‘When they called Jonathan “incompetent”,”weak”, “gutless”, “clueless” it was not hate speech’

In reaction to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s promise to treat what he described as “hate speech” as terrorism Mr. Jackson Ude the publisher of Pointblank News said the following.
“APC thrived on hate speech between 2014-2015. Today that seed they sowed is haunting them. They now say it’s terrorism! Don’t be deceived. APC came to power by hate speeches, divided Nigeria along ethnic and religious lines, sowed seeds of discord and blamed PDP!
How apt and how courageous Mr. Ude’s assertion is. I could not have put it better myself.
President Muhammadu Buhari, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, National Chairman Chief John Odigie Oyegun and all the other leaders of the APC are indeed a bunch of self-serving deceivers and self-seeking hypocrites.
Worst of all they are the architects of terror and the fathers of hate!
Permit me to send a strong word and warning to them from here: YOURS ARE THE WAYS OF BULLIES AND FASCISTS! WE CANNOT BE INTIMIDATED BY YOUR PENDING LEGISLATION OR YOUR PUERILE BARRACK-ROOM TACTICS AND NEITHER SHALL WE BE SILENCED. YOU CAME TO POWER BY HATE AND YOU WILL LEAVE IT WITH HATE!
When they rejected the notion that all Nigerians were born equal under one God it was not described as hate speech.
When they propounded the theory and engendered the philosophy that some Nigerians are more equal than others it was not described as hate speech.
When they called those that believe in restructuring “opporunists” and “political jobbers” it was not described as hate speech.
When they called those that believe in exercising their right of self-determinaion and that are struggling and fighting for equal rights, equal opportunities and the liberation and emancipation of their people “treasonous criminals”, “evil secessionists”, “irresponsible souls” and “godless rebels” it was not described as hate speech.
When they called the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) “a bunch of criminals and looters” it was not described as hate speech.
When they called President Goodluck Jonathan “incompetent”, “weak”, “gutless” and “clueless” it was not described as hate speech.
When they described him as a “drunken sailor”, a “drunken fisherman”, a “kindergarten President” and insulted members of his family it was not described as hate speech.
When they called us “wailing wailers” it was not hate speech. When they called us “PDPigs” it was not described as hate speech.
When they called us “baboons and dogs” and their wives called us “hyenas and jackals” it was not described as hate speech.
When they called us “cold-blooded murderers” and described us as “thieves and rogues” it was not described as hate speech.
When they encouraged and clapped for a foreign leader who described our people and our nation as “fantastically corrupt” it was not described as hate speech.
When they demonised our leaders and called First Lady Patience Jonathan an “ugly and illiterate hippopotamus” it was not described as hate speech.
When they called President Obasanjo and President Yar’adua “incompetent jokers and treacherous thieves” who “stole all the money that they were given for the power sector” and who were part of a “cabal of kleptomaniacs” it was not described as hate speech.
When they called Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state a “murderer, cultist and gangster” who “has no character” and a “cutlass-wielding butcher and thief” it was not described as hate speech.
When they called Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state a “loud-mouthed and illetrate gutter-snipe” and a “low-life danfo driver” it was not described as hate speech.
When they called the National Chairman of our great party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, an “unfit, sick and dying invalid” and called the PDP itself a “nest of killers and vipers” it was not described as hate speech.
When they called Senator Iyiola Omosore the “killer of Bola Ige” and they called the Igbo people the “5 per cent that would not receive favour” it was not described as hate speech.
When they threatened the Igbo with genocide and gave them a quit notuce to leave the north it was not described as hate speech.
When they sang cold-blooded and chilling songs calling for the extermination of the entire Igbo race it was not described as hate speech.
When they said “an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the north” and when they said that it was their intention to “spread sharia into every part if the federation” it was not described as hate speech.
When they openly referred to Christians as “pagans”, “arne” and “unbelievers” and when they called Muslims that are in the PDP and that supported Jonathan “heretics and infidels” it was not described as hate speech.
When they said that the killing of every Fulani person during the war against terror by the Nigerian Armed Forces was “a debt that would be later repaid” it was not described as hate speech.
When they called Shiite Muslims “lecherous souls, wife-swappers, animals, idol-worshippers and blasphemers” that were “not worthy of life” it was not described as hate speech.
When they called the Yoruba “cowardly and treacherous”, the Igbo “greedy and ungrateful” , the Niger Deltans “oil bats and filthy scum” and Middle Belters “slaves and minions” it was not described as hate speech.
When they said if it took “the slaughtering of 20 million Niger Deltans” to bring peace to Nigeria and to secure the flow of oil it should be done it was not described as hate speech.
When they called the poor and suffering masses of the core north “almajiris” and claimed that they were destined by God not to go to school, not to receive an education and not to live a better quality life it was not described as hate speech.
When they boasted that that same poor northern masses were condemned by God to live as unworthy paupers and beggars and to suffer and wallow in ignorance and poverty for the rest of their lives it was not described as hate speech.
When some misguided elites, religious bigots, ethnic supremacists and modern-day nazis claim that they were “born to rule” and that the rest of us are nothing but “servants, field-hands and serfs” it was not described as hate speech.
When they called yours truly a “hate-filled ethnic supremacist and racist”, a “spoilt child”, a “religious bigot”, a “Christian extremist”, an “intellectual fraud”, a “depraved and orgy-loving sodomite”, a “seducer and destroyer of women”, an “incestous peadophile”, a “common criminal”, a “gangster, murderer and assasin”, a “hired gun”, a “rottweiller” and an “insane drug addict” it was not described as hate speech.
When they called other PDP and opposition leaders “ritualists”, “cultists”, “killers”, “evil”, “cursed”, “beasts”, “scum”, “thieves”, “rogues”, “haters”, “filthy dreamers” and “cancerous vermin” it was not described as hate speech.
When they claimed that Jonathan was responsible for the death of Dora Akunliyi and that he should “get on his knees” and “crawl and beg Nigerians for forgiveness” it was not described as hate speech.
When they say that those that called on Buhari to “resume or resign” are a bunch of “jobless and idle youths” it was not described as hate speech.
I could go on and on.
Is there any shameful, disgusting, undeserved and malevolent label or any insulting adjective and bestial nomenclature that the APC and their friends have not employed or applied to those that have gallantly opposed their tyranny and hegemony?
Is there any sickening lie that they have not told about their perceived enemies and detractors?
Is there any life that they have not sought to scar, endanger and threaten? Is there any family that they have not used their associates in the media to malign and to incite the Nigerian people against?
Is there any slander, libel, fabrication, disinformation, misinformation, misrepresentation and hateful and destructive lie that they have not indulged in?
We know and hear all these things and we laugh them to scorn. It is like water off a duck’s back and it takes nothing whatsoever from us because Nigerians know the truth and they are far wiser than these professional APC haters and agents of destruction think.
The fact of the matter is that lions pay no heed when goats bleat and when cattle murmur. Dragons lose no sleep when the cock begins to crow and tigers do not concern themselves with the insults and opinions of sheep.
Whichever way they want to play it, whatever they do and whatever they say the APC will continue to get as good as they dished out to others over the last four years.
We are not intimidated by their threats of labelling us as terrorists and their crude attempt to intimidate and silence us.
This is because resisting tyranny and evil is a divine obligation. We shall continue to call a spade a spade and a tyrant a tyrant no matter what they say or do and we are prepared to pay whatever price may come with it. We cannot be muzzled and we shall not be silenced.
To the faithful and true I say the following: we must shed our fears and we must never forget that the Lord is with us.
We must never forget that even though they may have today, we have tomorrow.
We must be focused, we must be strong and we must be bold knowing that we serve a God who is mighty in battle and who never fails.
He is the El Shaddai and the Elohim. He is the Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.
He is the Lord of Hosts, the God of the Armies of Israel and the Ancient of Days.
He is our shield, our glory and the lifter of our heads. He is awesome in battle and His banner over us is love.
With Him, victory is ours and our enemies shall be brought to heel and crushed under our feet like the desert sand.
We lift our swords in the name of Jehova Perazim, we raise our shields in the name of Jehova Elyon and we march forth into battle in the name of Yahweh, the Lord of the Universe, knowing that glory, honor and victory and the blessings of the Most High God await us!
His precious love and faithfulness, from whom none can separate us, shall overcome the malice and overwhelm the evil of the architects of terror and the fathers of hate.

Knife attacker in Russian city wounds 8, shot by police

A knife attacker stabbed eight people on the street in Russia’s far northern city of Surgut before being shot by police, investigators said Saturday.
The attacker “carried out attacks on passers-by, causing stab wounds to eight,” Russia’s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes said, adding that armed police then “liquidated” the attacker.

Nigeria may sink if attacks on IPOB members continue – Groups

Two Igbo groups, the Igbo Peoples Congress, and the Igbo Aborigines, have warned the Nigerian Army and security agents to stop killing pro-Biafran agitators, who are not armed or obstructing public peace.
The warning came on the heels of recent shootings and killings of some pro-Biafran members in Ekwulobia, Anambra State.
Meanwhile, Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has condemned Wednesday’s clash between members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and security operatives at Ekwulobia in Aguata Local Government Area, saying the alleged invasion of a peaceful and non-violence gathering of IPOB members was a primitive act.

        IPOB members on solidarity                     march for Trump

According to Igbo Peoples Congress and the Igbo Aborigenes in a statement, “the killing of more than 150 pro-Biafran agitators by Nigerian security agents as reported by the Amnesty International is still fresh in our mind.
“The Ezu River killings by SARS operatives at Awkuzu in Anambra State is also still fresh in our psyche. The quit notice by misled Arewa youths and the ongoing hate song in the north are still endangering the polity and yet these overzealous soldiers and other security agents are not bothered by all these challenges.”
They called on the International Court of Justice at The Hague to take note and bring to justice the killer soldiers and their commanders who also murdered more than one thousand Shiite followers in Zaria some months ago.
The groups insisted that all Nigerians have the right to peaceful agitations, including even secession where marriages are not working.
The groups lambasted the security agents for harassing the ‘Return or Resign” protesters in Abuja and the attack on them by some misled Arewa youths.
Slam Sultan over comments on restructuring
In a similar vein, the groups  slammed the Sultan of Sokoto over his comments that what Nigeria needs is the restructuring of the dams in the country and not restructuring  of Nigeria.
They expressed shock at this position of the Sultan who hitherto was lamenting the culture of impunity in Nigeria, wondering why the Sultan reached this bizzare conclusion when he knows that Nigeria, as it is currently run, is an unjust polity.
The groups noted that the Sultan may either have been misquoted or if he really made such comments , then it is one of the greatest anti-progressive statements of the century.
They called on the Sultan whom Nigerians look up to to be dispassionate on national issues to explain what he means by restructuring of dams in Nigeria.
“What has Dams and Agriculture got to do with our unjust polity?” they queried.
“The Sultan needs to clarify these issues so that the confidence Nigerians have in him will not be tainted,” they noted.
The spokesmen of the groups, Pastor Okey Colbert and Chidi Obisike finally noted that Nigeria can never make any head way until it is restuctured.
IPOB, Police Ekwulobia clash primitive –MASSOB
A statement by the MASSOB leader, Comrade Uchenna Madu, regretted that Nigeria’s security operatives were still operating in an uncultured manner full of religious and tribal sentiments.
His statement read: “This overzealousness of Nigerian army and police against the non-violenct and armless Biafra agitators speaks volume of rejection, subjection, marginalisation and annihilation plan of Nigerian security agencies against the industrious people of Biafra.
“The wicked and violent activities of Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram against the Christian Middle Beltans and people of Biafra have not been challenged by Hausa-Fulani dominated Nigeria security agencies.
“This hypocritical and bias of Nigeria security agencies are being monitored and recorded by the international organisations for human rights abuses for reckoning at the appropriate time.”
Groups warn against re-arrest of Kanu
Meantime, three other Igbo groups have warned against any plan to re-arrest the leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, saying such action will spell doom for the country.
The group said the action of the coalition of Arewa youths, who gave the Igbo in the north quit notice, was more offensive than the activities of the IPOB seeking peaceful actualisation of Biafra.
The groups, World Igbo Youth Movement; Igbo Students’ Forum and Igbo Diaspora Women Professionals, said they would not fold their hands and see Igbo being driven out of the north where they made huge investments.
A joint statement signed by Mazi Alex Okemiri for the World Igbo Youth Council; Prof. Helen Ogbonna for Igbo in Diaspora Women Professionals and Comrade Obi Izuo for Igbo Students’ Forum, said: “We caution that Nigeria may cease to exist if Nnamdi Kanu is re-arrested. This may also be the fate of the country if the planned October 1 massacre is carried out against Ndigbo living in the north.”
Meanwhile, the groups have urged Ndigbo to vie for the presidency of the country in 2019, saying it is their constitutional right to do that, insisting that there was no going back on the Igbo presidency project in 2019.

IYC cautions Nnamdi Kanu over Clark

Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, has said they hold the ace to the actualisation of the sovereign state of Biafra, cautioning the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, to be mindful of his utterances against Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark.
IYC, led by Mr. Oweilaemi Pereotubo, who gave the warning to IPOB leader, Kanu, while addressing journalists in Warri, Delta State, reiterated that it was naive and callous for someone to address Chief Clark as a slave, knowing full well that Clark was only cautioning Kanu not to further marginalise the Igbo in the scheme of things by boycotting the November governorship election in Anambra State.
Pereotubo said though Clark calls for the re-arrest of Kanu, he was only giving wise counsel for Kanu to stop the move of trying to deny the political rights of the Anambra State people.
He said: “We, the Ijaw, have what it takes to liberate ourselves and do not need help from IPOB.”
Pereotubo asked Kanu to study the history of the Civil War, noting that “it was one single Ijaw man, Major Jasper Adaka Boro, that stopped the invading Biafran soldiers from Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and chased them back.”
He urged Kanu to know the geography of the South-East and exert his effort in liberating the Igbo.

Army ambushes Boko Haram terrorists, 10 killed (photos)

The army laid an ambush for Boko Haram terrorist in Borno - 10 of them were killed in the night attack - Some bicycles and other items were recovered from the terrorists The Nigerian Army in furtherance of its operation against Boko Haram terrorists launched an ambush that resulted in the death of 10 terrorists. In a statement by Col Timothy Antigha who is the deputy director of Public Relations of 8 Task Force Division on Wednesday, August 16, he said the attack took place in Maza village in Marte, Borno State. He said the terrorists fell into the ambush and 10 of them were neutralised while their bicycles were recovered.

Some of the items recovered from Boko Haram terrorists. Credit: Facebook

  In continuation of ongoing efforts to deny terrorists freedom of action in it's Area of Responsibility, troops of 8 Task Force Division have neutralized 10 terrorists in Maza village in Marte Local Government Areas of Borno State. The terrorists fell into an ambush laid by troops at about 9pm last night, as they attempted to sneak back into their swampy hideouts in the Lake Chad.

Bicycles used by Boko Haram terrorists confiscated by the army. Credit: Facebook

 Items recovered from the terrorists include 10 bicycles, 11 carts containing food items and 2 cows. In a related development, troops also recovered 50 cows abandoned by fleeing terrorists, during clearance operations conducted in Danari and Mowo villages in Monguno Local Government Area.

A cow seized from terrorists in Borno. Credit: Facebook

 It should be noted that as the noose continue to tighten on Boko Haram terrorists, couple with the wet season, they have resorted to the use of bicycles and charts as means of transportation. Meanwhile, the Nigerian Army launched a new mobile strike team while its count down eighteen days to capture Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Boko Haram terrorist group dead or alive. Ibrahim Attahiru, theatre commander major general on Tuesday, August 15, said the outfit is made up of specially selected forces with mixed equipment to succeed in the fight against Boko Haram terrorists. Attahiru also disclosed that almost two thousand soldiers were trained to enhance operational efficiency in the theatre. Ibrahim Attahiru, theatre commander major general urged Nigerians to cooperate with the army so as to succeed in the fight against against the insurgent.

BREAKING: Police uncover human parts in church, arrest 77-year-old pastor, 3 others in Ogun state

Police have uncovered human parts in a church in Ogun state - The police also arrested a pastor and three others over the discovery - The state police commissioner, Ahmed Iliyasu added that a 43-year-old herbalist, Haruna Afolabi, was among the suspects. Men of Ogun state police command have arrested a pastor and three other suspects in connection with the discovery of suspected human parts buried inside a church in Ota. Vanguard reports that the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, who paraded the cleric Wednesday August 16 in Ota, said the arrested 77-year-old prophet, Samuel Babatunde, is the founder of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Itedo Isinmi Ayo Parish, Egan Road in Iyana-Iyesi area of Ota.  NAIJ.com gathered that the police boss who conducted newsmen round the Church premises said the discovery followed the arrest on Saturday of a suspected serial kidnapper, Jeremiah Adeola. The arrested pastor Samuel Babatunde, the founder of Cherubim and Seraphim Church in Ota, Ogun state.

 According to Iliyasu , Adeola, 32, specialised in kidnapping children and had already confessed that the prophet of the white garment church was the receiver of the abducted children. The Police Commissioner added that a 43-year-old herbalist, Haruna Afolabi, was among the suspects, who allegedly buried the human parts at the entrance of the church. The entrance of the Pastor Samuel Babatunde's church where human parts were allegedly buried.

 Photo: New Telegraph He said: “Operatives attached to the police Area Command in Ota on Sunday received technical intelligence about Adeola and eventually apprehended him.  “On the strength of the intelligence, detectives from Ota Area Command were detailed to effect the arrest of the suspect; and at about 10:20am of the date, their efforts paid off when the said Jeremiah Adeola was promptly arrested.

What Buhari said about the 'Return or Resign' protest against him - Adesina

Femi Adesina was in London recently to see his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari - Adesina said he does not know who handles the medical bills of the president - He explained that the rating of President Buhari will be more positive before his tenure ends in 2019 The special adviser to Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, has said revealed what he saw of the ailing president when he joined a delegation to London recently. Adesina confirmed that President Buhari was, indeed, smart and showed that he was truly ready to make his six-hour trip back to Nigeria. Speaking during a programme on Channels Television late Monday, August, 14, Adesina also said those asking the president to return with his doctors rather than remain in London are only expressing their opinions.  “The president I saw was sharp, he was smart, he was lucid. The president I saw was like his old self, almost completely mended. “But then, like we said in the statement we issued which is what he said to us in the first place, he would come when his doctors say it’s time to go,” Adesina said during the programme monitored by NAIJ.com. He said the president told them he had followed events since leaving the country on May 7. According to him, Buhari also spoke about the current protest by a group asking him to resign. He said the president thinks the protest is just part of democracy and that the participants are exercising their rights. Asked if Buhari is not troubled that he is outside Nigeria treating himself instead of being in his country, Adesina said: “The fact that he is in London and is taking treatment there for a while shows his belief that you procure treatment from wherever you can get it. “It is a man who is alive that continues to lead his family, lead his church, lead his mosque or lead a nation.” He also stated that he really does not know who is responsible for Buhari’s treatment in London. “I do not know who is paying (for his treatment), but as a president, he has a right to be treated by the country,” he said.  Concerning the alleged low rating of the Buhari administration currently, Adesina said such would change positively before the end of the tenure in 2019. He noted that things had gone very bad in the country before Buhari emerged as president adding that two years was not enough to redeem a country brought to shambles by a 16-year rule of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). NAIJ.com reported recently that President Muhammadu Buhari sent his greetings to Nigerians informing them that he would soon be home from London. The report quoted the president as saying so when received a delegation from his government led by Lai Mohammed, the information and culture minister. The others on the delegation include Femi Adesina, Garba Shehu, Lauretta Onochie and Abike Dabiri.