₦airaland Forum

Who speaks for the Yoruba in the killing fields of Nigeria today?
President Buhari cares for his people. But although he is president of Nigeria, his people are not the people of Nigeria. His people are the Fulanis in particular, and Northern Nigerians in general. That is the token of a “good politician.” A good politician promotes the interests of his people.

But what happens to members of the president’s party who are neither Fulani nor Northern Nigerians? Can they also care for their people as the president does for his, and at the same time be in alliance with Mr. President?

The evidence suggests they cannot and do not. They have watched in silence, without complaining, as the president filled major posts with his own people and ignored theirs. They have “siddon looked” as the entire security architecture of Nigeria was placed virtually exclusively in the hands of Northerners.
They said nothing when the president illegally appointed his sister’s in-law, Amina Zakari, as acting chairman of INEC, flouting statutory regulations and without the required approval of the National Council of State. Cat caught their tongue when the president illegally appointed Ahmed Lawan Kuru as the managing director of Asset Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) and named its executive directors without requisite Senate confirmation.They were missing in action when he removed illegally Nigeria’s Southern Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and replaced him with a Northerner.

DEAFENING SILENCE

Men like Bola Tinubu who were loud in calling for the restructuring the Nigerian polity, which is one of the cardinal demands of South, dropped their demand like a hot potato once they entered into an alliance with Buhari. In APC, they are now required to implement programs and policies whose primary objective is to benefit the agenda of the president’s people.Rotimi Amaechi pitched the idea of building a University of Transportation in Nigeria. He believes, in his own words, that “charity begins at home.” Nevertheless, he claims in this case that his charity “must begin abroad.” The reason is that he is a member of the APC. Therefore, the proposed university has to be based in Daura, President Buhari’s hometown in Katsina State.

This is what happens when you join Buhari’s APC. You deny your interests and rationalize that of Mr. President. Buhari is a former military general, and once a general, you are always a general. In the army, foot-soldiers have no interest. They are required to sacrifice themselves for the general. They do the general’s bidding, no questions asked, even at the cost of their life.

In effect, Southern politicians in the APC are conscripted to promote the president’s Northern agenda. This makes them, in effect, traitors to their own people.

BETRAYAL OF THE YORUBAS

This is the predicament of Yoruba APC leaders. They are politicians, but in bed with a military president with a Northern agenda. In order to ingratiate themselves to the president, they are forced to be ambassadors of his many chauvinistically Northern schemes.

If you are a Yoruba man, once you join APC, you lose your voice. Otherwise, why has Bola Tinubu said nothing publicly about Fulani herdsmen killing Yoruba farmers in their farms? Why has Vice-president Yemi Osinbajo kept mum on the rape and plunder of his kith and kin by the Fulani militia? Why has he not resigned in protest?On the contrary, their silence has been bought. Their silence is the price they have had to pay for being in the APC and for collecting scraps from the master’s table.

Things have now come home to the roost. The marauding herdsmen have shifted their raping, kidnapping and progroms from the Middle Belt progressively southward. They are now attacking people in Ogun, Osun, Ekiti and Ondo states. What are the Yoruba allies of Buhari going to do or say about this?YEMI OSINBAJO

The real Afenifere has also identified Vice-president Yemi Osinbajo as a sell-out. In a communiqué, signed by its leaders, they said: “Osinbajo is hanging on the Fulani to work against Yoruba interest. When our people are getting killed in their farms by Fulani herdsmen Osinbajo did not say anything.”

On his recent visit to the United States, Osinbajo downplayed the incidence of the marauding herdsmen, because he dared not admit the truth. He said: “With respect to general kidnapping which we have seen in parts of the country, again, this is not entirely new. In fact, some of the kidnapping stories you read or listen to are simply not true anywhere, some are fueled by politics.”

Replied the Afenifere: “(We are scandalized) by the opportunistic and provocative utterances of Vice-president Yemi Osinbajo in New York dismissing the danger we are faced in Yorubaland as well as by other zones in Nigeria as being ‘politically motivated.’”

In effect, Yoruba politicians in the APC are on the horns of a dilemma. How can they continue to be members of a party and government that practically turns a blind eye to the kidnapping, raping, maiming and killing of their people? Is the trade-off of declaring June 12 as Democracy Day sufficient for them to acquiesce in forfeiting part of their homeland to Fulani herdsmen?Make no mistake about it. Bola Tinubu, Yemi Osinbajo and other APC opportunists can no longer speak for the Yorubas in Nigeria.


AUTHOR:
Femi Aribisala

PENNYSWAP:
OP by the powers vested on me as a zombie, I here by Christen you IPOB for making this post

I dont play party politics ; i'm not tribalistic; all the indigenous; Nigerian politicians be it *APC or PDP* they all ,have one thing in common, they dont serve the people, but there own selfish interest, with a general interest ,written for them to obey ; People like the Imo state governor ; Ebonyi state governor ; act accordingly to the caliphates interest *slave -masters; this is happening; with the APC government, all accross Nigeria * Nigerians dont benefit anything from election;from politicians ;or politcal parties; what we should be demanding now ;restructuring ; this unitary system of government; doesnt favor us the electorates ; Thank you.

I agree, once you join a party that is in power, you lose you voice to speak

did yoruba beg you for help. Crying more than the bereaved

Nobody speaks up against the Killing, maiming and slaughtering of Yorubas anymore since Igboho was successfully hushed.

Tinubu that is supposed to protect the interest of the Southwest is more interested in being in the good books of the Fulani Oligarchs; asking “where are the cows?”

Now he is peeing around the entire Southwest begging monarchs to help beg Buhari to hand over to him.

Onye ala!