REF: SGMJJ/HSCU/PR/3358 9th March, 2014 Femi Fani-Kayode: Between Speaking And Sparking! By Satguru Maharaj Ji Late Chief Remilekun Fani-Kayode was a very good and close friend. A man of sound political savvy, Chief Remi Fani-Kayode (a.k.a Fani Power), was among those targeted by the British colonial government in Nigeria for their passionate roles in the struggle for our nation’s independence from London. He was, in 1952, detained along with the likes of late Chief Rotimi Williams and late Chief Bode Thomas by British colonial authorities. Alongside late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, late Chief S. O. Ighodaro, late E. O. Eyo, late Adeyemi Lawson and late S. G. Ikoku, he represented the Action Group at the 1957 London Constitutional Conference. Truly, the precious list of Nigerian patriots can never be complete without late Chief Remi Fani-Kayode’s name vividly inked on its broad sheet. I remember working closely with him and Oloye ........ Salami during the struggle to salvage Nigeria from the brink of catastrophe under the military dictatorship of late General Sanni Abacha. Chief was, throughout the period of our joint-effort in liaison with a number of important political groups across the country, a man whose patriotic principles never wavered! As one of the prominent Nigerians who committed priceless resources of time, intellect, private funds and personal liberty to ensure that the British colonial flag (known as The Union Jack) was pulled-off Nigeria’s sky forever, late Chief Fani-Kayode was totally impervious to the idea of leading Nigeria to dis-integration! I will forever respect the sense of dedication to patriotic duty exhibited by Chief Remilekun Fani-Kayode prior to his death in 1995 due to poisoning in Abeokuta where he went to meet with an iniquitous group disguised as friends of national peace and progress! Today, nineteen years after Chief Remi Fani-Kayode’s death, the name Fani-Kayode continues to resonate in Nigeria’s political air currents. Femi Fani-Kayode is one of late Remi Fani-Kayode’s children. Since the re-birth of democratic rule in Nigeria in 1999, Femi Fani-Kayode has been a consistently loud voice in the country’s political jungle. He has successfully made himself politically conspicuous in present-day Nigeria. I praise his intriguing rise from obscurity to prominence. This notwithstanding, I must say however that his link to progressive relevance in contemporary Nigeria’s political wild of all sorts has so far been more of an abstraction to Me than a reality! I have keenly observed and meticulously studied Femi’s operations on Nigeria’s political landscape since he returned to Nigeria from the Western world after the resuscitation of civilian governance in his fatherland. I have heard him express his views on national issues. I have repeatedly analysed his lines of logic on matters political. I am, after perusing several chapters of ‘his book of contributions’ to Nigeria’s post-military political evolution, convinced that Femi needs to bridle his tongue as far as Nigerian politics is concerned! Femi is a son of one of Nigeria’s most respected politicians. This fact does not automatically confer on him the deep political wisdom and savvy of his late father. It does not license him to run his lips on national issues without commensurate research. Femi Fani-Kayode does not represent his late father’s huge political estate. That property is obviously too matured for him to inherit! Any thorough and objective comparative audit of Femi’s political culture and his late father’s political legacy will reveal this truth. Good enough, he has not stated anywhere that he is interested in being like his father. He has not made known any personal intention of proceeding from where his father stopped as far as politics is concerned. Truly, Femi is his own man and he must always be assessed as such a person – no association with his late dad’s profoundness! Such is and will always be good for him and for Nigeria as well! Nigeria’s zig-zag political terrain is a heritage of British colonial iniquity which the county’s divided ethnic nationalities have been quarrelling over for several decades, each claiming either manifest destiny or victimization in the disgracefully backward evolution of the nation since 1914. By the divine grace of Superior Forces, Nigeria has always narrowly escaped booby-traps set on its post-1960 path by treacherous British authorities. There has never been a time when Nigerians gathered themselves as dwellers of a troubled house of enormous positive potentials to discuss how best to re-organize the structure into one big happy family mansion. What we have been experiencing in this country is a political order of mutual suspicion and consistent conflict, leading to gross economic under-performance! While the vast majority of Nigerians lose out to this very ugly situation, British authorities and their Anglo-Saxon relatives spread across the globe gain stupendously, but not without extending some fractions of their loot to their scatterings of ostentatious Nigerian goons, most of whom are Nigeria’s elite political technicians and dubious opinion-leaders. The British engineers of dysfunctional Nigeria have been operating surreptitiously since 1960, ensuring that the trado-Islamic feudalist leaders of its Northern geography maintain tight and tyrannical grip on its political fate as designed and controlled in London! Unfortunately for the feudal landlords of Northern Nigeria and their British benefactors, the resurrection of democracy in Nigeria fifteen years ago came with a divinely plotted and irreversible paradigm-shift of the country political power-balance in favour of its protractedly suppressed Southern section. Any Nigerian keen on knowing the roots of political acrimony in Nigeria should read some published confessionals authored by the likes of Harold Smith (‘Blue Collar Lawman’) and Fredrick Forsyth (‘The Biafra Story’). Femi Fani-Kayode ranks among the league of contemporary Nigerian politicians who ‘spark’ on the basis of their limited knowledge of the surface wirings of Nigeria’s deep political mess! Nigeria’s newspaper archives are stuffed with loads of unguarded and volatile statements made by Chief Femi Fani-Kayode. Many of these lose words have provoked some political enthusiasts to dig deep into his past and privacy. Courtesy of such reactionary efforts, a number of unwholesome details about his life-style have found their way into the public domain. A man is designed to know his strength and limits. He is moulded by training and by talent to be conscious of his level of vulnerability and to be wise enough not to exceed boundaries that separate him from the status of a public nuisance. Femi knows a great deal about Nigerian politics. But then, how much does he actually know of what has been unfolding in political Nigeria since Goodluck Ebele Jonathan successfully humiliated Muhammadu Buhari and his feudal comrades in Dark Age Islamism at the 2011 presidential polls? It is rather unfortunate that Femi has chosen to lend his voice in either direct or indirect support for the elaborate theatre of mischief being run by those who worked hands-in-gloves with the British to stagnate Nigeria for 39 years after the notorious queen of parasitic England grudgingly agreed to allow Nigerians rule themselves! Having failed to wrestle Nigeria’s political power off Southern hold at the 2011 presidential election, the North’s elite feudal gangsters; led by the Sultan of Sokoto, issued a published threat to render our country ungovernable! When the likes of Femi Fani-Kayode associate President Goodluck Jonathan with gross incompetence, including accusing him of abandoning the North to roast in the wild fires being lit by Boko Haram across its terrain, one wonders if they were alive or present in this country when Muhammdu Buhari issued the afore-mentioned threat and whether they do not find it curious that Northern leaders have been less decisive on the Boko Haram mayhem than they have been in respect of rallying round Rotimi Amaechi since he fell out of favour with President Jonathan! Which is more important: the precious lives of suffering Northern masses or the political ambition of materially ultra-comfortable Rotimi Amaechi? Right before our eyes, Northern feudalist politicians have invaded Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s APC as part of their silent war against Southern occupation of Nigeria’s highest political office, using fake Islamic sentiments to warm-up their presence in the party and to also secure their vantage positions on its fledgling hierarchy. At this juncture, I ask: how much national progress should right-thinking people actually expect from a leader who is being viciously fought by an adhoc army of elite citizens who, ordinarily, should be co-operating with him to fight off retrogression from the land? The Boko Haram guerrilla fighters that have been shooting and bombing Northern Nigeria after the failed attempt by Buhari and his bead-counting psychotic fellows to seize power by elaborate calumny and fraudulent ballot in 2011 are an invention of Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida, Adamu Ciroma, Mallam Naisr El Rufai and other elite Northern politicians. These wicked men are sworn to re-taking Nigeria’s prime political power and keeping it forever as the absolute property of their coven! The North is not Nigeria’s problem! Its feudal leaders are the deadly sources of much of our national troubles! Until we are able to neutralize them and permanently isolate them all from any and everything public valuable in our country, they will continue to use religion and the illicit financial fortune they have been able to amass by stealing 83% of Nigeria’s oil wells to put-up assorted acts and strategic dramas of vile political deceit that connect firmly with the ignorance and flimsiness of privileged Nigerians of the Femi Fani-Kayode ilk! Not long ago, news had it that Femi was in Dutse, the capital city of Jigawa State, to confer with the State’s Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, on options for 2015. His meeting with Lamido was said to have been a close-door session. While in Jigawa, Femi Fani-Kayode was quoted to have stated that recent happenings in the country confirm that President Jonathan does not have the capacity to lead Nigeria. ‘I am here to see my brother and friend, Governor Sule Lamido ... I am here to consult with him ... ’, said Femi during his visit. It is common knowledge that the destiny of any relationship between a mouse and a cobra is beneficial only to the latter! Does Femi know who the likes of Sule Lamido actually are? Does he know how they operate and what they precisely stand for? With all due respect, Femi Fani-Kayode has a lot of catching-up to do on Nigeria’s political race-track. Sule and Sanusi Lamido along with other members of Northern political oligarchy are recalcitrant spoilers and sworn stagnators of Nigeria whose Islamocentric commitment to anti-Nigeria brigandage is far more genuine than any smile or hug with which they receive any Southern Muslim or Christian as friend! They are leaders who do not care a flying fig about the welfare and progress of the ordinary Northern Nigerian. They eat and live for themselves alone! Are these the type of people Femi now regards as his brothers and friends?! In the face of organized felony by powerful trouble-makers who are determined to set an entire country ablaze because it no-longer responds to their whims and caprices, a wise leader reaches more for ‘the water-hose’ than for ‘the barrels of combustibles’. Nigeria’s military has the capacity to terminate Boko Haram. Interestingly, the retired military Generals backing the murderous gang know that any escalation of our national army’s operations beyond its present level of engagement in the North against Boko Haram will run at huge cost to innocent civilian lives, a development which rascals like Buhari will hastily exploit to ignite the catastrophic inferno of another civil war in Nigeria! Who says President Jonathan has abandoned the North to the fires of Boko Haram? To the best of My knowledge, it is the feudal political rulers of the North that are doing the abandonment! Just one pronouncement against Boko Haram’s rag-tag guerrilla foot-soldiers from the Sultan of Sokoto is enough to end the spate of violence up North! Why has our dear Sultan not exercised this power of his’ in the face of routine killings of innocent Nigerians across his domain? I urge Femi Fani-Kayode to stop making careless and volatile statements that practically fuel the secret agenda of the North’s serpentine political class. Femi should stop sparking to the advantage of the real enemies of our national progress! If he is averse to President Jonathan, he has the democratic liberty to criticize him but please our dear Femi, do not sell our already besieged President out to those who have been striving to obliterate our natural and constitutional liberties as free-borns with forced Islamization by trying to use resources stolen from our nation’s oil purse for 39 years and also by committing huge tranches of cash handed-down to them by Arab imperialists to achieve their hooded goal! Between speaking and sparking, the difference is certainly wisdom! Long Live The People of Ibadan, Long Live The Yoruba Race, Long Live Federal Republic of Nigeria, Long Live Africa, Long Live United World. Until I Come your way again it’s Me The Father Of Creation. Yours Ever Sincerely My Love and Blessings Prof. (M.S.A. A. Akinbami Dan Ibrahim) The Living Perfect Master.
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