It is written:

“And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be killed? What has he done?” 1 Samuel 20:32

The soul of the Nation of Israel was at stake, and Saul, despite his rejection as king, tried to defy God by killing David, who had been anointed king in his place. But Jonathan, his son, would not play ball because he was a “man of God”; that is, someone who reveres God. Jonathan’s loyalty was to God and his duty was to ensure that His Will for the Nation prevailed.
By this, we know that Jonathan rejected the [b]LIE [/b]that his father’s rule had come to represent. Jonathan defended his friend and compatriot, David, against his father, despite the possibility of eventually becoming king. His concern was not so much based on such an expectation but for the soul of the Nation. In like manner, David, because of his reverence for God, would not kill Saul, even when he was perfectly positioned to do so.
All of which took place within the context of the Nation of Israel fighting for its life; from several enemies.
Having become dissatisfied with the rule of the judges, the Nation of Israel had asked for their own king “to judge them like all the nations.” They chose to go through with their demand and God allowed it. Having established the parameters of a king’s authority and powers, the Nation was left to deal with its consequences; they can choose to do right by the Lord or do evil in the sight of the Lord.
By this we know that Self-Determination is acceptable to God.
The question, therefore, for Jonathan, was whether the pursuit of his potential rulership is greater than the establishment of God’s Will for His people. Jonathan and David centered their actions on the truth of God, for themselves and for their Nation.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and colonial rule separated us from our God-given identities as Nations, hence, the concept of Nigeria as a negation of the Nationalities, also known as Unitarism, is, ab initio, satanic and therefore not of God.
Nigeria, as presently constituted, is not God’s plan for Yoruba People (or any other Nationality in Nigeria who would tune in to God’s plan for them). If Nigeria is to remain a geo-political entity, it must be reconfigured by the Nationalities within the territory.
Nigeria can only be a commonwealth of Nationalities. It can only become a “Nation” when all the Peoples created by God become homogenized into a “nationality”, becoming the creation of the fallen man, already the embodiment of sin and therefore incapable of righteousness unless there is repentance, a turning away from the sin.
That is, reverting to God’s purpose as defined by Him by virtue of our identities as Tongues and Nations.
Nigerian “Nationality” would therefore be living a LIE and would continually and diligently seek God but would not find Him.
By which we know that the plethora of churches in Nigeria could not even begin to address the Nigerian problematic, even as they create separate social and economic paradigm for their congregations.

Their educational institutions at all levels, housing estates, economic ventures, motivational speeches, mentoring, expansive memberships etc do not address basic economic indices; rather these attempts try to showcase their own successes within the economic, political and social darkness that is Nigeria. They have not and could not provide the light.
Truth is not an agency for sustaining a LIE; nor a measure of success within a LIE; it is for the disappearance of the LIE.
It is written:
“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! Isaiah 14:12
Satan is the father of LIES.
Lucifer(satan) “weakened our nation”, such that we no longer exist as a Nation in, and for ourselves.
The only way to glorify God in our existence is in manifesting our capacity to have dominion over all that is created.
The other way around is our current reality.
We exist at the behest of the elements we have no control over; contrary to God’s expectations and command, hence basic existential necessities become our albatross.
But it was not so in the Western Region, even within the limits of the time. That was why the period of its existence was our “Golden Era”, our Zion.
Now, we are by the rivers of Babylon, and wept, when we remembered Zion.
By this we know that the Nigerian “nationality” exist only through the instrumentality of[b] LIES:[/b]
Every action, every thought aimed at sustaining Nigeria was, and is based on a LIE.
From the lie of the NCNC “victory” in the 1951 Western Nigeria Parliamentary Elections; to the lie of the 1963 Census; to the lie about the 1963 “Republican Constitution”; to the lies of the January and July 1966 military coups; to the lies used to justify other military coups; to the lies about the military defending Nigeria’s territorial integrity when all the military’s efforts were and are geared towards suppressing the Peoples of Nigeria; to the electoral malfeasance since 1999 till date and now to the lies about border closing---after-all, Buhari went to London to tell them the “truth” about this.
By these, we know that satan, the father of lies, reigns in Nigeria.
And will continue to reign until the Peoples caged under its architecture are freed from its darkness into the light of God’s expectation.
Unitarism is under severe questioning in the UK, the superintendent of the creation of Nigeria through the on-going quest for Scottish Independence and potentials for Wales while death and misery is imposed on the Peoples of Nigeria for daring to pursue a similar quest-- the clear manifestation of satan’s control.
It is written:
For “who has known the mind of the LORD that He may instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
The mind of Christ is expressed in His assignment, to wit: He has come to set at liberty those who are oppressed.
The political economy of the Yoruba Nation has the potential to set us at liberty and transform the Nation into greatness.
A peep into an example which will spur other Nationalities on the continent to revert to their God-given identities:
Nowhere in the world was any form of development achieved by using a Language foreign to that society.
It has been proven that the using “mother tongue” for production of knowledge is the motor of development, and this is aside from the generation of social and cultural consciousness which enables the development of our humanity.
The economic impact of production and reproduction of knowledge in the Yoruba Language, by generating publishers, authors, editors, translators, specially trained teachers, printers etc can only be imagined.
The light of Self-Determination must therefore shine in the darkness of Nigeria.
How?
Jonathan and David provided the answer. Jonathan was not shackled by the potential of future power; his expectation was not on the lie his father’s authority and power had become. He knew his father and his power no longer represent God in the kingdom; taking over such a power would therefore be against God’s Will.
All attempts by the Yoruba at reinforcing the lie that Nigeria is, had always been disastrous—for the individual and the Nation. We know how the Obasanjo Presidency played out for the Nation such that his attempted come-back through his political formation fell flat on its face—no one outside Yorubaland played any serious role in it. Justice Akinola Aguda and Tai Solarin were scammed into providing a “unifier” for Nigeria; hence the birth of Abuja and we know what it has turned out to be. Professor Ojetunji Aboyade led the economic team that was eventually used to introduce SAP, of which Chief Olu Falae became the public face and main defender; M.K.O was swept away even though he was on a “Nigerianist” mission and of course, Chief Obafemi Oyeniyi Awolowo sacrificed his all, for Nigeria and without surrendering the Yoruba Nation. He was swept away.
Jonathan, on his part, paved the way for the regeneration of his Nation by supporting David in the quest for the manifestation of God’s Will.
Let it therefore be known that reinforcing the lie that is Nigeria is not acceptable to God.
The regeneration of the Yoruba Nation is.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says.


Wale Odeku

What a great piece. ..!

Make I go church first. I dey com comment later