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“The problem with you is that you have allowed your delusions and lust for power and control to get the better of you. You and those you speak for are truly lost.
You threaten and boast as if you are God, forgetting that He alone has the final say. You are not the first Fulani to speak like this and you will not be the last. A man called Hassan Kontagora said similar things many years ago and where is he today? The south is still standing and despite all we are not yet conquered!
With apologies to William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, permit me to say this: yours is a sorry tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing!
I read your words and I shook my head in utter disgust. Such insolence! Such arrogance! Such hate! If you are incapable of learning from history are you also incapable of learning from the ancient scriptures and the Holy Books?
Can satan defeat God? Can injustice prevail against justice? Does the suffering and captivity of the righteous last forever? Can the children of God be enslaved or subjugated in perpetuity?
Can our God ever abandon us and hand us over to you? Can darkness overcome light? Though we may weep through the night does our joy not come in the morning? Is our God not faithful and is the vision not for an appointed time?
Your threats and boasts make me laugh.
Is this not the way King Sennacherub of Assyria boasted before King Hezekiah and the children of Israel at the gates of Jerusalem? Do you believe that our God, the God of Hezekiah, is dead?
Is this not the way that Goliath boasted before David? Do you think that our God, the God of David, is no longer alive?
Hear this and hear it well: as long as Jesus sits on the throne you will never conquer southern Nigeria! You can try but you will continue to fail.
“(And I responded with a resounding and reverberating amen!!!!)”
And neither do you own the north. You only think you do and, as was the case with Icarus the Greek, your inordinate ambition, crass and inappropiate arrogance and hubristic pride will lead to your nemesis.
I make bold to say that hell will freeze over before we bend the knee and bow before you and before you have your way! Death would be preferrable to such an ignoble capitulation!
You have the nerve to talk about education and civilisation yet the bitter truth is that you are an uneducated almajiri whose ancestors were still mounting and riding camels and donkeys whilst mine were at the best universities in the world.
My great grandfather was at Furrough Bay College in Sierra Leonne which, at that time, was part of Durham University. Where was yours?
My grandfather was at Selwyn College, Cambridge University. Where was yours?
My father was at Downing College, Cambridge University. Where was yours?
My brothers were at Downing College, Cambridge University and Georgetown University respectively. Where were yours?
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I was at SOAS, London University and at Pembroke College, Cambridge University. Where were you?
I really do not know what education or civilisation you are referring to because you have neither of the two.
You, your forefathers and your succesors are still living in the stone-age, riding camels, loving and worshipping cows, stealing other people’s land in the name of cattle-herding, butchering your fellow-human beings and slaughtering your compatriots.
I ask you this: who is more educated and civilised between me and you and between mine and yours? Do you even know the meaning of these words?
The truth is that we are not one and we can never be one. The difference betwen us is like the difference between night and day.
We love but you hate. We seek the light but you seek the darkness. We believe in life but you believe in death. We delight in peace but you delight in war.
We crave for progress, stability, security and prospetity but you lust for anarchy, chaos, bloodshed, destruction, terror, conquest, power and the perpetual domination and subjugation of others.
I ask you again, who is more educated and more civilised between you and I and between your people and mine?
Can there be any fellowship between light and darkness? Can there be love between the sons of God and the sons of Belial?
Can there be peace between the serpent and the lion?
Can there be harmony between the captor and the captive?
Can there be understsnding between the oppressor and the oppressed?
Is it any wonder that millons say that our country must either restructure or break?
Is it not obvious that our claim of national unity is an illusion and that it is bogus and false.
Nigeria is not one, has never been one and will never be one unless and until we firstly learn and accept the basic and fundamental principle that all men, regardless of race, religion and circumstance of birth are equal before God and secondly that we must restructure and devolve power from the centre to the six regions and zones.
Failure to do this will eventually result in the implosion and violent break-up of the country sometime in the not-too-distant future.
Why? Because no matter how hard you try oil and water do not mix, because slave-masters do not remain slave-masters forever and because slaves do not remain slaves in perpetuity.
It is true that the ancient boundries cannot be broken but that does not mean that they cannot be altered and reset
—-FEMI FANI-KAYODE.
