By Obinna Akukwe
The Soup Pot of Isa Pantami, Nigeria’s Minister of Communications
, has been a very effective in
Muslmi-Christian cross-faith evangelism to such extent that it caught
the attention of Femi Fani Kayode, Nigeria’s Chief Critic of Buhari Government
in an evangelistic coup against major Christian activist. It is better to
evangelize through a dinner table, soup pot and porridge tactics, the type
Pantami has just done, to FFK , chief defender of Christianity than
through riots, bloodshed and banditry, the type Boko Haram and elements of the
north have used for any years.
I
sa Pantami is a brilliant Muslim scholar , branded terrorist by many, whom I asked President Buhari to investigate in the wake of the terrorist accusations against him earlier in the year, in a controversial piece I wrote titled ‘Isa Pantami! Terrorist in Buhari’s Cabinet’
I hinted in the piece
that “though I do not know Pantami personally, but during the early menace of
Boko Haram, when I reported extensively both locally and extensively on the
activities of the terror group, I was told about an intelligent, scholarly,
digital minded Northerner at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University by the name Isa
Pantami. I was told this scholar is equally a Muslim fanatic. I don’t have a
problem with fanaticism, provided it does not impede on another person’s faith”
Pantami have proven to be the most dangerous Muslim fisherman in Nigeria, after his net caught the Adviser-in –Chief, Instigator-In –Chief, Whistle blower-In Chief and Mentor-In –Chief of NNandi Kanu, Sunday Igbogho and Indigenous Peoples of Biafra IPOB.
BY the time Fani Kayode held a fruitful discussions over Dinner
at Pantami’s Beautiful Home and enjoyed
the delicaces from his soup pot, that lasted I was told, from 8pm to 3am, it is
obvious that all the secrets of IPOB has been handed over to the Northern
establishment. Isa Pantami has proven to be a dangerous Evangelist. Bishop
Oyedepo opened twenty thousand churches in three years, and employed over
twenty five thousand pastors while Isa Pantami captured the Chief Spokesman of
Christianity in Nigeria.
Concerning the foolishness exhibited by IPOB, I had
stated in earlier piece titled ‘Fani-Kayode’s Treachery, IPOB’s Naivety and
Pantami’s Poridge’ that
“The alluring of Isa
Pantami’s porridge and the treachery of Femi Fani Kayode has exposed the
monumental naivety and tactlessness of IPOB and I have no apologies about my
views.
“In the wake of the avoidable arrest of the leader of Indigenous
Peoples of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu in Kenya, and the subsequent extraordinary
rendition legal jargons that has little place in international relations, IPOB
High Command listed some alleged Igbo traitors and changed the list about five
times.
“Originally Kenya based Iyke Mbaise,Senator Ifeanyi Ubah and Oil
Magnate Emeka Offor was in the list of those who betrayed Nnamdi Kanu. Later
the list included Ex-CBN Governor Charles Soludo, Governors Nyemson Wike(Rivers
), Hope Uzodimma(Imo )and Willie Obiano (Anambra ) were added. Minister of
Labour Chris Ngige and Anglican Archbishop of Enugu Emmanuel Chukwuma made the
list. This list was changed five times with names being added and deleted after
proper settlement, yet the Traitor-in -Chief by name Femi Fani Kayode did not
make the list until the man jumped ship and joined Buhari’s men in Aso Rock.
This is foolishness of the highest order”.
This is not a good time for the Christian faith because the
Pantami’s Dinner Table has proven more effective than all the over two hundred
thousand AK-47,and over 500 Rocket Propelled Grenades and Anti-Tank weapons
assembled by Boko Haram in the prosecution of an agenda which majority of
Muslims have rejected.
Pantami’s Dining Table and the soup pot has proven more effective than all the war
against Alcohol and Prostitutes instituted by Hisbah in Kano. Surely, Pantami
is an effective Muslim fisherman, and a good asset to the Northern
establishment. No wonder after my article, I received so many phone calls,
texts, messages and reactions from many Muslim scholars, Intellectuals and
Clerics who tried to educate me that Pantami is a perfect gentleman. Obviously,
it is a perfect gentleman that uses Dining Table to win over his followers, and
I have reason to agree with his defenders.
The last time I got such emotional response from Northerners was
in 2013 when I wrote the famous piece ’Boko
Haram Republic of Borno-Yobe: A Good Idea’ where I asked Jonathan
to create a Boko Haram Republic In Borno and let Nigeria study the model for
adaptability if it is able to curb corruption. I was both educated and attacked
by Borno elders for suggesting they should be under the government of Boko
Haram. Then intellectuals, clerics, politician of from Borno and Yobe northern
extraction inundated my mails and phones with explanations on how the Borno
Elders, despite religious affiliations, have united to ward off the terror
group.
After the defection of FFK, I knew why Pantami is a treasure to
the North.
His Dinner and Soup Pot tactics have proven more effective in
the evangelization of Islam than all the terrorist attacks of Boko Haram,
Criminal bandits and Sheikh Gumi. Isa Pantami has proven the most effective
Muslim in Nigeria.
Fani-Kayode is the number one enemy of Buhari, Fulani, Hausa,
Islam, Northern Establishment and APC ruling party. He convinced the populace
that Fulani are scavengers over their political space who must be bloodily
hounded back to Futa-Jallon. He called them Murderous, Evil, Blood Thirsty,
Wicked, and Beasts. He used worse name for Buhari, Nigeria’s President whom he
called an Islamist, Terrorist, Fundamentalist, Murderer and Vicious.
In 2015 he said concerning Buhari “We believe that it is a
struggle between light and darkness. We believe that General Buhari represents
the darkness and that President Jonathan represents the light. We believe that
General Buhari represents a return to an ugly past which is best forgotten
while President Jonathan represents our hope for a greater and better future.
We believe that the APC, on which platform General Buhari is contesting the
presidential election, represents everything that is unholy and unwholesome in
our society and that the PDP represents all that is decent and good”
In March 2017 he wrote on his Facebook page that
“The Buhari government is evil, weak, incompetent, sectional, bloodthirsty,
genocidal, wicked, divisive, mendacious and bereft of any integrity or
intellectual pretentions.
“This is a government whose sole intention is to turn non
Hausa-Fulani Nigerians into second class citizens and slaves.
“They protect the genocidal maniacs, the killers and the
aggressors and they persecute, torment and traumatise the victims of
aggression.
“Whether it be Agatu, Ile-Ife, Southern Kaduna, Enugu, Abia or
anywhere else the story is the same: the victims are locked up and the
murderous barbarians and savages that killed them are rewarded.
“The Buhari administration has come to do nothing but to kill,
steal and destroy. Under their watch more Shiite Muslims and Christians gave
been butchered than at any other time in our entire history outside the civil
war.
“They are a curse. They are an affliction. And the truth is that
they are worse than Hitler’s Nazis.”
While his curses lasted, Nigerians developed deep hatred for
Buhari that even some of his infrastructural achievements were swallowed up by
the heavy incitement. He had a wonderful soul mate in the person of Mazi Nnamdi
Kanu, leader of IPOB, Reno Omokri, former President Jonathan Aide on Social
Media and Senator Shehu Sani,.
Suddenly, after joining Pantami in the same plane to Buhari
son’s wedding, and eating dinner at the same wedding in Daura, the narrative
started changing. The repentance of Fani-Kayode was sealed at Pantami’s House
over plates of Tuwo Shinkafi, Tuwo Masara with Miyar Kuka and Miyar Wake. With
the addition of Jollof Rice with Miyan Taushe , with Kunu and Zobo nutritiously
prepared, with some Ram Suya for dessert, according to a close family source,
the Chief Spokesman of Christianity became a changed person and friend of the North,
What a fish.
Fani Kayode who had earlier described Pantami thus “He (Pantami)
is a religious bigot, an ethnic supremacist, an unrepentant jihadist, a lover
of bloodshed, carnage and terror and a psychopathic and clearly insane
individual,” he had said.
“Pantami is not fit to be a minister of the Federal Republic,
but he is also not fit to walk our streets freely.” but by the time the dinner
was over the narrative changed thus
“It was an honour and privilege for my friend and brother,
Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State and I to have been invited to dinner
at the beautiful home of my friend and brother, Professor Isa Pantami, the
Hon.Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, last night, “We were there
until the early hours of the morning, we had a wonderful time and we discussed
crucial national and international issues and the way forward.
“Thanks for having us my brother. Together we shall continue to
build bridges of peace, unity, love and understanding in our country, fight the
war against terror and restore the glory and greatness of Nigeria. Great things
lie ahead”
Isa Pantami is a dangerous fisherman. He has also proven to be
an attractive fisherman. He has converted the Chief Enemy of Islam, Fulani and
Northern establishment into his camp. He has done what Boko Haram cannot do. He
has collected all the secrets of IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu. Pantami has the secrets
of 56 million Nigerians in his briefcase all in the name of National
Identification Number. This NIN has not reduced the activities of bandits and
terrorists, but it has reduced the activities of enemies of Islam, Fulani,
Buhari, APC and increased murmurings in the camps of Christian leaders, Yoruba
Agitators leaders, Nigerian Activists and heartbroken IPOB.
That Fani Kayode chose dinner with Governor Matawalle of Zamfara
State, the man who threatened to unleash mayhem on Igbos if the killings of
Northerners in the South East are not stopped forthwith. Of course the killings
stopped not because of the threats of Matawalle but because of the intervention
of veteran Igbo Activists, including myself, who consistently cautioned and
kicked against the murder of innocent Hausa-Fulani or Northern Traders and
drivers seeking means of livelihood in the Igbo land.
Isa Pantami’s Dinner table which captured Fani Kayode , enemy of
Islam, North, Fulani and APC and the temptations from that salacious soup pot
is still ongoing.
( Rev Obinna Akukwe,
Cleric, Activist, is the Director General of Igbo Mandate Congress IMC, igbomandate@yahoo.com )
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