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Living in Denial (1). The Absence Of Freedom

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Living in Denial. The Absence Of Freedom
BY Adeola Aderounmu

In 2007 I compiled my articles and published them as a collection titled “The Entrapment Of A Nation”. The title suggested that I wrapped Nigeria (which itself consisted of several disjointed nations) as a nation. The suitability of the title apart, what is obvious is that the geographical area occupied by the people called Nigerians is largely entrapped. The journey into this entrapment happened systematically.

The nations entrapped within Nigeria first lost their identities and dignities due to exposure to foreign merchants. These merchants later metamorphosed to slave masters and religious masters. Despite the declaration of independence in 1960, Nigeria remains largely in the hands of neocolonialists and heartless tropical gangsters disguised either as democrats or soldiers under varying dispensations.

As nationals of the entrapped nations within Nigeria, we cannot cry forever over our disrupted civilization. We cannot cry forever for all the stolen knowledge that came out of Africa and converted to European knowledge. No, we cannot.

As a blogger my responses to events in Nigeria nowadays (2023) are very slow. There is a reason for that. I refused to be reactive, and I do not jump on the bandwagon. For over 2 decades, I have blogged about Nigeria, first as a believer in the project Nigeria, then as a convert, fiercely advocating not just for the dismantling of the Nigerian project, but a soul-searching journey into the meaning/essence of life and how to live and let’s live.

It is such that there is nothing I’ll write now that I’d not written before in the last 10-20 years on this blog or some Nigerian newspapers as a freelance columnist.

Two recent things caught my attention. One is the criminal record of Tinubu. They are super obvious to the point where both the weaklings and oppositions in the Nigerian political space are using the criminal records as wind-sail to unseat him. But ask yourself: how did a criminal like Tinubu become the (s)elected president in the first place? What kind of useless, stupid and senseless political parties elevate and reward criminality? The kind that is based on laughable unitary system that is practiced only in Nigeria. You must be a criminal to participate or engage in a unitary system of government. I cannot forget that on countless occasions, I advocated for the end of the reign of Buhari. It’s the same pattern, Buhari is a dunce, a nonentity and a tyrant that was allowed to reign for 8 years. EIGHT YEARS!!!

The posterity of the nations entrapped in Nigeria is on a permanent pause for as long as Nigeria exists. This leaves a question mark on all the discussions about Nigerian politics. It is a huge mark on the collective mental states of Nigerians. You cannot engage in a unitary system of government and complain of its outcome. You cannot plant cassava and harvest cocoa.

Moreover, there is no single soul trying to unseat Tinubu that does not have his or her own criminal tendencies. As a matter of fact, the chief seeker Atiku Abubakar is in the same league as Tinubu as active Nigerian criminals masquerading as politicians. The ills of Nigeria are huge and obvious. My argument has always been that Nigerians put evil people on the scale and choose between the lesser and the greater one. Doing this in a unitary system of government rewards nepotism, laziness, ineptitude and slave mentality.

The second thing that caught my attention, but no reaction until now, is the untimely death of the artist called Mohbad. I have no inkling of who he was when he was alive and everything I know about him now are from headlines that I stumbled upon. Whatever led to the untimely death of this promising young star is, once again, one of the several symptoms of a rotten system where the rule of men is mostly above the rule of law. There are now uncountable members of the jury who are making their own judgements of the matter. It’s a mess. May his troubled earthly soul find peace with the ancestors.

When all the noise is over, who will see over the sanity of the music industry in an undesirable unitary system of government? What can be done for the music industry in the Yoruba Country? How can the Igbo nation regulate and make money from her music industry? How can the music industry add value of the economy of the Arewa Kingdom? These are the questions for the future of the nations that today remained entrapped in Nigeria. There is a lot to be gained from drawing the carpets under the feet of the politicians that are keeping the rest of the population in bondage.

I remember my essays on Nigeria at 50. I asked then, what is there to celebrate”? who could have thought that 13 years later, Nigeria and Nigerians are still sailing like there is another life. This is the life. The fourth generation of it is on the waste lane as well. Hoping that things will get better for all was the bad dream that our grandparents passed to our parents and we have passed it to our children, in a stupidly active manner. Hoping against hope is now in our genotypes. It is a very deep mess. Almost incurable.

Nigeria is now 63. Rather than seek freedom for the different nationalities entrapped in Nigeria, majority are praying. It’s like believing that Satan exist and praying that Satan should repent so that Jesus can excel. We are so messed up in our mentalities.

Avicii said “Wake me up when it’s all over”. If you ever get to find out the meaning of this phrase, when the morning comes, you’ll be the first to gather men and women to seek for your freedom. The opportunity cost is the demise of Nigeria. Nobody will wake you up when it’s all over, deep people rest, permanently.

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8 Days, 6 Deaths

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By Adeola Aderounmu

I am on the bus going to work.

What I am hearing on the bus now is the 6th person shot to death in Sweden in the last 8 days, that is from 7th of September to 15th of September.

6 persons shot dead in one week.

Where is Sweden going with all these criminals on the rampage?

How did so many criminals get to establish themselves so comfortably and successfully in Sweden?

The kid that died last night was not even 18 years yet. Many teenagers are wasting away in Sweden.

How did we get here, Sweden?

The Judiciary Mirrors Us

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By Adeola Aderounmu

The Nigerian judiciary this week, precisely on wednesday the 6th of Spetember, delivered a judgement in favour of what I have come to call Tinubu’s Jaguda Government. The judiciary re-affirmed INEC’s position and result that Tinubu won the election conducted earlier in the year.

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There was no way under the sun that Peter Obi who went astray from the PDP to the LABOUR party can substantiate any of the claims he made at the hearings. I have given least attention to the ranters or idiots usually called obidiots.

One day, that iis if that day ever comes, people who think they can change Nigeria or how things work in Nigeria will realise that they have spent their lives fooling around.

You cannot change Nigeria by selecting or electing one evil instead of the other. Forget it.

There is only one sure way for the upliftment of the ethnicities entraped in Nigeria and that one way is called Freedom. There was an element of that freedom before the 2 useless coups of 1966. It was at the time that the Yoruba Country was one of the most developed regions in the world. It was at the time when the Eastern Region was probably ahead of China in Technology and the North was coming after with a lot of promises.

The 1966 coups ended the glory of the nationalities now entrapped in Nigeria.

Nigeria is a joke today technologically, medically and economically compare to the glorious years before those 2 useless coups that culminated in the genocide committed by Nigeria against Biafra. They called it a civil war.

Anything short of the dismantling of the useless and senseless unitary government now headed by Tinubu is just story for the gods. Even if Obi is president, it is still a senseless unitary system of government.

My silence and shock is how anybody who is normal can be fighting to take over a unitary system of government if that person himself is not evil by nature.

Almost all the notable Nigerian politicians have been in countries like England, USA and several others. They know that the system of government that prospered these countries are based on the people managing their own resources and affairs. But in Nigeria, are the Niger Deltans managing their oil? In the West, are we managing our oil and cash crops? Are the East, North and other regions managing their resources? The answer is No.

The useless unitary government takes all the resources and the monies, then they share between politicians, local councils and state governments. If any Tinubudiot or obidiot or Atikudiot can tell me one country in the world that prosper using this senseless method, I will stop writing about Nigeria.

It is this weakness of mind, lack of ideology and lack of willingness to stand for something that the Judiciary and other useless institutions in Nigeria thrive on in order to perpetrate slavery and mental oppression.

It is not enough to have flashes of success as a government. It is not enough to have individual brilliance amomgst the citizenry. It is definely unwarranted to live life at 20 to 30 percent capacities.

A roadmap must be drawn by each nationality to disengage from Nigeria. A roadmap spanning 5 to 200 years where the nationality will steadily build their own image, re-establish sound institutions, re-invent their cultural heritages, build and renew their civilisations and give birth to new generations who 200 years from now will lead the world at all fronts. That is the destiny of Africa. That is the destiny of the black race: to build on the things that bind culturally-linked individuals/people, create a healthy competition that will promote inventions and the good life.

There is no jaguda government that will deliver on the essence of life. A government that is based on chop and quench, lack of will, lack of mission and lack of vision, – as Nigerian has been since 1966 to date will continue to be the poverty capital of the world. Such a country will continue to sufferr the effects of neocolonisation, mental slavery, brain drain and severe inferiority complexes.

What happened in Nigeria this week is not new. It was not unexpected as there was only one possible outcome. Peter Obi did not win the election. Tinubu did not win the election. Atiku did not win the election. No one can win an election where the population is unknown. No one can win an election where the votes have never be counted. No one can win an election in a country where EVERYBODY do not follow the rule of law and transparency is an abomination. You cannot win an election in a country where almost everyone has a criminal tendency.

If we do not align with our nationality, we cannot repair our broken traits. If we do not align with our nationality, we cannot compete with the rest of the world.

There is a lot more I wanted to remind you of. But please look in the mirror and ask yourself: have I been thinking straight? Ask yourself, why do I believe that a criminal like Obi is different from a criminal like Tinubu? Why do I believe that a criminal Like Atiku is different from criminals like Obi and Tinubu?

When you stop choosing one evil over the other, you will set your mind free, be able to think clearly and see that the problems are not just the politicians, it is also as much as the system and we-the people.

The Nigerian judiciary is a mirror of who we are.

Tinubu’s Jaguda Government (2)

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By Adeola Aderounmu

There is a lot of distraction nowadays for the incompetent regime in Nigeria led by one Bola Tinubu Ahmed (a man whose real names are actually still a mystery).

The coup in Niger-(a country spoon-fed by one Buhari, a former tyrant and dictator from Niger who ruled over Nigeria twice)-has given Tinubu the distraction he needed. Personally, I’m not in good touch with the sequences of events in Niger, and to be honest, Niger can be or become whatever it wants to be for all I care.

The Tinubu gangsterism should be a shock to all. First, it was a selection process that is still being disputed that brought this Agbero-style government to power. But with all the expectations that even a faulty (s)election would not hinder the ushering in of intellectuals and experts into the new government, the outcome had been to the contrary.

The Tinubu Jaguda government has now appointed one criminal called Ganduje as its chairman. This man who is a former governor in Kano is a criminal (just like Tinubu of course) who was even caught in a video accepting several thousand dollars in bribe. But under the Buhari government, Ganduje thrived despite the openness of his crimes. So Tinubu who is swimming in a lot of criminal allegations is now surrounding himself with more criminals. Tinubu is crazy.

There are so many appointees or nominated appointees in this Tinubu Jaguda government that you will never believe your eyes. A terrorist and a former governor of Kaduna, the man popularly called Hell Rufai is on the list to become a min ister again. He was a minister under Obasanjo. He was a governor under Buhari. He is now set to become a minister again under Tinubu. There is something about the man, a sponsor of Boko Haram and a self-acclaimed jihadist (even as seen in a recent vide which is on this blog, though i have not written a text about the video).

Why do all the past 3 administration hold a terrorist in their government? Why is Hell-Rufai above the law? it’s the same way Pantami was above the law, a minister under Buhari, who had earlier called for the extermination of non-muslims in Northern Nigeria.

Nigeria has no business in Niger. The people who called themselves Nigeria are living the lives of slaves. They need to free themselves from the Tinubu Jaguda government. There were many moments under the Buhari tyrannic reign that could have led to emancipation and total freedom, but some reasons, all the opportunities were thrown to the wind.

Even that drunkard called Wike, who committed crimes against humanity by killing the Igbos in River State has been nominated to be a Minister. Tinubu is either crazy or brain-dead at this moment.

In the last few days, some ministerial nominees have shown up with very questionable characters and credentials. How did Tinubu know all these mad people? If I have to form a government, should I not look at the person, know the person and see their track records in public administration? What is Tinubu’s motive in assembling criminals in the administration of Nigeria? The answer is simple. Nigeria is a fraudulent country founded on fraudulent grounds by the British gangsters. Nigeria is made for the pleasure of the British (and perhaps the US), the satisfaction of the elites and the permanent suppression of the gullible people coerced into the union called NIGGER-AREA.

The problem is not Tinubu’s Jaguda government. The problem is the continued existence of the fraud called Nigeria. So, when you want to complain, you should know where to turn your attention. As long as you are in support of the existence of Nigeria, this is your life-time portion. It’s either you make it in that country one way or the other or you die in poverty. There will never be a level playing ground and the opportunties would be limited, as long as Nigeria exist.

I have to stop writing now so I don’t end up what I have been writing for the past 21 years.

If you do not support the freedom of your nationality, let’s keep rolling in the deep together.

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Tinubu’s Jaguda Govt

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Tinubu’s Jaguda Govt

Tinubu is wayward. Otherwise he would control the number of vehicles in his convoy.

By Adeola Aderounmu

If you want to change the world for better, if you want to change your nation so she moves forward, if you want to change the society you live in so that it becomes a better place for you and your children, then look in the mirror and be that change you wished to see.

In this Tinubu’s government (one whose legitimacy is still being contested by one Peter Obi), one would expect that perhaps money would be saved at all fronts so that common good can be enhanced. But I have heard about politicians in this Tinubu jaguda government employing tens and several tens of personal assistants.

I live in a country where personal assistants are employed, mostly temporarily, for people with disabilities or people with challenging intellectual functions.

The first thing that came to my mind is that crazy people are all over the place in Tinubu’s government.

As a politician, the only reason to employ a personal assistant is to show that that you are intellectually deficient and cognitively incapable on your own. Otherwise you need a secretary (if you have a big office to run) and in a worst case scenario, one assistant to help organise things that the secretary (if you have one) cannot handle.

Ordinary legislators and ordinary lawmakers will be employing several tens of assistants. Why? I mean, where does the money for their salaries come from? Over the years Nigerian politicians have become notorious for over-hyped wages as the rest of the populations wallow in abject penury (and Nigeria still the champion as the poverty capital of the world).

The first adjustment that the Tinubu-Shettima jaguda government ought to do was to cut off all wastages. This jaguda government needed to sit down and reshape the political map of Nigeria. There is no way a unitary system of government is going to benefit more than 200 million people. To think that a unitary system of government is fine, and to even work by it is simply an act of madness.

So, there are pressing political and economic issues to be straightened out. It it is sad to be bombarded with the news of thousands of special aides and special assistants all over the country. Are you people in Tinubu’s jaguda government completely insane? How can you run a country on life-supporting machines called personal aides. Ori yin ti da ru o..!

I have seen some stupid excuse to even justify the over 100 vehicles in Tinubu’s lagos convoy. Are you mad? Tinubu is wayward. Otherwise he can control the number of vehicles in his convoy. It is called decorum or common sense. Go your way, and let the other owambe convoys go their way. Must they be at the aiport to follow? Please, stop motivating madness. Stop being stupid. Just shut up!

Tinubu was not ready for the presidency that he wrestled from INEC at all cost. If he was ready, his cabinet would have been announced the day after his inauguration. Nigeria’s politics is not just a joke, it is a mad joke! As an opposition, it is required to always have a shadow government on stand-by during campaign and elections. This is with a readiness to take over the government even before elections should in case the incumbent government stepped aside.

Personally, I thought Tinubu was exposed having studied and lived in the US. But one more time, we have a “president” who is acting like a dumb ass. In what age, in what year will an opposition in Nigeria have a shadow government in place even if there are no campaigns and no elections?

Ask Labour Party. Ask the PDP for the names or the lists of their cabinets. Be sure that there are no lists, be sure that there are no shadow government in any Nigerian opposition party at this moment. You still think Nigeria is practicing democracy? Are you sure you don’t want to examine your thinking faculties?

Nigeria is not yet a country. It is still a company where the winner takes it all and does what it likes.

I thought Tinubu’s jaguda government would come with something different from day one. It didn’t. I can predict what the excuse for failure would be. PDP ruled Nigeria for 16 useless years. Buhari’s APC ruled Nigeria for another 8 senseless years. It’s been 24 years of total madness, corruption, murders, lying, suffering, hunger, poverty and terrorism. Say this post and quote this: It is not easy to clean or repair the maladministration of 24 solids years. This is be the slogan of the Tinubu jaguda’s government.

To be sure, since the colonial thugs from Britain left (?) in 1960, Nigeria has mostly been in the hands of tropical gangsters in khaki and agbada alike. If you have hope in Nigeria. I understand your hope, but I do not share it. Whichever, we are all on a long thing.

May the wind be our way.

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