Whilst Buhari, Akiolu and Baba turn the other way, the gospel of ONILEISM, which this writer has called TINUBU CROW is spreading all over the nation like a wildfire in the harmattan.
Even it is learnt from this side of the Atlantic that that diminutive mortal and Apostle of Tinubu Crow, Ben Ayade-Kim Jung Un is already aggressively pursuing and promoting that inhuman and very ungodly ‘gospel’ of expelling the “Yibos” from the home state of this writer, Cross River State, for the self-same reason in the SW that the “enemies” – the “Yibos” made APC lose the just concluded PE in some states.
And from far off Ekiti, idle plastic Peteru (Peter Fayose), hoping for a ministerial or ambassadorial appointment, political rehabilitation, and in an attempt to escape the wrath of the EFCC has landed in OUR LAGOS, not their Lagos to provide an answer to the ongoing raging question: WHO OWNS LAGOS, an exercise meant to pit the louts, not the Yorubas, against the “Yibos.”
My Ndigbo brethren must whilst this provocation against them is ongoing, not forget that this war drum is solely coming from the camp of the ALL POLITICAL CROOKS (APC), their chieftains and their political egrets, and not proper Yorubas, the very people who kept/oversaw and returned all their properties to them after the 30-month civil war.
But just wondering why (the) BAT never faces the sky nor the earth, better still, neither looks up to the sky (heaven), the abode of God nor the earth, the home of man?
Finally, does any Nigerian out there know why Nigerians are so much in love with 1962 and 1966?
May God deliver us and our nation from Tinu’s ‘army’.
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
- William Shakespeare.
You must not burn this house,
‘cos it’s our house and our only place of abode.
You must not burn this house
‘cos it belongs to all Nigerians,
You must not burn this house
‘cos all of us own it, and we are all
its landlords and caretakers.
You must not burn this house
‘cos we are all its inheritors,
stakeholders, co-owners, and equal joiners.
You must not burn this house
‘cos it’s our only shelter and habitation.
You must not burn this house
‘cos it’s the only place we shall all run into,
Come rain, come shine,
And anytime we are threatened.
You must not burn this house
‘cos this is where our children
in the uttermost part of the world,
far off lands and the ends of the earth -
the places of their sojourning presently
will return to roost in the evening.
And here, here is where they sure will find peace
and harmony just like our fathers
who bequeathed to us this our very house.
You must not burn this house
‘cos this is our only home on this planet earth
And because we all helped put it up!
- JOHN ODEY ADUMA, 15 March, 2023.
NIGERIAN AND PROUD!
BY JOHN ODEY ADUMA
Nigeria is our fatherland,
And I ‘ll shelter here and you too will shelter here.
I will live here, and you too will live here
Because I’m Nigerian and proud
And because you too are Nigerian and proud!
I’m a Nigerian just like you
And you are a Nigerian just like me.
I ‘ll live here unthreatened, and you too
Will live here unthreatened,
Neither stranger nor alien.
I’ll live here ‘cos this is my native land,
And you will live here ‘cos it’s your native land,
With neither issuing the other quit notice anymore!
Nor thinking the other a robot,
Whether in the North or South,
Southwest or Southeast,
Northwest or Northeast
And North Central or South South!
So, you must live where you choose to live in
And so, must I choose to live wherever I please,
Progressing, flourishing and prospering
at one another’s chosen space!
And in accordance with our national Testament,
Let us both live and let live,
Let us both live here and share equally.
All things that are ours as Nigerians,
die here and be buried at any place of our choice,
‘cos we are all Nigerians, fellow compatriots
And proudly Nigerians, and proud!
- JOHN ODEY ADUMA, March 16, 2023.
- JOHN ODEY ADUMA, author of the bestseller: “Be a Beacon of Hope in the World: A Message to Young Britain” was formerly Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria, (1997-2000), National Coordinator, The Pastoral Resolve, (General Muhammadu Buhari’s Pastoralists NGO; and Chairman, Editorial Board of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc, 2000-2003.
