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The dilemma before our great nation’s Supreme Court with the US judgement directing the Chicago State University to release all records in its possession to HE Atiku Abubakar under oath can only be likened to a Yoruba age-long story about the Ifa priest and the queen.
The story goes thus: Once lived an aged king who married a young girl in compliance with the traditions of the land. As the years passed, it became apparent that the aged king might not be able to father a child with the young queen without some external “help”.
Concerned and eager to produce an heir, the young queen secretly approached the Ifa priest for advice and possibly some fertility concoctions. One thing led to another and the Ifa priest ‘helped’ the queen to conceive.
The aged king became suspicious knowing that the pregnancy could not have come from him, summoned his counsel of chiefs, everyone in his kingdom and then the ifa priest to consult the ifa (oracle and god of Justice) to reveal the truth.
The young queen quickly agreed to swear by the Ifa (oracle) because she knows that the priest is the only person and FINAL voice in the land who “hears, understand and can interpret” the message of the Ifa (oracle). The priest on the other hand, also knows that the punishment for “touching” a queen is death.
Like the counsel of chiefs and people of the kingdom, Nigerians are gathered to hear the message of the ifa (oracle and god of Justice) interpreted by the priest (Supreme Court) with the young queen (APC) standing with her hands on her well-formed stomach.
The only way justice can be served in this matter is that the Ifa MUST find it’s own voice, master the act of a universal language and address the people “directly” by taking control of the priests body. Only then can justice be served in this rape and abuse of our collective sensibilities by the shameless set of priests at the Presidential Election Petition tribunal on the 6th of September 2023.
Nigerians are waiting eagerly for the SC priests to summon the courage to say EXACTLY what the Ifa says, and NOT what they feel or assume the Ifa (Oracle) means or was planning to say. We hope that the SC priests will not conjure the usual incantations and miracle-induced speaking in tongues like the PEPT priests.
Nigerians are waiting and hoping that the Ifa will find its own voice, take over the body of the SC priests and speak truth to the people of the land.
Justice is all we seek.
Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Olaolu Fagbemi
From the UK.
