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While Uwazuzruike is languishing in jail the OPC thug Fasehun is freely going around issuing genocidal threats against non Yoruba's if mass action takes place. I guess we are to conclude that rigging is in the interest of the Yoruba nation, my advice to Ndigbo in Lagos is not to take this threat lightly. Don't expect the tribal IG Balogun or the BiafraNigeria police to arrest this guy, yet those who oppose rigging are denied permits to even hold a gathering.
When mass action was anti abacha and Hausa-Fulani, no ACF was around to threaten NADECO with violence or threaten Yorubas in Hausaland with violence, for everyone understood that we were dealing with a military dictatorship which thus was an illegal govt.
Now we are supposed to have a democratic govt, and peaceful demonstration thru mass action is going to be brutalized? Brutalized by a govt which after a legitimate first term is now trying to hijack power illegitimately while concocting up cynical abacha-like escuses with which to commit violent and brutal oppression of legitimate dissent. In this enterprise, a group such as OPC is now left to antagonize people by a govt that has employed every cynical ploy.
If Hausa thought that this was a joke, or an Igbo thing, let the actions of the unruly and murderous OPC incubated and harnessed by their president Obasanjo for measured and calculated effect now reveal to all the true color of Yoruba aspirations in Nigerian politics.
Like NwaAro said; they have now dealt their hand, and the desperation of OPC's condoned utterances now leaves no doubts as to the hypocrisy that forever illegitimizes their motives.
They have now taught all groups new tricks which (with regard to Nigerian penchant for mimikery) as I will repeat, is hereby well imbibed.
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When I look at the 360 digree u-turn of the Yoruba race since Obasanjo mounted the throne in Nigeria, all I keep reminscenting to myself is that this people have been wrongly guided. And since the Yoruba race which I hitheto had a lot of respect seem to have decided like the northerners before them to follow this route of eternal SHAME.
As Obasanjo is as I write getting ready to be IMPOSED on hapless Nigerians for another four or erternal years, I advice the Yorubas to IMMEDIATELY retrace their steps, because if they dont and continue this see no evel, hear no evil and do no evil attitude, they will with time discover to their chagrin that they have sold their legitimte right to critize any future government that will be formed by surely a non Yoruba. As for now, what I like every other objective observer of Nigerian politics of the last four years have for the Yorubas is pity.
I remember in those heady dark days of the Abacha brutal regime hearing some Yoruba former school-mates of mine whom I paid a private visit in Lagos telling me that they just went to an "anti- Abcha rally" a day before my visit at Tafawa Balewa Square and were "gased" by the Mobil police. I wonder how such fellows would be feeling as one of their own in Aso Rock cannot allow people to march PEACEFULLY on the streets of Nigeria over what everyone agrees was a robbery.
As Obasanjo mounts the throne today against the wishes of majority of citizens of Nigeria, I only hope the Yorubas will take a good look at their history and take an encompassing look beyond the short-term profit their blind support for Baba will give them and focus more on the LONG-TERM damage it will do to their collective dignity as a people. I believe that if they are well guided, they will and can do better than what they have done for the past four ugly years. The choice is theirs.
On our part, as an Igbo and an unrepentanly proud one at that, I am proud that Ndigbo this time refused to join them because they couldn't beat them! Let it be on record that if Ojukwu was accused of the election malpractices as is being held against Obasanjo, if majority of Igbos accept it (which I doubt) and want him imposed on other Nigerians, if other Igbos accept such injustice, I, Nwa Aro will not only reject such injustice but will go further to fight it as I do today against Obasanjo presently. For as far as I am concerned, just as justice fits into every race, creed and religion, so is injustice anathema to every race, creed and religion. If anyone seriously want a better society in any shape or form, he/she must learn to see EVIL AS EVIL and call it thus. Otherwise...
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