"All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted
as being self-evident.
-Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860)
We have decided to carve out our own NATION STATE out of Nigeria. THE OODUA NATION.
We have reached the limit of our endurance with Nigeria. We are tired of being
slaves in our own land. Our people do not deserve to be poor. They don't
deserve to live in poverty. Their choice is never to live in squalor. We did not
at any time sign any contract with any group of persons, Nations or countries
that we are giving up our rights to self determination. Our promise to
ourselves and our people is "Life abundant" as eloquently articulated
by Obafemi Awolowo in his philosophy of social contract with the people called
AWOISM.
We are resolved to have a date with our
DESTINY. We are resolved to be free. We are resolved to be the captains of our
own souls. We hope to have this done by peaceful means. But if we have to
fight, so be it. There is no making the omelette without breaking the egg. Any
fight in the protection of our heritage is worth it. Any fight in the
protection of our land is worth it. Any fight in the protection of our women is
worth it. Any fight in the protection of our children is worth it. Any fight to
remove the shackles from our ankles is worth it. Any fight to gain our dignity
is worth it. Any fight to set us and the generation unborn free is worth it.
As Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “No one
can make you a slave without your consent.” Our membership of Nigeria has
worked out as slavery and robbed us of the orderly political and social
environment in which to employ our God-given capabilities to pursue our
development and progress. Our decision, arrived at in utmost humility to the
opinions of mankind and with hope in the approval and support of the CREATOR and Ruler of all nations, is that it is time for us to have a separate,
independent and sovereign "Nation" of our own in the world. We have resolved to
have our OÒDUÀ NATION.
Yes, we are very confident that this will
happen. We have no scintilla of doubt that this must happen. We are confident
of the support of the heavenly armies that this will happen. We are sure of the fact that the orígun mérìndínllógún ilè Oòduà have lined up for this. All the spirits of
our heroes past in Oòduà Land are in support of this. All the spirits of the
martyrs of Oòduà Land are lined up for this. It is our Àyànmó tí kò gb'óògùn.
Yes, it is our manifest DESTINY - OÒDUÀ NATION.
The Yoruba are very deliberative and
circumspective and they never rush to take decisions. They will do whatever
they need to do at the appropriate time. But, we want to assure you that it is
going to be unstoppable when this occurs. Presently, a lot of things are being
put in place. All ramifications are being considered and prepared for. All
possible impediments, internally and externally are being considered and
prepared for. Majority of Yoruba people are tired of Nigeria. We think we can
do better on our own. We believe it is our destiny to be free from Nigeria and
nothing will be able to impede the realization of that destiny. Nothing will
impede the imminence of OÒDUÀ NATION.
This coming OÒDUÀ NATION is inevitable to say
the obvious. No army could stop it. No Airforce could impede its march. No Navy
could swim against its tide. No amount of bullion vans could buy it off. No
internal enemies would survive it. Yes, internal enemies in their usual
perfidious ways would try, but as usual, they would fail. No amount of
external collaborators would succeed against it. OÒDUÀ NATION is an idea whose time has come. "Ideas do not create crisis, it is crisis that creates
idea," so postulated Fidel Castro. OÒDUÀ NATION IS HERE.
As to our viability, the new Oodua Nation will
in terms of land size (inland and coast water area as recognized by the United
Nations) be bigger in land area than Germany, Italy, and United Kingdom. Oodua
Nation would be about 9 times bigger than Denmark, almost 13 times bigger than
Belgium, over 4 times bigger than Portugal, over 10 times bigger than
Switzerland, one of the places where the politicians of Nigeria like to hide
their stolen money and over 17 times bigger than the State of Israel!
In population, it will be bigger than Canada,
bigger than Great Britain about 2 times, bigger than Portugal about 4 times,
Norway about 9 times, Belgium about 4 times, Sweden about 4 times, Denmark
about 8 times, Switzerland about 5 times, Israel about 5 times bigger than
Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales put together
In terms of economic resources, the most
important thing is the human resources. We need not the oil, even though we
have some. We have a lot of arable land. We will revive our agriculture as a base
for industrialization with application of technology. We will create an economy
that would be the envy of others and once again set pace for the rest of
Africa nay Humanity. But our focus would be on a lot of other things some of which we would
rather not talk about right now, for strategic reasons. We would posit that
development economists tell us that the reason why a nation tends to make
faster progress technologically, economically and politically after it becomes
an independent Nation, is to be found in cultural homogeneity.
Japan is just a string of Islands without any
oil. It has the world’s three best selling cars in world history without having
any steel or able to grow any rubber plantation to make tyres. It has
economically conquered the world. Look at the State if Israel, what does it
have and how big is it that all the Arabs are powerless at its feet. The age of
Metuselah is nothing compared to the Wisdom of Solomon. The bigness of a
country is not directly proportional to its prosperity, power and prestige.
Check out Norway and other Scandinavian countries to appreciate this fact.
It is meaningless to assume that bigness is
everything. Statistics and facts available does not support that bigness is
always a good thing. When Muammar Gaddafi visited Nigeria in 1982. His first
statement at the Murtala Mohammed Airport was “Some nations are big for
nothing,” as a way to express his disappointment in Nigeria.
Our detractors often try to suggest that the
Yoruba are disunited. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Yoruba are
very united. Do not buy the bogus propaganda that we are divided. We are ONE
because we are children of the same father. We will rally together. We will
build a Continent that will be the envy of the others. We will demonstrate that
the Blackman is not cursed. We will through sheer hard work and determination
which are our hallmarks build a Continent that its peoples will be very proud and
the world will have no choice but to respect. We will revitalize our culture.
We will re-engage with our values. We will restructure and modernize our
language just as the Jews did to Hebrew after the creation of the Israeli
nation in 1948.
We have done it before. We will do it again.
We know what we have to do to take our seat in the comity of Nations. We just
want to appeal to our brothers and sisters, all sons and daughters of Oodua
that in this quest for Oodua Nation, we can not afford the luxury of illusions
of impractical ideas, we can not afford the comfort of inaction, we can not
afford to cower in fear, we can not afford the delusions of greatness as a
member of a failed state where our heritage is being disparaged on daily basis,
where the future of our children have been foreclosed, where we can never reach
the height of our potentials. Like Benjamin Franklin once posited, those who
gave up their liberty for their safety deserve neither their liberty nor
safety.
Oodua Nation is hereby DECREED. It is the destiny
of the Yoruba people to be free and to give a lasting legacy to their children,
posterity and the world.
Welcome to OÒDUÀ NATION!
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not
shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it."
-John F. Kennedy, January 20, 1960.
© Rèmí Oyèyemí
I hereby Invoke the SPIRIT OF OUR ANCESTORS to guide us at this END TIME as we teach the rest of HUMANITY a lesson in EDUÇATION and Societal Development.
Ajobi a gbe wa o l'agbara OLODUMARE!!!
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