The Fajuyi Spirit - By Femi Fani-Kayode

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Fifty years prior today, on July 29th 1966, a man by the name of Major General Francis Adekunle Fajuyi gave his life with regards to our nation and the then Head of State, General Johnson Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi. His executioners were a gathering of northern armed force officers who took an interest in the supposed northern "vengeance overthrow" of July 29th 1966. No under 300 Igbo armed force officers were butchered that night together with a modest bunch of yoruba fighters, including Fajuyi.

Real General Fajuyi was a yoruba man who picked to kick the bucket with regards to an igbo Head of State. This was decent and fearless as well as interesting and extraordinary. He was a caring legend and a man that we should respect and deify in the new Nigeria that is to come.

Those that killed him, General Aguiyi-Ironsi and the celebrated 300 without hesitating that night are as yet running the issues of our nation till today. They figure out who will be who and who gets what. They choose who our President will be and to what extent he will stay in force. Actually their contemptuous dominion and underhandedness expectations are significantly more purported and unpleasant today than they were in 1966 and their grasp on the levers of force in our nation is much more grounded.

Today they are completely in control and some of those that really shot Fajuyi are completely behind them. However regardless of their expectation to rule, hush, break and crush whatever is left of us one thing stays clear: the Fajuyi soul of boldness, solidarity, selflesness and penance has been saturated by millions in the southern and Middle Belt areas of our nation.

These are men and ladies that are set up to stand shoulder to bear with the abused of our country, whether they be Niger Deltans, Igbos, Yorubas? Center Belters or whatever else. These are men and ladies that are set up to oppose the deceptive religious and ethnic plan of the "destined to control" in our middle and that perceive the way that they view whatever is left of us as only slaves. With regards to southern rights and premiums we the Yoruba especially should take in a lesson from our own particular child Fajuyi and imitate his illustration.

Like him, if vital, we should be prepared to yield our lives and freedom with regards to any or the greater part of our southern and Middle Belt bretheren that are confronting abuse, genocide and treachery because of our aggregate slave experts. It is likewise time for us to value the way that on the off chance that we genuinely need to be free we should develop our hand of fellowship over the River Niger to the Igbo and we should see their sharp travails just like our own too.

We should likewise feel the torment when an Igbo or Niger-Deltan youth is butchered by President Buhari's armed force for the sake of "pounding all resistance and difference" and "keeping Nigeria one". We should likewise feel the torment when an Igbo or Niger-Deltan youth is butchered by President Buhari's armed force for the sake of "pounding all restriction and contradiction" and "keeping Nigeria one".

We should recognize the way that Nigeria can't stay one the length of there is ethnic and religious bias, mistreatment and unfairness. We should value the way that there can never be southern, or undoubtedly Middle Belt, liberation without southern solidarity. Fajuyi comprehended that point 50 years back. Thus he selected to oppose the fiendishness in the and bite the dust for it. He was without a doubt a genuine saint. He paid the incomparable cost for his kindred southerner and he remained against northern adventurism, persecution, control and dominion. after 50 years it is the ideal opportunity for whatever is left of us to do likewise.

It is the ideal opportunity for us to recognize and respect his penance and meet up as one. It is the ideal opportunity for us to stand up, take a gander at our aggregate oppressors in the eye and say "no more". No more if we bow our heads in accommodation, servility and disgrace. It is the ideal opportunity for us to ascend, conjure the force of the Living God and be men. May the courageous and excellent soul of Major General Fajuyi keep on resting in endless peace and may those that killed him 50 years prior be conveyed to equity.