“If they ever tell my story let them say I walked with giants, men rise and fall like the Winter wheat but these names will never die… Let them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of horses…let them say I lived in the time of Achilles”- the Iliyad, Homer.
The words of Odysseus in Homer’s epic and ancient poem titled ”The Iliyad” (which in my view is the greatest poem that was ever written and which was quoted in the opening and last scene of the famous Hollywood blockbuster film titled ”Troy”) have always moved me. Those words are deep and profound: they stir my soul and rekindle my spirit.
They speak of and reflect the essence of Ancient Greece with its rich and exciting history, its extraordinary heroes and heroines and its all-powerful and all-knowing gods, titans and immortals. How I wish that I could conjure up such great and powerful words about the history of my nation Nigeria and her heroes past.
How I wish that the Nigerian people had their own Odysseus’ , Achilles’, Agamemnons and Hectors. How I wish they had their own ancient poets and great thinkers like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Homer who could remind generations to come about our past exploits with their inspiring, compelling and historic prose.
Yet I look at the Nigeria of today and I am not encouraged or inspired. As a matter of fact I am deeply saddened. I see no heroes on the horizon but only questionable pretenders and fallen caricatures that have sold their heritage and destiny for a mess of porridge and that couldn’t give a fig about what history or posterity will say about them or their country.
Many have asked why I should say such things. Permit me to answer that pertinent question by posing a few of my own.
I start by asking: is this the Nigeria of Murtala Mohammed and Theophilius Yakubu Danjuma? Is this the nation that helped to liberate Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa?
Is this the nation that restored sanity and stability to Sierra Leone, that brought an end to a civil war in Liberia, that fought so gallantly in Burma and Somalia and that quelled a military coup in Sao Tome and Principe?
Is this the nation whose wealth once knew no bounds and whose middle class once owned the finest cars and properties in London, Paris and New York? Is this the nation whose beautiful people once graced the streets of Belgravia, Chelsea, Hampstead and Knightsbridge?
Is this the country that once nationalized BP and that gave Margaret Thatcher sleepless nights over apartheid South Africa?
Is this the nation that once stood up to the mighty Boers and whose ancestors studied at Oxford and Cambridge as far back as the 1800’s?
Is this the nation whose inhabitants and various ethnic nationalities once ruled vast empires and whose progenitors contributed so much to the traditions, religion and culture of Ancient Egypt?
Is this the country that once fought a bitter and brutal civil war, yet declared ”no victor, no vanquished” and, in the spirit of love, came back as one? Is this the country which has been through thick and thin and yet whose people remained ever so resilient and always put a smile on their faces?
Is this the country where giants once held court and where the greats of old once presided? Where did we go wrong? What has happened to our people and what has afflicted our country? When did our leaders become spineless cowards and deceivers? When did the green white green of our nation’s flag become soiled with human faeces and when was it torn to shreds?
When did we shy away from fighting our own battles and prosecuting our own wars? When did we start bowing our heads in shame as events unfold in our country? When did we start sitting down silently as international newscasters speak about our nation in painful, disdainful, hushed and condescending tones?
What has happened to the ever courageous, ever smiling, ever confident and ever dependable Nigerian who shook the world with his arrogance and confidence and who spoke of his nation with pride and joy?
What has happened to our great army that was once the pride of Africa and that once made us so proud? What has happened to our great intellectuals and our men and women of courage and vision who once, like a collosus, bestrode the world?
What has happened to the stubborn and proud yet warm, friendly and profoundly good people that Nigerians once were? What has happened to the people that were once regarded as the hope of Africa and the pride of every black man on the planet?
Where and when did we go astray? How and when did it all go wrong?
When did we lose our strength, our wealth, our honour and our power? When did we lose our excellence, our confidence, our dignity and our self-respect? When did we become so weak and so helpless? When did we turn into killers, savages and barbarians?
When did we become so pitiful that the whole world mocks us and heaps insults on us so easily? When did they start saying that we have ”no serious government”, that we have ”lost control of large portions of our nation” and that we can’t even protect our own children? When did we become incapable of defending our borders and protecting our people?
When did we turn into a laughing stock and a reference point for incompetence, stupidity, cowardice, ignorance, evil, cluelessness and all that is bad to the rest of the world?
When did other nations start giving us lessons on how to fight insurgency and how to prosecute our wars? When did our people start clamouring for foreign armies to enter our land, violate our sovereignty and march on our sacred soil?
When did we start having to ask others to come and solve our local problems? O Nigeria, how are the mighty fallen. Truly ours is a nation afflicted. She is finished and there is little hope of any form of redemption or resurrection.
The honeymoon is over and the glory has departed. One hundred years of a forced and failed marriage has ended in a bitter yet undeniable divorce. We have lost it all and there is no going back. Those that wish to break up our nation for sport and bring our people to their knees have had their way.
Those that wish to watch us slaughter one another in an orgy of mindless violence and that wish to establish their AFRICOM in our shores will soon be here and we shall be occupied forever.
O Nigeria, how are the mighty fallen. I loved Nigeria but now I have stopped believing in her. She is saddled with many different sub- nations that were simply incompatible right from the start.
She is plagued and cursed with one particular sub-nation whose ruling elite are dangerous and unyielding, whose guile and deceit is second to none, who treat their own people with contempt and derision, who believe that they were born to rule, who think that power belongs to them, who suppress the religious and ethnic minorities within their ranks and who were taught from an early age that there was none besides them. Those people have killed Nigeria. They and those who have consistently bowed and trembled before them and who have always allowed them to have their way. Our nation has become a cruel joke- she is a maliciously contrived contraption that has shattered many dreams and frustrated many ambitions and aspirations. This was a country that was created for the benefit of just a few at the cost of the misery and pain of so many.
I will never accept the idea of living in a nation side by side with religious extremists who slit the throats of children, who habitually slaughter the innocents and who abduct and fornicate with small girls. Animals have no place in the homes of men.
It is time for us to stop pretending: let the terrorists and their friends in high places break away and establish their own country where they can marry as many young girls as they please and chop off as many limbs as they want. Let them form a nation where they can stone adulterers and turn women into chattels that are not even worthy of life.
Let those of us from the west establish Oduduwa and let us celebrate and enjoy our freedom from the bondage and ineptitude of a cruel failed state that has no soul and that lacks humanity and compassion.
Let us be liberated from the deceit that is known as Nigeria: a nation that once was but that is no more. Let us be free of Nigeria: a nation where injustice, evil, persecution, insensitivity, impugnity, terror, graft and wickedness reign supreme.
Let us be rid of Nigeria: a country where those of us that had the misfortune of being born on the ”wrong” side of the regional divide or who are adherents of the ”wrong” religious faith are butchered for our heritage and can never be treated as equals. Give us Oduduwa or let us die.
Yet we will eventually take our freedom by force if it is not freely given to us. We shall take it by fire: by the shedding of blood and by our own bleeding if necessary. We will take it by fire and by sacrificing our lives if that is what we are forced to do.
What we will never do is continue to live in perpetual slavery in a nation called Nigeria that is afflicted with feeble rulers and peopled by religious bigots, sexual deviants and bloodthirsty terrorists.
We shall not allow ourselves to be consummed by the weakness and ineptitude of our present-day rulers and the sheer incompetence of those that do not have the courage or the moral authority to crush the beasts that have abducted and enslaved our girls.
I have had enough. I say goodbye Nigeria: give us Oduduwa or let us die

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/161006-goodbye-nigeria-welcome-oduduwa-republic-by-femi-fani-kayode.html

Call him whatever you want, but this guy always makes a whole lot of sense in his articles.

well I will love it if we have our odua-nation, for yorubas, of yorubas and by yorubas, but be very rest assured Mr cocaine sniffer(FFK) that if and when odua nation is actualized, clowns like you will be lynched.

Our odua nation must only consist of people with sane minds and great ideas........

I will come back to read and commentus!

Femi! another KANU in the making. smh just that he's braver & saner than that iboe boy.

We Need more of this.

Kastonkastroll:
well I will love it if we have our odua-nation, for yorubas, of yorubas and by yorubas, but be very rest assured Mr cocaine sniffer(FFK) that if and when odua nation is actualized, clowns like you will be lynched.

Our odua nation must only consist of people with sane minds and great ideas........

See your life?

You still had to insult the guy for saying the truth.

I'm even surprised I didn't see the word "Yeebhoe" in your post.

That awkward moment when they realized they need a kingdom of their own.

All these wailers agitating for secession,why didn't they cry for it when Jonathan was President?

Is he still talking?

I would have shown more interest if this came from someone else.

Beremx:
[s]All these wailers agitating for secession,why didn't they cry for it when Jonathan was President?[/s]

Because Jonathan did not marginalize anybody, unlike this B00HARI with his Northernization agenda.

Speak the truth and be termed a wailer. Mtcheeww...
He's a wailer, while you're a zombie.

Too long... but he (ffk) made a great bit of sense. "I believe nigerîa was a country"

FFK seems confuse to me,he should rather face his newly acquired girlfriend while dwelling on the defeat he contributed to the last regime.Attention seeker running his mouth like tap water

WIZGUY69:
Femi!
another KANU in the making.
smh
just that he's braver & saner than that iboe boy.

We can accuse Kanu of many things, truth is, he is truly sincere and passionate about having biafra. Same can't be said of FFK. Just some months ago, he was campaigning for GEJ to become the president of a united Nigeria. So, what has changed between now and then?

FFK is just an attention seeking nuisance. All he wants is some attention from PMB and he will change is tune. He is the number one political flip floper in Nigeria. Anybody that knows his antecedents will never take him serious.

if ffk like make he shout or cry no more recognition to come chop.

Beremx:
All these wailers agitating for secession,why didn't they cry for it when Jonathan was President?

Article was first published in 2014.

Useless noisemaker as usual.

I have had enough. I say goodbye Nigeria: give us Oduduwa or let us die

In one breath this junkie said he has had enough and he is saying "goodbye to Nigeria", and in another he says "give us Oduduwa Republic or let us die".

Mr Ediot, if you are tired, leave and never come back, and if you want to die, go ahead and kill yourself. There is no us in your trash. I haven't seen ANY Yoruba man saying they desire to "die" for Oduduwa Republic.

You are simply tired of staying out of government and desperately want in, that is why you keep churning out these inciting articles weekly, with the hope you'd get "invited" to Aso Rock someday soon, to go see "our president", the "father of all Nigerians". You think we've forgotten all that

You aren't the "spokesman" for ANY group of Yoruba people and your opinion sure doesn't count in the larger scheme of things.

Keep yelping like the rabid Chuwawa you are, with a little luck perhaps, the police would sneeze in your direction.



Edit:

This wa even written in May 2014 just after his highly publicised visit to Aso Rock in April where he emerged to say "Jonathan and his men are wonderful people."

He ramped up his scathing criticism a notch with this idiotic article after the visit and the then cowardly president decided to finally shut him up by giving him a spot at Aso Rock dinner table.

What a waste of breeding space.

And what does the op plan to achieve by bringing this up now

Beremx:
All these wailers agitating for secession,why didn't they cry for it when Jonathan was President?

This was written in 2014 when he was part of the Government.

This is the kind of thread I like to see. But nothing can beat that thread about Yoruba youths flogging toutish Igbo eze

SeverusSnape:

See your life?

You still had to insult the guy for saying the truth.

I'm even surprised I didn't see the word "Yeebhoe" in your post.

He said the truth, yeah.. But as far am concern, FFK and his father were still part and parcel of the numerous problems confronting Nigeria. In one way or another, this FFK contributed to the woes bedevilling us as a nation. So he has no moral right to talk about the problems facing the country today.

The man was a one time aviation minister, tell me please, what has he contributed to the aviation industry aside from looting that sector?

When you people(tribal bigots) stop looking at everything with your ethnic chauvinism lens, maybe, just maybe the country will be begin to find its foot.....

omenka:
Useless noisemaker as usual.

In one breath this junkie said he has had enough and he is saying "goodbye to Nigeria", and in another he says "give

He's not a "noise maker", B00HARI ministers are.

...He's a junkie, right?

While you're a Fulani slave.

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Kastonkastroll:
well I will love it if we have our odua-nation, for yorubas, of yorubas and by yorubas, but be very rest assured Mr cocaine sniffer(FFK) that if and when odua nation is actualized, clowns like you will be lynched.

Our odua nation must only consist of people with sane minds and great ideas........

CC: Cramjones

I concur with you. Pay no mind to that cocaine snorting pig.

Y didn't he publish this useless article while he was enjoying his booty as the director of media & publicity to Ebele Clueless?

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Kastonkastroll:
He said the truth, yeah.. But as far am concern, FFK and his father were still part and parcel of the numerous problems confronting Nigeria. In one way or another, this FFK contributed to the woes bedevilling us as a nation. So he has no moral right to talk about the problems facing the country today.

The man was a one time aviation minister, tell me please, what has he contributed to the aviation industry aside from looting that sector?

When you people(tribal bigots) stop looking at everything with your ethnic chauvinism lens, maybe, just maybe the country will be begin to find its foot.....

Yeah...Yeah... So Olukayode has no right to talk about the problems bedeviling the country, But Tinubu and B00HARI has that right.

Was B00HARI not a former head of state, Federal commissioner etc?... Your president is also among those who put the country in its present state.

Besides, Even though he's guilty of what you accuse him of, Is it bad for one to have some introspection?

As if he can truly die for this course.

flyingsnail:

This was written in 2014 when he was part of the Government.

Don't mind that Beremx .... She/He is suffering from acute dyslexia.

Indeed.

SeverusSnape:
Call him whatever you want, but this guy always makes a whole lot of sense in his articles.

Indeed, he does.

Jonathan Leaving a Legacy of Destruction and Disaster- FFK.

The former minister questioned the competence of President Goodluck
Jonathan.

A former Aviation Minister, Femi
Fani-Kayode, said President Goodluck Jonathan by his misrule is leaving a legacy of “destruction and disaster” in Nigeria.

Speaking at a book launch in Lagos
on Wednesday, Mr. Fani-Kayode, in a speech titled ”A Date with Destiny,”
said the administration of Mr.
Jonathan has plunged the country into financial recklessness, bloodbath (apart from during the civil war) and total misrule never before
experienced in the country.

On the planned amnesty for the violent insurgent group, Boko Haram, the former minister said it is an “inglorious
endeavour” and an “exercise in
futility” that will “set a dangerous precedent.”

“4, 400 precious souls cut short and
slaughtered like chicken by Boko Haram in the last two years. How can
our government sleep well at night
with all that innocent blood that has flowed whilst they are at the helm of
affairs of our nation?” the former
minister said.

“More innocent souls have been
killed in the last 2 years
by terrorists than at any other time in
the history of Nigeria outside the civil war. How does President
Jonathan and his”today’s men” feel
about winning such a dubious and dishonourable title?

Does he still regard Boko Haram as “his siblings” who he “cannot hurt”?

“Why did the President refuse to visit
the good people of the northeast for so long despite the fact that hundreds of
people are still being slaughtered
there by Boko Haram every day?” he added.

He said the government has proved it does not “give a damn” to the suffering of the people and the loss of lives by not visiting the troubled region
until politicians from the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) did; and
the president’s lukewarm and
delayed response to the recent massacre of 185 people in Baga.

“He did not visit the place until the APC governors took the initiative, did the right thing, went there boldly and paved the way? It was only after that initiative was taken
by the opposition that our President
woke up from his deep slumber, remembered that he was the Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces and saw fit to go to the
north-east. Why did he take so long
before doing so?”

“Does the fact that it took our
Government two days to
even acknowledge that the Baga
massacres ever took place and that when they finally did all they said was that they would ”investigate it” not seem rather insensitive?

www.premiumtimesng.com/
news/131308-fani-kayode-blasts-
jonathan-says-president-is-leaving-
legacy-of-destruction-and-disaster.html

He is hungry again. Someone please feed him.
The biggest flip flopper ever, who never remain on any stance for even a second.
Few months ago he believed in Nigeria with Jonathan as Jesus Christ, few months later he believed in Oduduwa.
What the heck with T Y Danjuma of all people?
FFK equalized crazy+confusion

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mtcheeew