Dear
Professor Adesanmi,
Open Letter To
Cardinal John Onaiyekan and Pastor Tunde Bakare : A Response.
I cease this
opportunity to congratulate you on your elevation to the position of full
professorship.
Having kept an eye on
the developmental strides you have recorded in the academia,everyone will admit
that hard work – hard work over there in France, combined with the use you have
put your talents to here in Nigeria in respect of the struggle for freedom,
justice and democracy – is the real factor, and as a matter of fact, the only
one that has brought you this far.
I had the privilege of
reading your “Open Letter To Cardinal John Onaiyekan and Pastor Tunde Bakare” published
on April 5, 2013 by the Sahara Reporters. I sent a response to your email box
on April 9, 2013.
Your letter echoes the
efforts many of us have made in bringing the awareness of the Catholic Bishops’
Conference of Nigeria to the plight of many helpless, hopeless and dehumanized Nigerians..
In reference to the
letter and in respect of recent developments in Nigeria presently (for example,
the Baka Massacre and a dreadlocked Amnesty Initiative by President Goodluck
Jonathan) I do hereby submit that a major revolutionary antecedent is
inescapable in the direction of achieving the kind of intervention and leadership
models that meet your idea of a government. The outlines of such a
revolutionary action constitute the very contents of the numerous articles I
have published in notable Newspapers, Magazines, Journals, and in the Internet.
Prof, I am not ashamed
to admit the poverty of the grammar – typographical errors mainly – associated
with those articles. Concerning this, I can only say that, declared a madman,
confined to the dustbin of history in a hypnotized city which Aba has been
reduced to, and handed over to assassins, yahooists and cultists in the most
flamboyant way by a draconian Episcopal Decree under the sponsorship of a PDP
led government, the sense of mission and purpose took precedence over that of
good grammar.
Prof. Niyi Osundare has
never seized to amaze me with his manner of articulating the other kind of
terrorism that wrecked the Nigerian State during those evil days of the Abacha
menace. Hear him:
"A couple of my students …..had
become informers; a few even came to my classes wired. And when I was reading
abroad, someone trailed me from city to city. At home, my letters were
frequently intercepted."
I am of the opinion that the situation today is not
anything better. My writings have become unjust victims of a new kind of
inquisition that has flowered in the Nigeria Church and State - one which
romances murder, assassination, blackmail, thuggery, corruption and violence.
It is hoped that you can, from this point, begin to understand my predicaments
and gauge the pulse of my aspirations.
However, and straight
to the point, while the enclosed documents represent a roadmap to and a plan of
action for the realization of such an event of revolution that is long overdue,
the letter to Pastor Tunde Bakare (enclosed) therefore provides a platform and
tasks us to a partnership with regard to those courageous editors at the Sahara
Reporters Website.
Significantly, I wish to state that what is not affirmed in this letter
(as properly dated above) is not affirmed anywhere else concerning the status
of persons/ groups that have got one thing or another to do with the issues at
stake here, or those others whose names are mentioned hereto from and, or
reference made wherefrom.
On the
strength of this, and in reference to interests or agitations of
persons/parties affected by this declaration, what is required, except as
otherwise provided, is for the Save Nigeria Group to organize and mobilize the
Civil Society/Labor Groups immediately and march in full but non-violent
protest to the floor of the National Assembly and demand that the 2011 General
Elections be declared "Null and Void" but "Constitutionally Provisional
for One Year within which Mr. President is charged to conduct fresh elections
by April, 2014.
Beyond but
not excluding the option of staging mass protests, convoking a Sovereign
National Conference (SNC) in the guise of National Elders Forum < http://evurulobi.hubpages.com/hub/A-CALL-FOR-NATIONAL-ELDERS-FORUM-IN-NIGERIA > is an
approach that is more realistic and one that promises to be more rewarding.
With high
sentiments of esteem,
I remain,
Rev. Fr. Kenneth Chinkata Evurulobi, Ph.D.
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