The history of humanity is littered with wickedness, cruelty, injustice, tragedy, butchery, carnage and mind-bending examples and graphic episodes of man's inhumanity to man.
The mass murder and wholesale genocide of innocents by the Assyrians, the Amalekites, the Canaanites, the Greeks, the Romans, the Medes, the Persians, the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Mongols, the Romans, the Ottomans, the Incas, the Aztecs, the British, the Belgians, the Spanish, the Americans, the Japanese, the Russians, the Turks, the French, the Germans, the Australians, the Cambodians, the Nigerians, the Hutus, the Boers, the Chinese, the Arabs and so many more.
I have studied much of world history and I have come to the conclusion that man is inherently evil.
"History teaches us of the danger of being afraid to speak truth to power"- Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, 2nd June 2019.
Pastor William Kumuyi, who says we should not attack President Muhammadu Buhari, has much to learn from these words. If the world had remained silent in the face of Hitler's Nazis we would not be here today.
May 30th, 2019 represents the 52nd anniversary of the declaration of the Republic of Biafra.
I have written the following contribution to help mark that day. I hope it goes a long way to show where and when the trouble and challenges all started.
I also hope that it widens and stimulates the debate about the plight of the Igbo in the Nigerian state and to enlighten those that may not know why it is that so many young Igbos feel strongly about the concept of Biafra.
Some of the events that I have written about here are painful and deeply personal but write we must in order to educate others, in order to establish the truth, in order to ensure that history does not repeeat itself and in order to usher in an era of true reconciliation, peace, love and forgiveness in our nation. Kindly fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the flight!
For your own sake and for the sake of your family and nation please take what you are about to read very seriously and please endeavour to read it to the end.
Take it or leave it, this is my final warning and admonition to the good people of my beloved country Nigeria. After this I shall watch how things unfold and maintain a studied silence.
In the Book of isaiah 54:15 the Holy Bible says "surely they shall gather but it shall not be of me: whomsover gathers against thee shall be scattered for thy sake".
To add to that in the second Book of Timothy 1:7 it says "God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power, love and sound mind".
'Lord of the Rings' by J.R.R. Tolkien is my favourite book. This is followed by C.S. Lewis' 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe' which, like 'Lord of the Rings', was also made into a blockbuster Hollywood movie a few years ago titled "The Chronicles of Narnia".
George R. R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire', which has been immortalised by HBO's just concluded 10 year long television series production titled 'Game of Thrones', is also an excellent book which I recommend for all to read.
"Reduce the number of Nigerians you give visas"- Federal Government of Nigeria.
I have never seen a Government that hates and despises its own people and treats them with as much contempt and disdain as the Buhari regime.
Governments are meant to support and encourage their people and not discredit and undermine them. This is indeed a Government of suffering, blood and tears.
Yet despite it all Nigerians just continue to accept and tolerate this rubbish and the opposition remains fragmented, intimidated, naive, badly-led, weak and divided.
"Ignorant and useless Zamfara people where are you? We are here in your Zamfara and we are urging you to come out and face us!"- ISIS West Africa (ISWA).
These are just some of the ugly and boastful words that were spoken in a graphic video that I posted on my Facebook page by an ISWA commander and the barbarians and terrorists that are decimating and butchering our people. I had his words translated from hausa to english.
The largest empires that the world has ever known are, in order of size, the British, Mongol, Russian, Spanish, Umayyad, Yuan, Qing, French, Abbasid and Portugese empires.
There were a number of other large and notable empires in world history such as the Roman, Ottoman, Greek, Babylonian, Persian and Mughal empires.
The post-World War 1 Soviet empire was massive and powerful and it was followed by the establishment of the post-World War 1 American empire which was equally formidable and which matched it in all ramifications.
The race for supremacy between the two continued after the defeat of Hitler, Nazi Germany and the Axis powers in World War 11 in 1945 and this resulted in the establishment of an unpredictable and frightful bi-polar world, a dangerous cold war and a tense balance of power between them.
Lord Fredrick Lugard
In 1914 Lord Frederick Lugard, the British Governor-General of Nigeria, described northern Nigeria as the "poor husband" and southern Nigeria as the "rich wife".
He went further by boldly proclaiming the marriage of the two regions by British fiat and declared, without consultation with either of the two "spouses", that this was a marriage that had "no prospects of divorce" and that "would last forever".
The history of free men was not made by chance but by choice. If we really want to be free we must find the courage to resist the tyranny and evil that has overwhelmed and pervaded our land and we must muster the will to reject slavery and servitude.
It is not just about electing a new President but also about insisting on equity, justice, fair play and equal rights for all Nigerians, regardless of tribe or faith.
And in our collective quest for liberty and freedom we must never forget that an army of lions, led by a sheep, will always fail whilst an army of sheep, led by a lion, will always prevail.
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, National Leader of the APC
"Obasanjo is expired milk, dump him in the dustbin”- Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu is an ugly and repugnant little creature who lives in and presides over the affairs of Lagos state.
You committed mass murder, slaughtered the faithful, indulged in genocide and supported ethnic cleansing.
You impoverished my people, sacrificed young Leah Sharibu, locked up your enemies and tormenented the innocent.
You persecuted my Church, bullied the weak, stole from the poor, destroyed the young and decimated the old.