Jimi Agbaje And The Truth That Dares Not Speak Its Name By Kennedy Emetulu Of course, some of you are celebrating victory already, because you assume that Buhari has the Northern vote locked up and Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his governors will deliver the West and that this would be enough to see Buhari home and dry. Again, I tell you that you’ll be in shock when you get the result. The Yoruba are not dumb. They have a proud history and that history is rich in activism, democracy and justice. Obafemi Awolowo was the first of our founding fathers to look deeply at the plight of the minorities and do something about it, despite the blackmailing antics of the colonialists. That was why his Action Group made ideological inroads into Northern, Western and Eastern minority areas and that influence is still in these places today, despite the popular myth of regarding him as a ‘tribalist’. Awolowo’s legacy is that he spent time creating political awareness amongst his people far ahead of the rest of Nigeria. Through education, social programming and personal sacrifice, he set them a parameter to engage with the rest of Nigeria. Most Yoruba people know that handing Buhari Nigeria is the killing of the Awolowo legacy. They are watching Tinubu do his Azonto dance and back flips from the West to the North and back again and they are telling themselves that the day would come when they would tell him that he is not Awolowo. Yes, he can steal the whole of the West, but he will never steal their votes when he presents a Northerner, a Buhari that they know very well as his candidate for change. The Yoruba have never voted a Northerner as president where the alternative is a Southerner. They won’t start now. They did not survive the political crisis of the First Republic, the Civil War and June 12 to fall for Buhari and Tinubu’s 419 in the name of change. If any group knows where the rain started beating them, it’s the Yoruba. On February 14, they will return Goodluck Jonathan to Aso Rock, save the union and in the process demystify Tinubu and reclaim back their own states from his thieving machine. Not long anymore, not long…. ........................................................................................................................................................... As anyone can see, I was talking bluntly; but even then, I suspect I was being more elegant than Mr Agbaje. I have read a lot of people guffawing at this apparent booboo committed by a guy who’s looking to take Lagos State from the formidable Tinubu plundercracy. Well, they can keep on laughing. But while they are at it, can they answer the following questions: Which ethnic group has more people in the upper and middle level management in the oil industry in Nigeria? Which ethnic group has more professionals in the oil industry than any other in Nigeria? Where is the economic and geographic home of the oil industry in Nigeria? Once you are able to answer these questions, then ask yourself whether a Tinubu who has worked as a professional with Mobil and who a lot of Yoruba professionals are counting on not to take bread from their table just to satisfy his own vain political ambition will allow himself to be that instrument that will not only bring Nigeria to an end, but take the Yoruba down that road. Hellooooo, there is a limit to playing Afonja! Better politicians have tried in the past to sell the Yoruba to the North and we know how it all ended. Those who want to be naïve and deliberately uninformed are free, but there is more at stake for the Yoruba than a meaningless Vice-Presidency under the presidency of a man whose first act in government (after ransacking the Senate) was to send soldiers to invade Awolowo’s home. If Tinubu is thinking the Yoruba will sacrifice their future in a united and potentially prosperous Nigeria on the altar of a guy who historically is the Nigerian leader that most humiliated the Yoruba, a leader who did worse things to the Yoruba political elite than his friend, Sani Abacha, he’s got another think coming. Read the full article here bayoadeyinka/bayoadeyinka/index.php/bloghome/entry/jimi-agbaje-and-the-truth-that-dares-not-speak-its-name-by-kennedy-emetulu
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