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Our Dear Dr. Yakubu Gowon (GCFR) Our Dear Dr Yakubu Gowon Page 1 of 6 Our Dear Dr. Yakubu Gowon (GCFR) By Kòmbò Mason Braide (PhD) Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Of Soldiers, Gentlemen & Prayerful Elder Statesmen: We will not refer to you as "Sir", as has unfortunately been the norm of master-servant interaction in Nigeria, since Saturday, 15 January 1966, when the syntax, semantics, and semiotics of barrack level reality began to infiltrate, and then overwhelm the collective psyche of Nigerians. Neither will we bore you with sycophantic references to your military rank as a four-star general. This does not mean that we do not respect you, or hold you in high regard. On the contrary, we do. Therefore, there is no cause for alarm yet, please. Furthermore, let us assure you that this is not another useless diatribe about the Bakassi Peninsular, now safely and legally repositioned in La République du Cameroun. It is about premeditated terrorism. Nigerians are very lucky to have you still alive today. We thank God. Unlike quite a lot of your less fortunate peers, and subordinates, during your hectic career as a soldier in the Nigerian Army, you are alive, well, and actively, though unobtrusively, involved in the affairs of our motherland, Nigeria. It simply cannot be for nothing that fate forced you to free yourself from the imposed handicaps of limited education and ignorance, to acquire quality education, and proper grooming, more or less from scratch, up to postgraduate level, from a good university, quite unlike most of your seniors, peers, and juniors, or even the majority of the unfortunate students in Nigerian universities today. In short, we believe very strongly that God Almighty is a Nigerian. If not, then definitely, Nigerians must be God’s own special, even if prodigal, children. We are seizing the opportunity provided by this open forum to refresh your mind candidly, about some salient issues of national urgency in Nigeria today. We will assume that your worldview now is, by far, better refined than those of most of your former professional colleagues, and contemporaries in the Nigerian military, mainly by virtue of the enlightenment that you acquired, while you were forced into self-exile in the UK by a military cabal, then led by the incumbent civilian President of Nigeria, 1975 Brigadier Olusegun Obasanjo, sarcastically nicknamed "Omo Oba", in those good old days of the jolly good old Nigerian Army, but now sycophantically referred to as "Uncle Şégě ", "OBJ", and "Bàbã Ìyábò", by various species of bloody civilian political parasites, vermin, and vampires that perpetually loiter around the corridors of Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. As you are fully aware, President Olusegun Obasanjo was a very close friend of late Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, one of the forerunners of Nigeria’s culture of coups d’état, that ultimately brought our beloved country to its current sorry http://www.nigerdeltacongress.com/oarticles/our_dear_dr_yakubu_gowon.htm 7/18/2008 Our Dear Dr Yakubu Gowon Page 2 of 6 state. Some Nigerians still argue that, where it not for the events of that fateful day, on Saturday, 15 January 1966, most probably, Nigerians would never have known of you, or OBJ, or any one of the several predatory military autocrats that imposed their egos on the collective consciousness of Nigerians, over the past 36 years. Maybe, Nigeria would have been reduced to debris by now, through the chaos that would have been fomented by the indiscretions of some dogma-fixated twats, in and out of the Nigerian Armed Forces, with their inexplicable craving to dip their sacred literature into the Bights of Benin and Biafra, in today’ oil-endowed Gulf of Guinea, in the mid-Atlantic Ocean, as if by divine injunction. Who knows? We may never know. At any rate, Olusegun Obasanjo was also a one time GOC under your command, and a one-time Commissioner of Works under you, exactly like ex-policeman Sir (Chief) Tony Anenih (JP), was the Minister of Works and Housing, under OBJ, until very recently. Today, Nigeria is lucky to still have other living fellow old soldiers of the same Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigerian, which you led, like: Major General (Chief) Robert Adeyinka Adebayo, Major General (Chief) David Ejoor, and Major General Mohammed Shuwa, Brigadiers Rotimi, Mobolaji Johnson, Benjamin Adekunle, and Samuel Ogbemudia, and a few others, quietly watching what is happening to Nigeria, a country you all tried your human best to salvage, and rebuild, but painfully, now under the lamentable direct imperial supervision of one of your former subordinates, and minister, 1975 Brigadier Olu Obasanjo. Today, for good or for bad, you, Dr. Yakubu Gowon (GCFR), are the most senior of all living former Commanders-in Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, despite whatever surreptitious disinformation that Obasanjo’s official praise singers, and image launderers may have overwhelmed the nervous systems of both Nigerians, and the world at large, about his assumed essence in Nigerian history. We are therefore confident that you can advise President Olusegun Obasanjo appropriately, or, at least, bring considerable pressure to bear on him, in your capacity as the substantive boss of all living, active, or retired soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, including OBJ. "Let There Be Light", And NEPA Struck: Recent events in the country have shown unambiguously that Olu Obasanjo lacks a clear sense of mission on how best to confront the historical challenges facing present day Nigeria. You will recall when in 1970, some 32 years ago, then Lieutenant Colonel Obasanjo received, on your behalf, the article of surrender from then Major General Philip Effiong of the Biafran Army. For you and for all Nigerians then, it was symbolic of a new Nigeria. However, with the benefit of hindsight, it now seems like Obasanjo did not really share your altruism, and fervent desire of assuring all Nigerians that there is hope in a united Nigeria that Nigerians could trust their aspirations and destiny in, and rebuild from a firmer foundation, given the circumstances of those times. However, today, it appears as if the horrible experiences of the battlefronts of the Nigeria-Biafra War were for nothing. It is dumbfounding, frightening, and ironic to observe that Nigerians tried their human best to remain united, only to be enslaved by a nightmarish catalogue of unwarranted misery brought about by a long succession of thick-skinned and mercenary despots, all of them, your subordinates, starting from Murtala Mohammed, through Olusegun Obasanjo, to http://www.nigerdeltacongress.com/oarticles/our_dear_dr_yakubu_gowon.htm 7/18/2008 Our Dear Dr Yakubu Gowon Page 3 of 6 Mohammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangia, Sani Abacha, Abdulsalami Abubakar, and now back to Olusegun Obasanjo, once again, making former President Alhaji Shehu Shagari (GCFR) appear like an odd statistic in the history of post- independence Nigeria. Even before Obasanjo came to power on Saturday, 29 May 1999, there was a significant amount of goodwill towards him, which cut across sexual, economic, social, dogmatic, and ethnic barriers. Nigerians believed in Obasanjo because they thought that he would be the muster point of national reawakening, and that he was prepared to sacrifice his personal greed and selfishness for the benefit of Nigeria and all Nigerians. The myth was that Obasanjo was probably the most experienced Nigerian to lead this thoroughly brutalised nation, from a miasma of group masochism, self-hate, and economic ruination, to national renaissance. At that time, Olusegun Obasanjo hinged his election campaign on the smokescreen that he was the one, and probably only, Nigerian that Nigerians could depend on for accountability, and good governance. However, today, some Nigerian men can effortlessly enslave, debase, dehumanise, demonise, or/and diabolise Nigerian women, or amputate peasant petty poachers, or instigate urban terrorism, or destroy every vestige of civilised coexistence in their neighbourhoods through general disorder, and very likely, President Olusegun Obasanjo would embrace such men warmly. All that matters is to him is that they line up as allies and "paddy men" in his self-recycling gambit to consolidate and entrench institutionalised predatory autocracy in Nigeria, since that is the only cause that he still takes seriously. That is the message that Obasanjo sent by his palpably lack-lustre response to the momentary insanity of the theocratic government of Zamfara State, which, incidentally, is the most impudently virulent anti-democratic violator of very basic human rights in the Federal Republic of Nigeria today, an unfortunate but typical manifestation of entrenched power sadism in Nigerian leaders nationwide. A Fatuous Fatwa In A Democratic Theocracy: The farcical and fatuous fatwa, pronounced recently by the so-called Deputy Governor of a supposedly democratic sub- component, called Zamfara State, of a supposedly democratic Federal Republic of Nigeria, His so-called Excellency, so- called Alhaji Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi, in addition to other recent threats to the peace and general stability of Nigeria, makes the Government of Zamfara State, the prime sponsor, and flag bearer of dogma-energised terrorism in the ECOWAS sub-region, in case you do not know yet. Yet, President Obasanjo rewarded that "rogue regime" for recklessly declaring yet another death sentence on yet another Nigerian woman, Ms. Isioma Daniels, by firstly denouncing her freedom of expression, and by insinuation, the freedom of the press in Nigeria, and then proceeding to arrest her colleague, an editor in ThisDay newspapers, after Isioma had fled Obasanjo’s investor-friendly Nigeria, sequel to the complete reduction to ashes of that newspaper’s office in Kaduna, by some dogma-addicted terrorists. How very democratic! The War against Women (WAW) has become the obsession of Nigeria’s religious bigots, fanatics, and terrorists alike, all of them, men.
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