{"id":63831,"date":"2018-08-28T20:27:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T19:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=63831"},"modified":"2018-08-28T20:27:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T19:27:58","slug":"a-word-for-the-lifeless-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/a-word-for-the-lifeless-one\/","title":{"rendered":"A WORD FOR THE LIFELESS ONE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By: Femi Fani-Kayode<\/p>\n

The greatest threat to national security and the national interest is a
\nPresident that cannot appreciate the sanctity of the rule of law and the
\nsacrosanct nature of the constitution.<\/p>\n

If this rhetoric of national interest and national security being more
\nimportant than the rule of law continues it will have grave, disastrous
\nand cataclysmic consequences for our country. It will lead to strong
\nresistance, subversion of the state, conflict, war and the disintegration
\nof Nigeria.<\/p>\n

This is because we are not prepared to live in or accept the imposition of
\na totalitarian police state where dissent, opposition, free speech, human
\nrights and civil liberties have no place.<\/p>\n

This is Nigeria where freedom flourishes and where democracy thrives and
\nnot Saudi Arabia or North Korea where it is dead.<\/p>\n

Martin Luther King said “if you are not prepared to die for something then
\nyou are not fit to live for anything”.<\/p>\n

He said “If we are wrong, justice is a lie and love has no meaning”.<\/p>\n

Every Nigerian was born free: we will not allow anyone, including a
\nlifeless President, to turn us into slaves.<\/p>\n

The only things that we have asked for and are insisting on are the
\npreservation of our liberty and cherished values, the right to an
\nunhindered and unencumbered life and the establishment of an equitable,
\nmulti-cultural, multi-racial and multi-religious modern and plural
\nnation-state in which there are no masters and servants and in which every
\nman, woman and child is regarded as being equal and having equal
\nopportunities regardless of his or her faith, ethnic nationality and
\ncircumstance of birth.<\/p>\n

We insist on the establishment of a nation in which we are free to make
\nour own choices and in which our respect, pride, sense of self-worth and
\ndignity are guaranteed and preserved. Anything less than that is
\nunacceptable.<\/p>\n

We hear the threats and boastful words of those that are in authority
\ntoday, that control the levers of power and that man the organs of state.<\/p>\n

We see and acknowledge their awesome power to crush, kill, maim, jail and
\ndestroy those of us that they hate and that they consider to be their
\nenemies and adversaries yet we are not intimidated and we harbour no fear.<\/p>\n

We refuse to bow and tremble before them or to bend the knee. We refuse to
\nbe cowered or to be silenced.<\/p>\n

Instead we challenge them do their very worse because we serve an awesome
\nGod whose name is the Ancient of Days and the Lord of Hosts and who is
\nmighty in battle.<\/p>\n

We defy them and laugh them to scorn because the things that we have asked
\nfor are worth fighting and, if necessary, worth dying for.<\/p>\n

We would rather live as free men for a single day than live as slaves for
\none thousand years. And make no mistake about it: we are not alone.<\/p>\n

We are the voices of the voiceless and the servants of truth: when we
\nspeak, we speak for millions.<\/p>\n

When we are killed, locked away or declared missing in action, in the name
\nof the Living God, others will rise and continue the noble struggle and
\nglorious fight.<\/p>\n

We cannot be deterred, we cannot be defeated, we cannot be subdued and we
\ncannot be overwhelmed.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, in the name of God the Great and He who holds the universe
\ntogether by the power of His word, you will fall and we shall prevail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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