God fulfills every promise He has made to the Righteous, justified by Faith.

It is written:

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. Romans 5:1-5

COVID-19 will surely be contained.

The question is what happens thereafter.

The “Omoluwabi Ethos”, the character of the Yoruba Nation, serially under threat.

In times past, enduring the travails of internal and external disruptions, including the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the tribulations rekindling hope, sustaining the character. The hope that does not disappoint, bringing solutions to existential crises.

The hope that engaged brutal monarchies and autocracies, reestablishing the character; ultimately bringing about the Kiriji Peace Treaty; setting the stage for the modernization of the Nation; introducing Federalism, the recognition of Autonomy and Self-Determination, for the Peoples of the Nigerian geo-political space.

By way of Egbe Omo Oduduwa, whose aim, among others, was “the propagation of the ideal of a modern Yoruba State and Federal State of Nigeria”.

Sustaining the character of Yoruba Political firmament, to which political platforms must correspond, for acceptability.

The continuous negation of which ensured the failure of the Post-Colonial State, now once more made manifest.

By which we know that the State must not be allowed to continue in its corrosion of the Nations.

The perseverance of the Yoruba Nation is for a time like this, able to engage the Post-Colonial State, by way of the Yoruba Referendum.

The Bill of which is in the hands of the members of the Houses of Assembly and Political leaders, the elite of the land, to act upon.

Participation in previous State-induced attempts at reforming itself, not carried on the wings of Self-Determination but on the expectation of the State “reasoning” along.

Ultimate failure, till date.

The Prebendal nature of the Nigerian Post-Colonial State cannot encourage “reasoning” hence the continuous subversion of all presentations.
“Reasoning”, a consequence of elite consensus.

The elite must exist for and in itself, the absolute condition for consensus.

Prebendalism forecloses existence for itself; it must engage in vicious inter and intra-elite competition for Hegemony in the State, the source of its sustenance.

By which we know the bar for entry must be raised; anchored on the subversion of the Nationality to the advantage of the Hegemonic elite, ensuring continuity of Prebendal competition.

To recap.

The Yoruba elite in favor of continuity of the Nigerian Post-Colonial State:

General Olusegun Obasanjo, as the Military Head of State, utilized the Akinjide Memo on subterfuge to prevent the “best candidate” from succeeding the military; M.K.O Abiola expended his financial capital on neutralizing the Federalist Tendency in Yoruba Political firmament; Professor Ojetunji Aboyade chaired the “economic brain trust” of the Babangida Military regime; Chief Olu Falae, as the Finance Minister, became the ears, eyes and intellectual justifier of the Structural Adjustment Program, destroying the Political Economy of the West; Justice Akinola Aguda and Tai Solarin became the vessels for consummating Abuja as the “federal capital”, expecting a short cut to “ Nigerian unity”; Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, as the civilian President, repeated in a more insidious manner, the neutralization of Yoruba Self-Determination; Pastor Yemi Osinbajo, the current Vice President, comfortable with the extreme Centralization of the Post-Colonial State.

None escaped the trappings of Unitarism and anti-Federalism.

It is written:

And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: “Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king’s palace any more than all the other Jews. For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Esther 4:13-14

Mordecai had positioned Esther in a vantage position in the palace, the route to Self-Determination and Autonomy for her Nation.

The precursor to Revolution in Permanence.

Esther did not abandon the mission entrusted to her. Her life became her mission and vice versa.

Through their actions, the Jews eventually achieved Self-Determination within the empire.

Glory be to God in the Highest! Amen.

“Revolution in Permanence”, the slogan formulated by Leon Bronstein, famously known as Leon Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary extraordinaire, in responding to the establishment of the “Soviets”, that is, the Council of Workers and Peasants Deputies, as their Parliament, during their February 1905 uprising led by a “man of God”, Father Gapon.

The defeat of which raised the question as to what is to be done to drive feudalism of the Russian Empire into the dustbin of history.

Consequently, a bitter dispute with the leader of the Majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party known as the Bolsheviks—the Russian Language translation of “Majority” --- Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) who proposed a “two stage” process.

Organizing workers and peasants to enable the Russian bourgeoisie attain power after which, buoyed by their freedom from feudalism, they would be able to take on the bourgeoisie, overthrow its rule and establish the Government of Workers and Peasants.

For Leon Trotsky, it was a matter of workers and peasants pursuing the end goal of overthrowing bourgeois rule without interruption as the only guarantee of revolutionary success, hence “Revolution in Permanence”.

Resolved only by the February 1917 uprising, along similar themes as in 1905, but now showing the futility of ensuring a “breathing space” for the bourgeoisie and ultimately leading to the October revolution and overthrow of both the bourgeoisie and the monarchy.

Recognizing the self-activity of the People, Lenin adjusted his previous theory and embraced the new reality, enabling them to become the “team leaders” of the revolution.

Mirroring Mordecai’s charge to Esther, to wit: prominence in the palace must lead to Self-Determination/Autonomy for the Jewish Nation.

“Amotekun”, the response of the Yoruba Nation to her existential crises, sustained by the interest and activity of the Yoruba People, at home and in the Diaspora, posed the 1905 Question.

The Governors were dragged “kicking and screaming” to ensure its existence, manifesting the hope, brought about by the tribulations of insecurity, sustained by our perseverance, for a solution.

COVID-19, further exposing the self-evident failure of the Nigerian Post-Colonial State.

The 1917 Russian revolution, dominated by the Bolsheviks, succeeded in establishing the “Soviets” as its form of State.

Eventually coming under the control of Joseph Djugashvili; also known as Joseph Stalin.

A former Seminarian, from Georgia, one of the Nationalities of the Russian Empire, denied his Nationality and imposed “Sovietization” on the entire country.

The Bolshevik leadership, including Leon Trostsky, a Jew, denied the Jewish Bund within its membership, citing, as its reason, its opposition to the Nationalism espoused by the Bund.

On his death bed, Lenin, in responding to Stalin’s “Sovietization” concluded: “scratch a Bolshevik and you will discover a Great Russian Chauvinist”.

The conclusion of a lifetime of quests for the liberation of the Peoples of the Russian Empire, floundering on the denial and suppression of what became known as the “National Question”, that is, the question of the Nations separating themselves from the Hegemony of and in the Empire.

Pastor Tunde Bakare along with Yussuf Bala Usman, the intellectual justifier of Fulani Chauvinism, ascribed Nationality Consciousness in Nigeria to the imposition of the British Colonial State.

Denying the ancient cosmological existentialism of the Peoples; a denial of God in their existence.

The absence of the colonial State in any Nationality is not the absence of a common consciousness of self among the Peoples.

Proven by the Yoruba Nation embarking on, among others, a “war to end all wars” in the land.

The military and economic might of the Soviet Union was unable to sustain the suppression of National aspirations among its Constituents, eventually succumbing to these pressures by its dissolution in 1991.

For the Yoruba Nation and her current elite “who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

[[/i]i]That which I have heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

Wale Odeku