By: Femi Fani-Kayode<\/p>\n
In reaction to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s promise to treat what he
\ndescribed as “hate speech” as terrorism Mr. Jackson Ude the publisher of
\nPointblank News said
\nthe following.<\/p>\n
“APC thrived on hate speech between 2014-2015. Today that seed they sowed is
\nhaunting them. They now say it’s terrorism! Don’t be deceived. APC came to
\npower by hate speeches, divided Nigeria along ethnic and religious lines,
\nsowed seeds of discord and blamed PDP! Hypocrites!”<\/p>\n
How apt and how courageous Mr. Ude’s assertion is.\u00a0 I could not have put
\nit better myself.<\/p>\n
President Muhammadu Buhari, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, National
\nChairman Chief John Odigie Oyegun and all the other leaders of the APC are
\nindeed a bunch of self-serving deceivers and self-seeking hypocrites.<\/p>\n
Worst of all they are the architects of terror and the fathers of hate!<\/p>\n
Permit me to send a strong word and warning to them from here: YOURS ARE
\nTHE WAYS OF BULLIES AND FASCISTS! WE CANNOT BE INTIMIDATED BY YOUR PENDING
\nLEGISLATION OR YOUR PUERILE BARRACK-ROOM TACTICS AND NEITHER SHALL WE BE
\nSILENCED. YOU CAME TO POWER BY HATE AND YOU WILL LEAVE IT WITH HATE!<\/p>\n
When they rejected the notion that all Nigerians were born equal under one
\nGod it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they propounded the theory and engendered the philosophy that some
\nNigerians are more equal than others it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they called those that believe in restructuring “opporunists” and
\n“political jobbers” it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they called those that believe in exercising their right of
\nself-determination and that are struggling and fighting for equal rights,
\nequal opportunities and the liberation and emancipation of their people
\n“treasonous criminals”, “evil secessionists”, “irresponsible souls” and
\n“godless rebels” it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they called the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) “a bunch of
\ncriminals and looters” it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they called\u00a0 President Goodluck Jonathan “incompetent”, “weak”,
\n“gutless” and “clueless” it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they described him as a “drunken sailor”, a “drunken fisherman”, a
\n“kindergarten President”\u00a0 and insulted members of his family it was not
\ndescribed as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they called us “wailing wailers” it was not hate speech. When they
\ncalled us “PDPigs” it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they called us “baboons and dogs” and their wives called us “hyenas and
\njackals” it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they called us “cold-blooded murderers” and described us as “thieves
\nand rogues” it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they encouraged and clapped for a foreign leader who described our
\npeople and our nation as “fantastically corrupt” it was not described as
\nhate speech.<\/p>\n
When they demonised our leaders and called First Lady Patience Jonathan an
\n“ugly and illiterate hippopotamus” it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they called President Obasanjo and President Yar’adua “incompetent
\njokers and treacherous thieves” who “stole all the money that they were
\ngiven for the power sector” and who were part of a “cabal of
\nkleptomaniacs” it was not described as hate
\nspeech.<\/p>\n
When they called Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state a “murderer, cultist
\nand gangster” who “has no character” and a “cutlass-wielding butcher and
\nthief” it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they called Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state a
\n“loud-mouthed and illetrate gutter-snipe” and a “low-life danfo driver” it
\nwas not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they called the National Chairman of our great party, Senator Ahmed
\nMakarfi, an “unfit, sick and dying invalid” and called the PDP itself a
\n“nest of killers and vipers” it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they called Senator Iyiola Omosore the “killer of Bola Ige” and they
\ncalled the Igbo people the “5 per cent that would not receive favour” it
\nwas not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they threatened the Igbo with genocide and gave them a quit notuce to
\nleave the north it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they sang cold-blooded and chilling songs calling for the
\nextermination of the entire Igbo race it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they said “an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the north” and
\nwhen they said that it was their intention to “spread sharia into every
\npart if the federation” it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they openly referred to Christians as “pagans”, “arne” and
\n“unbelievers” and when they called Muslims that are in the PDP and that
\nsupported Jonathan “heretics and infidels” it was not described as hate
\nspeech.<\/p>\n
When they said that the killing of every Fulani person during the war
\nagainst terror by the Nigerian Armed Forces was “a debt that would be
\nlater repaid” it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they called Shiite Muslims “lecherous souls, wife-swappers, animals,
\nidol-worshippers and blasphemers” that were “not worthy of life” it was not
\ndescribed as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they called the Yoruba “cowardly and treacherous”, the Igbo “greedy and
\nungrateful” , the Niger Deltans “oil bats and filthy scum” and Middle
\nBelters “slaves and minions” it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they said if it took “the slaughtering of 20 million Niger Deltans”
\nto bring peace to Nigeria and to secure the flow of oil it should be done
\nit was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they called the poor and suffering masses of the core north
\n“almajiris” and claimed that they were destined by God not to go to
\nschool, not to receive an education and not to live a better quality life
\nit was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they boasted that that same poor northern masses were condemned by
\nGod to live as unworthy paupers and beggars and to suffer and wallow in
\nignorance and poverty for the rest of their lives it was not described as
\nhate speech.<\/p>\n
When some misguided elites, religious bigots, ethnic supremacists and
\nmodern-day nazis claim that they were “born to rule” and that the rest of
\nus are nothing but “servants, field-hands and serfs” it was not described
\nas hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they called yours truly a “hate-filled ethnic supremacist and
\nracist”,\u00a0 a “spoilt child”, a “religious bigot”, a “Christian extremist”,
\nan “intellectual fraud”, a “depraved and orgy-loving sodomite”, a “seducer
\nand destroyer of women”, an “incestous peadophile”, a “common criminal”, a
\n“gangster, murderer and assasin”, a “hired gun”, a “rottweiller” and an
\n“insane drug addict” it was not described as
\nhate speech.<\/p>\n
When they called other PDP and opposition leaders “ritualists”, “cultists”,
\n“killers”, “evil”, “cursed”, “beasts”, “scum”, “thieves”, “rogues”, “haters”,
\n“filthy dreamers” and “cancerous vermin” it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they claimed that Jonathan was responsible for the death of Dora
\nAkunliyi and that he should “get on his knees” and “crawl and beg
\nNigerians for forgiveness” it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
When they say that those that called on Buhari to “resume or resign” are a
\nbunch of “jobless and idle youths” it was not described as hate speech.<\/p>\n
I could go on and on.<\/p>\n
Is there any shameful, disgusting, undeserved and malevolent label or any
\ninsulting adjective and bestial nomenclature that the APC and their
\nfriends have not employed or applied to those that have gallantly opposed
\ntheir tyranny and hegemony?<\/p>\n
Is there any sickening lie that they have not told about their perceived
\nenemies and detractors?<\/p>\n
Is there any life that they have not sought to scar, endanger and
\nthreaten? Is thereany family that they have not used their associates in
\nthe media to malign and to incite the Nigerian people against?<\/p>\n
Is there any slander, libel, fabrication, disinformation, misinformation,
\nmisrepresentation and hateful and destructive lie that they have not
\nindulged in?<\/p>\n
We know and hear all these things and we laugh them to scorn. It is like
\nwater off a duck’s back and it takes nothing whatsoever from us because
\nNigerians know the truth and they are far wiser than these professional
\nAPC haters and agents of destruction
\nthink.<\/p>\n
The fact of the matter is that lions pay no heed when goats bleat and when
\ncattle murmur. Dragons lose no sleep when the cock begins to crow and
\ntigers do not concern themselves with the insults and opinions of sheep.<\/p>\n
Whichever way they want to play it, whatever they do and whatever they say
\nthe APC will continue to get as good as they dished out to others over the
\nlast four years.<\/p>\n
We are not intimidated by their threats of labelling us as terrorists and
\ntheir crude attempt to intimidate and silence us.<\/p>\n
This is because resisting tyranny and evil is a divine obligation. We
\nshall continue to call a spade a spade and a tyrant a tyrant no matter
\nwhat they say or do and we are prepared to pay whatever price may come
\nwith it. We cannot be muzzled and we shall not be silenced.<\/p>\n
To the faithful and true I say the following: we must shed our fears and
\nwe must never forget that the Lord is with us.<\/p>\n
We must never forget that even though they may have today, we have\u00a0tomorrow<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n We must be focused, we must be strong and we must be bold knowing that we He is the El Shaddai and the Elohim. He is the Lord strong and mighty, the He is the Lord of Hosts, the God of the Armies of Israel and the Ancient He is our shield, our glory and the lifter of our heads. He is awesome in With Him, victory is ours and our enemies shall be brought to heel and We lift our swords in the name of Jehova Perazim, we raise our shields in His precious love and faithfulness, from whom none can separate us, shall By: Femi Fani-Kayode In reaction to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s promise to treat what he described as “hate speech” as terrorism Mr. Jackson Ude the publisher of Pointblank News said…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-exclusive","category-femi-fani-kayode"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nserve a God who is mighty in battle and who never fails.<\/p>\n
\nLord mighty in battle.<\/p>\n
\nof Days.<\/p>\n
\nbattle and His banner over us is love.<\/p>\n
\ncrushed under our feet like the desert sand.<\/p>\n
\nthe name of Jehova Elyon and we march forth into battle in the name of
\nYahweh, the Lord of the Universe, knowing that glory, honor and victory
\nand the blessings of the Most High God await us!<\/p>\n
\novercome the\u00a0 malice and overwhelm the evil of the architects of terror
\nand the fathers of hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"