FANI KAYODE
Former
Aviation Minister Femi Fani Kayode says No Igbo Leader can defeat Nnamdi Kanu
in a free & fair election in Igboland. Those
in igboland that say they are the true leaders of the Igbo and that their
people do not want to leave Nigeria and establish their own country may get the
biggest surprise of their lives when the time comes.
And
not one of them can defeat Nnamdi Kanu in a free and fair election ANYWHERE in
Igboland today. If they doubt that perhaps they should try putting it to the
test.
The
great black American freedom fighter Malcom X said “the price of freedom is
death”. The 3 million Igbos that died in the civil war paid that price.
The
hundreds of thousands of Igbos that were slaughtered in pogroms in the north in
the mid-60’s, during the civil war, in the ’70’s, in the 80’s, in the ’90’s, in
the 2000’s and indeed right up until today paid that price.
The
thousands of young and courageous IPOB men and women who were massacred by
security forces in the streets of the east and in the sanctity of their homes
over the last two years have paid that price.
The
hundreds of Igbos that have been killed by state-protected Fulani militias and
herdsmen in their villlages and on their farms in the last two years have paid
that price.
Then
came the threat of genocide and carnage from the Arewa Youth when the Igbo were
told that they must leave the north by Oct. 1st 2017 or suffer another
whirlwind of slaughter and pogroms.
Those
that will be killed in the north after that date and once that deadline has
expired will also have paid that price. Given
all this I have one question to ask: if the Lord, in His infinate wisdom and
mercy, can raise a deliverer like the great Sir William Wallace to liberate
Scotland from the English in 1297 why would He NOT raise a Nnamdi Kanu to
deliver the Igbo people after they have been subjected to genocide, mass
murder, wickedness and injustice at the brutal hands of the Nigerian state for
the last 57 years?
If
the Lord can raise an Oliver Cromwell to deliver the people of England from the
tyranny of the Crown in 1642 why would He not raise a Nnamdi Kanu for the Igbo
in 2017?
If
the Lord can raise a George Washington to fight for American independence from
the subjugation of the British Crown in 1775 why would He not raise a Nnamdi
Kanu for the Igbo in 2017?
If
the Lord could raise a Maximillien Robespierre and Marat for the French people
against the Bourbon royal family in 1789 and a Vladimer Lenin and Trotsky for
the Russian people against the Romanov royal dynasty in 1917 why would he not
raise a Nnamdi Kanu for the Igbo in 2017?
If
the Lord could raise an Emeka Odumegwu- Ojukwu to deliver the Igbo people from
total elimination, annihilation and extermination in 1967 why would he not
raise a Nnamdi Kanu to deliver them from tyranny, mass murder and threats of
genocide in 2017?
And
the comparisons with Ojukwu are interesting. Both come from a royal and noble
lineage and bloodline. Both went to some of the best schools and universities
in the United Kingdom.
Ojukwu
was at Oxford whilst Kanu was at the Metropolitan University (after finishing
his first degree at Nsuka). Both were well educated and enlightened enough to
recognise the chains of tyranny and both had the mettle and the courage to
cultivate a firm resolve to stand against it.
One
did so in the filed of battle when his people were subjected to genocide,
denied the right of self-determination and attacked whilst the other did so
through aggressive political activism and without firing a shot. Both are
endearing, charming, handsome, charrismatic, articulate and profound.
Finally,
like all human beings, both are fallible and made one or two mistakes and
errors in their careers by what they said about others from time to time. This
is to be expected because they are both human.
Yet
it is not what they say about others that matters but what they represent. And
what they both represent, which is essentially the protection of the weak from
the tyranny and barbarity if the strong, is not only wholesome and righteous
but also noble, honorable and worthy of emulation.
Few
can dispute that the suffering of the Igbo over the last 57 years has been
horrendous, disproportionate and barbarous. By any civilized standard it has
been totally and completely unacceptable.
Oceans
of Igbo blood, including that of infants and babies, have been shed and split over those years and that sacred blood not only cries to God in heaven for
vengeance but also continues to plague, foul and soil the very foundation of
the Nigerian state.
.
.
Not
only has no remorse or regret been expressed or displayed for shedding that
blood but instead those that have continuously done so for no just cause for the
better part of the last fifty seven years have been handsomely rewarded and
well-compensated for their great evil and sociopath disposition instead of
being brought to justice.
When
we go out of our way as a people to care for the weakest, the most vulnerable,
the most vilified, the most persecuted and even the most undeserving in our
society it says a lot about us. And when we kill them at will and treat them
like animals it means that we are no better than ravenous beasts.
The truth is that
nothing and no-one can stop Nnamdi Kanu because there is a divine element to
his meteoric rise.
God
Himself has raised, lifted and anointed him and in doing so He has planted a
seed, ignited a fuse and unleashed the spirit of Biafra in the mind, body,
spirit and soul of the Igbo nation.
Whatever
happens to Kanu today that spirit and that movement will not die but rather go
from strength to strength.
The
man has died in millions of Nigerians that have remained silent when faced with
the tyranny and injustice of today’s Nigeria. But not in Nnamdi Kanu. The man
has refused to die in him and still lives on.
He
has refused to bow to tyranny and he has refused to succumb to the blackmail
and intimidation of the state.
He is the Lion of the
east: I stand by him, I love him and I salute his courage. O that we had more
of his ilk in our shores. May God defend him and may the Ancient of Days guide
and protect Him.
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