Dear Mr Dele Farotimi,
With reference to your video titled, ‘Nigeria Is Functionally Dead, Nigerians Are Not Citizens But Victims In Their Own Country – Farotimi’, I wish to raise a few concerns for your attention and consideration.
How I wish you had accepted the reality of the gamed political system of Nigeria prior to 2023, before you selflessly volunteered to become a ‘Judas Goat’ for the failed Nigeria State. As a Judas Goat, you sang the most beautiful optimistic songs that drew the attention of the powerless but hopeful Youths of Nigeria to your sweet, inspiring and melodic voice.
Your captivating political messages of hope and faith in the ‘fatherland’ succeeded in rallying together the youths of Nigeria. You actually convinced them that it was a civic and revolutionary duty to register and to collect the Permanent Voter [Vassal] Card (PVC) for the 2023 National Election.
The Youth of Nigeria responded favourably to your patriotic call. And they voted en mass for the candidate you supported and canvassed to them. Today and to their deep regret and chagrin, they found that it was a serious mistake to have listened to you. And that their gullibility and political naivety about the deep-rooted rot of the Nigeria State has inadvertently landed them in the present hellish socioeconomic and political hole without any safe escape route.
However, your political interventions could have ended differently and more favourably, if you had allowed the factual history of Nigeria to be your guide during that season of infamy and electioneering madness. It could have helped you to avoid the grievous error of putting precious trust and faith on the accursed politicians to behave honourably, on their gangster-like political parties to follow the rules of engagement, and on the unapologetically shameless national electoral body to operate honestly, judiciously and impartially. Alas, like many fairytale believers, you have to finally face the reality that the strategy of the political actors are solely hinged on base motives built around conspicuous grafts, corrupt accumulation and distribution of filthy lucre and on heinous, self-serving political ideologies.
Unfortunately like most Nigerians, you listened and accepted as truth, the hocus-pocus stories from the merchants of illusion who have always promoted the ideas of the coming of the ‘great Nigeria as giant of Africa’; of the advantages of a large and diverse population size for economies of scale and profitable commercial interests; and of many other juicy socioeconomic sentiments sold to hapless Nigerians by the vassals of the feudal lords and their faceless neo-colonial economists.
Candidly speaking and coming from someone who has keenly observed your indefatigable spirit and who truly admires your honesty of purpose, your love and devotion to truth, and your loyalty and commitment to the rule of law and justice, Mr Dele Farotimi, for the sake of your physical and mental health, I wish to implore you that it is high time you faced the reality that Nigeria as a nation is no longer a viable reality and that it is indeed a failed political experiment.
By now and with the vivid lamentable experiences of the past 8 years, you need to accept the uncomfortable truth that the human cankerworms that are voraciously eating the Nigeria State have completely devoured and hollowed out the soul of the country. And that at this tragic moment, there is nothing left of Nigeria that can be salvaged, either for political restructuring or for socioeconomic reconfiguration. The Nigeria Dream is over. It is dead and buried. The die has been cast; it is time for everyone to move on.
At this late stage of the tragedy called Nigeria, the only relevant revolutionary objectives that can be suggested are:
• To find the ways and means to wake up patriots like you from continuing to daydream about a future prosperity for the country that is never coming and to actually acknowledge the futility of committing any more time or human resources or psychic energy to rescue the moribund political, economic, cultural and spiritual ruins of Nigeria;
• To urgently find the ways and means to mitigate the pressing existential socioeconomic insecurities, famine, and extreme poverty and lack of basic human needs that are threatening the lives of most of the indigenous peoples of Nigeria; and
• To find the ways and means to sensitise the few awakened ones amongst Nigerians to see clearly and unmistakably the urgent need to begin the emergency tasks of organising the proactive and practicable processes that can pragmatically and scientifically dismantle, demolish, and clean up the godforsaken Augean stable of Nigeria, in order to avoid the loss of many precious lives.
However, the above suggestions would depend largely on how soon the intelligentsia class of Nigeria can be healed from the spell of mass hypnosis cast upon us by the already imbibed poisonous fake education and fake religions. The age long weapons of mass indoctrination and brainwashing have made Nigerians to become so easily susceptible to lies and deception. Hence Nigerians have cultivated the attitude that seems to be living ‘comfortably’ with false values, false beliefs and false hopes. These are the illusions that are currently holding Nigerians down and which have totally blindsided our visions from seeing the unpleasant truth that Nigeria is a comprehensively Failed State.
There is no doubt in the minds of sincere political watchers of Nigeria that the indigenous people of Nigeria must be under a covert magical spell of mass-hypnosis; and that if the veils of blindfolds blocking the sights and other senses of the people are removed by the power of truth and knowledge of the real essence of life, a mighty revolution of spiritual awakening and mental emancipation of Nigerians will follow seamlessly.
Above all, there is a need to emphasise the unassailable truth that what the indigenous people of Nigeria need today, first and foremost, is a revolution of reeducation that will quicken a mental emancipation and psychological healing of the polluted minds of the people. And secondly, a spiritual and social revolution that will restructure and reconfigure the decadent souls and the dying spirits of the miseducated and misdirected people of Nigeria.
I wish you all the best in your devoted struggle to reeducate and to emancipate the downtrodden and subjugated people who are “not citizens but victims” of Nigeria.
Yours Sincerely,
In The Spirit Of Truth
SAM ABBD ISRAEL
ITSOT 