UNITY IS SWEET IN JUSTICE AND EQUITY!
Nigeria: the only place under the sun where the minority rose from the desert to become the majority, where the minority swore to rule the majority by force and to make the country ungovernable should anyone not from their established minority ascends to power. it is all because we all became intimidated and cowed not to speak or awake to any consciousness of our dilemma. How long will this status quo remain?
Why are they bombing our malls, abducting our christian girls by force, taking over communities and villages stealthily? Who on earth is not aware that there is an ethnic cleansing going on in the north of Nigeria as we speak now? Why is no one raising an alarm? Why would Kano state governor come out and boldly telling the world the lie that a Christian president is oppressing the Muslims of the North? Absolute ethno-religious jingoism!
It is time to redefine the country for the benefit of all and sundry. it is enough. The feudal north must kiss power goodbye for another decade and more. If Nigeria belongs to us all, then it is time to restructure every facet of the skewed and lopsided platform and framework of what we have called Nigeria. Nigeria has never worked with all this framework since inception and we can not keep at a faulty framework that has brought war,corruption, nepotism, misery, violence, abject poverty on the teeming millions of our people. But if it be that Nigeria does not belong to us all, then who feel that Nigeria is theirs should take it to themselves and leave us to what is our divine heritage from the One who made the heavens and the earth and appointed to us our boundaries.
We are not going to give one inch of our divine heritage to the ones who savagely massacre us and plunder our heritage before our eyes.We will not let intrigues and manipulations, ethno-religious jingoism, mobocracy, nepotism and corruption ruin and dismantle our collective and individual destinies.
They are telling us that unless they are the ones ruling, we all will not know any peace. They are telling us that it is their birthright to rule us till we all go to our graves with nothing to show for it. They are telling us that we and our children are their inherited possessions. They are telling us that all our resources and our oil blocks are their booties.
They are telling us that the sparsely populated savanna and desert-land has more inhabitants than the thick rich tropical rain forest. They are telling us they have all the rights to kill as many of us as they can and their is nothing we can do about it. They are telling us that they are the sacred cows and we are the sacrificial lambs! We have been through this and seen this play over and over for the past fifty years of mock nationhood. Nigerians deserve better now. Nigerians have no business with poverty. Nigerians have done nothing to deserve being massacred on a daily basis in their dozens alongside their aged and sucklings!
When are we going to wake up from this nightmare and stand up for our rights and defend our liberties.Unity is sweet in justice and equity and therein does peace and prosperity find its perfect rhythm to blossom.
Let us restructure the system and redefine the land of our birth. Let us take back our country now from the mob and their cohorts. They systematically pauperized us all in a land of plenty.
O God whom I serve from my mothers womb and who did ordain me to stand in the office I stand, arise and take back your throne and raise up the men and women who have understanding in such a time as this for this great nation!
Arise O compatriots!
Shalom
- Apostle Patrice Yehuda
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Friday, June 27, 2014
NIGERIA: The future of this enclave - Chido Onumah
Nigeria’s celebrated novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is an
interviewer’s delight, whether she is talking about Nigeria, novels,
feminism or hair. A few weeks ago, she was a guest of Stephen Sackur’s
HARDtalk on the British Broadcasting Corporation where she talked about
Biafra, ethnicity in Nigeria, the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War and the
censorship of the movie version of her novel about the civil war, Half
of a Yellow Sun.
“Nigeria as a country has never really engaged with Biafra,” Adichie said in response to Sackur’s question about whether today’s Nigerians had learnt enough about the important lessons of the war. “There is a lot that is unresolved about that period of our history.”
I agree with Adichie. Nigeria has not engaged with Biafra and there is a lot that is still unresolved about the civil war. But it’s not just Biafra and that tumultuous period of our history. There is a lot that is unresolved about Nigeria as a whole and many aspects of our existence as a country. Nigeria has not engaged with June 12, just as we have not engaged with Boko Haram, to mention only two of the more recent episodic convulsions that threaten the very foundation of the country.
In a sense, the Biafra experience could be a metaphor for the many unresolved problems that confront us as a country, whether we are talking about agitations by minority ethnic nationalities, the upsurge in militancy across the country, the quest for the balkanisation of the country by fringe groups that go by all sorts of absurd names or the infernal resolve of a group to impose a religious code on an otherwise secular country.
“How should we make sense of Nigeria’s 21st century identity?” Sackur had asked in the introduction to his programme. Interestingly, around the time of that interview, there were rallies, amongst other troubling occurrences in Nigeria, in London and a few cities around the world in support of the Biafra renaissance.
A week earlier, some Biafra protagonists were arrested after a failed attempt to take over a radio station in Enugu and declare, or perhaps revive, the Republic of Biafra. It was in the same city that pro-Biafra “forces” were arrested for a daring attempt to take over the Enugu State Government House. Enugu was the first and one of the three capitals of Biafra while the secession lasted.
How do we make sense of all this? There are those who think that what we are witnessing is a necessary and passing phase in the attempt to build a nation. It may well be! But, it may also spell doom for a country that has had more than five decades to forge a “perfect union”, but has squandered each opportunity.
Clearly, as a country, we haven’t learnt anything about the regrettable civil war of 1967-1970 or the other tragic events that occurred before that war. We have also not learnt from the dreadful upheavals that have taken place after the war; events that have shaken the very foundations of our existence as a country.
Nigeria will disintegrate unless we collectively do something about it. Nations are not built on mere wishful thinking. No country that is run the way Nigeria is being run survives for too long. The hard truth is that there is nothing sacrosanct about Nigeria. A nation is neither an eternal nor a divinely ordained construct as is often delusively proclaimed, in the case of Nigeria, by our exceptionally depraved ruling class and their sympathisers. It comes into being at a historical juncture – through a combination of factors and forces – and can cease to be by the same logic.
Nigeria was an arbitrary creation of British colonialists who coupled disparate ethnic nationalities for economic and other reasons. Of course, many countries around the world were created through the same process and for the same reasons. The problem in the case of Nigeria, however, was that there were no attempts, at independence and subsequently, by Nigerians, the new inheritors of the contraption the British left behind, to remake the country in the image of a people who had broken the shackles of colonialism and had to build an egalitarian society; a nation of equity, social justice, the rule of law and all the fundamentals of a modern state.
How then do we move forward from the boiling cauldron – the outcome of a forced and dubious amalgam of different ethnicities, religions and cultural beliefs – to a nation of equal opportunity, shared vision and common future when we fail to learn from our history and allow primordial interests and short-term gains to stand in the way of a collective need for national survival?
Just as the colonialists intended, we have managed never to miss an opportunity to highlight the fault lines that have kept us perpetually at war with one another. And just like the colonialists, our rapacious and thieving ruling class, military and civilian, from across the country – emphasising our fault lines – have succeeded in not only misruling us but also dividing us.
Take the simple and harmless matter of honouring the winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, Chief M.K.O. Abiola, by the ongoing National Conference. That election was wickedly annulled by Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, colluding with some of the vile creatures who today are the drivers of our so-called democracy. Babangida and company have yet to explain the reason for that criminal complicity.
That election showed that Nigerians could rise above ethnic and religious divisions given a purposeful and selfless leadership. Of course, it also showed that Nigeria’s ruling elite are not interested in the unity of this country beyond what they can get from it; never mind that they are always proclaiming that: “The unity of Nigeria is not negotiable.”
June 12, 2014, marked the 21st anniversary of that election. Sadly, when a motion, seeking to pay tribute and give national recognition to Abiola and hundreds of Nigerians who died protesting the annulment, was moved at the National Conference by Orok Duke from Cross River State, delegates were reportedly “divided along regional lines as those from southern Nigeria favoured the motion while those from the North rejected it”. And this fierce rejection of a legitimate quest for justice is recorded in a 21st century Nigeria; ironically, in a gathering consecrated to banish inequity and injustice and the multiple handmaids of Nigeria’s stillbirth.
This was an election in which the masses of the “North” ensured that Abiola from Ogun State in “southern Nigeria” beat his opponent, Alhaji Bashir Tofa from Kano State in “northern Nigeria”; an election in which Abiola and his running mate, Babagana Kingibe, both Muslims, won across the length and breadth of the country.
It is heartbreaking that a representative of the civil society at the National Conference that aims to address the many flashpoints of our distorted nationhood, Mallam Nasir Kura, from Kano State, was reported to have led the chorus of voices from the “North” that opposed any attempt to remember June 12, Abiola and Nigerians from all walks of life who paid the supreme sacrifice during that upheaval. For Kura and company, June 12, like its unfortunate victims, is “dead and buried”.
Make no mistake, while that rowdy session over honouring Abiola which attracted the attention of security operatives and was going to turn the confab into a WWE arena may have looked like an attempt to promote an “ethnic agenda”, accusing people of being ethnic jingoists for that action does not tell the whole story. After all, Olusegun Obasanjo, former president, chief beneficiary of the June 12 debacle and Abiola’s kinsman was – until his recent conversion, like Paul on his way to Damascus – one of the most trenchant traducers of Abiola and June 12.
CHIDO ONUMAH
“Nigeria as a country has never really engaged with Biafra,” Adichie said in response to Sackur’s question about whether today’s Nigerians had learnt enough about the important lessons of the war. “There is a lot that is unresolved about that period of our history.”
I agree with Adichie. Nigeria has not engaged with Biafra and there is a lot that is still unresolved about the civil war. But it’s not just Biafra and that tumultuous period of our history. There is a lot that is unresolved about Nigeria as a whole and many aspects of our existence as a country. Nigeria has not engaged with June 12, just as we have not engaged with Boko Haram, to mention only two of the more recent episodic convulsions that threaten the very foundation of the country.
In a sense, the Biafra experience could be a metaphor for the many unresolved problems that confront us as a country, whether we are talking about agitations by minority ethnic nationalities, the upsurge in militancy across the country, the quest for the balkanisation of the country by fringe groups that go by all sorts of absurd names or the infernal resolve of a group to impose a religious code on an otherwise secular country.
“How should we make sense of Nigeria’s 21st century identity?” Sackur had asked in the introduction to his programme. Interestingly, around the time of that interview, there were rallies, amongst other troubling occurrences in Nigeria, in London and a few cities around the world in support of the Biafra renaissance.
A week earlier, some Biafra protagonists were arrested after a failed attempt to take over a radio station in Enugu and declare, or perhaps revive, the Republic of Biafra. It was in the same city that pro-Biafra “forces” were arrested for a daring attempt to take over the Enugu State Government House. Enugu was the first and one of the three capitals of Biafra while the secession lasted.
How do we make sense of all this? There are those who think that what we are witnessing is a necessary and passing phase in the attempt to build a nation. It may well be! But, it may also spell doom for a country that has had more than five decades to forge a “perfect union”, but has squandered each opportunity.
Clearly, as a country, we haven’t learnt anything about the regrettable civil war of 1967-1970 or the other tragic events that occurred before that war. We have also not learnt from the dreadful upheavals that have taken place after the war; events that have shaken the very foundations of our existence as a country.
Nigeria will disintegrate unless we collectively do something about it. Nations are not built on mere wishful thinking. No country that is run the way Nigeria is being run survives for too long. The hard truth is that there is nothing sacrosanct about Nigeria. A nation is neither an eternal nor a divinely ordained construct as is often delusively proclaimed, in the case of Nigeria, by our exceptionally depraved ruling class and their sympathisers. It comes into being at a historical juncture – through a combination of factors and forces – and can cease to be by the same logic.
Nigeria was an arbitrary creation of British colonialists who coupled disparate ethnic nationalities for economic and other reasons. Of course, many countries around the world were created through the same process and for the same reasons. The problem in the case of Nigeria, however, was that there were no attempts, at independence and subsequently, by Nigerians, the new inheritors of the contraption the British left behind, to remake the country in the image of a people who had broken the shackles of colonialism and had to build an egalitarian society; a nation of equity, social justice, the rule of law and all the fundamentals of a modern state.
How then do we move forward from the boiling cauldron – the outcome of a forced and dubious amalgam of different ethnicities, religions and cultural beliefs – to a nation of equal opportunity, shared vision and common future when we fail to learn from our history and allow primordial interests and short-term gains to stand in the way of a collective need for national survival?
Just as the colonialists intended, we have managed never to miss an opportunity to highlight the fault lines that have kept us perpetually at war with one another. And just like the colonialists, our rapacious and thieving ruling class, military and civilian, from across the country – emphasising our fault lines – have succeeded in not only misruling us but also dividing us.
Take the simple and harmless matter of honouring the winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, Chief M.K.O. Abiola, by the ongoing National Conference. That election was wickedly annulled by Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, colluding with some of the vile creatures who today are the drivers of our so-called democracy. Babangida and company have yet to explain the reason for that criminal complicity.
That election showed that Nigerians could rise above ethnic and religious divisions given a purposeful and selfless leadership. Of course, it also showed that Nigeria’s ruling elite are not interested in the unity of this country beyond what they can get from it; never mind that they are always proclaiming that: “The unity of Nigeria is not negotiable.”
June 12, 2014, marked the 21st anniversary of that election. Sadly, when a motion, seeking to pay tribute and give national recognition to Abiola and hundreds of Nigerians who died protesting the annulment, was moved at the National Conference by Orok Duke from Cross River State, delegates were reportedly “divided along regional lines as those from southern Nigeria favoured the motion while those from the North rejected it”. And this fierce rejection of a legitimate quest for justice is recorded in a 21st century Nigeria; ironically, in a gathering consecrated to banish inequity and injustice and the multiple handmaids of Nigeria’s stillbirth.
This was an election in which the masses of the “North” ensured that Abiola from Ogun State in “southern Nigeria” beat his opponent, Alhaji Bashir Tofa from Kano State in “northern Nigeria”; an election in which Abiola and his running mate, Babagana Kingibe, both Muslims, won across the length and breadth of the country.
It is heartbreaking that a representative of the civil society at the National Conference that aims to address the many flashpoints of our distorted nationhood, Mallam Nasir Kura, from Kano State, was reported to have led the chorus of voices from the “North” that opposed any attempt to remember June 12, Abiola and Nigerians from all walks of life who paid the supreme sacrifice during that upheaval. For Kura and company, June 12, like its unfortunate victims, is “dead and buried”.
Make no mistake, while that rowdy session over honouring Abiola which attracted the attention of security operatives and was going to turn the confab into a WWE arena may have looked like an attempt to promote an “ethnic agenda”, accusing people of being ethnic jingoists for that action does not tell the whole story. After all, Olusegun Obasanjo, former president, chief beneficiary of the June 12 debacle and Abiola’s kinsman was – until his recent conversion, like Paul on his way to Damascus – one of the most trenchant traducers of Abiola and June 12.
CHIDO ONUMAH
The demarcation
"The line of demarcation between the people of the Most High God and the world is ever to be kept unmistakably distinct.
Our faith does not originate from the visible changeability of the world order and systems.
Our hope is beyond time.
Our power is already derived from the eternal ages to come.
Our spirits are in-conquerable by death and darkness.This is our great high calling!"
- Apostle Patrice Yehuda
We are still standing!
We are still standing!
The moment is here and now when your adversaries will have nothing more to say that they have not said before and there will be nothing more for them to do that they have not done before against you and you are still standing.
You are still here!
I am still here!
We are still standing!
The power that raised up our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead is the same power that is keeping you standing!
The power keeping you standing is much greater than the power trying all your life to pull you down!
#GEJISSTILLSTANDING
#HOPEISALIVEANDWELL
#WEARESTILLSTANDING
#TERRORISMISALOSER
- Apostle Patrice Yehuda
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Sunday, June 22, 2014
NIGERIA: THE VOICE OF THE LION'S ROAR
NIGERIA: THE VOICE OF THE LION'S ROAR
They that sowed the wind shall reap the whirlwind
A wind shall blow them away to a desolate land
They shall know that the Most High rules in the heavens above and on the earth
The throne is the Lord's and He shall give it to whomsoever He alone is pleased with
There is coming a revolution of divine judgement - a complete and total cleansing of the stables
Let the wicked begin to repent and entreat the Lord of Hosts for mercy before it is too late.
Who has ever hardened his heart against the counsel of the Lord and prospered?
The hand that put the helmsman in power will uphold him as He has done through all these upheavals of evil -
And the same hand will bring judgement to all the wicked who delight in wicked deeds and they shall be as the chaff of the summer threshingfloors!
Thus it is declared by the LORD!
Job 21:17-20
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Proverbs 10:25
As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Isaiah 17:12-14
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Jeremiah 23:19
Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
Shalom
- Apostle Patrice Yehuda
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
No Ordinary Messenger but a Sent One!
I am not just a Messenger of the Lord but I am passionate about the condition of my people, my race, my generation and the plight of the weak and voiceless in our world. We are really ruled by beasts and tyrants from nation to nation except for a few light spots where you have godly men in authority.
Christ came to purchase our salvation that we might now rise as sons of light in the midst of a perverse and wicked generation to shine the light of his knowledge, to admonish, counsel and rebuke kings and rulers. We are called to display his wisdom to the principalities and powers in the heavenly realms and disarming their strongholds of lies and deceit.
I am not a prophet of men but I am one of the sent ones of God to this earth. I am a Prophet of the Living God with no fears or favors to anyone. The evil one is on rampage kidnapping defenceless girls and boys in Nigeria and Israel. It is like the strategy of the devil has changed to wholesale and mindless destructions, reigning wickedness on our innocent youths while our leaders just dine and wine. Something burns deep within my heart. I see wicked, selfish, insensitive, crooked and diabolical leaders from place to place.
What is happening in Nigeria calls for every passionate sent one of God to read the writing on the wall. It is one thing to read the handwriting on the wall and it is another thing to be able to interpret the handwriting on the wall. To some they could see the handwriting on the wall but their senses are so dulled that they can not even be able to read what is written.
- Apostle Patrice Yehuda
Saturday, June 7, 2014
I heard Him!
I heard Him. He said:
I am the Lord
I am the Lord thy God
I am the Lord
I am the Lord thy God
How very piercing and powerful. Very simple words that says it all for me.
Whatever He says to you and me, He concludes with the words
"For I am the Lord"
Beneath and behind these simple words are depths of mysteries not yet known
"HE ALONE IS LORD"
"HE ALONE IS GOD"
He is all there is and could ever be.
He is the center and the circumference of the universe.
All passes before Him but He passes before nothing and no one.
He is life giving light to all He created
He is Jehovah the Great I Am
No height could find Him
No depth could uncover Him
No length and breadth could reach Him
He alone is and there is none else
Forever and ever He lives
And wills us to live in Him!
Amen
Halleluyah!
-Apostle Patrice Yehuda
Sunday, June 1, 2014
The Word was "Putin in the Mix"
This vision I clearly do understand in my spirit to have a relation to the event of the days preceding it with clear reference to Nigeria and the agitations therein. I clearly saw a child held in bondage in the most dehumanised form and left to die by the woman whom I saw in another room feeding her own child fat and luxuriously. Then came the personality of Vladimir Putin who asked " does it take forty sacks of beans to free that child"? Another voice presumably from the woman replied that this is a civilian matter, but Vladimir Putin still persisted.
I have been reflecting on this vision for days and seeing the images of events spread around the globe at the same space of time as the vision leaves me with some deductions. The present agitation and their movers must seek the backing of a present day Cyrus in the person and mold of Putin.
A little here, a little there for now.
These visions does not originate from man but from Him who rules over all things and works all things according to the counsel of His own will in the affairs of heaven and earth, of man and spirits.
Conclusively, if Biafra must rise again, He alone who governs from the highest place and throne knows when, and by whom, and the mode by which it shall arise and be actualised according to divine edict and power.
I am only a prophetic messenger or as in the days of old terminology a seer and a watchman on the wall.
- Apostle Dr. Patrice Yehuda
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