₦airaland Forum

“Then God said” is His affirmation of the transformation of a reality that exists contrary to His nature. God is Light and in Him there is no darkness at all.

Concerning the Yoruba-African Nation within the context of Africa’s historical experiences and the journey towards Yoruba Emancipation, our experiences during the last 400 years of Slavery and colonialism created a reality that cemented our alienation from our God-given existence.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Then God said: “Let there be light”.

The children of Israel spent 400 years in Egypt before their deliverance according to the Covenant with Abraham, who, as recorded in Genesis 15:12 “Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him:

“Then HE said to Abram……..”

When therefore, there is darkness, God speaks; what God says ensures the disappearance of the darkness.

Darkness in Nigeria is characterized by the subversion of democracy and Self-Determination of the Peoples. Federalism is the only route towards the manifestation of Self-Determination of the Peoples, for it leaves room for their self-actualization in contrast to the uniformist, Unitarist, post-colonial State seeking to ensure the erasure of their God-given nature from human history. Federalism, then, is the union of two or more Self-Defined entities that may be administered in any manner. The form of administration does not become a substitute for Self-Determination.

The West/Yorubaland had borne the brunt of these Unitarist, anti-Federalist forces, a joint venture between the East and the North and primarily aimed at subduing the West/Yorubaland because of her anti-colonial philosophy anchored on Federalism.

Current attempts at consolidating anti-Federalism and denying Self-Determination include the so-called autonomy for local governments; the proposed Waterways Bill which will enable the central government to control all the river banks in Nigeria; the resettlement of herdsmen across the country in the name revitalizing agriculture and livestock production, otherwise known as RUGA Settlements; border closures negating cross-border Ethno-National Existence, which, ordinarily, ought to have engendered a new form of economic thought but which is now ensconced within closures of the artificial borders thus compounding the artificiality, and denying the existentialism of the Peoples of the border areas.

Ethno-National nepotism, Chauvinism and Irredentism are the ideological weapons of the anti-Federalists. These characteristics are personified, historically, by Major-General Aguiyi Ironsi, the military head of state after the January 1966 military coup and in the current circumstances, Major-General(retd) Muhammadu Buhari.

Both subverted the Federalism that ushered in Independence by disregarding its essence by turning Federalism on its head and making the center the focal point. Aguiyi Ironsi’s substitution of the Regions arrived at during the Independence struggles with his “group of provinces” and effectively neutralizing Federalism became the launchpad for incoming military adventurers whose past-time was tinkering with Federalism until it now has no meaning.

The Nigeria-Biafra war was a consequence of the anti-Federalist posture, with Biafra, on the one hand, trying to overrun Yorubaland and the “Nigerian Forces” under the control of the North trying to make the West (Yorubaland) its plaything.

The Nigerian Army (armed forces) was a colonial creation aimed at suppressing the Peoples and placed under the control of northern hegemony which had not failed to utilize it in the process of entrenching itself while neutralizing Federalist forces. It ended up subverting the will of the People through political immorality by making a patently false claim as to the country’s Grundnorm being the “will of the People”.

The Buhari Regime is the latest in the long line of anti-democratic Regimes since Independence, where the subversion of democracy was and still is the order of the day, despite any electoral victories and notwithstanding the Regime’s pretensions as to its fidelity to democracy simply because it was able to achieve electoral victory over its opponents

Since Independence, various civilian administrations subverted Federalism and democracy at will; The East and the North, through the NPC/NCNC Alliance that oversaw the negation of the Independence Constitution via the Unconstitutional Declaration of the State of Emergency in the Western Region leading to the change to the 1963 Constitution; the 12 2/3rds NPN electoral shenanigans in 1979 through its 1983 moon-slide; the 2003 “do or die” elections; the 2007 elections which the victor, Musa Yar Adua even admitted was fraught with irregularities; the violent resistance to the 2011 election results by the Buhari partisans to its loss, all the way to the present where the Buhari partisans now claim legitimacy only on the platform of its 2019 electoral victory.

Yet, Africa has and continue to have its share of electoral victories, either in one-party states, which by definition, cannot make any pretense at democracy(Guinea under Sekou Toure, Congo Republic, Zaire); pretentious multi-party states as in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Ethiopia under EPRDF etc; such that the story of Africa is not complete without the negation of democracy through electoralism.

That the Buhari Regime will hang its legitimacy on this dubious paradigm in order to sustain its anti-Federalism shows its disdain for the existential imperatives of the Peoples of Nigeria.

Despite these clouds of darkness, the righteous are emboldened because “Then God said”.

While it may be prudent to employ the Yoruba aphorism as to resolving the primary contradiction before attending to the secondary, the question as to what the primary contradiction is, remains to be answered.

The primary contradiction is whether the quest for a Yoruba Presidency in 2023 will solidify the anti-Federalist forces or not; the secondary being any form of alliance aimed at bringing forth such a Yoruba Presidency; both of which are dependent on either the retention or replacement of the 1999 Constitution foisted on us by the anti-Federalist military created precisely for our oppression and sustained by various military or civilian political machinations.

The 1999 Constitution is the darkness that must be replaced.

“Then God said……..”

“When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him”.

The combination of the military machine and its political equivalent against the emergence of our God-given existence, expressed through the Federalist option, constitute the enemy coming like a flood—as indeed it has come like a flood.

But Glory be to “God who does nothing unless He reveals His secret to His servants, the prophets”. “For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him” …… “But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God”

To avoid presumptuousness will necessarily lead to relying on what is written in order to determine what God said as to the darkness enveloping Yorubaland and Nigeria.

Judah, under King Hezekiah, experienced Sennacherib’s terrorism, leading to King Hezekiah’s surrender of all of Judah’s economic and cultural patrimony, mocking Judah’s antecedents and arrogantly ascribing Judah’s overlord-ship to himself. (2 Kings 18 & 19). All of which are not different from what Yorubaland had been going through, since 1960 up till the present.

“Then God said”: concerning the King of Assyria and now says, concerning the Regime of Muhammadu Buhari:

‘Muhammadu Buhari and his security agencies shall not come into Yorubaland, Nor shoot an arrow there, Nor come before it with shield, Nor build a siege mound against it. By the way that Muhammadu Buhari and his security agencies came, By the same shall Muhammadu Buhari and his security agencies return; And Muhammadu Buhari and his security agencies shall not come into Yorubaland,’ Says the Lord. ‘For the Lord will defend Yorubaland, to save it For HIS own sake and for HIS servants’ sake.’”

“And it came to pass on a certain night that the angel of the Lord went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, there were the corpses—all dead. So, Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at Nineveh. Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place”.

This, then, is our confidence.


Wale Odeku

Gga

ooduapathfinder:
Ethno-National nepotism, Chauvinism and Irredentism are the ideological weapons of the anti-Federalists. [s]These characteristics are personified, historically, by Major-General Aguiyi Ironsi, the military head of state after the January 1966[/s] military coup and in the current circumstances, Major-General(retd) Muhammadu Buhari.

Both subverted the Federalism that ushered in Independence by disregarding its essence by turning Federalism on its head and making the center the focal point. Aguiyi Ironsi’s substitution of the Regions arrived at during the Independence struggles with his “group of provinces” and effectively neutralizing Federalism became the launchpad for incoming military adventurers whose past-time was tinkering with Federalism until it now has no meaning.

Wale Odeku[/b]

How many odeku did he drink before including Ironsi in this trash piece. Fight Buhari over 2023 but pls leave Igbos out of the mess you chose in 2015

Ironsi did NOT dismantle the regions. He centralised the bureaucracy. How come each region still had Regional administrators...

YAKUBU GOWON dismantled the regions and created states.

ooduapathfinder:
“Then God said” is His affirmation of the transformation of a reality that exists contrary to His nature. God is Light and in Him there is no darkness at all.

Concerning the Yoruba-African Nation within the context of Africa’s historical experiences and the journey towards Yoruba Emancipation, our experiences during the last 400 years of Slavery and colonialism created a reality that cemented our alienation from our God-given existence.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Then God said: “Let there be light”.

The children of Israel spent 400 years in Egypt before their deliverance according to the Covenant with Abraham, who, as recorded in Genesis 15:12 “Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him:

“Then HE said to Abram……..”

When therefore, there is darkness, God speaks; what God says ensures the disappearance of the darkness.

Darkness in Nigeria is characterized by the subversion of democracy and Self-Determination of the Peoples. Federalism is the only route towards the manifestation of Self-Determination of the Peoples, for it leaves room for their self-actualization in contrast to the uniformist, Unitarist, post-colonial State seeking to ensure the erasure of their God-given nature from human history. Federalism, then, is the union of two or more Self-Defined entities that may be administered in any manner. The form of administration does not become a substitute for Self-Determination.

The West/Yorubaland had borne the brunt of these Unitarist, anti-Federalist forces, a joint venture between the East and the North and primarily aimed at subduing the West/Yorubaland because of her anti-colonial philosophy anchored on Federalism.

Current attempts at consolidating anti-Federalism and denying Self-Determination include the so-called autonomy for local governments; the proposed Waterways Bill which will enable the central government to control all the river banks in Nigeria; the resettlement of herdsmen across the country in the name revitalizing agriculture and livestock production, otherwise known as RUGA Settlements; border closures negating cross-border Ethno-National Existence, which, ordinarily, ought to have engendered a new form of economic thought but which is now ensconced within closures of the artificial borders thus compounding the artificiality, and denying the existentialism of the Peoples of the border areas.

Ethno-National nepotism, Chauvinism and Irredentism are the ideological weapons of the anti-Federalists. These characteristics are personified, historically, by Major-General Aguiyi Ironsi, the military head of state after the January 1966 military coup and in the current circumstances, Major-General(retd) Muhammadu Buhari.

Both subverted the Federalism that ushered in Independence by disregarding its essence by turning Federalism on its head and making the center the focal point. Aguiyi Ironsi’s substitution of the Regions arrived at during the Independence struggles with his “group of provinces” and effectively neutralizing Federalism became the launchpad for incoming military adventurers whose past-time was tinkering with Federalism until it now has no meaning.

The Nigeria-Biafra war was a consequence of the anti-Federalist posture, with Biafra, on the one hand, trying to overrun Yorubaland and the “Nigerian Forces” under the control of the North trying to make the West (Yorubaland) its plaything.

The Nigerian Army (armed forces) was a colonial creation aimed at suppressing the Peoples and placed under the control of northern hegemony which had not failed to utilize it in the process of entrenching itself while neutralizing Federalist forces. It ended up subverting the will of the People through political immorality by making a patently false claim as to the country’s Grundnorm being the “will of the People”.

The Buhari Regime is the latest in the long line of anti-democratic Regimes since Independence, where the subversion of democracy was and still is the order of the day, despite any electoral victories and notwithstanding the Regime’s pretensions as to its fidelity to democracy simply because it was able to achieve electoral victory over its opponents

Since Independence, various civilian administrations subverted Federalism and democracy at will; The East and the North, through the NPC/NCNC Alliance that oversaw the negation of the Independence Constitution via the Unconstitutional Declaration of the State of Emergency in the Western Region leading to the change to the 1963 Constitution; the 12 2/3rds NPN electoral shenanigans in 1979 through its 1983 moon-slide; the 2003 “do or die” elections; the 2007 elections which the victor, Musa Yar Adua even admitted was fraught with irregularities; the violent resistance to the 2011 election results by the Buhari partisans to its loss, all the way to the present where the Buhari partisans now claim legitimacy only on the platform of its 2019 electoral victory.

Yet, Africa has and continue to have its share of electoral victories, either in one-party states, which by definition, cannot make any pretense at democracy(Guinea under Sekou Toure, Congo Republic, Zaire); pretentious multi-party states as in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Ethiopia under EPRDF etc; such that the story of Africa is not complete without the negation of democracy through electoralism.

That the Buhari Regime will hang its legitimacy on this dubious paradigm in order to sustain its anti-Federalism shows its disdain for the existential imperatives of the Peoples of Nigeria.

Despite these clouds of darkness, the righteous are emboldened because “Then God said”.

While it may be prudent to employ the Yoruba aphorism as to resolving the primary contradiction before attending to the secondary, the question as to what the primary contradiction is, remains to be answered.

The primary contradiction is whether the quest for a Yoruba Presidency in 2023 will solidify the anti-Federalist forces or not; the secondary being any form of alliance aimed at bringing forth such a Yoruba Presidency; both of which are dependent on either the retention or replacement of the 1999 Constitution foisted on us by the anti-Federalist military created precisely for our oppression and sustained by various military or civilian political machinations.

The 1999 Constitution is the darkness that must be replaced.

“Then God said……..”

“When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him”.

The combination of the military machine and its political equivalent against the emergence of our God-given existence, expressed through the Federalist option, constitute the enemy coming like a flood—as indeed it has come like a flood.

But Glory be to “God who does nothing unless He reveals His secret to His servants, the prophets”. “For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him” …… “But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God”

To avoid presumptuousness will necessarily lead to relying on what is written in order to determine what God said as to the darkness enveloping Yorubaland and Nigeria.

Judah, under King Hezekiah, experienced Sennacherib’s terrorism, leading to King Hezekiah’s surrender of all of Judah’s economic and cultural patrimony, mocking Judah’s antecedents and arrogantly ascribing Judah’s overlord-ship to himself. (2 Kings 18 & 19). All of which are not different from what Yorubaland had been going through, since 1960 up till the present.

“Then God said”: concerning the King of Assyria and now says, concerning the Regime of Muhammadu Buhari:

‘Muhammadu Buhari and his security agencies shall not come into Yorubaland, Nor shoot an arrow there, Nor come before it with shield, Nor build a siege mound against it. By the way that Muhammadu Buhari and his security agencies came, By the same shall Muhammadu Buhari and his security agencies return; And Muhammadu Buhari and his security agencies shall not come into Yorubaland,’ Says the Lord. ‘For the Lord will defend Yorubaland, to save it For HIS own sake and for HIS servants’ sake.’”

“And it came to pass on a certain night that the angel of the Lord went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, there were the corpses—all dead. So, Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at Nineveh. Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place”.

This, then, is our confidence.


Wale Odeku

One more Odeku for Wale. Let him drink more and drown away his hangover.