By Chibuike Nwabuko
Abuja (Sundiata Post) – Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi-Fani Kayode has blasted former Chief Security Officer to Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Mustapha over comments he made about agitations threatening the unity of Nigeria.
The former minister wondered if the views expressed by the former CSO were the same thoughts he had when he was the Chief Security Officer to General Sani Abacha when Mrs. Kudirat Abiola was brutally murdered in cold blood by agents of the government that he served so diligently and with such ruthless precision.
Femi-Fani Kayode stated this Wednesday on his twitter handle @realFFK while reacting to the statement credited to former Chief Security Officer to Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Mustapha to the effect that:
“Those who strive to keep Nigeria one find themselves as enemies of a certain category of Nigerians. I don’t see those who hate to see Nigeria as one as a group but a clique that exploits the country, a clique that mismanages the future, a clique that invests in disintegration, a clique that invests in misinformation and creating division among Nigerians, a clique that promotes hatred, a clique that distorts our history, so that when Nigerians are divided and can no longer think together, they can make gains and continue to steal from Nigeria’s commonwealth. But the moment you realize what they are doing and resolve to fight them, they will stop at nothing to destroy you. Any call to divide Nigeria is unacceptable”.
Al’Mustapha was said to have made the call recently while addressing issues on the quit notice and secession agitation by Arewa Youths and IPOB respectively.
While reacting to Al’Mustapha’s statement, Fani-Kayode seeks to know from the former CSO if:
“These were the thoughts of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha when he was the Chief Security Officer to General Sani Abacha and when Mrs. Kudirat Abiola, the courageous and outspoken wife of Chief MKO Abiola the winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, was brutally murdered in cold blood by agents of the government that he served so diligently and with such ruthless precision.
“Whether she was murdered alongside many other gallant sons and daughters of the south west by the Abacha regime in the name of maintaining the national cohesion and unity that he claims to love so much”.
Fani- Kayode who said he will grant his brother, Hamza, the opportunity to answer this question before going any further on the issue informed that it is the clique of those that kill with impunity; that suppress dissent; that demonise their perceived enemies, that believe that the rest of us are slaves and that believe that they were born to rule that present the greatest threat to peace and national unity in this country.
He urged them to humble themselves and beg God and the Nigerian people for forgiveness for 103 years of cruelty, ruthless domination, arrogance, genocide and impunity if they want peace.
“They must get off their high horse, purge themselves of their notorious insolence and insufferable contempt and they must stop the historical distortions, the insults, the killings and the threats, former minister added.
”They must get off their high horse, purge themselves of their notorious insolence and insufferable contempt and they must stop the historical distortions, the insults, the killings and the threats.
According to him, “WhetherAl’ Mustapha likes it or not the days when anyone will invoke the spirit of national unity and one Nigeria just to perpetuate injustice, bondage, slavery, subjugation, mass murder, genocide, ethnic and religious cleansing and core northern domination are long over.
Fani-Kayode who said he awaits Al’Mustapha’s response, reminded that, all the insults and threats in the world cannot change that.
The former minister who described as bunkum the call for Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOB not go to Lagos for any rallies, stressing that Kanu is a hero to Yoruba nationalists and believers in the right of self-determination; adding that they not only admire him but they also revere him.
For a fact, millions of Igbos that reside in Lagos and many other parts of the south-west would welcome him with open arms and thunderous jubilation, millions of Yoruba youth would also rejoice at his coming simply because they have been inspired and stirred by his sheer courage and dedication.
Fani- Kayode informed that the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu has since withdrawn and renounced many of the misconceptions and views that he once espoused and expressed about the Yoruba and their leaders before his incarceration; which is why I possibly have had as much respect and affection for him as I do.
He therefore described as misguided and misinformed, those who believe that Kanu and IPOB have no friends amongst the Yoruba, saying they have lost touch with reality and they are living in the past.
“The truth is that IPOB has friends amongst both the elders and the youths in the south-west and, most importantly, millions of Yoruba sons and daughters share their vision for and belief in the right to exercise their God-given right of self-determination, he said.
“They crave for and believe in the establishment of Oduduwa Republic in much the same way and for the same reasons that Nnamdi and members of his IPOB crave for and believe in Biafra.
According to him, “The bridge of commonality of purpose between the south west and the south east has been rebuilt and re-established and none shall ever break or burn it again. Whether anyone likes it or not, in this struggle, we are one”.
He reiterated that those in Igboland and indeed throughout the south that have openly opposed, insulted and sought to chastise those gallant men and women that support the idea of restructuring our country or that consistently resist and denigrate the concept of establishing the sovereign state of Biafra are mischievous and disingenuous.
“They are nothing but gutless traitors, blacklegs and turncoats that have no sense or knowledge of history and that have been contracted by the powers that be to shatter the dreams and aspirations of millions of young Igbos from within, Kayode said.
He maintained that the turncoats and traitors have fed fat on Nigeria and have consistently cornered the market of all that is due to the Igbo from the Federal Government for themselves over the last thirty years, saying they have no empathy for the suffering and humiliation of their own people and who cannot feel their pain.
The former Minister also used the occasion to reiterate his call for President Buhari to resign and rest.
According to him, in spite of my views about President Buhari’s glaring incompetence and his many atrocities, weaknesses, eccentricities and shortcomings, I believe that even the President deserves far better than that.
Adding that his counsel, which is borne out of compassion, still remains that he resigns and that he goes home and rests before he suffers yet another relapse and returns to nether nether land!
He said it was because of what governance has been reduced to in Nigeria that made CNN’s Fareed Zakaria to mock us about our absentee President before hundreds of millions of viewers from all over the world.