Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
Below is my explosive interview with The Nigerian Express where we discussed Buhari, Tinubu, Osinbajo, Obasanjo, Awolowo, Jonathan, the North, the South, IPOB, the civil war and so much more!
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"2023: Tinubu will regret alliance with North" – Femi Fani- Kayode
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister is a lawyer, essayist, poet and a political activist. He spoke to AKANI ALAKA on the contemporary political developments in Nigeria, relations among the ethnic groups in the country, the civil war, agitations for self-determination, the need to restructure the country, as well as the jostling for the 2023 presidency among politicians from the South, among other issues.
Usman DAN Fodio, Leader of the Jihad
As Nigerians there are certain qoutes and statements that we must enshrine and entrench in our spirits, minds and souls and that we must never forget if we really want to know where we are coming from, where we are today and where we will be tomorrow.
For any nation to kill 3 million civilians in the name of war or anything else is unacceptable and barbaric. It is a bestial act, a war crime and a crime against humanity.
No matter how just or righteouss your cause may be even the heavens will cry against such a bestial and cruel act. It is only hell that will applaud it. Where was our sense of decency and mercy during that civil war?
Chief Remi Fani-Kayode
"Nigeria is not one and has never been one. It is a 'state of nations' and not a 'nation-state'. The traitors in the south are heroes in the north whilst the heroes in the south are traitors in the north. The value system of the north is totally opposite to that of the south. The lenses through which we see justice and equity can never be the same. The Nigerian state is the tragedy of 20th century in Africa"- Aare Kurunmi Kakanfo, "Nigeria Is Burning", Facebook, 30th September 2019.
Sheikh Usman Dan Fodio
In 2014 Alhaji Aliyu Gwarzo wrote a lot of derogoratory and insulting things about President Goodluck Jonathan, the Middle Belt and the South which caused a stir, which shook the nation and which went viral.
He is a northern irredentist and hegemonist and in my view he speaks the mind of many Fulanis. I responded to him in a series of essays in 2014 but amazingly everything he said would happen in 2015 actually happened. Jonathan was rigged out and since then a rabidly pro-north, pro-Muslim and pro-Fulani agenda has been unleashed on Nigeria by Buhari.
Most Southerners are still in denial but I am not. And neither am I fearful. I know what is going and I shall resist it with every fibre of my being.
Abaddon, the Prince of destruction hovers over our nation. Magog, the prince of war marches towards our shores. Asmodeus, the prince of suffering and death beats his drums over our country.
Belial, Leviathan and Astoreth, the three Crown Princes of Hell, are knocking at our door.
As I was about to enter the hall to deliver my speech at the Anaedoonline 1st year Anniversary Lecture in Nnewi, Anambra state yesterday my lawyer and a member of my delegation, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, and I were approached by the DSS and told that he must not attend the event.
They said that if he insisted on attending the occassion with me the venue would be sealed up and the entire event would be stopped and not allowed to hold.
They said they had orders from Abuja to stop him from attending because, apart from being my lawyer, he is also the lawyer to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB.
Poetry is the language of the gods and the vocal expression of the inner spirit. It is pure. It is clean. It is energising. It is invigorating. Like caviar, it is an acquired taste that is only for those that are refined, enlightened and sophisticated enough to appreciate it.
That is why it thrives and is reverred in only the most advanced of nations and cultures. Essentially it is about passion: the passion to love, to fight, to survive, to overcome and to excel.
The Bible says "knowledge is power". It also says "know the truth and it will set you free".
This is made all the more important given the fact that history is not taught in Nigerian schools.
Let us join hands and walk down the beautiful path of knowledge, truth and history together. Our focus and subject-matter for today is the Fulani tribe of northern Nigeria.
The Fulani are only partially African and only partly negroid. They are the product of cross-breeding between the Taurags, Berbers and Arabs of north Africa on the one hand and the local black African women of Futa Jalon, Guinea in west Africa, on the other.