[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e should not forget the import of the moment, the auspicious pedestal on which this was said, the veracity of the facts as stated and the potency of the words used.
Most importantly, we should not ignore the antecedents of the man that said it!
TY Danjuma and his band of revenge coup plotters did a murderous clean sweep of the Igbo officers (and co-planners of the first Nigerian coup in January 1966) in the Nigeria army and went ahead to also murder Aguiyi Ironsi (then head of state) and his Yoruba host governor, Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi.
For this, General (retd) has been feeding fat for the last 52 years with his pay cheque by the caliphate of the juiciest set of oil wells in Nigeria under his Sapetro Petroleum conglomerate.
He is one of the richest Nigerians alive today.
Even as at that time, before the coup and after, General Danjuma was a man one could not ignore in the scheme of things. Till today, those in authority either in government, religion or business still can’t ignore him.
Only few Generals in this country command our National attention like General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma. When he talks people listen and take him seriously. He has been a participant and a key player on major decisions that have affected this nation. He still commands that respect and a lot of people still believe him.
He chose a high pedestal (during the delivery of his speech as chancellor of Taraba State University) to deal a mortal blow to the Buhari regime and his promotion and support of his calamitous Fulani herdsmen.
Buhari and the agenda of the Jihadists are not likely to recover from this bombshell, nor gain traction thereafter.
It is either war from here, or a suspicious peace of the graveyard!
The boom of his thunderous voice is going to reach far and wide, beyond the shores of Nigeria, and is going to resonate in every city, village and hamlet of the hapless Nigeria people who have been brutalised, killed, machetted, raped and dealt with uncommon beastiality by a band of savages, the like of which only belongs to medieval barbarians.
It is going to serve as a rallying cry to rouse some of our elites and intelligentsia, who are still drunk with the opium of stupor fumes from Fulani janjaweed that there is REAL FIRE on the mountain. And WE MUST ALL START RUNNING to defend ourselves!
Some.mouths that had been cowed into silence will now begin to open. The shame will now dawn on our Yoruba leaders like Tinubu and Osinbajo who fiddled while Yorubaland and Nigeria burned!
Yes, Danjuma was a major part of the problem! And now, in his dying days, if he has chosen restitution by igniting a fiery furnace to finally solve the problem, what is our issue with that?
If it is the restitution the man wants, let us run with his exultation and fight with the tenacity that the fear of the terror he has painted unleashes.
We are in deep shit in Nigeria!
The holocaust being planned by the Fulani is horrendously monumental in its contemplation. Yet my fellow countrymen, especially the Yoruba, seem above it all, and not in the least concerned.
They are still planning politics and pursuing the path of a doomed election.
The anointed ‘victor ludolum’ does not need your votes now. He has captured all the instruments of coercion, and destruction directs his visage!
The belligerent president wills armageddon on his hapless citizenry.
If it takes the grating voice of yesterday’s mercenary to rouse us to man our stockades, to defend our peoples cultures and civilisations, so be it.
We definitely need a rousing from this contrived slumber!
Tony Nnadi is a leader of the Lower Niger Congress, an organisation that advocates for a UN supervised referendum to decide the structure of Nigeria. Connect with him on Facebook.
The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author.
