‎ORITSEJAFORGATE: THE POLITICS OF DECEITFUL RELIGIONISTS

GOKE BUTIKA

“I don’t tell the truth any more to those who can’t make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.”—-Anais Nin

I could recollect that a highly connected person spoke to me at the eve of August 9 2014governorship election in the State of Osun that he got a credible information from one of the Jonathan presidency’s point men that an ethnic cabal had emerged with two way agenda.

He said the first option was to encourage the pummeling of the North East of Nigeria by the raging insurgency with aim of creating new majority in the country, where the minority of the North and the South South would be determining emergence of a President in general election, or as option B, the secession of the South South axis, believing that its oil money can give the region a better country.

My source related how perpetual crisis would be created in the South West axis, how the third eleven would be sponsored to take over the rein of governance from the performing governors, so that there would be perpetual mistrust between the leaders and the led; a situation that will distract the attention of the egg-heads of the Yoruba stock from the calculated plot and render the region helpless when the time for action begins.

He revealed how Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti state was surprised by photochromic ballot papers and other clandestine moves that compelled his defeat, he hinted me on how 73, 000 security operatives and 20,000 Niger-Delta militants would be kitted with DSS fatigue with mask in Osun for the election to be manipulated, and all facts came to the open except the determination of the electorate to take their destiny into the hands.

So, ‘Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor has an interest in the aviation company that made the private jet that hauled 10 million US dollars to South Africa to purchase weapons for human destruction. Anyway, he owned up to it when an online media revealed his connection with international scam.

Oritsejafor is the President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and a spiritual consultant to President Goodluck Jonathan. Let me just say that his closeness to the President is not a crime, and being the President of the CAN must not be seen as an albatross, but his involvement in aborted purchase of 10 million dollar armament has raised some dust that must not be ignored.

Join me briefly to see how some thinkers see religions and religionists, perhaps that would open the eyes of our mind to the issue at hand: Segmund Frued, a son of Christian Priest claimed that religion is a Psychiatric feelings and that those who claim to practise faith are like psychiatrist patients.

Besides, Edward Tylor, a son of the Quaker Priest defined religion as an advancement of primitive opinions, custom and tradition, and Rudolf Otto claimed that religion is a feeling, but Karl Marx, another son of a Christian Priest saw religion as an instrument of oppression in the hands oppressors, arguing that for any society to develop, religion must be divorced from governance. And a careful observation would reveal that developed nations do not elevate religion above personal salvation of an individual citizen.

However, Nigeria is said to be secular, but Yours sincerely disagree, because it has become our collective habit to pray before and after any given function, private or official; we accord our religious leaders special recognition and our government at all levels sponsor people on pilgrimage to Mecca and Jerusalem. So, where lies our secularity? However, the conspiracy theory began from the constitution which describes the country ‘secular’ instead of ‘multi religious’ and we all kept quiet, because of our collective hypocrisy.

Back to the Oritsejafor’s cash stacked private jet seized in South Africa and the swift response of the Jonathan presidency to cover up, one thing is very clear in the entire scenario: our government and the leadership of CAN with due respect to the few trusted men of God in the body, are not telling us the home truth, but their congenital lies were too open to be overlaid by different narratives. If we have identified a problem, some questions would lead us to the direction of indubitable truth:

The aircraft that ferried raw US dollars to South Africa was said to be private jet of Pastor Oritsejafor, CAN president, a Spiritual consultant to President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian, whose Presidency has more than 10 presidential jets. We have an organized military with several jets that could be used to move weapons meant to fight insurgency, then why the private jet?

The money found in the jet was ten million dollars superintended by two unknown Nigerians and Israeli, obviously not military contractors or intelligence staffers, but people of hidden identities for special operation. Obviously, the cash is huge and Jonathan government had forgotten to inform the authority of the South Africa that such a huge weapon business’s would be transacted in the country with raw cash- that was a procedural error, but why the raw cash when the entire world now trades cashless policy? The only answer to that is, there was a covert operation somewhere to be attended to, and with the knowledge of the presidency.

What is happening now has justified the grounds of those who claimed that we have: a. Poverty induced boko haram; b.  Political boko haram and c. Misguided boko haram. The chronicle of events had shown that Ali Modu Sherrif is a tool in the hand of Jonathan presidency to fuel political boko haram with a view to either elongate Jonathan presidency beyond 2015 or decapacitate  the heavily populated North East for the new pro-Jonathan majority to emerge for re-election bid.

Let it be known that Former President Olusegun Obasanjo had written a letter exposing what we are currently witnessing, Admiral Murtala Nyako wrote a memo to his fellow governors in the North when he got wind of the current happenings and he is being hounded for it, but we chose to ignore the message while dissecting the messengers,  because we were bamboozled with religion. The nation was badly divided along religious line and now the smoke of truth can no longer be concealed.  Deductively, it is safe to say that Jonathan presidency is behind the boko haram massacre in the North East and 2015 election is the target, but this opinion stands to be corrected.

Butikakuro, a journalist , writes from Osogbo