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The Yoruba Question III: Culture of Anarchy/Infants By Spinoza Intelligent people prefer to agree rather than to obey. Military people prefer to obey rather than to agree. In the academia, where intelligent people gather together to learn and teach, the former is the case; independent and intelligent people work together on the basis of consent, not of command. In the army of any nation, the latter is the case because the nature of the affairs therein requires that soldiers follow commands rather than agree or disagree whenever they feel like doing so. Most other human beings or human organizations or societies fall in-between: they either prefer to obey and agree, or disagree and obey, or disobey and agree, or disagree and disobey, depending on the situation. For example, when an unjust law is passed in some democratic nations, the citizens often disagree with the law. To show their displeasure with the law, they often disobey the law as a way registering their disapproval. They would do this with the understanding that the courts would get involve in litigations and conflicts associated with the new law. The rationale is often that the body that makes the law is different from the body that enforces and applies the law. By disobeying the law, the citizens would get the courts involved in deciding the justice of the law. But the Yoruba people are nowhere in these frameworks of human interaction. Wherever you find two or three Yoruba people, the words and phrases ‘order’, ‘intelligent disagreement’, ‘orderly agreement or disagreement’, and ‘rational disobedience’ are often lacking because the Yoruba people are not cut out to exist in civilized relationships. They are worst than the beasts and lions in the wild because their culture is a culture rooted in anarchy. Even if they go through many years of training in either military or academic institutions, the Yoruba people are still worse than the beasts in the wild. Ekiti is a perfect example here. Ekiti is supposedly a state in Yoruba South West where every Yoruba therein has a PhD or an advanced degree from an institution of higher learning. Ekiti is like the city of Boulder in Colorado or like Iowa City in the state of Iowa, where every person is associated with an institution of higher learning. Yet, Ekiti is the center and hub of deadly, machete-wielding thugs, who will never allow an election or peaceful gathering to take place. All the politicians therein maintain groups of deadly gangs as the only means of winning elections or governing the state. Ekiti produced the likes Peter Ayodele Fayose who has a PhD and yet believes and acts as if having a name like Hussein Obama makes Obama a terrorist. By virtue of his PhD, you would think that Peter Fayose is a free-thinking man who uses his brain to analyze and solve problems rather than looking to command and order other people around. But no, the norms of his Yoruba culture are so ingrained in his being that governing by consent or disagreement means nothing to him. This is why he had to murder a journalist simply for asking him questions. Today, he is still one of the forces to be reckoned with in Ekiti politics - because the Yoruba culture considers murder and murderers as the essential ingredients of government and of running the affairs of their masses. Whatever holds in Ekiti is also true in all other Yoruba states. In Yoruba Oyo State, a 100-year-old thug called Lamidi Adedibu conquered and occupied the state from 1998 to 2008. Adedibu trained and maintained deadly thugs with the help of Olusegun Obasanjo as the president of Nigeria. The two old thugs murdered in Churches and Mosques without spending a day in prison because the Yoruba culture sanctioned and supported this brand of politicking. In Yoruba state of Kwara, Olusola Saraki is the king of deadly thugs. His son took over the gangs of thugs from him. His daughter is about to be crowned the next queen of Kwara thugs. From the early 1980’s to the present day, Kwara State has never been governed by somebody elected by the Yoruba masses. The Yoruba Saraki Crime Family is not interested in participatory democracy where the masses determine who preside over their affairs. Senior Saraki imposed his own daughter as the Senator, he imposed his own son as the Governor, and he is about to impose the same daughter as the next Governor of the Yoruba state. Competency, empowerment, and knowledge are not vocabularies in Yoruba politics because immaturity and incompetence are consistent with Yoruba norms, and incompetent Yoruba people can only be empowered or disempowered by their own incompetent Yoruba thugs. The Yoruba state of Osun produced two notorious thugs, Iyiola Omisore and Olagunsoye Oyinlola. Iyiola Omisore murdered Bola Ige for Olusegun Obasanjo, and Obasanjo rewarded him with his current Senate position in the Nigeria National Assembly. Bola Ige, a Yoruba man, was murdered while he was the sitting Attorney General of Nigeria, and every Yoruba man knows that Iyiola Omisore pulled the trigger. Yet, these people are happy that a murderer is representing them in the capacity of a Senator. It is as if you must become a murderer or a thug in Yoruba land to be somebody in the politics of Yoruba people. Further, consider the words of Olagunsoye Oyinlola, the current Governor of Osun State, and another respected Yoruba politician in Yoruba land (these are words of strategy on how to conduct an election in Yoruba Ekiti State; the sentiments they express are not as strange as they sound because they are not worse than what came from the mouths of Lamidi Adedibu and Olusegun Obasanjo): “We will supply all the sixteen local government chairmen in Ekiti, particularly the affected ten local governments where the gubernatorial elections will be conducted, with army uniforms, arms and ammunitions. You people will give these to your supporters who will camouflage like army personnel at the respective voting centers so that these will aid them in the rigging of the election by intimidating the voters and allowing the voters not to come out to vote. The only people that will come out will be the PDP” Either there is something in the water and food these people drink and eat in Yoruba land or this is part of their nurture and upbringing. I submit that the later is in fact the case. When every politician in the Yoruba South West is a deadly thug and behaves and thinks like a deadly thug, even when they are educated, one can not but conclude that the style of leadership and manner of thinking in that part of Nigeria are parts and parcels of the Yoruba cultural norms. When anarchic thinking and authoritarian mindset are common among the Yoruba leaders and people, one cannot help but believe that these types of behaviors and thinking are part of what makes these people Yoruba. If not, find me a Yoruba state where deadly thugs are not in huge supply and where election-rigging and murder are not part of Yoruba politics. Show me a Yoruba community where the likes of Obafami Awolowo, Lamidi Adedibu, Olusegun Obasanjo, Patrice Etteh, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Iyiola Omisore, and Dimeji Bankole are not considered the “best” Yoruba politicians and presented to Nigeria as the “best” from the Yoruba culture. Give me another explanation and reason Nigeria is slouching to the Stone Age after a Yoruba man ruled the nation for eight years, from 1999 to 2007, like a wild monkey and murdered many people and still exist as the “best” politician of Africa in the eyes of many Yoruba people. Show me the reason Nigeria is not going anywhere soon other than the stifling presence of the backward mindset of the Yoruba infants. Educate me on who have infested Nigeria like a deadly virus with their culture of anarchy and backwardness other than the Yoruba people and their Ekiti-style of madness. Until these Yoruba issues are resolved, and as long as the Yoruba people exist as a part of Nigeria, I predict that Nigeria is doomed forever. Intelligent individuals and masses can be persuaded with ideas and logic, but there is no amount of logic or intelligent ideas to be applied to change the behavior of wild beasts and congenital infants from Yoruba land, and you know this, because you see it in Yoruba lifestyle, behaviors, thoughts, and actions.
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