By Political Animal.

Listening to Ahmed Bola Tinubu yesterday,who coincidentally is my age mate ,giving his lecture during his colloquium in Kano to mark his 69th birthday,my thinking is that, every Nigerian has become a Leah Sharibu in the eyes of our political class.She has been held hostage by some terrorrists( by whatever name) for years now ,where she doesn’t have any control of her future again.

We have found ourselves in the same situation in the hands of our politicians, where they think that we can no longer control our future.

Listen to Ahmed Tinubu’s well researched thoughts on,

(1)INSECURITY:
“Recruit 50 million Nigerian youths and send them to Sambisa forest,because Nigeria is competing with bandits to recruit unemployed youths—Tinubu
ON MARCH 30, 2021.”

This is the NATIONAL Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, the ruling party.
He disclosed that the country is competing with bandits to recruit unemployed youths.

You may be tempted to ask him,how many of those to be recruited should be expected from his immediate family.

Listen to him,

(2) YORUBA AND FULANI ARE UNITED.

He explained his choice of Kano State as the venue for his 12th colloquium and 69th birthday, saying it was to prove to Nigerians that the Yoruba and Fulani people are united.

Can you see how the issue of ethnicity is being fuelled by these prominent politicians.
Out of over 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria,he has made his choice on which one to associate with politically for the soul of the Nigerian nation.

His words: “Why are we in Kano for this colloquium? Why?It is because there is a Fulani man, a herder man, who gave out his daughter to the family of a Yoruba man. Dan Fulani, Dan Yoruba. And some people are agitating wrongly and I say if a colleague can encourage and support me to go and spend a couple of days with my brother and in-law in Kano and demonstrate that he has not quarreled with me and has not seceded from Nigeria.

This is over to the Yorubas for their response.

Coincidentally we are age mates,
I never heard Chief Obafemi Awolowo say so before his death,even in his books.

Listen to Tinubu again.
“I don’t need a passport or visa to get to Kano, so maybe others would have peace of conscience and live in peace and harmony. That is what Ganduje and I are representing to show to Nigerians. And that is the purpose of the colloquium.

“The Fulani man and Yoruba man can show the entire nation that perseverance, great understanding is common blood that is flowing in our veins.

Listen to Tinubu’s solution for unemployment.

‘“It is time, we are under policed and we are competing with armed robbers and bandits to recruit from the youths who are unemployed.There are 33 per cent unemployed.

Recruit 50 million youths into the army and various security agencies. Take them away from their recruitment source. What they would eat is growing here, you create demand and consumption.

Please ask Ahmed Tinubu ,how many of them shall come from his immediate family?

Listen to Tinubu,“Don’t talk about illiteracy, anybody who can own a gun, cock gun and can shoot is technically competent to repair a tractor in the farm. It is not when you are computer literate that you can be technically competent. Those who are working on sugar cane farms can do so many other things like horticulture.
We can create the jobs.”

Please ask Ahmed Tinubu how many of his children can do what he expects other people’s children to do?.
Yet he desperately wants to rule Nigeria.

Listen to our Professor-politician during the colloquium.

Professor Osibanjo went further to say that Nigerians will need Visa to visit Kano if Nigeria breaks.What a depth of thought.
Now I know that he has never been a politician.
Please return to the pulpit after repentance.

Honestly speaking, are they trying to use the issue of Visa to blackmail Nigerians?

Methinks that if the Vice President has started talking about this repeatedly,it signals unease at the very top.
Why not do something that can stop the slide.?

Dear Prof,
the issue is not the dangers or the inconvenience of breaking up,it is the benefit of staying together that people are questioning .

There is still room for dialogue which the Government has refused to allow the people of Nigeria do.By so doing, they are fuelling the demand for the breakup of the contraption called Nigeria.

Whether people want to go to Kano or not,if Nigeria breaks, is a personal choice and decision.

I want to tell you that some people may prefer traveling to Afghanistan,Syria, Sudan than Kano.

Besides ,under ECOWAS (passport) protocol,those who are interested in going to Kano won’t need a visa .
Our Professor should know better.

Prof. should be told that ,in any case of breakup,the borders may not be as porous or open as it is again for any terrorrist jihad, terorrism or false kidnapping.

But what I know is that when Nigeria breaks up,there would be healthy competition among the nations as neighboring countries.
We are not praying for that.
But we have to be very very careful.

But if it happens,you can then build your Kano and allow others to develop their Ikot Ekpene,Aba, Agbor , Agbara,Ore and Ngor-Okpala.

For me,I want to let them know that , I have not finished enjoying my “ofe Owerri , Nkwobi, Ugba no Okporoko” before thinking of applying for visa to Kano to eat……. Nonsense.

AM VERY VERY SAD .

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