Read how pastor Tunde Bakare blast Northern elders opposing the restructuring of Nigeria.

THE General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, at the weekend, told Northern pioneers restricting rebuilding of the nation that they are not taking after the foot­steps of their progenitors.

He made the revelation at the brilliant recognition address, entitled: 'Fajuyi and the Politics of Remem­brance,' sorted out by the Yoruba Think-Tank for previous military gov­ernor of the dead Western Region, Lt. Col Adekunle Fajuyi, who was killed in a counter-upset of July 29, 1966, alongside the meeting Head of State, Major Gen Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi. The address, conveyed by a lit­erary monster, Prof Niyi Osundare, was held at the International Conference Center of the University of Ibadan.


As indicated by Bakare, "Any hostile to rebuilding position taken by the North would convey to the courts of recorded conclusion the truthfulness of the intentions of the culprits of the counter-upset that prompted the demise of Adekunle Fajuyi.

"The older folks of the North, who, today, are against the call to rebuild Ni­geria have digressed from the standards of the establishing fathers of Northern Nige­ria, for example, the Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello and previous Prime Minis­ter, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa; pioneers of our na­tion who were trailblazers of Fajuyi in the Nigerian lobby of affliction."

The immense Nigerian lead­ers from the North, he said, made it clear in the arrangement of sacred confer­ences that proclaimed Nige­ria's freedom that genuine federalism with territorial self-rule was the main condition under which they would exist inside the Ni­gerian country.

"Need we remind those contrary to restructur­ing today that one of the primary grouses of Nigerians of northern extraction with­in the armed force and common soci­ety after the principal upset was the repeal of the fed­eral framework by the Aguiyi-Ironsi drove government

"This, without uncertainty, was the fundamental reason the northern pioneers and the counter-coupists, who ended the lives of Aguiyi-Ironsi and Fajuyi requested an inversion of the unification order and an arrival to the government arrangement of govern­ment.

"Subsequently, to op­pose rebuilding now, 50 years after, is to affirm the expressions of Aesop that 'the in­jury we do and the one we endure are not said something the same scales.'

"On the off chance that it is not unmistakably comprehended by the an­tagonists of rebuilding, whether they be from the North or the south, given me a chance to make it clear that the call for rebuilding is a de­mand for genuine federalism; an interest for combining units that can really self-control like the locales in the times of our establishing fathers, an interest for the thriving of the constitu­ent parts that make up the entirety.

"It is along these lines incon­sistent with the enthusiasm of the North or the South for the present pseudo-government structure to hold on. In the event that the senior citizens of the North are genuine older folks in this era, I accuse them of the expressions of the ruler who ever lived: Do not expel the antiquated point of interest which your fa­thers have set."

In the address, Osundare noticed that a nation would be known by the sort of individuals it recollects and by the sort of individuals it choos­es not to remember, add­ing: "Demonstrate to me your saint and I will let you know who you are. Since in Nigeria, our memory is so meager and skewed, we don't just recollect differentlyj a great deal all the more appallingly, we recall inadequately.

He contended that the Fed­eral Government endorses the gross cheapening of worth or uprightness by the way it doles out its 'national respects' to some recipents who are famous treasury bandits, race riggers et cetera.

A four-point communi­que issued toward the end of the system, asked the state governments to reestablish the educating of History in essential and auxiliary schools in South-West, including that administration ought to lead local examinations, and issue endorsements, on it for the understudies.

"Yoruba Language ought to be an obligatory subject in our schools, and our Houses of Assembly ought to utilize it as is currently done in the Lagos State House of Assembly," the report read to some degree.

Dignitaries in atten­dance included Ondo State senator, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko; Chairman of Ohanaeze Ndigbo for Af­rican Region, Sir Oliver Akubueze; and the Alani of Ido-Ani, Gen Olufemi Olutoye (retd).