‘REMI OYEYEMI’S COCKTAIL OF CONTRADICTIONS ABOUT OUR COUNTRY
A few weeks ago, one ‘Remi Oyeyemi placed a write up in this forum titled “Jonathan Goodluck: Vice President In Uthman Dan Fodio’s Estate”. My take on this is that it's a shame how some "educated" Nigerians like ‘Remi Oyeyemi cannot conceptualize unity even in their minds. Is it the North that makes the people of Aguleri and Umeleri in Anambra State or Ife and Modakeke in Oyo State, all the same lineage, language and Culture, kill one another and keep demanding that justice be done by separating them from their brothers?

REMI should stop being naive, OBJ was and is not anybody’s puppet. If OBJ was a puppet, how come he was able to HAND PICK a sick Yar’adua and not the healthy IBB, Buhari or Atiku. These are all Northerners, each with two functional kidneys! Or is it his so called Uthman Danfodio Estate that “master minded” this process?

If we look more critically than Remi is looking at these issues, we’ll see that the things playing out in the name of marginalization and demands for political space are just symptoms and that the real disease is neither tribalism nor ethnocentrism, but selfish individualism. He was talking about Sanusi. How many factories did Ibru build in Urobo land? How many scholarships has Alameisiagh awarded in South- South? How many scholarships has Yar’adua, Atiku or IBB awarded to Northerners? We should join hands in asking these INDIVIDUALS to be more accountable and not be fighting one another.
Where was REMI when Sanusi was fighting for Abiola against Abacha? Why was Sanusi a founding director of the Kudirat Initiative for Nigerian Development (KIND) when people like ‘Remi Oyeyemi existed in the South-West? . Was Abiola or Kudirat from the North? 

At an age when countries like USA are bringing races together to form superpowers and the Europeans are telling each other "let's stop discriminating and come together as European Union", "educated" Nigerians are telling each other "let's end discrimination by parting ways". Is that the most intelligent solution that we can think of?

Finally, REMI should correct the following impressions: (1) total population is always determined by total fertility rate (average number of children born by a woman in her lifetime) and it does not have to be published in PARROT or WEST AFRICAN PILOT for demographers to know that it is higher in the North than in the South (2) there is an obvious skip in REMI’s recount of past events in Nigeria; he jumped from 1963 to 1973 as if nothing of significance happened during this period. And some unsuspecting commentators say he's recounting history correctly! (3) the Beroms are indigenes of Plateau State, but are not natives of Jos North or Jos South like REMI claims.



I agree with REMI, one of the greatest maladies of ignorance is to be ignorant of one’s own ignorance”.