Opinion
Fani-Kayode: Buhari’s Government Is A Colony Of Monkeys And A Congress Of Baboons
By Femi Fani-Kayode
On August 3rd, 1857, in what can only be described as one of the most profound, moving, passionate and inspiring speeches in human history, Frederick Douglas, the former black slave and the great freedom fighter and philosopher said, inter alia, the following:
“Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress.
Those who profess to favour freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without ploughing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows or with both.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. In the light of these ideas, Negroes will be hunted at the North and held and flogged at the South so long as they submit to those devilish outrages and make no resistance, either moral or physical.
Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get. If we ever get free from the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal.
We must do this by labour, by suffering, by sacrifice, and if need be, by our lives and the lives of others”.
These powerful and insightful words are as true and as relevant today as they were 150 years ago when they were first spoken.
They are words that have universal application to humanity and that have been recited and repeatedly chanted like a haunting and inspiring mantra by virtually every notable prisoner of conscience, freedom fighter and agitator for equity, liberty and human rights over the last one hundred and fifty years.
They are particularly relevant in the Nigeria of today where tyranny and injustice run deep, where any form of resistance or opposition is regarded as subversion and is met with brutality and lethal force and where any telling criticism of the ruling APC party, government officials or the President is regarded as “hate speech” that must be suppressed.
Permit me to give just one example of the latter in this contribution which, in my view, clearly reflects the nervous and obsessive disposition, the sheer madness and the sociopathic narcissism of the Buhari administration.
A few days ago I had a revealing, probing and in-depth interview with a leading television station about President Muhammadu Buhari, his record in office over the last two years, his health and his government.
Lai Mohammed, our notoriously excitable and mendatious Minister of Information, was so upset and disturbed by the contents of that discussion that he personally called the television station that recorded it and told them that the government would close them down if they dared to air it.
His call was followed by an equally threatening one from the Chief Executive of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation who issued the same threat.
Yet it did not stop there. Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman, almost defecated in his pants when he got a whisper of some of the things that I had revealed and he wondered out loud how I managed to get all the facts and information that I shared during the interview.
He begged the station not to air it as well and also threatened them with dire consequences if they did so. Sadly the station in question got cold feet, succumbed to the threats and fell for the blackmail.
I am not surprised by this and neither do I blame them for doing so. I say this because they, more than any other, have been subjected to all manner of harassment over the years yet despite that they remain one of the most balanced, professional, forthright and courageous media outfits in the country till today.
They are indeed the first amongst equals but they also know the monsters that they are dealing with when it comes to the Buhari administration and they appreciate the fact that they have to be extremely careful even when it comes to reporting what are essentially notorious facts.
They have to be even more careful when it comes to allowing strong opposition figures like yours truly and other nonconformists and perceived enemies of the government to use their powerful platform to air their personal opinions and strong dissenting views.
The truth is that this government is vicious and dangerous and, in my view, they are only one step away from “disappearing” (Argentinian style) media practitioners, publishers, essayists, columnists and writers that are not prepared to bow down to their unholy will and lick their filthy, unclean and unwashed posterior.
Simply put they are a chicken-hearted government that are terrified of their own shadow.
They are a government of uncircumcised Philistines who were put in power by heathens and unbelievers and who attract and enjoy the support of every low-life and apostate from the south side of hell.
Nothing terrifies them more than public scrutiny and the glorious light of accountability and truth.
From the top to the bottom they are all the same: gangsterish and paranoid charlatans who flourish in darkness and who thrive in division, conflict, lies, deceit, suppression, threats, murder, violence and intimidation.
Femi Adesina’s cowardice and perfidy particularly is nothing new. This is the same man that threatened the publisher of two leading national newspapers to close my weekly column and that has been begging and offering inducements to virtually every online magazine that I write for to stop publishing my essays.
That is how fearful, feeble, powerless, shameless, cowardly and paranoid the Buhari government has become. That is the level of their depravity and that is the level that they have degenerated to.
They cannot take criticism and they cannot bear any form of factual and in-depth analysis of their abysmal and woeful performance.
They do not have the stomach or intellectual stamina for a strong and lively challenge, for what I would describe as “hardtalk” or indeed for any form of virile debate and contentious public discourse.
Simply put they behave like a congress of baboons and a colony of monkeys. They always run away from a real fight and a real debate and they are terrified of those that are ready to take them on.
Instead of attempting to defend themselves in the court of public opinion they seek to silence the opposition by the power of their might and they seek to suppress dissent, muscle the media and bury the truth.
Despite their sheer desperation to hold on to power at any cost and to cower the people and in spite of their despicable, tyrannical and inglorious mindset I have the following to say to them: like Satan, your time is short.
You oppress the people and whip them into line, not by good works or inspiring leadership, but through the usage of nothing but intimidation, lies, threats, blackmail, disinformation, witchhunts, fear, hate, division and terror. Your tactics are as despicable as they are deplorable.
Yet despite your subjugation and tyranny, it will soon be over for you. The earth and the heavens have rejected you, the elemental forces oppose you and the Nigerian people secretly despise you. This is the doing of the Lord and it is marvellous in our sight.
You cannot wash away the blood that you have shed. You cannot erase the memory of your failures and your atrocities and those that you have humiliated, destroyed, insulted, tortured, incarcerated and subjected to persecution and the most vicious and callous media trials.
You cannot silence the voice of the voiceless, you cannot intimidate the servant of truth and you cannot suppress the champion of the oppressed.
The finger of the Lord has marked you down for shame, torment and destruction and the sword of the Lord has wounded you beyond redemption. The rats were just the beginning. More miracles and wonders will soon come.
The truth is that no matter how hard you try to put out the raging fire and the crisis of confidence that has afflicted you, it will not stop.
Your days are numbered and your end is nigh. The Ancient of Days has spoken and He shall perfect it.
Op–ed pieces and contributions are the opinions of the writers only and do not represent the opinions of Oriental Times
Tonia Chinenye Ivoke
August 31, 2017 at 1:59 pm
Even Worst than that
Ameen Odike
August 31, 2017 at 1:52 pm
Look at this frustrated oleey
Onyebuchy Hookz
August 31, 2017 at 1:51 pm
Reality. Such a hopeless government.
Livinus Agbo
August 31, 2017 at 1:43 pm
wise man
Guddy B Kabaka
August 31, 2017 at 1:41 pm
Nigeria is a place where every mouth is so big n large even from d presidency down to d least child in d country
Chidi Apiti
August 31, 2017 at 1:31 pm
True talk sir…fearless yoruba man speak out
Nwabueze Lucky
August 31, 2017 at 1:29 pm
Tell them FFK.
Okokon Offuo
August 31, 2017 at 1:04 pm
That’s actually what the government is, l pity those who can’t see this but politicize everything
Camillus James
August 31, 2017 at 12:31 pm
We IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu is being justified day by) day. Our Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu didn’t just wake up one day and started calling Nigerians Baboons and Monkeys. He say it with facts and figures.
Forgive You
August 31, 2017 at 12:26 pm
Real talk
Umar A Umar
August 31, 2017 at 12:10 pm
FFK is a Antagonist fifth columnist that even PDP must be careful with.
Affangideh D Affangideh
August 31, 2017 at 12:08 pm
one Nigeria indeed:NNPC NEWLY APPOINTED MANAGERS. North. 10 people appointed. South West. 3 people appointed. South South. 2 people appointed. South East. O.
Samuel Onybeuchi Uchenna
August 31, 2017 at 12:05 pm
True talk
Remigius Ezeh
August 31, 2017 at 12:01 pm
Buhari has already fail as a human being.He has turn to animal with many animals following him.All of them is called ANIMAL kingdom,d zoo.
Ahmed Musa Tela
August 31, 2017 at 11:51 am
You are free to speak out your disgruntled mind.I pity you bros, for you face serious economic threats.
Vincent Ogban
August 31, 2017 at 11:44 am
Chai!! I love these expression. Perfect for those that wish to know.
Samuel Nwachukwu
August 31, 2017 at 11:35 am
I hear you SIR! My Respect
Mark Mike
August 31, 2017 at 11:23 am
Buhari has notin to offair dis country he is just der baring d name of President,President wit no result is a Nikon pool
Abdulrahman Danjuma
August 31, 2017 at 11:13 am
DONKEY. Because you are collecting anything from them
Rimamsikwe Bulus
August 31, 2017 at 11:02 am
Hahahahaha, true talk my mentor.
Martin Ekeh
August 31, 2017 at 11:02 am
Yoruba people with the name fa is more learned than others and wiser than others eg, fani-kayode,fayoshe etc
Martin Ekeh
August 31, 2017 at 10:54 am
FANI UR THERE
Chike Okeke
August 31, 2017 at 10:54 am
If u call hausa-fulani call donkeys n baboons,they will b vexing. Let me ask dem abeg- wot else cld u be aparrt from goats, cow,donkeys n baboons? U can’t b dogs na cos dogs have sense. Hate speech
Jeshurun Peterson
August 31, 2017 at 11:08 am
Tony Okwuosa
August 31, 2017 at 11:19 am
Guy see buratai for back
Ken Uche Eze
August 31, 2017 at 10:54 am
Lol FFK
Obinna Obiakor
August 31, 2017 at 10:53 am
Hahahahaha FFK will not kill me with laughter oo
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August 31, 2017 at 10:42 am
Zoo country
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August 31, 2017 at 10:39 am
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Ogunleye Ayodele
August 31, 2017 at 10:35 am
FFK, is saying the truth that monkeys & baboons are ruling him at thesame time obeying their laws as he cant get out of the country without their permmison.
Frank Ugoo Frank Ugoo
August 31, 2017 at 10:33 am
SURE WORD. Truth is bitter.
Nelson Jeremiah
August 31, 2017 at 10:32 am
FACT
Ibrahim Nazari
August 31, 2017 at 10:28 am
why igbo people not did this agitated in era of goodluck jonathan?
Okafor Emmanuel
August 31, 2017 at 10:28 am
Gbam good talk tell them
Prince Hail-Sellasie
August 31, 2017 at 10:26 am
Buhari and his cabal.
Joe Sapphire
August 31, 2017 at 10:23 am
Living Saint Sunny Chimezie
August 31, 2017 at 10:22 am
Yes
Stephen Orji
August 31, 2017 at 10:20 am
Zoo
Rukayya Lawal
August 31, 2017 at 10:19 am
While you, Femi Fani Kayode , you are an epe, as well as chimpanzee.
Chukwuemeka Samuel Chijioke
August 31, 2017 at 10:17 am
Hmmm, Speechless
Nicodemus Mba
August 31, 2017 at 10:14 am
You will live long for tell truth
Eze Hamlet
August 31, 2017 at 10:14 am
Proving Ohamadike right
Febian Adiole
August 31, 2017 at 10:13 am
Hahaha na laugh I de laugh o
Audu Sunnie
August 31, 2017 at 10:11 am
Kweke!
Vitalis Chinonso Emmanuel
August 31, 2017 at 10:11 am
Yes oooooooooooh
Ezeh Austin
August 31, 2017 at 10:07 am
Yes ooooooooh is true ooooooooh
Esther Edeji
August 31, 2017 at 10:06 am
Yes ooo Nigeria is a Zoo
Kasim Audu Abubakar
August 31, 2017 at 10:10 am
Really? Then your father, mother and siblings are animals in zoo. Mtchew get lost
Bashiru Mohammed
August 31, 2017 at 10:35 am
Yes oo. Nigeria is indeed a ZOO.
Aisha the Wife of the ZOO Lion said so. She confirmed her husband is a lion in the zoo.
She also confirmed all of us in the North are lesser animals that worths nothing including your Mother,Father&Siblings Kasim Audu Abubakar.
Shehu Sani, a ZOO Senator confirmed it.
Yusuf Muhammed Najaja
August 31, 2017 at 10:04 am
U too u are monkey and baboon
Manfred Chimezie
August 31, 2017 at 10:01 am
Onwe Ernest
August 31, 2017 at 9:57 am
i love the truth that is in tnis man
Praise Uchman
August 31, 2017 at 9:51 am
Plain truth. The more you think they are learning, the worst off they are becoming
Tijjani Suleiman
August 31, 2017 at 9:51 am
While you are a chimpanzee
Musbahu Ya U Usbah
August 31, 2017 at 9:51 am
kayode is the most foolish human in the world.
Bashiru Mohammed
August 31, 2017 at 10:30 am
Not more FOOLISH than Deaf,Dumb & illiterate Buhari.
Isaac Nsobom David
August 31, 2017 at 9:48 am
Gbam
Don Iyke J Stino
August 31, 2017 at 9:47 am
So true
Lachukz Peter
August 31, 2017 at 9:41 am
Ogbonna Kalu
August 31, 2017 at 9:40 am
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August 31, 2017 at 9:40 am
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August 31, 2017 at 9:40 am
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Ndubuisi Nnoli
August 31, 2017 at 9:40 am
Republic of dangota
Cley Zix
August 31, 2017 at 9:39 am
Hahahahaha…..this Man will never stop been funny. But I still think he is saying the truth
Ogbonna Kalu
August 31, 2017 at 9:38 am
Ogbonna Kalu
August 31, 2017 at 9:38 am
That means Nigeria is a zoo where hyenas and jackal’s are in control.
Ndubuisi Ani
August 31, 2017 at 9:34 am
Kasim Audu Abubakar
August 31, 2017 at 9:34 am
He keep on insulting him, calling him names simply because he {Buhari} dnt share same political view with u. Besoko’e be etun sebi welo femi fani kayode but i like buhari for not responding bcaus they said silence is an answer to a fool.
Matthew Celestine
August 31, 2017 at 9:39 am
Engine Onye'isiukwu N'ebu
August 31, 2017 at 9:33 am
Truth
Mafo Nelson Nelson
August 31, 2017 at 9:32 am
Femi Fani Kayode will soon enter the market naked like his father.
Matthew Celestine
August 31, 2017 at 9:36 am
Matthew Celestine
August 31, 2017 at 9:37 am
Adedapo Adebisi Adejuwon Barcelona
August 31, 2017 at 9:31 am
Mad man somebody have credit his bank account again to come online.
Matthew Celestine
August 31, 2017 at 9:34 am
Matthew Celestine
August 31, 2017 at 9:35 am
Godgift Samuel
August 31, 2017 at 9:28 am
Some people get mouth Sha lol
Ejike Hginus Ezeh
August 31, 2017 at 9:27 am
Pls when will Nigeria stop been zoo
Abubakar Mohammed
August 31, 2017 at 9:27 am
He was jailed by this government, what do expect from him? Is a transfer of aggression
Joshua Sunshine
August 31, 2017 at 9:26 am
Ok
Abdulaziz Mohammed
August 31, 2017 at 9:24 am
only a zoo man will leave in nigeria an a person who refered nigeria as a zoo is call a house fly
Sani Maitakari
August 31, 2017 at 9:24 am
Thats why ewu igbos love this guy cos they share the same mentality
Ejike Hginus Ezeh
August 31, 2017 at 9:28 am
No it was your sanetor sank who started it
Emmanuel Douglas
August 31, 2017 at 9:30 am
You no see rat invade Aso villa Nigeria government prove Nnamdi kanu and FFK right if Nigeria is not a Zoo as they said why must a common rat sent presido out of office ohh
Matthew Celestine
August 31, 2017 at 9:30 am
Matthew Celestine
August 31, 2017 at 9:31 am
Matthew Celestine
August 31, 2017 at 9:32 am
Muntula
Donald Donadon
August 31, 2017 at 9:33 am
Fool
Ogbonna Kalu
August 31, 2017 at 9:39 am
Ogbonna Kalu
August 31, 2017 at 9:39 am
Uwakwe Micheal Ikechukwu
August 31, 2017 at 9:44 am
People like you are vagabond have nothing to offer from generation to generation
Okwuoma Obiora Michael
August 31, 2017 at 9:24 am
ZOO
Nnadison Fitzpatrick Uba
August 31, 2017 at 9:23 am
yea chimps 2
Nnadison Fitzpatrick Uba
August 31, 2017 at 9:22 am
yea chimps 2
Mithras Love
August 31, 2017 at 9:21 am
Lmao
Martinx Osilama
August 31, 2017 at 9:19 am
I like your Boldness.
Nnabuife Obike
August 31, 2017 at 9:19 am
This guy will not kill me oooh
Nnabuife Obike
August 31, 2017 at 9:18 am
Nnabuife Obike
August 31, 2017 at 9:18 am
Richard Onwubiko Nwobu
August 31, 2017 at 9:12 am
ha! ha! ha! baba FFK abeg dey pity small
Chikodili Kingsley Nwamaradi
August 31, 2017 at 9:12 am
Zoo baboon country
Usman Mohammed
August 31, 2017 at 9:11 am
You are Monkey and Baboon as well, is high time this man should be arrested for hate speech
Sunnywise S Bassey
August 31, 2017 at 9:17 am
See ur mouth. Wen lie Mohammed made several hate speeches, was he arrested? No go find work do… SB
Kyarisiima Annitah
August 31, 2017 at 9:21 am
Freedom Of Speech
Abubakar Mohammed
August 31, 2017 at 9:25 am
Tell us the several hate speech he made. I don’t think if you know the meaning of hate speech
Pa M Ejeh
August 31, 2017 at 9:11 am
More shameful that this are ruler
David Chukss
August 31, 2017 at 9:07 am
Sure!