Ayodele Ayetigbo's Cosmic Faction
BEWARE OF DIVIDE AND RULE
If you are reading the script sent to you by Mustapha not a friend of the Abiolas, then you are falling into the trap set for the Yoruba by enemies of progress.
Yes, Yoruba do not always agree like mumus on all issues. Yes, Yoruba have been shortchanged many a times in sharing of slaughtered national cow.
Then, we have Yoruba who think Yoruba are just the worst race of all, back biting to gain an edge over the competitors. I hear this all the time.
Yoruba are no good. Yoruba betrayed MKO et al. I did not. Many of us fought with fellow Nigerians to send enemies of progress packing back to the barracks, without firing a single lethal shot under the NADECO parade.
When Yoruba haters say all these negative things to undermine Yoruba, Idris Olabode, an Owo bisiness man Baltimore resident, blessed memory, used to say if you are not intimate with Chinese, Igbo, Hausa, Fulani you won't know how terrible they could be among themselves.
My Akure junior brother Victor Ogundahunsi also Baltimore entrepreneur, only yesterday almost bored me to heaven over same Yoruba on Yoruba hatred and crime.
Victor thinks Yoruba do not patronize one another like the Igbo do. Yoruba are not loyal with their bosses to serve enough time to build their businesses.
The Igbo again are said to have qualities like the Chinese to take over the whole world, not only Africa. I see a trend of the world going tribalistic. America for the Americans, Asia for the Asians.
Individualism is becoming trending really. I agreed with Jagaban Tinubu, answering this Cosmic Faction's question dealing with Igbo's accusation of Yoruba's monopoly of NADECO movement in the US.
"Of all the groups in Nigeria, none is as liberal as the Yoruba," said Tinubu, explaining that when you go to the east you don't see Yoruba's monopoly of any business, whereas in Lagos and other SWestern metropolis, you see Igbos and now Chinese dominating even agricultural sector, among others.
From the way I am looking at it, one must recognize individualistic nature of every human being. When Jagaban, Victor, or Mustapha get together with the Igbo to make money, you don't hear complaints about Yoruba being his worst enemy.
But when business goes sour, you hear self hatred speeches, either against the race or against other race perceived as object of downturn fortune of business.
In the words of my friend, Bode Idris, permit me to quote the departed by saying:
"Eni ti a ba sun ti la njarunpa lu."
You only kick the nearest person next to you when in a nightmare.
The narrative of Ogunde's Yoruba Ronu, or Mustapha's Yoruba on Yoruba perfidy must change to how individualistic human beings are.
Give even Mustapha a hoe, he will divert all our farmland yams to his household. Let's focus more on protecting our core values than listen to lyrics that separate us further. Be watchful of "Divide and Rule". Share now to edit later on facebook.com/ayetigbo.
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