The last few days have been a period of deep reflection and awakening for me after seeing the injustice meted out to the igbos who we all love to hate. I admit i have waged a consistentl war against them online but i would not sit by and allow them be subjugated by this regime as that would be shooting myself in the foot. If by any chance the south is silenced on the agitation for restructuring, i can assure you that Christians would be made slaves in this country.

Now to the hub of my message. One would agree that both FFK and fayose can be erratic fellows but i state without any equivocation that they represent the voices for millions of oppressed christians in Nigeria. The current regime came in on the groundswell of enormous goodwill that for once we would be free from the corruption of the previous corrupt governments since the return to democracy in 1999 but the last 2 years has been a period of suffering for Nigeria. And this was further exercerbated by the obvious support of the Government for the murderous fulani heardsmen. The buhari administration has by its actions and inactions made individuals like FFK, Fayose and Nnamdi Kanu beacons of hope for the millions of oppressed Christians in Nigeria.

Although the methodology of the IPOB agitation left more to be desired due to the adoption of hate speech as a medium of propagation, i wager that the organisation is not a terrorist organisation. The ipob has never hurt anybody by their messages but only endangered the millions of igbos especially in the north. No yoruba or hausa man had been physically hurt despite the hate rhetoric of the organisation prior to the invasion of abia state by the army in an extra judicial operation to arrest the leader of the group. It is general knowledge that the resumed hearing of the court case was slated for sometime in october with a plethora of pending applications before the court. One then wonders why the Government could not exercise restraint to await the decision of the court for the revocation of Nnamdi Kanu's bail.

The killings in Abia has gone further to widen the ethnic and religious divide in the country and all Nigerians of good faith must rise up to condemn what is clearly an injuctice to the people of the south east. We should not allow hate for a people to blind us {All Nigerians, especially christians} to the danger we all face in the event that the bulwark of christianity in Nigeria {igbos} are finally subjugated. I know that after the IPOB is criminalised, the call for restructuring of the Nigerian Federation woud be jettisoned and our generations subjected to slavery in Nigeria.

There was absolutely no need for the Government to go into east commando style in a bid to arrest the leader of the IPOB who is a civilian when his matter was subjudice. That action is in itself unabashed contempt of the Order of the Court granting bail to Nnamdi Kanu. It is actions such as this that has fully come to define the current adminstration as one which has no regard for the rule of law and Judicial process. If we must run a democrary, Court orders must be obeyed no matter how unpalatable they are else we run the risk of sliding into chaos and the rule of force or self help. I am glad that notable figures like Olusegun Obasanjo and Senate President Bukola Saraki have faulted the actions of the military and the proscription of IPOB. This goes to show that when looked at objectively, without the lens of ethnic and religious sentiments, the invasion of Abia would most certainly be called for what it is: Illegal and unconsistutional.

Nothing stopped the Government from looking into the grievance of the SE and calling the group for dialogue. We cannot run a country where a large section of our population are discontent, angry and detached from the National goals and aspiration. If the country were to be so run, then we might as well grant the igbos their wish for a separate nation. You cannot beat a child and ask him not to cry. The injustices meted against the people of the SE are visible and clear for all to see. At least, the current Governemnt has magnified it for all to see. My conscience will not allow me to turn a blind eye to such travesty.

My message is not a divisive one as i have no grudge with our muslim brothers but i want to enlighten Southerners to keep their eye on the ball and not allow themselves to get carried away with the temporary defeat of the IPOB as an injury to one is an injury to all. Morseso, we would be targeted by the same undemocratic forces who want to shut us up and deprive us of our right as fellow Nigerians. The operation Crocodile smile planned for the SW and SS is another ploy to make it seem that the Abia massacre is not an isolated incidence and to use same to silence the voices of Yoruba elders who gathered in Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital to demand for restructuring of the Federation to enable all ethnic groups chart a better course for their respective peope. If we allow undemocratic forces to prevail, we might as well kiss our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms good bye. This is the time to eschew all forms of hate and suspicion between yorubas {our progressive population} and igbos in order for democratic forces to align and obtain a workable formula for both our people.

Individuals like FFK, Fayose and Nnamdi Kanu {despite his hate speeches} no matter their notoriety for the mundane, would never be forgetten as heroes for the rights of the oppressed under this regime having risked their lives and goodwill to challenge this oppresive and repressive administration {essentially a regime}. We must bind together to save the millions of christians in farming communities in Benue, Enugu, Delta and Ondo states who have be subjected to mindless killings and destruction of farm crops by the fulani hersdmen. This administration would go down in history as the most divisive, sectional and oppressive after the Abacha regime and it is particularly painful that young men like yours truly staked our honour to campaign and vote for the President despite numerous warnings by our parents who witnessed the viciousness of the President in 1983-85. In all, i am confident that secular and democratic forces would prevail against those who want to obliterate our way of life and turn us to mindless zombies. It is incumbent on our christian population to do all it can to remedy the situation as the condition of things in the polity continue to deteriorate day by day.

Note: This is not a hate speech but a call for vigilance. As they say, eternal vigilance is the price for freedom. Abi no be so?

May we be saved from this calamity. Amen. embarassed