The previous evening Femi Fani-Kayode composed a piece about US secretary of state John Kerry and Facebook author Mark Zuckerberg's visit to Nigeria and how it has something to do with the Hausas. He composed;
"Kerry goes toward the north and sees the Sultan of Sokoto, northern governors and Buhari. After one week Facebook organizer comes to Nigeria and says Hausa is an "extraordinary dialect" which he has included on Facebook. Think Nigerians think".
Hours after the fact, previous presidential assistant Reno Omokri responded to FFK's remark. He composed;
FFK reacted to Reno Omokri
"Pleasant to get notification from u. License me to start by saying that I never miss ur review and I express gratitude toward God that despite everything we have individuals as recognizing and as striking as u in our nation. Pls keep it up. Presently to the matter of the day.
A debt of gratitude is in order for taking as much time as is needed to react to my post. Perrmit me to react to you quickly. What Mark Zuckerberg said in regards to the Hausa dialect being "one of a kind" is not a reality but rather an assessment. What's more, it is a sentiment which, in reasonableness to him, may well be genuinely held. It is additionally a conclusion which you apparently share and which both u and he u are superbly qualified for. I am, be that as it may, qualified for can't help contradicting u on that sentiment particularly where I have justifiable reason motivation to do as such. You see not at all like most I don't post, talk or compose daintily. I take as much time as is needed, I do my exploration and I am exceptionally exact. That is my style and nature. The decision of hausa being put on Facebook is not only a matter if "phonetic uniqueness" I guarantee u. What's more, to sincerely trust that it does verges on immaculate naivety. There is nothing one of a kind about the quantity of coutries in west Africa that communicate in Hausa and I don't trust that Hausa is the most broadly talked dialect in west Africa however numerous regularly say it is. It is fairly similar to the regular abstain that the hausas number more than whatever other nationality in Nigeria when we as a whole know how and when that specific messy falsehood happened and how the British built it by checking the bovines of the north and adding them to the quantity of northerners that they tallied in the main statistics. In the event that the honestly and still, at the end of the day and as of not long ago the Igbo and the Yoruba are more than the Fulani and the Hausa. On the off chance that u question my affirmation about the absence of uniqueness of the Hausa dialect, kindly do the exploration and discover what number of nations that Yoruba, for instance, is talked in both in West Africa and outside of the African mainland in South America and the Carribean. Additionally read up on the historical backdrop of the BBC and VOA Hausa Service and why they were set up by their individual governments. Same the German hausa radio administration and others. It appeared well and good in light of the fact that most hausa men bore radios with them wherever they went whilst their southern countrymen, being significantly more progressed and taught, prefered perusing daily papers and staring at the TV. It is not only a matter if phonetic uniqueness I guarantee u yet proof of the way that the British especially dependably had, and still do have, a solid prejudice for the Hausa Fulani contrasted with some other nationality in Nigeria. The purposes behind that are army so I won't go into them here. Obviously however, the history on this matter is clear and I propose you read up on it. It creates the impression that the American powers, at any rate the Obama/Kerry/Clinton detachment, are following in the strides of the British pilgrim experts regarding their favored companions in Nigeria and for sure American privately owned businesses like Facebook, much the same as British privately owned businesses did in the previous British settlements before them, are towing the line of their administrations. It is not very hard to work that one out for the canny. I figure the truth will surface eventually in the event that I am correct however these are my perspectives. Regardless I consider what number of hausa-talking individuals are on Facebook when contrasted with Yoruba and Igbo. I read much more into this matter than u do on the grounds that I am a government official as well as a student of history. I additionally have my perspectives about the online networking for the most part, its connection to the top western insight organizations and what its definitive target is. I have been demonstrated right at last on the vast majority of my statements about unfurling occasions in this nation and for sure world undertakings as u might possibly know. I question that this will be any distinctive. Dissimilar to the vast majority I don't give my kinship or individual enjoying or hating of an individual a chance to darken my judgment. My explanations behind accepting what I accept will be made show at the appropiate time. On the off chance that u are truly intrigued by realizing what those reasons are I recommend you practice a little persistence and u will discover. U may even take in something from it. By the way not at all like u I think it would be a superb advancement if Facebook presented other Nigerian dialects like Igbo, Yoruba, Ijaw and so on.. To the extent I am concerened inclusive should it is as much as possible. I wish u well and please continue composing those amazing papers on the circumstance in our nation. Shalom.
Omokri reacts to FFK
Dear Olufemi Olu-Kayode
Much thanks to you for your kind reply to my reaction to your interpretation of Mark Zuckerberg's remark on the Hausa dialect. Here is my reaction.
That Mark Zuckerberg called Hausa a one of a kind dialect is not resulting from any trick against the Yoruba, Igbo or any Southern Nigerian ethnic nationality. The Hausa dialect is not an innovation of the Hausa individuals. The dialect was concocted by God thus at whatever point anybody adulates it, they are not applauding the Hausa individuals, they are lauding God.
You say I am guileless for tolerating, as Zuckerberg does, that the Hausa dialect is novel. Truly? Hausa dialect is the main indigenous African dialect that is formally talked in five African countries including Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, Cameroun and Sudan. In the event that your contention is valid and I am in fact guileless then you would need to concur with me that BBC News, Radio France Internationale, Voice of America - VOA, DW Deutsche Welle, China Radio International and Voice of Russia are similarly credulous, in light of the fact that, as Facebook, they all have a Hausa dialect administration.
You might be right about the British/American connivance. I never dove into that and I concede to your prevalent information of history and statecraft. Your dad, Remilekun Fani-Kayode, QC, was a top of the line statesman and the apple did not fall a long way from the tree. My purpose of takeoff from you was entirely and exclusively as touching your intimation against Mark Zuckerberg.
By including Hausa as an authority Facebook dialect, Zuckerberg perceives the way that while there are actually a huge number of Yoruba, Igbo and different indigenous Nigerian dialect speakers who can impart in both their local dialect and English, the same can't be said in regards to Hausa speakers. In Benin, Togo, Brazil and different countries where you have an extensive grouping of Yoruba speakers, these omo oduduwas can convey what needs be in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese.
There are actually a huge number of Hausa speakers who can just convey in Hausa. This doesn't make them ignorant. To be sure, much sooner than we in the South could read and compose, these Hausa speakers have been perusing and composing Hausa in the hundreds of years old Ajami script.
It is to oblige these specific class of Hausa speakers that, as I would see it, Facebook included Hausa as an official dialect, and not as a major aspect of some scheme of Britain and America to undermine the Southern parts of Nigeria. You may review that Zuckerberg and his significant other as of late put $25 million in Andela. That would be a most odd approach to undermine the South given that the greater part of Andela's organizers and a large portion of their colleagues are from the South. Actions speak louder than words yet cash gets things going. Zuckerberg discussed Hausa, however he put his cash in a Lagos tech center point. Does that not say something to you?
The slip-up we in the South regularly make is to see conventional Hausas as our adversaries. Not genuine. The Hausas as a people are the absolute most tolerable Nigerians and are to be separated from the feudalists who have impeded their advancement as an ethnic nationality. What they require from dynamic and opportunity adoring Nigerians is solidarity not threatening vibe. This was the perspective that the late Aminu Kano attempted to go crosswise over to us down South.
What Facebook has done merits acclamation and not judgment. Once more, having said this, I should keep up that I have a high respect for your brains and this mediation ought not be deciphered as an encounter.
God favor you.
Reno Omokri
FFK to Reno
Reno Omokri, now I am starting to get somewhat disturbed by you. Is there anyplace that I censured you, Zuckerberg or Facebook for having your/their perspectives?
On the off chance that so please bring up out. Maybe you don't have the foggiest idea about the importance of "denounced" yet you appear to be so excited to utilize it.
In the event that I needed to censure you, him or any other person I would do as such noisily, transparently, unmistakably and happily however I havn't done that: I basically couldn't help contradicting you and I was exceptionally thoughtful about it which I truly didnt must be on account of you don't merit it.
Regardless would you say you are the representative of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook or without a doubt that of the hausa individuals of northern Nigeria?
Is that your new occupation since you quit working under my companion and sibling Reuben Abati at the Villa and overseeing online networking for the Jonathan organization?
Will those you need to protect today not clarify and safeguard themselves sufficiently? Do they require you? Would they be able to not have discovered somebody more qualified? Is it true that you are truly the best they have?
Furthermore, in the event that you demand being their protector in-boss when were you selected? Truly Reno my dear younger sibling you need your minimal base hit for being so shameless and devious.
I have known the north and cooperated with northerners much more than you and for far longer so I needn't bother with lessons from you or any other person about who or what they are, either for good or for terrible.
Furthermore, neither do I have to say just things that are politically right about them.or any other individual in light of the fact that, not at all like you, I have paid my duty politically and as far as open commentry for over a time of 27 years.
I worked in the Presidency as President Obasanjo's spokeman as far back as 13 years prior. I don't know where you were then.
I ran, not one, but rather two Federal services as the Hon. Pastor more than 10 years back and from that point forward I have been in the thick of the political conflict and show.
I know who I am and I don't have to please anybody with what I say. I was in NADECO taking a chance with my life battling against military tenet and for the late Chief MKO Abiola's June twelfth command when you were most likely as yet wearing diapers.
I know the north and to be sure this entire nation much better than you ever could and throughout the years I have picked up and assembled a great deal of experience.
I have additionally languished over Nigeria significantly more than you have. I say this all with the best lowliness realizing that it is just God that made it so and that empowered me to survive it. The aftereffect of all that is this: I don't put up with imbeciles readily and I say things as they may be.
I have no statement of regret to you or any other individual for that. On the off chance that others had developed the boldness to be as strong and blunt as I have been on national issues throughout the years we would not be in the chaos that we are in this nation.
You set out to address me about northerners and I consider what number of you really know? I think about what number of you have ever battled for or guarded before?
I additionally think about what number of you have faced when they went too far? I have done both over a time of 27 years and it cost me beyond a reasonable doubt yet I have never shied far from it, whichever way, and I will keep on doing so. I have additionally lived in the north throughout the previous 13 years.
Our common companion Nasir El Rufai regularly cautioned me about you yet I never listened to him. Presently you have demonstrated him right and all since you need to satisfy your outside and freshly discovered northern companions.
Tragically your good news of pacification no matter what is shared by numerous innocent souls who originate from the same town as you however that does not imply that we ought to permit you to taint whatever is left of the south with it.
That submissive outlook and bold conclusion has conveyed much enduring to the general population of the south-west and south-south and it is one reason why we settled on the wrong decision about which side to battle on amid the common war.
We will never commit that error again on the off chance that it ever comes to it regardless of how hard fence-sitters and appeasers like you attempt.
The more our kin are slaughtered and our places of worship are blazed in the noth the more we will challenge and stand up. Also, the more we will oppose it and caution the radical islamists of the center muslim north together with the Fulani herdsmem from damnation to halt from their lethal and genocidal ways.
Not by any means 100 million Reno Omokiri's can prevent us from doing that and neither would they be able to make us adore those that perpetrate these deplorable wrongdoings.
You are gushing the kind of claptrap that you are hurling here about how awesome the center north is despite the fact that a huge number of southerners, Middle Belters and christians are butchered without a moment's notice in that same center north for no worthwhile motivation every day. They even come down toward the south in their thousands with their bovines to do it nowadays.
Perhaps you ought to get back home and see what is truly going ahead here as opposed to composing those incredible hostile to government articles from the relative wellbeing of Califiornia.
In the event that you can assemble the valor to do that you will find that political accuracy is an exceptionally costly extravagance which we basically can't manage.
A few of us are right here and we have declined to flee from the underhanded that has held the area notwithstanding when we had each chance to do as such.
If you don't mind attempt to do likewise then maybe we may consider you more important. Several your kindred Niger Deltans and southerners are mulling in prisons everywhere throughout the nation today basically on the grounds that they bolstered a southern Christian called President Jonathan amid the race yet you hsve not wanted to visit any of them.
Have you ever connected with their families or attempted to safeguard them out? Have you been to the correctional facilites and cells to offer them give it a second thought or uplifting statements and consolation?
Have you even gone there to appeal to God for them and express solidarity with them? Warimpa Dudafa your previous associate at the Villa has been there for more than 150 days now.
Have you gone to see him? Shouldn't something be said about Ikime and Robert when they were there? Shouldn't something be said about all the others? The answer is no on the grounds that I have inquired.
However you were in the last government with them and numerous others yet you couldn't remain in solidarity with them when they required you the most. What's more, in the event that you did you demanded doing as such from a protected separation. It is a disgrace.
At that point you have the nerve to discuss "southerners" committing an error about northerners in a slandering and stooping way. What a nerve you have!
Your snide statement about the BBC and the other universal radio stations being "guileless too" is nothing under idiotic.
In all actuality you are the credulous one. Only you and not them. On the off chance that you truly trust the trash that you composed here then you are innocent as well as perilously gullible and far more idiotic than I first suspected.
I say this in light of the fact that the legislatures that own and control the BBC, the Voice of America and the others know precisely what they are doing.
On the off chance that lone you knew the historical backdrop of government in Africa and to be sure the Third World and how it developed and if just you were fit for welcoming the truth of neo-imperialism and history of the African individuals you would be in a superior position to fathom and comprehend what I am stating.
In the event that lone you recognized what we as a people in Nigeria and Africa endured in the hands of the western colonialists throughout the most recent 100 years you would welcome this mediation as opposed to endeavoring to treat it with scorn just to inspire your companions at Facebook and in California.
It is the naivity and lack of awareness of individuals like you that has placed us in the wreckage we are in today and that has put us firmlyl under the burden of our intetnal provincial experts.
I ask you to keep on attempting to mollify those that see you and those that think like you don't as anything more than celebrated monkeys and perceive how far it gets you.
Concerning Mark Zuckerberg he may do whatever he satisfies with Facebook on the grounds that he claims it. In the last examination it makes no difference to me.
Like I said before, he is qualified for his perspectives. I have no issue with that and neither if you or him have any issue with mine.
It is just in your peculiar Warri vocabulary that contradicting somebody or not imparting that individual's insight is commensurate to "censuring" him.
I am certain that he is extremely content with you for endeavoring to guard him here yet unquestionably you could have improved occupation than you.
Continue composing basic papers against the administration from California or wherever you are on the grounds that it is far simpler for you to do as such from that point.
Those of us that are here and that are rocker pundits and political observers as well as that are really in the brawl of governmental issues will proceed with this battle right here in the battlefield: and dissimilar to others we won't run and stow away in Mark Zuckerberg's California.
My respects to your family.
Omokri reacts to FFK
Dear Olufemi Olu-Kayode
Much thanks to you for your last reaction.
Since it has achieved the phase where you are disturbed with me, I think it is best to let it be. Give us a chance to settle on a truce without being bothered by each other. I have said all I have to say on the matter of Mark Zuckerberg's depiction of the Hausa dialect as being one of a kind. also, I have heard all you need to say. Express gratitude toward God we are both maintaining Christ adherents and are in this manner acquainted with the inform concerning Saint Paul in 2 Timothy 2:24 "the worker of the Lord must not endeavor; but rather be delicate unto all men, able to educate, persistent."
I trust that love is superior to anything flawlessness. I keep up my loving love for you to the detriment of flawlessness in my contention.
Incidentally, I was in Nigeria two weeks prior. I lectured at Holyhill Church, Abuja. The minister Sunday Ogidigbo advanced my visit. In the event that I was a quitter as you claim and was talking from the wellbeing of California, why might I visit Nigeria after my solid and exceptionally open feedback of the present organization?
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