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October 30th, 2016 adminadmin

“Is there not a cause?” was David’s answer to his brothers who accused him of pride and insolence when he was about to go up against Goliath in the fight for the soul of the nation of Israel which had become an object of attack by antagonistic forces. In today’s clime, the central authorities, otherwise known as the Federal Government (now increasingly becoming a Northern People’s Congress-type party) may be referred to as a behemoth but in reality can be likened to Goliath, with all of its assumed powers which it has arrogantly used against Yorubaland since Independence. This analogy is apt in the sense that the cause of the Yoruba had always been True Federalism which the central authorities sought to repress and neutralize and in the process demonize Yoruba principal leaders in terms similar to the one used by David’s brothers.
Thus, Awo was perceived by the Nigerian behemoth as unforgiving, arrogant, uncompromising while MKO was seen as a womanizer and an unscrupulous businessman who aided and abetted some of the military dictatorships in the country while, today, Asiwaju Tinubu is demonized as an authoritarian always looking for ways and means of imposing his favored candidates on the people while trying to carve out the entire Yoruba landscape only for his own pecuniary gains.
It would be assumed that were any or all of the above true, the alternatives proffered must actually negate those characteristics with Yorubaland being the better for it. We know this not to be the case as the only means which the central authorities utilize to have their way is extra-legal and unconstitutional means usually backed up by force with the active collaboration of Yoruba pretenders to fidelity to the appearance of “inclusiveness” that patronizes Yoruba men and women willing to act as waiters on the behemoth. The problem Yorubaland has with the center is in the fact that Yoruba political aspirations have been clearly defined by its social democratic essence, which, since the dawn of anti-colonial struggles, have pitted us against the center and such center had always tried to neutralize any political formation that we create to maintain our political choices through what we now refer to as “rigging” into power and positions of influence. To these pretenders, this is the only way the center can have its way.
Thus, from the illegal declaration of the State of Emergency in the Western Region by the then Federal Government to the massive rigging of both the Regional and federal elections in the same Region through the annulment of the June 12 elections all the way to the attempted neutralization of the AD in 2003 through the 2014 Osun and Ekiti gambits all pointed to the continuation of the utilization of federal might to try to truncate the Federalist paradigm of the Yoruba which is even in danger of being reduced to an electoral ball to be played at will and not the existential reality it is. Our antidote to the overbearing control by the center achieved through all sorts of subterfuge would become reduced to mere electoral permutations by those who will use it to take Yorubaland for granted, once again.
Ondo 2016 has now brought out the full manifestation of these pretenders hiding behind the mask of Yoruba inclusivity. This manifestation is predicated on their acquiescence to any methodology by the central government to maintain political control of Yorubaland. The disturbing fact in this Ondo new theatre of operations is that the effort is being championed by a central government whose Change mantra was and is supposed to eradicate these forms of malfeasance in the governance of the country all the more so when such mantra is anchored on the personal characteristics of the President, Muhammadu Buhari, centered on his morality and incorruptibility and who was expected to champion the Change mantra.

In his inaugural address, President Buhari praised those whom he referred to as Nigeria’s founding fathers, who, in spite of attempts to violate oppositional chances, retained the Federalist structure that ushered in Nigeria’s independence. Immediately after this recognition, he proceeded to do the exact opposite of what these founding fathers did, thus calling into question his sincerity and therefore morality in referencing these founding fathers. And this is in spite of the fact that the president’s electoral Manifesto was about the necessity to return Nigeria to True Federalism, knowing full well that Democracy cannot prosper in a lopsided and fraudulent federation that Nigeria currently is.
This is why we cannot continue to rely on President Buhari’s personal attributes, to wit, morality and nobility of intentions which are also not value-neutral; for President Buhari certainly represents the face and voice of an interest, beyond fighting corruption which previous governments since 1966 had been “fighting” anyway and here he is also acknowledging the fact that Nigeria cannot be sustained by spending over seventy percent of its income on recurrent expenditure but who is now shying away from addressing the problem from its source: Nigerian economy being a “sharing” economy which True Federalism seeks to change into a productive economy. This is why Yorubaland cannot afford another central interference in our quest of establishing Federalism in its “true” form, which definitely will require denying the center the ability to interfere in our internal affairs at will by entrenching our leadership within our historical trajectory and creating an alternative platform for any form of electoral collaboration across Nigeria.
The question then is, to whose benefit is an APC victory in Ondo 2016? Certainly it cannot be beneficial to the Yoruba, not the least because of the process, ways and means through which the party’s candidate emerged, which process was an extension of the earlier processes through which the center always tries to negate Yoruba aspirations centered on a combined and even development of the Homeland which will now be negated by the activities of these pretenders in our midst as our past experience has shown, especially since the break-up of the Region into hapless states.
So, in this period of historical significance, silence has no meaning. In this day of liberation, when the Scots are looking forward to their Independence, the Catalans are sure-footedly pursuing their Independence and the Kurds are fighting their ways to their sovereignty in spite of their internal contradictions, giving these pretenders any leeway will be tantamount to neutralizing the entire Federalist project in Nigeria since a defeat for Yoruba Federalism is a defeat for Federalism in general. That is what a victory for the APC in Ondo 2016 portends.

It is, therefore, time for the Yoruba to once and for all neutralize these pretenders such that we can revisit our Federalist character in a proper manner. This is the time to not only speak up but to walk the talk. So, we must say to these characters, no matter their efforts, they shall not come into our land; by the same shenanigans they have chosen to come, by the same route they shall go. They are judged and condemned; their pointed arrows shall not fly, their spikes and land-mines shall lie fallow, its potential energy shall remain buried and shall not function, their intended captives are set free; and we say “who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel, you shall become a plain”. And so shall it be for the forces of perfidy and their agents in Yorubaland.

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@OP, from your write up I will simply come to the conclusion that u are writing as a card carrying member of the PDP who is using any means whatsoever to prevent any other party particularly the APC from winning the forth coming gubernatorial election. The important thing I am more concerned with any election is the credibility & not the party winning because the people are to decide who govern them.

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