Article from former Aviation minister, Femi Fani
Kayode...
I am glad that the APC eventually took my
advice and saw the wisdom in not fielding a
muslim/muslim ticket for the 2015
Presidential election even though I hear
that, right up till the last minute, they almost did.
I congratulate my friend and brother
Professor Yemi Osinbajo on his nomination as
the Vice Presidential candidate of the APC
and running mate to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.
I have known Yemi for a number of years and I
must say that he is not only a very pleasant and
civilised person with a warm and gentle disposition
but he is also a cerebal lawyer with a brilliant
mind. I have immense respect for him.
Yet sadly ever since I heard about his nomination
and announcement as Buhari's running mate I
have felt nothing but sheer pity for him and a
deep sense of pathos. My counsel and words for
him are as follows:
Woe unto the children of light that secretly
delight in darkness and that seek to thwart the
counsel of God for their nation by joining hands
with the sons of Boko and the daughters of
Haram.
The bible says ''what fellowship is there between
light and darkness?'' It says ''what does God
have to do with Belial?'' It says ''what profiteth a
man to gain the world and lose his soul?''.
A respected Pastor of the Redeemed Christian
Church of God, a devout and committed Christian
and an intellectually-sound, well-bred and well
educated Professor of Law accepts to be running
mate to a closet fundamentalist, a bloodthirsty,
cruel and murderous military dictator and a die-
hard believer in the philosophy of ''born to rule''?
This is serious.
A gifted servant of God who is a favored spiritual
son of Rev. Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer
of the Redeemed Christian Church Of God has
jumped into bed with one of the most notorious
troublers of the faith and one of the most
consistent enemies of democracy and Nigeria?
This is very sad.
Rev. Enoch Adeboye is undoubtedly one of God's
greatest and most respected generals on the
planet and one of the Church's most humble and
best-loved precious gems, yet one of his spiritual
sons has surely let him, and indeed the Kingdom of
God, down by choosing to play ''man Friday'' and
second fiddle to an individual that represents
everything that is troubling, unsettling and
repugnant to the modern world and to the 21st
century? What a tragedy.
A learned Professor of Law and a senior member
of the Nigerian bar who is the leading authority
on the law of evidence and who has written
numerous books on that topic chooses to play
number two to a man that failed all his exams at
military college and that never went to a decent
school or to any university? Jumping Jehoshaphat.
It is only in Nigeria that this sort of thing can
happen. Poor Yemi. Look at what the Haramites
have done to him and look at what they have
reduced him to. Is there anything that these
creatures from hell will not do? Is there anyone
that they will not use and is there any norm that
they will not defile, pervert, debase, violate and
corrupt in their ignoble quest for power and as a
consequence of their insatiable lusts and manifest
greed?
The truth is that each and everyone one of us,
including my friend Yemi, will ultimately have to
answer to God for the choices that we make and
we must live with the consequences of those
choices. It is no wonder that the Redeemed
Christian Church of God has disassociated itself
from a false claim that the Church and, by
implication, Rev. Adegboye himself, was supporting
the Buhari/Osibajo ticket. Thankfully they have
come out to say clearly and categorically that this
is not so. One can always trust Adegboye to do
and say the right thing because he is a man that
is truly ''after God's heart''.
Yet the denial of an endorsement and tacit
support from his Church is just the first of many
shockers and unwelcome surprises that Yemi will be
served with in the next few weeks. He will get
shock after shock and surprise after surprise until
the battle is over and circumstances compel him
to go back to his very lucrative legal practice.
Yet before he does that he should learn a thing or
two from one of his esteemed colleagues and yet
another Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church
of God, the courageous Pastor Bosun Emmanuel.
Bosun said the following words in his famous
sermon titled 'The Nigerian Church' which went
viral just a few months ago.
He said, ''woe be unto any believer who joins hands
with the enemies of God in an attempt to bury
the Church and destroy the gospel''.
This was a
timely admonition and these are strong and wise
words from a true servant of God who is under no
illusion about what is going on in the politics of
Nigeria and who is brave enough to say it as it
is.
Yet whether we choose to heed Bosun's words or
not I am absolutely certain of one thing: those
that have aligned with the servants of satan and
the children of darkness and that seek to thwart
God's counsel for our nation shall not prevail.
Boko Haram abducted 185 women in Borno state
on December 18th and they killed no less than 52
innocent people. Despite that some people are still
supporting Buhari and his army of desperate
Haramites? What a people, what a country.
Those that say that Buhari has changed simply
because he chose a Pastor as his running mate are
ignorant. Did he not have a Pastor as his running
mate in his last outing in 2011? Did he not still
say that it was his intention to ''spread sharia
throughout the country'' and that ''an attack on
Boko Haram is an attack on the north''?
Did he not oppose a state of emergency in the
north eastern states and say that it was unfair
for the military to kill Boko Haram members? Did
he not say that instead of killing them they should
forgive them, pamper them and treat them in the
same way that the Niger Delta militants were
treated?
Did the spokesman of his party Alhaji Lai
Mohammed not say that the proscription of Boko
Haram by the Federal Government was ‘’unjust’’
and ‘’unconstitutional’’? How does the fact that
Buhari has opted for a Christian running mate
change any of these things?
In any case he only opted for a Christian running
mate because he was compelled to do so as a
consequence of the hue and cry that the prospect
of a muslim/muslim ticket had already started to
generate. Are those that cite the fact that he
has a Christian running mate as evidence of his
new-found love for Christians aware of the fact
that during the American civil war a small,
ignorant, misguided and deluded group of negro
slaves actually fought on the side of the southern
confederate forces in an attempt to keep slavery
in place?
Did that suggest that the leaders of the southern
confederate ‘’secession’’ states suddenly changed
their minds and fell in love with the blacks that
they had enslaved and treated like animals? Is
Buhari's claim of not being partial to his own
hausa-fulani tribe not a little far-fetched? Did
he not lead a northern delegation to Alhaji Lam
Adesina, the late Governor of Oyo state, just a
few years ago when some Fulani herdsmen were
slaughtering Yoruba farmers on their own land and
ask him ‘’why are YOUR people killing MY people?’’
Apparently Buhari believed that the aggressors
that had invaded the land and farms of others
and that killed all the occupants had a right to do
so simply because they were fulani.
Yet some
people still claim that the man is not a tribalist.
Ignorance and lack of knowledge is a terrible
affliction but in this context it is not only terrible
but also very dangerous. Buhari’s choice of a
Christian Pastor as his running mate means
nothing and changes nothing about him or his
entrenched views and ancient mindset.
It rather provides clear evidence of his sheer
desperation to win power at all costs and it is a
reflection of his obvious and deep-seated deceit.
Let the truth be told even though the heavens
may fall: Christian Vice President or no Christian
Vice President, Buhari's heart remains as dark as
ever.
We shall meet him in the field: let God's will be
done.
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