A WORD FOR PROFESSOR YEMI OSINBAJO I am glad that the APC eventually took my
advice and saw the wisdom in not fielding
a muslim/muslim ticket for the 2015
Presidential election even though I hear
that, right up till the last minute, they
almost did. I congratulate my friend and brother
Professor Yemi Osinbajo on his nomination
as the Vice Presidential candidate of the
APC and running mate to General
Muhammadu Buhari. I have known Yemi for a number of years
and I must say that he is not only a very
pleasant and civilised person with a warm
and gentle disposition but he is also a
cerebal lawyer with a brilliant mind. I have
immense respect for him. Yet sadly ever since I heard about his
nomination and announcement as Buhari's
running mate I have felt nothing but sheer
pity for him and a deep sense of pathos. My
counsel and words for him are as follows: Woe unto the children of light that secretly
delight in darkness and that seek to
thwart the counsel of God for their nation
by joining hands with the sons of Boko and
the daughters of Haram. The bible says ''what fellowship is there
between light and darkness?'' It says
''what does God have to do with Belial?'' It
says ''what profiteth a man to gain the
world and lose his soul?''. A respected Pastor of the Redeemed
Christian Church of God, a devout and
committed Christian and an intellectually-
sound, well-bred and well educated
Professor of Law accepts to be running
mate to a closet fundamentalist, a bloodthirsty, cruel and murderous military
dictator and a die-hard believer in the
philosophy of ''born to rule''? This is
serious. A gifted servant of God who is a favored
spiritual son of Rev. Enoch Adeboye, the
General Overseer of the Redeemed
Christian Church Of God has jumped into
bed with one of the most notorious
troublers of the faith and one of the most consistent enemies of democracy and
Nigeria? This is very sad. Rev. Enoch Adeboye is undoubtedly one of
God's greatest and most respected
generals on the planet and one of the
Church's most humble and best-loved
precious gems, yet one of his spiritual sons
has surely let him, and indeed the Kingdom of God, down by choosing to play ''man
Friday'' and second fiddle to an individual
that represents everything that is
troubling, unsettling and repugnant to the
modern world and to the 21st century?
What a tragedy. A learned Professor of Law and a senior
member of the Nigerian bar who is the
leading authority on the law of evidence
and who has written numerous books on
that topic chooses to play number two to a
man that failed all his exams at military college and that never went to a decent
school or to any university? Jumping
Jehoshaphat. It is only in Nigeria that this sort of thing
can happen. Poor Yemi. Look at what the
Haramites have done to him and look at
what they have reduced him to. Is there
anything that these creatures from hell will
not do? Is there anyone that they will not use and
is there any norm that they will not defile,
pervert, debase, violate and corrupt in
their ignoble quest for power and as a
consequence of their insatiable lusts and
manifest greed? The truth is that each and everyone one of
us, including my friend Yemi, will
ultimately have to answer to God for the
choices that we make and we must live
with the consequences of those choices. It is no wonder that the Redeemed
Christian Church of God has disassociated
itself from a false claim that the Church
and, by implication, Rev. Adegboye himself,
was supporting the Buhari/Osinbajo ticket. Thankfully they have come out to say
clearly and categorically that this is not so.
One can always trust Adegboye to do and
say the right thing because he is a man
that is truly ''after God's heart''. Yet the denial of an endorsement and tacit
support from his Church is just the first of
many shockers and unwelcome surprises
that Yemi will be served with in the next
few weeks. He will get shock after shock
and surprise after surprise until the battle is over and circumstances compel him to
go back to his very lucrative legal practice. Yet before he does that he should learn a
thing or two from one of his esteemed
colleagues and yet another Pastor of the
Redeemed Christian Church of God, the
courageous Pastor Bosun Emmanuel. Bosun
said the following words in his famous sermon titled 'The Nigerian Church' which
went viral just a few months ago. He said, ''woe be unto any believer who
joins hands with the enemies of God in an
attempt to bury the Church and destroy the
gospel''. This was a timely admonition and
these are strong and wise words from a
true servant of God who is under no illusion about what is going on in the politics of
Nigeria and who is brave enough to say it
as it is. Yet whether we choose to heed Bosun's
words or not I am absolutely certain of one
thing: those that have aligned with the
servants of satan and the children of
darkness and that seek to thwart God's
counsel for our nation shall not prevail. Boko Haram abducted 185 women in Borno
state on December 18th and they killed no
less than 52 innocent people. Despite that
some people are still supporting Buhari
and his army of desperate Haramites?
What a people, what a country. Those that say that Buhari has changed
simply because he chose a Pastor as his
running mate are ignorant. Did he not have
a Pastor as his running mate in his last
outing in 2011? Did he not still say that it
was his intention to ''spread sharia throughout the country'' and that ''an
attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the
north''? Did he not oppose a state of emergency in
the north eastern states and say that it
was unfair for the military to kill Boko
Haram members? Did he not say that
instead of killing them they should forgive
them, pamper them and treat them in the same way that the Niger Delta militants
were treated? Did the spokesman of his party Alhaji Lai
Mohammed not say that the proscription of
Boko Haram by the Federal Government
was ‘’unjust’’ and ‘’unconstitutional’’? How
does the fact that Buhari has opted for a
Christian running mate change any of these things? In any case he only opted for a Christian
running mate because he was compelled
to do so as a consequence of the hue and
cry that the prospect of a muslim/muslim
ticket had already started to generate. Are those that cite the fact that he has a
Christian running mate as evidence of his
new-found love for Christians aware of the
fact that during the American civil war a
small, ignorant, misguided and deluded
group of negro slaves actually fought on the side of the southern confederate
forces in an attempt to keep slavery in
place? Did that suggest that the leaders of the
southern confederate ‘’secession’’ states
suddenly changed their minds and fell in
love with the blacks that they had enslaved
and treated like animals? Is Buhari's claim of not being partial to his
own hausa-fulani tribe not a little far-
fetched? Did he not lead a northern
delegation to Alhaji Lam Adesina, the late
Governor of Oyo state, just a few years ago
when some Fulani herdsmen were slaughtering Yoruba farmers on their own
land and ask him ‘’why are YOUR people
killing MY people?’’ Apparently Buhari believed that the
aggressors that had invaded the land and
farms of others and that killed all the
occupants had a right to do so simply
because they were fulani. Yet some people
still claim that the man is not a tribalist. Ignorance and lack of knowledge is a
terrible affliction but in this context it is
not only terrible but also very dangerous.
Buhari’s choice of a Christian Pastor as his
running mate means nothing and changes
nothing about him or his entrenched views and ancient mindset. It rather provides clear evidence of his
sheer desperation to win power at all costs
and it is a reflection of his obvious and
deep-seated deceit. Let the truth be told
even though the heavens may fall:
Christian Vice President or no Christian Vice President, Buhari's heart remains as
dark as ever. We shall meet him in the field: let God's
will be done.

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