makes our Baba quake. Of course, our ever-babyish Baba knows a Nigeria that has the West as her prey will not augur well for him and his intractable bid to remain relevant.
For those in the West, the Niger Delta and South-East, an unreal partition occasioned by the collusion of the North and West after the Civil War to sustain the predatorship of the North, should continue to distract the predator from others. Yes, just as Obafemi Awolowo devised a means for the Gowon-led Nigeria to conquer the formidable and tenacious Biafrans in the 70’s, our Baba wants Nigeria to tame our hero, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Yes, Baba does not want to lose his oil well and criminally acquired Ota Farm. The secession of both the Igbo and the Niger Delta, both of which were together as Old Eastern region, is the fear of Baba and those of his ilk.
Brothers and sisters, I have noticed a pattern in our own Femi Fani-Kayode’s works. He is a nice man. We all love him, but there is something we must take seriously. FFK, as he is fondly called, is one person that has always seen the struggle for the restoration of Biafra as an Igbo thing. He always easternizes the struggle in his bid to keep faith with Obafemi Awolowo. It is for the same reason I have always asked our people to be wary of the West. To be candid with us all, I see the West as the more dangerous member of the unholy alliance. It is high time we all began to make it known to FFK and others that the restoration of Biafra is a project being driven by both Niger Delta and Igbo. Any attempt, deliberate or purposeful, to Igbonize the struggle must meet with stiff resistance from us all. We still love FFK, but we cannot stomach his deliberate or accidental misinterpretation of the struggle to escape the demonic and suppressive geographical enclave; a gift to the Fulani/North from Lord Lugard called Nigeria.
FFK and Baba should note that this is not the 60’s and early 70’s. We are not oblivious of the nefarious activities of the North in the 40’s and 60’s when our collective peoples were the victims of well-calculated pogroms in Jos and other parts of the North. Baba should take it easy, because he lacks the capacity to halt the struggle to birth a true nation. Nigeria, we dare say, has failed to encourage the welfare of her citizens, and every attempt to correct this anomaly since 1946 has met with regional disagreement. We know that restructuring will take us through the same labyrinth of failed attempts to better our lot. We know the solution to our problem. We, the people, have the needed will to solve it once and for all. Baba should not bother himself. We love our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, but the struggle has gone beyond any individual. He remains the reason behind this reinvigorated drive, no doubt, but what we want is good for all and sundry.
Dear old child called Baba, there is no way out of this agitation. We are not asking for war. What we want is a peaceful referendum under the supervision of the international communities where we shall prove to the world that we are tired of being coerced into an unworkable marriage called Nigeria.
We understand that you and the Danjumahs stand to lose a lot when Biafra is birthed, but should your relative and selfish interest override ours? Your selfishness lacks the needed force to obviate and terminate our vivacious collective will. And just in case our politically emasculated Baba has conceived the ominous intent to harm our godly Nnamdi Kanu, he should watch his back, because he God has chosen for the salvation of His people He fortifies. Any attempt to harm our collective hero, Prince Nnamdi Kanu, will consume the evil one. Dear corrupt and heinous Baba, bring it on! It is time to tell this misanthrope that he is a persona non grata. The blood of Chief Bola Ige, the assassinated Minister of Justice and Attorney-General still cries for justice. We are not oblivious of the fact that he was butchered. Our Baba knows much more than we do about that matter.
All hail Biafra.
Nigeria, we reject thee.
Biafra, we long to sleep in Nigeria and wake up in thee.
Russell Idatoru Bluejack is a thinker, revolutionary writer, university tutor, and socio-economic and political analyst that writes from Port Harcourt.
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