Only those looking for appointment
want restructuring: An open letter to
VP Osinbajo from Femi Fani-Kayode
Read his peace below...
"Those that are calling for restructuring are
looking for appointment. When they say they
want restructuring what they mean is that they
want an appointment....... some people told us
Nigeria is a "geographical expression" although
it was not even original to them"- Acting
President Yemi Osinbajo.
Your Excellency,
I trust that you are well despite the fact that
your principal is still at large.
Permit me to take this opportunity to respond to
your gratutious insult and your irresponsible and
irreverant assertion about those of us that have
been at the forefront of the fight for restructuring
our nation for many years.
However before doing so I shall make a few
observations and assertions of my own.
You have constantly condemned and warned
against what you call "hate speech" in our
nation yet you indulge in it more than anyone
else.
I say this because you constantly call others,
particularly members of the opposition, "looters"
and you take pleasure on demonising them
before the world even before a court of law has
pronounced them guilty of any wrongdoing.
You also call them "plunderers", "liars",
"clueless" and "destroyers". If this is not hate
speech then I really don't know what is!
You have stigmatised and criminalised every
single leading member of the opposition PDP,
including our leader President Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan, over the last three years and you have
sought to paint us as reprobates and evil souls
that are not fit to hold public office and that
have destroyed the very foundation of our
country.
One of your most prominent and vocal
sympathisers, supporters and leaders even
called President Jonathan's wife, our former
First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, an ugly and
illiterate hippopotamus! Are these sentiments
not motivated by pure hate?
Yet you know very well that all that you and
your associates have said about the PDP and
our leaders is not only a lie from the pit of hell
but also a carefully crafted, purposely contrived
and premeditated false narrative.
Worse still you are fully aware of the fact that
over sixty percent of your party elders and APC
governors, ministers, legislators and public
office holders were, up until three or four years
ago, all elders, leaders and members of the
PDP, including President Olusegun Obasanjo
and Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
If the PDP was so bad why did you give those
that came from there such prominent positions
and key roles to play at both the state and
federal level before, during and after the
presidential election of 2015?
You claim that those that are calling for
restructuring are only doing so in order to get
an appointment. You measure others by your
own squalid standards and you do nothing but
take shameless dictation from a tiny cabal of
faceless shape-shifting reptilians, corpsocrats,
bloodsucking demons and vampires.
You cover up their atrocities and you endorse
their wicked ways and their evil persecution.
You have forgotten who you are and where you
are coming from.
From the outset and as far back as the early
1940's the Yoruba particularly, and indeed the
people of the south generally, have wanted and
fought for nothing but a restructured Nigeria
where power is devolved from the center and
now you insult those that support it and pooh
pooh the whole idea.
As a Christian you have joined forces with those
that hate your faith and that have sought to
denigrate it and wipe it off the face of the earth.
Those that are behind this hideous and satanic
agenda are not even real or true Muslims but
rather they are Islamic fundamentalists and
believers in radical and political islam.
They call their fellow Muslims who do not share
their radical and bigoted views "infidels" simply
because they believe that religion is a personal
issue which must never be brought into or used
in partisan politics and simply because they are
prepared to support a non-Muslim for the
Presidency or indeed any other political office.
Your new found friends and those you front for
hate Christians and they hate real Muslims. Yet
you do not care about this deviant disposition
as long as you are given the opportunity by
them to remain in office even though they treat
you like filth and they regard you as nothing
more than a mere quisling, puppet and puffed
up, highly celebrated "national co-ordinator".
What a sorry impasse you have brought us to.
We had hoped that you would be a man and
stand up like one whilst your "father" was away
trying to recover from his ill-health and many
afflictions in London but this was not to be.
Nigeria is crumbling right under your feet and
falling apart because you have refused to rise up
to the occasion, muster the required strength
and moral authority to set things right and build
bridges of fraternity and friendship and ensure
that there is justice and fairness to all in the
land.
Under you no Fulani herdsmen have been
arrested. Under you Boko Haram has gone from
bad to worse. Under you the Arewa Youth
threatened a whole ethnic race with eviction and
genocide yet none of them were arrested.
Under you the Yoruba youth have said they do
not want restructuring anymore but what they
want is secession. Under you IPOB brought the
whole of the south east to a stand-still and
today they reign supreme in that region and
zone.
Under you stage-managed pictures of our ailing
President were put out with visiting governors
which were proof of life but which did not
ondicate whether he was mentally or physically
well enoufh to come home and rule our nation.
90 days down the line and we still don't know
what is wrong with him and how much longer
he will be away.
Not only has the President gone missing but
even the presidential jet that took him to the UK
and that was parked at Stan stead
Airport waiting for him for the last three months
has now reportedly also gone missing.
Ours has become an international shame and
we are now the laughing stock of the world
because you find it very hard to tell us the truth.
Even CNN and the Washington Post, your good
friends that helped to bring you to power, are
now mocking you.
Yet you do not care and you continue to act as
if all is well. Are you not provoking the Living
God? Did the respected General Overseer of
your Church, the Redeemed Church of God,
Pastor Enoch Adegboye (a profoundly good man
who is undoubtedly one of God's end time
generals) not teach you that a heavy price will
be paid by those who join forces with the
Amalekites to hurt, wound, crush and destroy
the children of light and the sons and daughters
of promise?
What is your fear and what is the source of your
cowardice. Can light overcome darkness? Did
David not survive the wilderness? Did he not
survive the brutal onslaught of Saul, the
rebellion of his own son Absalom and the
vicious attacks of the Philistines?
Did he not defeat and destroy Goliath and
redeem the honor of the children of Israel and
the Living God? Is that God dead to you now?
Whose report do you believe? Do you believe
the report of the Lord or the report of man?
He who created the eyes and the ears, can He
no longer see and hear? Is the arm of the Lord
too short to defend and deliver?
Is there anything too big or too difficult for our
GOD? Is He that created the universe and who
chose to make the earth His footstool so weak
that He cannot honor His word and deliver His
people?
The truth is that if you fail to do the right thing
and you turn your back on Him and His
purpose, He will spew you out and find another
that will effect His purpose and will in our
country. We are not in by our hands but in His.
Mordecai told Esther this over three thousand
years ago and I am telling you the same thing
today.
If you need to be reminded about the veracity
and efficacy of the Holy scriptures when it
comes to the truisms and strictures of
leadership and governance and you are reluctant
to hear them from your spiritual father because
you are ashamed of the fact that you have gone
astray then please do the following.
Ask for a secret audience with either Bishop
David Oyedepo, Bishop Mike Okonkwo, Prophet
T.B. Joshua, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, Apostle
Suleman, Bishop Danson, Pastor Paul
Adefarasin, Bishop B.O. Ezekiel or any of the
other great men of God in our nation who will
undoubtedly have the courage and the
conviction to tell you what the Lord is saying
and the bitter truth.
You need help and you need it fast. The
politicians cannot help you now and neither can
your new-found friends on the corridors of
power or your beleaguered, divided and dying
party the APC. Only the Living God can help
you.
It is so bad that you did and said nothing when
your fellow Redeemed Pastor (who happened to
be a woman) was slaughtered right under your
nose in Abuja recently. You did not even attend
her burial.
Instead of doing the right thing and soothing
frayed nerves you are encouraging division in
our nation and you are consolidating and
perpetuating a ruthless and heartless quasi-
apartheid system of government which has no
basis in decent, rationality, justice or fairness.
It is a cruel and barbaric system which sees a
few as the master race and the rest as slaves.
Given all this how can you possibly live with
yourself and how can you hold your head up
high?
You join common slaves and ride on horseback
whilst you condemn and confine the princes of
the realm and the sons and daughters of the
Most High God to walk around barefooted.
This is not only sacrilege but it is indeed a
great evil under the sun. May god forgive you
and may He deliver you before it is too late.
All those that said that we should have faith in
the APC and the Acting President should
carefully meditate on and consider his words
and categorisation of those who believe in
restructuring and self-determination.
He says that they are just looking for an
appointment. Permit me to ask the following
questions.
Is it the leaders of the south, Afenifere,
Ohaeneze and the Niger Delta that are looking
for appointments? Or is it the leaders of the
Middle Belt?
Is it Baba Fasoranti, Baba Ayo Adebanjo, General
Alani Akinrinade, Chief Amos Akingba, Bishop
Gbonigi, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi or Chief Olu
Falae?
Is it Chief John Nwodo, Governor Victor Ezeife or
Chief Arthur Nwankwo? Is it Chief E.K. Clark,
Chief Solomon Asemota SAN or Chief Albert
Horsefall?
Is it General TY Danjuma, General Dogonyaro or
General Zamani Lekwot? Is it Atiku Abibakar
who was the Vice President that you are today
18 years ago?
Is it the respected Baba Bisi Akande who has
been calling for us to go back to the 1963
regional structure and form of government? Is it
General Ibrahim Babangida who was Head of
State 32 years ago?
What appointment can you or Buhari possibly
offer any of them at their age and with their
wealth of knowledge and experience? Why
should you measure these distinguished and
respected people, most of whom are old enough
to he your father, by your own sordid
standards?
The other day you stood at a public function
and clapped heartily when our father and leader
President Olusegun Obasanjo said that the way
to stop the Biafran agitation was to offer the
Igbo people a slice of cake?
Does that make sense to you? Is this whole
thing about cake and appointments as far as
people like you are concerened?
Why do you seen to take pleasure in denigrating
those that do not believe in a nation that has all
the powers of government concentrated at the
center and that has dashed the hopes and
dreams of millions?
Nigeria was meant to be a federation and not a
unitary state with a federal facade! Have you
forgotten that today simply because you are
Vice President to Buhari?
Does Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the man that brought
you into politics and that single-handedly made
you Vice President, agree with you on this?
Does he also believe that everyone that
believes in restructuring is just looking for an
appointment?
If so that would be very curious because he
once believed in it and we used to discuss it
extensively when we were closer. I am sure that
at some point he would have lectured you on its
merits and rudiments.
Honestly you have lost it completely. You have
betrayed your people and jettisoned their cause.
You have ignored their call for justice and
equity and you have turned a deaf ear to their
cry for deliverance.
Some will call you a shameless coward but I will
not go that far out of respect for your office. I
am however constrained to say that I have lost
the great respect that I once had for you.
Like the biblical Demas you have turned your
back on your primary calling and you have gone
the other way.
You have been seduced and overwhelmed by a
Demastic anointing. You have fallen in love
with the awesome power of governance at the
Villa and all worldly things.
In short you are a self-serving modern-day
Afonja who will eventually be consumed by
those who he has joined forces with to destroy
his own people and the children of the Living
God. Thus says the Lord.
My regards to your family Your Excellency and
kindly convey my warmest greetings and special
felicitations to your brother "Jebi" who I am
very fond of and was very friendly with whilst at
London University in the early 1980's. Shalom.
