By Adewale Adeoye
It is dangerous to be Omoluabi in a jungle ruled by hawks,lions, mindless terrorists, soulless murderers and hyenas.
The British that violently conquered territories did not do so with Omoluabi. The Ottoman Empire that reigned didn’t adopt Omoluabi alone. Russian revolution was a mix of intelligent people, crooks and criminals. Israeli have abundance of murderers, sly, dangerous characters and even robbers that stole weapons and cash. Staking once coordinated many syndicates raising funds for the revolution. Castro led muddy men not clergymen.
Revolution is not a tea party, Chairman Mao warned us.
When your biggest asset is your biggest liability – the Jagaban army takes on the Obidents
To achieve self-determination, any serious people need the following characters:
1) Asinwin
2) Ehonna (someone like hyenas)
3) Digbolugi
4) Dandawi
5) Enu Yau (basket mouth)
6) Eranko Eniyan
7) Jawelura
8) Ipata
9) Lau Eniyan ( careless and reckless)
10) Omoluabi
11) Ologbon (wise person)
12) Asiwere
14) Ode ( fool)
15) Akinkanju
16) Oloyombere Eniyan (sly and deceitful)
17) Kebekebe eniyan
18) Amusua
If Awolowo group had not adopted Omoluabi alone, we would have been saved in the 1960s
Imagine, ordinary Abacha driving away a whole Prof Soyinka and Pa Anthony Enahoro.
Sun Tzu, the famous Chinese military expert of the acienr times warned of the consequences of leading a battle with only gentlemen.
Each of the above characters has strategic roles to play.
Our problem has been how to identify the role of each person and placing the right people at the right stand.
When the consortium is led by Ehonna, Digbolugi, Kebekebe, or Enu Yau, the struggle will suffer afflictions.
The important thing is for them to be led by Ologbon who has the wisdom to allocate each character to specific roles.
Ogendegbe and Latoosa were wise men both- they were also Akinkanju that led people of varying characters.
In their trainings, they studied the movement of animals as Training Manuals. The grandsons of Latoosa and Ogendegbe who are still alive told me this much.
The Yoruba war Generals studied the movement of animals in designing their military plans
A bevy of birds in straight convoy is danger, when in spiral upward rise, warning that the enemies were close; some specific hues of the squirrel indicated the presence of snakes in the jungle; the violent approach of buffaloes was a sign the enemy camp was bursting ahead; the subdued gaze of the Buffaloes, warned that the on coming enemies were in disarray; the encircling of a crowd of vultures indicate the enemies coming for brutal attacks while the consistenr cries their own dogs indicated the lives of men were at a great peril. The wood pecker violent knocks on the hard tree was a warning to the soldiers to decamp.
For instance, the role of Ode may be to walk on a place to know if there are mines, in the absence of mine sweepers while Ehonna is to cut off heads of adversaries without remorse and Enu Yau will be excellent in propaganda, Omoluabi in diplomacy, Akinkanju on the battlefield, Kebekebe is naturally for espionage while Oloyombere Eniyan is ideal for spying in enemy territory.
Every character in nature has their own potential. Being Omoluabi alone is counterproductive and self-destruct.
By Adewale Adeoye
