By Kazeem Olalekan Israel
SIR: A man like Sunday Igboho who thrives in violence cannot be trusted with the demand for self-determination and this has been exhibited in his call for violence in all his campaigns for the actualisation of Oduduwa Republic. For someone like Sunday Igboho with absolutely no knowledge of the workings of a state to be demanding for a republic going as far as threatening an attack on critical government infrastructure, I understood immediately that he is not a serious person and that he and his ilk are seeking the renewal of their expired political patronage.
Though, many might not agree with the invasion of his residence by operatives of the State Security Service, because it is as crude as the approach of Sunday Igboho himself towards self-determination, I am of the opinion his emergence is not a plus to the peoples’ revolution. This is why the government must act within the limits of the law to bring him to account as indeed some other persons like Sheik Gumi whose incendiary comments also constitute a threat to national security.
Here is a man said to possess a German resident permit amongst other international passports the SSS took away from his house during the raid. The implication is that, just like Nnamdi Kanu, he will flee the country immediately after stoking a war. This is like what he made the people of Igangan to go through in the hands of blood-sucking herders after the much publicised bravado.
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The moment Sunday Igboho started agitating for Oduduwa Republic coupled with the mythical power he boasts of virtually every time, I knew that infamy has been exhumed from wherever it has been hibernating all these years. Those conversant with the story of Igboho will readily say that with a man like him spearheading the call for self-determination, the result is known at the onset; placing himself above all known authority while acting bizarre.
Agreed, there is governmental failure and there is also the urgent need to negotiate our existence, but that could be done without calling for war. The recent happenings shows that the British-made Nigeria is about to fall into the abyss of history and there is a need for Nigerians themselves to design their own house and live in it according to their architecture.
Nigerians must be afforded an approach which will present Nigeria a new marriage identity either via unity in diversity under a confederal arrangement, one Nigeria under true federalism or fragmented new countries emerging from different regions.
- Kazeem Olalekan Israel, Ibadan.
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