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BIAFRA, KANU, ANTS AND ELEPHANTS
By Agha Egwu
BIAFRA, KANU, ANTS AND ELEPHANTS
By Agha Egwu
I was watching a video of Nnamdi Kanu amongst his people. It was
staggering. They said a million youths thronged the streets of Umahia to
sing the praise of their hero, their Messiah, our liberator. Get the
videos and watch. It will humble you.
Then I think of the noise I hear on social media from so many about how he should behave, how he must talk, how he is destroying what he built with his own mouth.
I kept shaking my head at the incongruity, the lack of reality. How many would this my essay touch, influence, challenge? With my 1500 followers perhaps one third of that. Just 500. Yet in the video, Nnamdi was out there before a million strong and all he had to do, like the Pope, like the Queen of England, was step out, raise his hands in the air, then the crowd would go delirious.
And yes, millions of Igbos world-wide, skilled professionals like me, not just jobless riff-rafs are following him. We are completely dumbfounded, completely shocked, completely dwarfed by his miraculous achievements in such a short time.
Should I be honest? I once dreamed I would be a mega messiah like Kanu leading my people to uhuru. So why should this little man, this nobody do it instead of me? Should I be angry, should I be jealous? Let's face facts - should I be envious? My best hurrah is not even the flap of a mosquito in a hurricane, when I compare my Facebook presence to this raging inferno called Nnamdi Kanu.
And I thought...
How do I compare
The rant of an ant
To the trumpet of an elephant?
I can't rant
I can't pant
I can't want...
I think many others that lambast him feel this envy, until like mine, it converts to respect, then reverence.
I think of other Facebook vuvuzellas - messiahs and messengers of their individual gods to whom only they celebrate on the altar of their personal egos - just like me - and I marvel.
Let me remember some of these for they are my friends whom I love and most adore.
First, Donald Ekpo who persuaded himself that he will build the bridge between South South and South East, then in a moment of momentary madness and pique, he began to tear down the bridge he built with his very hands - and did not really realise it. Donald broke my heart and I wept deep for he bore his illusion well, totally convinced and convincing he was the bridging Messiah and that his Facebook tantrums will not demolish his bridge.
I called Donald in consternation and pleaded with him not to rip his bridge with his hands. He gave me so many reasons why it was alright, till weeping in my heart I let him be, still loving him and hoping he can repair the damage he did to his bridge.
Donald told me that the South South and South East had to be together. He said both cannot go it alone. That the tribes of South South will reap themselves apart. I thought - right. That they need the Igbos to unite them. I thought, Whaaaaaat? Why the hell does Nnamdi need to drag us into this maelstrom of the South South. We really do not need the bickering and their suspicion. It will hold us back.
Donald then said the Igbos can't do it alone. They need the South South I thought, WRONG. The only reason we are hanging around for you is because of Nnamdi. And the only reason Nnamdi want to include everyone from Benue to Bayelsa is because he hopes to save them all from the wrath of Islamic hordes from the core upper North.
First Donald had launched an assault on the name Biafra. He felt we Igbos should ditch it for the sake of the South South. I could not make him understand that we would happily forgo the South South for Biafra. I could not make him undersrand that just that single suggestion had started burning the South East side of his bridge. Donald believed that IPOB with millions of Igbo followers world-wide in over 80 countries should give up their world-wide radio and TV, their very potent identity of Biafra and collapse into Lower Niger Congress. I thought, my God, this my friend is no longer connecting with reality.
Finally, Donald impaled himself by letting either jealousy or anger get the better of him by attacking Nnamdi Kanu. He said Nnamdi was becoming like a Hitler, a megalomaniac, Lord of lords. It was no longer Donald speaking but a malevolent spirit of envy. Nnamdi is famous for his gentleness, his humility, his iron will. The nearest descriptions are Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mandela. They too were messianic and had mlllions of worshippers but they never became Hitler.
I wept inside me for Donald my friend who had inspired me so much. Somehow Donald imagined his Facebook teacup party will dent Kanu. I thought so too till I saw the millions baying for their Messiah - Kanu, Kanu, Kanu...
And I thought..
How do I compare
The rant of an ant
To the trumpet of an elephant?
I can't rant
I can't pant
I can't want...
I have another friend I love so much. I have followed him on Facebook avidly. Prince Henry Nwazuruahu Shield is charismatic to say the least. He is intelligent, resolute and probably has 100 times more following than me.
Once I was very ill in Pankshin. I could not get dollars from the bank because of Buhari crazy policies. I had dollars in my account but no access. I had to get Naira. I started calling Facebook friends. I just called Shield and he sent me N30,000. Just like that. I promptly paid back in deep gratitude. What a kind lovely man.
Shield presents himself as a strong youth leader but sometimes he does funny things. He mobilised people in defence of a pastor that was fighting El Rufai. Hardly anyone came and that really struck me. He was working with Babasola Kuti and I was looking up to their leadership. Suddenly they were fighting themselves. Once Shield supported mad Sheriff and defended him. I had to plead with him to give up on Sheriff. He at first said it was party decision. Some party decisions you just don't support.
Nevertheless I believe Shield is eloquent and a great leader and I keep urging him to take that leap forward to lead us, but he seems never to make that leap. He seems to be most active on Facebook.
Imagine my shock when I saw Shield warning and advising Nnamdi Kanu because he said a little truth about GEJ. He advised Nnamdi to get a Media Outfit to manage him and IPOB. This really confused me. Who is a bigger media personality than Nnamdi Kanu who is the master of disruptive media publicity. Nnamdi is the head of one of the world' 's biggest Radio, TV and Internet network. Nnamdi is bigger than Channels and TVC and all Nigerian newspapers rolled into one.
I tried to conceive the incongruity of a Facebook Champion advising a Global Media Publicity guru. Is it not clear enough that Nnamdi is a super professional publicist. Does Shield want media PR experts that will dress him in suit, say the nice things like I love GEJ and not ruffle feathers? I did not get it.
And I thought ...
How do I compare
The rant of an ant
To the trumpet of an elephant?
I can't rant
I can't pant
I can't want..
I had written a little article about Facebook Vuvuzellas. Viola Okolie suddenly concluded it was about her and called me an idiot. It was not about her. It was about Facebook Vuvuzellas who presume they are such experts they can tell Kanu how best to run the IPOB Civil disobedience campaign.
I saw my article on Nnamdi Ukasanya wall. What got Viola's back up was that Nnamdi Kanu had called for a boycott of elections. Viola declared that Nnamdi Kanu needed strategic thinking and that boycotting elections was dangerous. Now other Facebook champions had said similar things.
There are so many who are so sure that their puny following on Facebook translates to some form of pervasive influence. Victoria Ohaeri who initially failed to spot the Buhari disaster till she went to America, is still weighing in her mind whether or not to support Nnamdi Kanu, then gives her weighty advice as if it mattered. Perhaps 1000 readers might read it, yet millions read kanu everyday. Tchidi Chiemeziem is so totally convinced that Kanu boycotting elections elections is a disaster. He cannot see the power of disruptive civil disobedience used by Gandhi and Martin Luther King to powerful effect.
Yet, we arrogate such arrogant beliefs in our own powers. We think we know better than this man who is mobilising millions on the internet and on the streets.
For me, the noise on Facebook started sounding like those noisemaking, blaring trumpets of South Africa that make so much loud noise in one key - all sound and fury without rhyme or rythm - Vuvuzellas - Facebook Vuvuzellas. All sound and fury that gives us so much sense of popularity, of importance, but how can it compare to the millions that howl the name of Kanu willing to die for their Messiah.
And I thought...
How do I compare
The rant of an ant
To the trumpet of an elephant?
I can't rant
I can't pant
I can't want...
Then I hear the Facebook Vuvuzellas from the South South splitting their spleen that Nnamdi called Jonathan a weak leader. Whether Kanu said it or not is no longer an issue as it has been said severally he did not. But what matters is that the South South Vuvuzellas thought he said it and unleashed a barrage of insults on Kanu exposing what they really are. It was not Kanu that was the issue but the venomous suspicion of Igbos in many of the South South that merely found an excuse to burst out.
The facade that covered this deep divide in many of the South South, whilst Igbos supported GEJ, had been ripped open to show that many will still support those that exploit them most (Hausa-Fulani) than those that have not exploited them (Igbos). Even Julie A Dyer whom I respect a lot, went as far as saying that the Fulani exploitation was more polished. Perhaps it was a joke but it surprised me.
To me the South South mind is a strange mind subsumed by ancient war propaganda. One of the strangest experiences of slavery was that slaves were willing to defend their masters against those that sought to liberate them from slavery.
This is the truth about GEJ. Like Zik he was a great leader. Zik was the great emancipator that crushed the British as a freedom fighter but in Governance he was weak and made many poor choices, that failed to recognise the nature of Jihadism. Jonathan was a great achiever, probably the best leader Nigeria ever had. But in the Nigerian context of brutal, tribal vampires he was weak and unrealistic.
For Jonathan, for whatever reason, not to read the true deadly intentions of Buhari, and use everything in his power to stop such a brute from taking over power and destroying his legacy, is at the very best, outrageous naivety or at the very worst unforgiveable stupidity and weakness. There were enough opportunities to arrest him so a better Northern leader emerges.
If he handed power to Buhari knowing what he represented, then his level of cowardice and foolishness is unforgiveable despite his achievements, for which we loved him but which has been destroyed by Buhari. He was warned, he was told, yet he did nothing.
I remember when we gathered in Prince Henry Shield 's house with evidence of Jega's betrayal, desperate to make sure Jonathan used his power to stop Jega and his pre-election manipulation of PVCS. When he lost we called him a hero because we were heart broken, but as Buhari destroyed his excellent achievements, we also became realistic about the enormity of Jonathan 's naivety or stupidity or cowardice or all of the above, and slowly the hero worship died.
Nnamdi Kanu specialises in speaking uncomfortable truths as he swore to use the truth to break up Nigeria. As the South South Facebook vuvuzellas heaped their insults on Nnamdi, a strange thing was happening on the ground - leaders of South South youth and elders were trooping in humility to Umuahia to pay obeisance to whom our Facebook vuvuzellas mocked as lord of Lords, Jewish messiah, megalomaniac.
And I thought...
How do I compare
The rant of an ant
To the trumpet of an elephant?
I can't rant
I can't pant
I can't want...
The Yoruba vuvuzellas are the funkiest and funniest. They pontificate, postulate, pronounce and promulgate without knowledge whilst projecting and omniscient presence and personality. They are always so sure in their ignorant arrogance they know better than the Igbo and the best advice and prescription to give them. It would be so hilarious, if it were not so serious..
The Yoruba Vvuzellas seem to be in cahoots with the Hausa-Fulani or Islamic supremacists who have become so sure of their destiny or control that they try to use intimidation and bad language to terrify and subjugate.
In the ultimate madness, a group of their youth purported to give notice to Igbos to quit the North. They also called the January 15 coup an Igbo coup and heaped so many faults on Igbos. They were here making the same mistakes of 1966. Because some Igbos were involved it became an Igbo coup. Now because Nnamdi has asked for referendum it became the fault of Igbos in the North and they must vacate the north.
Still we do not have the date of referendum but they can sack Igbos. Still they are part of ECOWAS and forget that Biafra will be an ECOWAS country, and we can be in any part of ECOWAS. Yet they don't realise that the stupidity and violence coded in that quit order is greater proof of why we MUST have Biafra. Oil and Water just can't mix.
The North to West alliance is very funny. They say Nnamdi is a small boy then launch the most hideous propaganda. They say we are landlocked, that we will fight each other, that it can't work and worst of all that Nnamdi will betray the course. They arrogate so much power to themselves, so sure they would finish Nnamdi till you see the videos of the millions who stand beside and behind him.
And I thought...
How do I compare
The rant of an ant
To the trumpet of an elephant?
I can't rant
I can't pant
I can't want...
Then I think of our modern exploiters in garbs of civility concealing their corruption, our modern Neros, fiddling while the nation burns - our politicians.
APGA wrote a letter to IPOB warning Nnamdi Kanu not to parade himself as an Emperor, that he does not speak for Igbos.
I laugh. Does Obiano who actually parades himself as an Emperor speak for Igbos? Do they not know that they have become the enemy of the igbos and like pigs of animal farm are their only for themselves?
I went to see Obiano to plead for support for a great Igbo man and Biafran war hero, who had fallen into penury. He immediately recognised me from our student days when I was a student leader, but I had not known him. I thought I could apply that leverage. He would not help, out of fear of the Gambari, which was bad, but then he did something truly hideous. The conversation fell around Nnamdi Kanu, and the hundreds of IPOB youth that died, and Obiano described them as miscreants - and expected me to agree with him!
The disgust that went through me, made me feel like vomiting. I do not know how I managed to remain polite. Perhaps it was wisdom to keep quiet in the lion's den. All I could do was get up abruptly and leave, completely disgusted and outraged with the psyche of our Igbo Governors. There is none with Fayose's courage.
From Okorocha, the outright traitor of his people, to Ugwuanyi, the joker that dressed up in the robes of his enemy to celebrate with the mass murderer of his people. In one of my most painful experiences on Facebook, Ikechukwu Iroha one of the boys I loved and respected most on Facebook, who went to work for ikpeazu, has been so corrupted that he now refers to Nnamdi Kanu in the most derogatory tone in defence of his masters.
Nnia Nwodo whom we thought had arrived to clean up the old Ohaneze, recently proved that Ohaneze was beyond redemption, publicly condemning the only man that millions of Igbo are committed to trust to lead them to Uhuru. With that gaffe Nwodo dismissed himself out reckoning.
Whether Nnamdi Kanu will succeed is for God and the future to decide - but for now he is the only kid on the block that is willing to dare. The motto of the British SAS is 'Who dares wins'. He is daring. He is winning.
Kanu has already succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. That is why the dragon and dinosaurs that rule our land are now talking about restructuring.
Nnamdi Kanu is a master of disruptive civil disobedience and that is why he has targeted Nigerian elections beginning with the Anambra elections. It is a high stakes game in which he is pitching his popularity against the entrenched Igbo ruling class and the Nigerian State. He will totally disrupt and destroy them on that day.
Kanu's campaign has already begun as he receives millions of his followers. As he campaigns across Anambra, APGA and Ohaneze and all the other parties will totally fade into insignificance. On November 19 the streets of Anambra will be empty. Any Igbo man that goes to vote will be voting against the spirit of his ancestors and his Chi. Let Igbos understand. No man fights his ancestors and personal chi and survives.
Some Igbos are so afraid that the Federal Government will then impose an APC candidate. This is so amusing. The best thing that would happen is for them to declare state of emergency and appoint a military Gambari from Daura. That will have a bigger effect on Igbo determination and unity than Buhari had in galvanising IPOB.
However, if they are clever and put an Igbo Governor from APC, it will still be bad for them but not as wonderful as an Hausa- Fulani military dictator. That would be pure golden gift for Nnamdi. That will be ultimate proof to all Southerners of their agenda to conquer. By 2019 the whole South will boycott elections and begin the process of Nigerian dismembership. No more elections until referendum. It does not matter whom they put to rule us. Those of you that think you know better than Nnamdi Kanu amuse me.
It makes me think...
How do I compare
The rant of an ant
To the trumpet of an elephant?
I can't rant
I can't pant
I can't want...
Re-arrest Nnamdi, the resolve will grow. Kill Nnamdi and the armed revolution will begin as the restraining hand of Nnamdi is withdrawn. Those that criticise and resist Nnamdi are like patients who think they know better than their doctors.
They call him all sorts of names, even though he is here to create the disruption that can liberate the whole South or at least restructure and free the regions and zones.
Most Nigerians are like American slaves who fought for their masters against their liberators. Nigerians have gone through such debasement that most can no longer recognise goodness. That is why the hordes of the North and the West rejected the best President we have ever had in Goodluck Jonathan.
Why? The leader of any organisation permeates and pervades the organisation with their nature, character and ethos. The people that ruled Nigeria since after the Biafra war were brutes who mudered, raped, pillaged and stole in genocidal proportions. They have turned most Nigerians into evil monsters like themselves. That is why Nigerians can remove the great achiever Jonathan and replaced him with yet another blood drenched, criminal warlord.
That is why many Nigerians cannot recognise the character of Nnamdi Kanu which was honed in the UK. The ruling class think they can bribe him off which is normal for Nigeria. They think he wants political office. The depraved Nigerian character cannot understand Nnamdi Kanu so they project their evil nature on him.
They make me think...
How do I compare
The rant of an ant
To the trumpet of an elephant?
I can't rant
I can't pant
I can't want...
However, the Nigerians and igbos that have come to realise he is different are so shocked with his character they fall down before him in obeisance, like Russell Bluejack, overwhelmed by his purity of heart, quietness, humility and strength of character.
My friend Donald Ekpo thinks Nnamdi is like Hitler because of his 'zombie' followers, his worshippers, that call him Lord of Lords. However, he forgets that Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mandela also had 'zombie' followers and worshippers but never became dictators. Only Mandela ever ruled after much pressure from his people, and that for one term.
I think Nnamdi is more like Gandhi and Mandela than Hitler. I am willing to take the risk and bet that he is more like Gandhi. If he turns out to be like Hitler, well I am sure he will be stopped. But in so far as he maintains truth and non - violent civil disobedience as his only weapons I lay myself before him for the cause.
No true Prophet is ever welcome by the ruling class. They will continue to criticise and seek to destroy as if they have superior knowledge and ability, but I continue to wonder, to ponder:
How do I compare
The rant of an ant
To the trumpet of an elephant?
I can't rant
I can't pant
I can't want
To be a sycophant
Of Nigeria's illusion
This vision of a false federation
This impossible mission
Of restructuration
Like the old Biafran deception
Of Rehabilitation
Reconstruction
Reintegration
That fictional restoration
That was so much delusion
Of the Victor and the Vanquished...
All Hail Biafra!
Then I think of the noise I hear on social media from so many about how he should behave, how he must talk, how he is destroying what he built with his own mouth.
I kept shaking my head at the incongruity, the lack of reality. How many would this my essay touch, influence, challenge? With my 1500 followers perhaps one third of that. Just 500. Yet in the video, Nnamdi was out there before a million strong and all he had to do, like the Pope, like the Queen of England, was step out, raise his hands in the air, then the crowd would go delirious.
And yes, millions of Igbos world-wide, skilled professionals like me, not just jobless riff-rafs are following him. We are completely dumbfounded, completely shocked, completely dwarfed by his miraculous achievements in such a short time.
Should I be honest? I once dreamed I would be a mega messiah like Kanu leading my people to uhuru. So why should this little man, this nobody do it instead of me? Should I be angry, should I be jealous? Let's face facts - should I be envious? My best hurrah is not even the flap of a mosquito in a hurricane, when I compare my Facebook presence to this raging inferno called Nnamdi Kanu.
And I thought...
How do I compare
The rant of an ant
To the trumpet of an elephant?
I can't rant
I can't pant
I can't want...
I think many others that lambast him feel this envy, until like mine, it converts to respect, then reverence.
I think of other Facebook vuvuzellas - messiahs and messengers of their individual gods to whom only they celebrate on the altar of their personal egos - just like me - and I marvel.
Let me remember some of these for they are my friends whom I love and most adore.
First, Donald Ekpo who persuaded himself that he will build the bridge between South South and South East, then in a moment of momentary madness and pique, he began to tear down the bridge he built with his very hands - and did not really realise it. Donald broke my heart and I wept deep for he bore his illusion well, totally convinced and convincing he was the bridging Messiah and that his Facebook tantrums will not demolish his bridge.
I called Donald in consternation and pleaded with him not to rip his bridge with his hands. He gave me so many reasons why it was alright, till weeping in my heart I let him be, still loving him and hoping he can repair the damage he did to his bridge.
Donald told me that the South South and South East had to be together. He said both cannot go it alone. That the tribes of South South will reap themselves apart. I thought - right. That they need the Igbos to unite them. I thought, Whaaaaaat? Why the hell does Nnamdi need to drag us into this maelstrom of the South South. We really do not need the bickering and their suspicion. It will hold us back.
Donald then said the Igbos can't do it alone. They need the South South I thought, WRONG. The only reason we are hanging around for you is because of Nnamdi. And the only reason Nnamdi want to include everyone from Benue to Bayelsa is because he hopes to save them all from the wrath of Islamic hordes from the core upper North.
First Donald had launched an assault on the name Biafra. He felt we Igbos should ditch it for the sake of the South South. I could not make him understand that we would happily forgo the South South for Biafra. I could not make him undersrand that just that single suggestion had started burning the South East side of his bridge. Donald believed that IPOB with millions of Igbo followers world-wide in over 80 countries should give up their world-wide radio and TV, their very potent identity of Biafra and collapse into Lower Niger Congress. I thought, my God, this my friend is no longer connecting with reality.
Finally, Donald impaled himself by letting either jealousy or anger get the better of him by attacking Nnamdi Kanu. He said Nnamdi was becoming like a Hitler, a megalomaniac, Lord of lords. It was no longer Donald speaking but a malevolent spirit of envy. Nnamdi is famous for his gentleness, his humility, his iron will. The nearest descriptions are Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mandela. They too were messianic and had mlllions of worshippers but they never became Hitler.
I wept inside me for Donald my friend who had inspired me so much. Somehow Donald imagined his Facebook teacup party will dent Kanu. I thought so too till I saw the millions baying for their Messiah - Kanu, Kanu, Kanu...
And I thought..
How do I compare
The rant of an ant
To the trumpet of an elephant?
I can't rant
I can't pant
I can't want...
I have another friend I love so much. I have followed him on Facebook avidly. Prince Henry Nwazuruahu Shield is charismatic to say the least. He is intelligent, resolute and probably has 100 times more following than me.
Once I was very ill in Pankshin. I could not get dollars from the bank because of Buhari crazy policies. I had dollars in my account but no access. I had to get Naira. I started calling Facebook friends. I just called Shield and he sent me N30,000. Just like that. I promptly paid back in deep gratitude. What a kind lovely man.
Shield presents himself as a strong youth leader but sometimes he does funny things. He mobilised people in defence of a pastor that was fighting El Rufai. Hardly anyone came and that really struck me. He was working with Babasola Kuti and I was looking up to their leadership. Suddenly they were fighting themselves. Once Shield supported mad Sheriff and defended him. I had to plead with him to give up on Sheriff. He at first said it was party decision. Some party decisions you just don't support.
Nevertheless I believe Shield is eloquent and a great leader and I keep urging him to take that leap forward to lead us, but he seems never to make that leap. He seems to be most active on Facebook.
Imagine my shock when I saw Shield warning and advising Nnamdi Kanu because he said a little truth about GEJ. He advised Nnamdi to get a Media Outfit to manage him and IPOB. This really confused me. Who is a bigger media personality than Nnamdi Kanu who is the master of disruptive media publicity. Nnamdi is the head of one of the world' 's biggest Radio, TV and Internet network. Nnamdi is bigger than Channels and TVC and all Nigerian newspapers rolled into one.
I tried to conceive the incongruity of a Facebook Champion advising a Global Media Publicity guru. Is it not clear enough that Nnamdi is a super professional publicist. Does Shield want media PR experts that will dress him in suit, say the nice things like I love GEJ and not ruffle feathers? I did not get it.
And I thought ...
How do I compare
The rant of an ant
To the trumpet of an elephant?
I can't rant
I can't pant
I can't want..
I had written a little article about Facebook Vuvuzellas. Viola Okolie suddenly concluded it was about her and called me an idiot. It was not about her. It was about Facebook Vuvuzellas who presume they are such experts they can tell Kanu how best to run the IPOB Civil disobedience campaign.
I saw my article on Nnamdi Ukasanya wall. What got Viola's back up was that Nnamdi Kanu had called for a boycott of elections. Viola declared that Nnamdi Kanu needed strategic thinking and that boycotting elections was dangerous. Now other Facebook champions had said similar things.
There are so many who are so sure that their puny following on Facebook translates to some form of pervasive influence. Victoria Ohaeri who initially failed to spot the Buhari disaster till she went to America, is still weighing in her mind whether or not to support Nnamdi Kanu, then gives her weighty advice as if it mattered. Perhaps 1000 readers might read it, yet millions read kanu everyday. Tchidi Chiemeziem is so totally convinced that Kanu boycotting elections elections is a disaster. He cannot see the power of disruptive civil disobedience used by Gandhi and Martin Luther King to powerful effect.
Yet, we arrogate such arrogant beliefs in our own powers. We think we know better than this man who is mobilising millions on the internet and on the streets.
For me, the noise on Facebook started sounding like those noisemaking, blaring trumpets of South Africa that make so much loud noise in one key - all sound and fury without rhyme or rythm - Vuvuzellas - Facebook Vuvuzellas. All sound and fury that gives us so much sense of popularity, of importance, but how can it compare to the millions that howl the name of Kanu willing to die for their Messiah.
And I thought...
How do I compare
The rant of an ant
To the trumpet of an elephant?
I can't rant
I can't pant
I can't want...
Then I hear the Facebook Vuvuzellas from the South South splitting their spleen that Nnamdi called Jonathan a weak leader. Whether Kanu said it or not is no longer an issue as it has been said severally he did not. But what matters is that the South South Vuvuzellas thought he said it and unleashed a barrage of insults on Kanu exposing what they really are. It was not Kanu that was the issue but the venomous suspicion of Igbos in many of the South South that merely found an excuse to burst out.
The facade that covered this deep divide in many of the South South, whilst Igbos supported GEJ, had been ripped open to show that many will still support those that exploit them most (Hausa-Fulani) than those that have not exploited them (Igbos). Even Julie A Dyer whom I respect a lot, went as far as saying that the Fulani exploitation was more polished. Perhaps it was a joke but it surprised me.
To me the South South mind is a strange mind subsumed by ancient war propaganda. One of the strangest experiences of slavery was that slaves were willing to defend their masters against those that sought to liberate them from slavery.
This is the truth about GEJ. Like Zik he was a great leader. Zik was the great emancipator that crushed the British as a freedom fighter but in Governance he was weak and made many poor choices, that failed to recognise the nature of Jihadism. Jonathan was a great achiever, probably the best leader Nigeria ever had. But in the Nigerian context of brutal, tribal vampires he was weak and unrealistic.
For Jonathan, for whatever reason, not to read the true deadly intentions of Buhari, and use everything in his power to stop such a brute from taking over power and destroying his legacy, is at the very best, outrageous naivety or at the very worst unforgiveable stupidity and weakness. There were enough opportunities to arrest him so a better Northern leader emerges.
If he handed power to Buhari knowing what he represented, then his level of cowardice and foolishness is unforgiveable despite his achievements, for which we loved him but which has been destroyed by Buhari. He was warned, he was told, yet he did nothing.
I remember when we gathered in Prince Henry Shield 's house with evidence of Jega's betrayal, desperate to make sure Jonathan used his power to stop Jega and his pre-election manipulation of PVCS. When he lost we called him a hero because we were heart broken, but as Buhari destroyed his excellent achievements, we also became realistic about the enormity of Jonathan 's naivety or stupidity or cowardice or all of the above, and slowly the hero worship died.
Nnamdi Kanu specialises in speaking uncomfortable truths as he swore to use the truth to break up Nigeria. As the South South Facebook vuvuzellas heaped their insults on Nnamdi, a strange thing was happening on the ground - leaders of South South youth and elders were trooping in humility to Umuahia to pay obeisance to whom our Facebook vuvuzellas mocked as lord of Lords, Jewish messiah, megalomaniac.
And I thought...
How do I compare
The rant of an ant
To the trumpet of an elephant?
I can't rant
I can't pant
I can't want...
The Yoruba vuvuzellas are the funkiest and funniest. They pontificate, postulate, pronounce and promulgate without knowledge whilst projecting and omniscient presence and personality. They are always so sure in their ignorant arrogance they know better than the Igbo and the best advice and prescription to give them. It would be so hilarious, if it were not so serious..
The Yoruba Vvuzellas seem to be in cahoots with the Hausa-Fulani or Islamic supremacists who have become so sure of their destiny or control that they try to use intimidation and bad language to terrify and subjugate.
In the ultimate madness, a group of their youth purported to give notice to Igbos to quit the North. They also called the January 15 coup an Igbo coup and heaped so many faults on Igbos. They were here making the same mistakes of 1966. Because some Igbos were involved it became an Igbo coup. Now because Nnamdi has asked for referendum it became the fault of Igbos in the North and they must vacate the north.
Still we do not have the date of referendum but they can sack Igbos. Still they are part of ECOWAS and forget that Biafra will be an ECOWAS country, and we can be in any part of ECOWAS. Yet they don't realise that the stupidity and violence coded in that quit order is greater proof of why we MUST have Biafra. Oil and Water just can't mix.
The North to West alliance is very funny. They say Nnamdi is a small boy then launch the most hideous propaganda. They say we are landlocked, that we will fight each other, that it can't work and worst of all that Nnamdi will betray the course. They arrogate so much power to themselves, so sure they would finish Nnamdi till you see the videos of the millions who stand beside and behind him.
And I thought...
How do I compare
The rant of an ant
To the trumpet of an elephant?
I can't rant
I can't pant
I can't want...
Then I think of our modern exploiters in garbs of civility concealing their corruption, our modern Neros, fiddling while the nation burns - our politicians.
APGA wrote a letter to IPOB warning Nnamdi Kanu not to parade himself as an Emperor, that he does not speak for Igbos.
I laugh. Does Obiano who actually parades himself as an Emperor speak for Igbos? Do they not know that they have become the enemy of the igbos and like pigs of animal farm are their only for themselves?
I went to see Obiano to plead for support for a great Igbo man and Biafran war hero, who had fallen into penury. He immediately recognised me from our student days when I was a student leader, but I had not known him. I thought I could apply that leverage. He would not help, out of fear of the Gambari, which was bad, but then he did something truly hideous. The conversation fell around Nnamdi Kanu, and the hundreds of IPOB youth that died, and Obiano described them as miscreants - and expected me to agree with him!
The disgust that went through me, made me feel like vomiting. I do not know how I managed to remain polite. Perhaps it was wisdom to keep quiet in the lion's den. All I could do was get up abruptly and leave, completely disgusted and outraged with the psyche of our Igbo Governors. There is none with Fayose's courage.
From Okorocha, the outright traitor of his people, to Ugwuanyi, the joker that dressed up in the robes of his enemy to celebrate with the mass murderer of his people. In one of my most painful experiences on Facebook, Ikechukwu Iroha one of the boys I loved and respected most on Facebook, who went to work for ikpeazu, has been so corrupted that he now refers to Nnamdi Kanu in the most derogatory tone in defence of his masters.
Nnia Nwodo whom we thought had arrived to clean up the old Ohaneze, recently proved that Ohaneze was beyond redemption, publicly condemning the only man that millions of Igbo are committed to trust to lead them to Uhuru. With that gaffe Nwodo dismissed himself out reckoning.
Whether Nnamdi Kanu will succeed is for God and the future to decide - but for now he is the only kid on the block that is willing to dare. The motto of the British SAS is 'Who dares wins'. He is daring. He is winning.
Kanu has already succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. That is why the dragon and dinosaurs that rule our land are now talking about restructuring.
Nnamdi Kanu is a master of disruptive civil disobedience and that is why he has targeted Nigerian elections beginning with the Anambra elections. It is a high stakes game in which he is pitching his popularity against the entrenched Igbo ruling class and the Nigerian State. He will totally disrupt and destroy them on that day.
Kanu's campaign has already begun as he receives millions of his followers. As he campaigns across Anambra, APGA and Ohaneze and all the other parties will totally fade into insignificance. On November 19 the streets of Anambra will be empty. Any Igbo man that goes to vote will be voting against the spirit of his ancestors and his Chi. Let Igbos understand. No man fights his ancestors and personal chi and survives.
Some Igbos are so afraid that the Federal Government will then impose an APC candidate. This is so amusing. The best thing that would happen is for them to declare state of emergency and appoint a military Gambari from Daura. That will have a bigger effect on Igbo determination and unity than Buhari had in galvanising IPOB.
However, if they are clever and put an Igbo Governor from APC, it will still be bad for them but not as wonderful as an Hausa- Fulani military dictator. That would be pure golden gift for Nnamdi. That will be ultimate proof to all Southerners of their agenda to conquer. By 2019 the whole South will boycott elections and begin the process of Nigerian dismembership. No more elections until referendum. It does not matter whom they put to rule us. Those of you that think you know better than Nnamdi Kanu amuse me.
It makes me think...
How do I compare
The rant of an ant
To the trumpet of an elephant?
I can't rant
I can't pant
I can't want...
Re-arrest Nnamdi, the resolve will grow. Kill Nnamdi and the armed revolution will begin as the restraining hand of Nnamdi is withdrawn. Those that criticise and resist Nnamdi are like patients who think they know better than their doctors.
They call him all sorts of names, even though he is here to create the disruption that can liberate the whole South or at least restructure and free the regions and zones.
Most Nigerians are like American slaves who fought for their masters against their liberators. Nigerians have gone through such debasement that most can no longer recognise goodness. That is why the hordes of the North and the West rejected the best President we have ever had in Goodluck Jonathan.
Why? The leader of any organisation permeates and pervades the organisation with their nature, character and ethos. The people that ruled Nigeria since after the Biafra war were brutes who mudered, raped, pillaged and stole in genocidal proportions. They have turned most Nigerians into evil monsters like themselves. That is why Nigerians can remove the great achiever Jonathan and replaced him with yet another blood drenched, criminal warlord.
That is why many Nigerians cannot recognise the character of Nnamdi Kanu which was honed in the UK. The ruling class think they can bribe him off which is normal for Nigeria. They think he wants political office. The depraved Nigerian character cannot understand Nnamdi Kanu so they project their evil nature on him.
They make me think...
How do I compare
The rant of an ant
To the trumpet of an elephant?
I can't rant
I can't pant
I can't want...
However, the Nigerians and igbos that have come to realise he is different are so shocked with his character they fall down before him in obeisance, like Russell Bluejack, overwhelmed by his purity of heart, quietness, humility and strength of character.
My friend Donald Ekpo thinks Nnamdi is like Hitler because of his 'zombie' followers, his worshippers, that call him Lord of Lords. However, he forgets that Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mandela also had 'zombie' followers and worshippers but never became dictators. Only Mandela ever ruled after much pressure from his people, and that for one term.
I think Nnamdi is more like Gandhi and Mandela than Hitler. I am willing to take the risk and bet that he is more like Gandhi. If he turns out to be like Hitler, well I am sure he will be stopped. But in so far as he maintains truth and non - violent civil disobedience as his only weapons I lay myself before him for the cause.
No true Prophet is ever welcome by the ruling class. They will continue to criticise and seek to destroy as if they have superior knowledge and ability, but I continue to wonder, to ponder:
How do I compare
The rant of an ant
To the trumpet of an elephant?
I can't rant
I can't pant
I can't want
To be a sycophant
Of Nigeria's illusion
This vision of a false federation
This impossible mission
Of restructuration
Like the old Biafran deception
Of Rehabilitation
Reconstruction
Reintegration
That fictional restoration
That was so much delusion
Of the Victor and the Vanquished...
All Hail Biafra!