nthe poor.<\/p>\n
There is no where in the Bible that we are enjoined to support and
\nencourage genocidal maniacs, the killer of believers, the tormenters of
\nthe faithful, the persecutors of God’s servants and the destroyers of the
\nChurch.<\/p>\n
Nigeria has no place for quislings and psychophants that are trying to
\ncurry favour with or impress those that are desperately trying to enslave
\nour people and islamise our country.<\/p>\n
My position is simple and clear. I will never pray for those who I
\nconsider to be evil and I will never allow myself to be subjugated,
\nsilenced or turned into a second class citizen in my own country.<\/p>\n
Whatever the consequence is for my defiance, if the Lord wills it, let it
\ncome. Let us finish this thing once and for all. I would rather be a free
\nsoul in heaven than a quivering and gutless slave on earth.<\/p>\n
I speak for millions when I say that we will NEVER bow to those that
\nbelieve that they were born to rule and that seek to impose their faith,
\ntheir values and their way of life\u00a0 on us.<\/p>\n
Unlike others in these shores, those of us that are prepared to stand up
\nand say “no more” are captains of our ship and masters of our soul.<\/p>\n
We either forge our own destinies, chart our own course and free our own
\npeople or we shall die trying. God wills it. And so it shall be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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