AMOTEKUN: TEARS FOR A RACE THAT SOLD ITS SOUL By Samuel O. Ajayi


Ajayi Says "If it was the Southeast that started a security outfit like Amotekun and the FG declared it illegal, it is Yoruba's Buhari e-slaves that would have been defending the pronunciation by the AGF." However despite the resistance from the North and FG on Amotekun, Igbos have stood and supported Yorubas.

Over Buhari, especially between 2014 and 2019, no tribe insulted me more than my fellow Yorubas.

In 2014/15 especially, if you didn’t join them in selling Buhari, you were either a paid PDP agent or you did not want the progress of Nigeria.

They created the impression, especially those in diaspora, that if you supported Buhari, you were GOOD. But if you opposed him, you were EVIL.

On many occasions, I read people, my fellow Yorubas, saying “your PDP paymasters.”

I have quite a number of Hausa friends but it would surprise you to know that these guys would just say “Said Baba” but my fellow Southerners would call you names for daring to criticise or write against Buhari.

After the Elections
Buhari won and my people “retained their jobs”. The “duty” of defending Buhari was carried on their (Yorubas’)heads. The MORAL SUSTENANCE of the Buhari Presidency was championed by same us. No one called us wailers more than our fellow Yorubas.

“Get over your loss” was said to me severally.
The first set to rediscover their brains did not do until after the Fall of 2016.

Close to 2019, many sold their brains back. Some of those who were criticising Buhari reverted to default mode. Suddenly, the song, “Atiku is a thief”, rented the air again.

I asked a cousin of mine who was always claiming he couldn’t vote Buhari again but started rooting for him why he was doing so and he said he had the right to change his mind.

He was right.

Just like the North was right to say Amotekun is illegal.

The crowd of “think-Osinbajo-vote-Buhari” has fizzled into air.

If it was the Southeast that started a security outfit like Amotekun and the FG declared it illegal, it is Yoruba’s Buhari e-slaves that would have been defending the pronunciation by the AGF.

The North never saw the Yoruba race as a stakeholder in the Buhari Presidency. We were used as tools to give legitimacy and an intellectual slant to a campaign that would have been rudderless but for the Tinubu’s propaganda machinery.

They used us to sell a product that would have been gathering simmering dust in the shelf of political redundancy forever. Those abroad caught the bug while those at home demonised their tribal compatriots.

As Amotekun is destined to be dead on arrival, we can look back and cry for a race that chose to hold the short end of the political stick while the longer end remained un-held.

Obafemi Awolowo, Adekunle Ajasin, Dauda Adegbenro, Ooni Adeyemi, Abraham Adesanya, Olaniwun Ajayi, Francis Adekunle Fajuyi.

I can see these men shedding tears as they watch helplessly a race they gave their all but chose to sell its soul.

And the tears won’t dry soon… – Hope For Nigeria

https://www.opinionnigeria.com/amotekun-tears-for-a-race-that-sold-its-soul-by-samuel-o-ajayi/

Nukilia:
Who is this one? Paid columnist... The herdsmen are trying to sow discord among the people

Nigeria has been in a difficult situation because of the activities of killer herdsmen.Mind you, these herdsmen have been labelled as the fourth deadliest terrorist group in the world by the Global Terrorism Index. They have carried out massacres in rural and agrarian communities, and have been emboldened enough by the slackness of state security forces to move into urban settings

The needless defence of the Fulani by Tinubu.By now, everyone would have noticed that the most strident defence of the Fulani over the herdsmen issue has come from southerners, particularly the YORUBA.

On the question of whether the Fulani deserve the stereotype of cold-blooded killers or not, the YORUBA people have wept louder than the bereaved.

....Today, the Fulani are resented, and not just because of the herdsmen issue but also because of the clannish- ness & tribalism of President Muhammadu Buhari who has more or less driven collective benefits in the direction of a selected class.

Nukilia:
Who is this one? Paid columnist... The herdsmen are trying to sow discord among the people

Guestlander:


Probably a PDP hack. What a dumb writeup. He didn't explain to us why Amotekun is a bad idea. Why the JTF and hisbah are legal and acceptable in the north.
It can never be a bad idea to protect yourself against a present danger.
He was even more concerned with what some people would say if Amotekun was started by ibos!

Nukilia:
Who is this one? Paid columnist... The herdsmen are trying to sow discord among the people

Sirjamo:
We have been the pacesetters in Nigeria since centuries ago, we always start before others follow. Amotekun is another first, the igbos are welcome to ride along with us but we do not need their support before we can secure our land!!!!

Guestlander:


Probably a PDP hack. What a dumb writeup. He didn't explain to us why Amotekun is a bad idea. Why the JTF and hisbah are legal and acceptable in the north.
It can never be a bad idea to protect yourself against a present danger.
He was even more concerned with what some people would say if Amotekun was started by ibos!

Kemz77:
He is not lying. If SE forms their own, Afonjas among Yorubas will abandon their Amotekun and join Hausa-Fulani to squash that of SE. Like they did against IPOB and their BSS. Similar thing you see here on Nairaland and other social media, they will cry injustice for Sowore but as soon as Nnamdi Kanu page is up, they start attacking and insulting and wishing evil on him, then afterwards run back to Sowore's thread and cry injustice. SMH

kayusely70:
A Paid Agent

kayusely70:
A Paid Agent

Sirjamo:
We have been the pacesetters in Nigeria since centuries ago, we always start before others follow. Amotekun is another first, the igbos are welcome to ride along with us but we do not need their support before we can secure our land!!!!

NGpatriot:
It's very laughable and naive to think or believe that ibo people all of a sudden or overnight love Yoruba people or gives a damn about Amotekun, the fact is, they don't. They care less about Amotekun or any Yoruba related issues.

As usual and per their trait and general behavior, it's the same enemy of my enemy is my friend scenario, they'd love to see a confrontation between the North and the SW, this is also the reason why they've been shouting and lamenting for Tinubu to openly say something about Amotekun, but the SW is too smart to fall for such ill-mannered and nonstrategic confrontation.

Amotekun is here to stay and going by the overwhelming support in the SW across the board, the SW can handle their own business and fight their own battle so of what relevance is other people's fake and disingenuous support?

If they want to fight the North, let them going and fight the North, the SW is not their proxy.

After Amotekin, they'll gladly go back to their hateful and antagonistic ways.

Kemz77:
He is not lying. If SE forms their own, Afonjas among Yorubas will abandon their Amotekun and join Hausa-Fulani to squash that of SE. Like they did against IPOB and their BSS. Similar thing you see here on Nairaland and other social media, they will cry injustice for Sowore but as soon as Nnamdi Kanu page is up, they start attacking and insulting and wishing evil on him, then afterwards run back to Sowore's thread and cry injustice. SMH

Sirjamo:
We have been the pacesetters in Nigeria since centuries ago, we always start before others follow. Amotekun is another first, the igbos are welcome to ride along with us but we do not need their support before we can secure our land!!!!

truthonmission:
Mark my word today. that which u are afraid of will come upon u.
Yoruba war with the north is inevitable.
We are watching.