Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju,
As you may or may not have gathered from the posting about Things to avoid during Ramadan, calumny, backbiting, dissension, and civil strife, are some of the things that pious Muslims are advised to not engage in during the holy month of Ramadan.
In my humble opinion that should be the praxis for the rest of humanity too, including you and me, the year round.
I'm not equally sure about this measure: Lashon HaRa against the Wicked - or that we should desist from speaking out against evil and by default, thereby silently acquiesce and allow evil to triumph in our midst, in any of God's kingdoms down here on mother earth.
Cosmopolitanism may be, where some of us are coming from and that probably explains why when I checked the latest news about this righteous soul Femi Fani-Kayode I could find none of the nonsense being attributed to him by his desperate adversaries in the post-election era in which instead of stoking new ethnic fires, we should all be promoting peace and unity, peace and love, beginning with peace and reconciliation between the winners and the losers in the just concluded presidential elections
In the Nigerian context, whatever extensions may be derived from Femi Fani-Kayode asserting that Nigeria's former capital city, the still most cosmopolitan city in all of Nigeria and the undisputed economic hub of the nation "Lagos is NOT no-man's land." - is juridically and legally speaking, correct ( just ask the Oba of Lagos) just as Enugu or Umuahia or indeed Jerusalem or Stockholm or Ground Zero, Greenwich Street in multiethnic New York, or Bangkok the capital of Thailand cannot be said to be a " no man's land"
I suppose that the crux of the newfangled "no man's land" awareness is the wishful thinking that accompanied Peter Obi supposedly polling more votes than President-Elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Lagos, his own home turf. This of course could have made some of his Igbo supporters who voted for Obi there, giddy or delirious with their new national anthem " No Man's land"
Next stop in the name of Igbophobia, another no man's land, the Oyo Empire is really Igbo?
Resurrect the Sokoto Caliphate and baptize it Igbo?
You come tramping into my dining room and tell me, "This is no man's Land"?
Surely, these are not genius philosophical or poetic questions?
Next stop another Final Solution ( like Hitler's Jews telling him that Germany is " No Man's land" or Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich saying "there's no such thing as Palestinian people
"To see the townsfolk suffer so, From vermin, was a pity."
and, so, like the rats following the flute of the Pied Piper of Hamelin
they all get drowned in the Lagos Lagoon?
Listen up: Christopher Columbus
--On Tuesday, 21 March 2023 at 22:40:17 UTC+1 Oluwatoyin Adepoju wrote:The Self Destructiveness of APC Anti-Igbo Strategy in Lagos State as Led by Femi Fani-KayodeVery, very sad.Ethnic politics in its inhuman baseness.These people dont know what time of day it is.Was it Igbos who massacred the EndSars protesters?Is it Igbos who have enabled a rapacious culture of thuggery in Lagos?Many people, including Yorubas, are tired of this kind of politics and voted against APC and PDP in the Presidential elections, a move that some APC short sighted people are struggling to paint as an effort to take Lagos from Yoruba people.These people, insisting on threatening Igbos in the name of political power, stoking the murder of Igbos as happened in the last election, are trying to start war.Igbos live in Lagos legitimately and earn their living legally as Nigerians.Trying to demonize them as the bigot and political prostitute Femi Fani-Kayode is doing is an invitation to war.This madman should be stopped by his party APC in the interests of all.Trying to destroy the economic strongholds associated with Igbos in Lagos, such as Computer Village, as FFK and others like him are projecting, is one of the most foolish things anyone can do, trying to destroy the central and perhaps only concentration of information technology and computing expertise in Nigeria in the name of ethnic supremacy.
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