President Muhammadu Buhari has only recently appointed a new Chief of Staff, Ibrahim Gambari, as late Abba Kyari’s replacement, but the town criers are already in town raising alarm over what this new appointment means for the future of the country.
Fani Kayode who has established himself as the finest alarmist in the country since the Buhari administration came to power, is unsurprisingly among the first to dig deep into history to better help Nigerians understand what they are to expect from their new Chief of Staff.
200 years ago the Aare Kakanfo of the ancient Oyo Empire and the self-proclaimed Oba of Ilorin, Aare Afonja, rebelled against the Alaafin of Oyo and entered into a military alliance with a Fulani advisor, sorcerer and mercenary by the name of Alimi.
Predictably Alimi betrayed him and he ended up being tortured, dethroned and mu*dered. Not only did Alimi and his Fulani warriors kiII him but they also mu*dered all his sons in the most crueI and barbaric fashion.
Ever since that day a Fulani Emir, from Alimi’s “Gambari” family and lineage, armed with a flag and staff of authority from the Sultan of Sokoto, has ruled Ilorin.
There is no gainsaying the fact that the Gambaris are trusted servants and bonded slaves of the Sokoto Caliphate.
With the appointment of Gambari as the President’s Chief of Staff, for the first time in our history, we have a Fulani President and a Fulani Chief of Staff both serving a Fulani Government with a Fulani agenda.
This has never happened before and very soon the results will be self-evident. To make matters worse Gambari is himself a hardliner and he was Buhari’s Foreign Minister in 1984 when the latter was military Head of State. He served a tyrant and a dictator before and he is serving a tyrant and a dictator again
Abba Kyari has gone. A hardline Islamic fundamentalist and Fulani irredentist has now taken over his job. Nigerians will see the difference.
For those of us that have been in the struggle to liberate our people from the tyranny of Buhari for the last five years it is “game on” and “back to the trenches”.
The ceasefire is over and the war against ethnic and religious bondage and against injustice, subjugation, domination, nepotism, servitude and slavery has started again. May the best man win.
