President Tinubu denied the claim by the late Yinka Odumakin that his real name was Ogunlere. Ironically, Nigeria would achieve unparalleled economic development and prosperity, if only President Tinubu could accept this positive essence of Ogun, especially since his official birthday month is that of Ogun/Aries. Instead of the First Lady Remi Tinubu organizing a National Day of Prayer to address hunger, Yorubas say Ori ni ka koko bo, ki a to bo Orisa, spiritually align with your Ori (head/spiritual essences) before aligning with a deity.
This is not about religious beliefs but African spiritual sciences. Essences are inborn and can’t be denied, so it’s up to individuals to choose whether to employ them for collective Good or Bad – Ogunlere who brings prosperity with Ogun essences OR Ogundabede, the king of thieves, who pillages and ruins the land, in the Odu Ifa of Ogunda (Ogun) and Ogbe (leadership). The choice is that of the individual and the reward (esan) is based on natural laws of retributive justice.
Our African knowledge systems explain the world simpler and points us to obvious prosperity, through its cyclical philosophy and spiritual sciences encoded in the sixteen sector knowledge bank, academically known as the African Information Retrieval System, known as Ifa (Yoruba)-Afa (Igbo)-Iha(Edo)-Fa(Igala)-Efa(Delta) etc. Much older and better than Eurasiatic linear knowledge systems that spread across Africa through war, to mentally enslave us and imbue self-destructive thinking that makes us act like zombies, whose rulers could just decide to suck blood out of our economy by stopping production subsidies in energy and currency markets.
Our ancestors were geniuses to have conceptualized the world in Orisas/Agbara/Alusis as philosophical and spiritual concepts that aptly explained the world from the formation of our solar system to present sociopolitical and economic existence. The sun/Orunmila is called the Eleri Ipin, the witness of the breakup of the Solar Nebula into the Sun and planets that revolved around it, with each emitting different philosophical and spiritual essences – Esu/Mercury (knowledge), Venus/Osun (love), Earth/Oduduwa (leadership), Mars/Ogun (energy), Jupiter/Obatala (civilization/prosperity), Saturn/Obaluaye (structure), Uranus/Shango (Justice), Neptune/Olokun (consciousness) and Pluto/Oya (revolutionary change).
The essences and interrelationships of these Orisas from the beginning are still reflected in our current situation of Tinubu administration. These essences are exhibited in the lives of everything depending on their placement at our birth, with every Orisas essence having both good and bad, exhibited in different forms. Obasanjo, with strong Obaluaye/structure essences at birth and name, firmed up Nigeria structure with Civil War victory and reinstated democratic structures in 1979 and 1999. Azikwe/Jonathan with Oya/revolution essence, though had revolutionary intents were brought down with engineered negative Oya essences of excessive greed/corruption. Awolowo’s Olokun consciousness and empathetic essences bred long lasting social welfarism followership. Buhari’s strong Obatala essences were exhibited through his Afroasiatic Abrahamic irredentism, and now Tinubu, the archetype of Ogun that smashed and grabbed power.
Ogun is the essence of life force, initiating actions, work and war. Like Mars the red planet, Ogun is represented by the color red/rust. As human beings, it is our life force since our blood is made up of iron that carries oxygen and nutrients throughout the body. As we evolved, Ogun Lakaye cleared the paths to facilitate migration across the world, the first being Ogun and Ojo, Oduduwa of Ife Ooyelagbo first son that opened up the Delta, with Ojo later corrupted to Ijo/Ijaw. Civilization started with humans settling down in an area to farm with Ogun tools. Later migrations out of Ife led Igala and Igbos to the rich sources of iron, Ogun around Ajaokuta-Lokoja-Onitsha axis, where Igbos developed a huge trade in iron tools.
Due to their bountiful environment, indigenous Africans didn’t weaponize iron to seize control of other peoples resources. It was Eurasians of freezing arid wildernesses from 2000BC, armed with bows, arrows and swords with horse chariots that were to smash, grab and takeover the tens of thousands year older global Black civilization. They became the true Ogundabede that stole peoples land and used their blood to bath, Ogun a lomi le feje we. In 1270, they devised the gun to first free Europe from Arab control, then entered Africa to cart away millions of Africans to farm in American plantations. Makers of guns also made handcuffs to capture slaves, battleships were easily switched to carry slaves to America, and their produce to Europe, thereby creating a new global Ogun economic system, which evolved to laying iron as railways to move slave produce to ships. With Ogun laid across the land as railways, people devised and smelt it into different functions to maintain and extend it, giving birth to industrialization. The Palm oil used to lubricate Ogun iron farm tools evolved to fuels and oils.
Despite the prosperity brought by the new iron production systems of railways and skyscrapers, there was a glut and high overheads that inspired the production of weapons that later became consumer goods, forming an Industrial Military complex. The First World War enabled the development of mass production facilities for armour cars that later converted to passenger cars. The Second World War was fought with new fighter jets whose production facilities converted to passenger aeroplanes, while the Cold War between CIA, KGB and other intelligence services led to turning the 16×16 electronic bits of Ifa into 256 bit computer technology, currently the global economic growth driver.
Across the Northern hemisphere, Ogun brought prosperity, Ogunlere to the peoples, while they continued Ogundabede in wars abroad. Unfortunately, the colonization of the indigenous African civilization led to the derailing of our knowledge systems, like those of Ogun that could make us productive, Ogunlere, leaving us with a psycho-culturally derailed political class of Ogundabedes. The most popular slave merchant, Madam Efunroye Osuntinubu had used her Osun (love/beauty) essences to besot Oba Adele to enable her build an Ogundabede slave economy, dropping the Osun behind Osun-Tinubu. After Oba Adele’s death, to sustain her grip Efunroye (Obatala/civiliational leadership) installed successive Obas Dosunmu, Oluwole and Akitoye in Lagos, the frontier of the slave coast, until the British banished her and colonized Lagos in 1861.
At the exact point of the Olokun 165 year cycle of consciousness leadership, Bola Tinubu rose to power in Lagos after besotting Afenifere, the moral and sociopolitical leadership. His true identity was disputed of being Ogunlere and not Tinubu. It appeared that he had left the positive side of Ogun to join the Ogundabedes of Lagos, where he was to use Efunroye essences to hold power, arresting its economic development for the last 24 years, surpassing Madam Efunroye covetousness of power and land. A real Ogun by birth and by lineage either by adoption or real.
On becoming President, he shunned Ogun’s positive traits like Ogunlana, the Pathfinder to prosperity with import substitution and industrialization polices, that will inspire an Ogun lakaye global economic prosperity. As an Ajagungbade that usurps power with force, he couldn’t but exhibit Ogun’s negative trait of Ogundabede, ‘Ogun alomi le feje we’, an Ogun that uses blood to bath, by declaring subsidy is dead, spilling the blood of our economy. The reason for removing the Production energy subsidies, misidentified as consumer subsidies, was that it was costing too much foreign currency, with Fuels and oils accounting for 33% and cars accounting 21% of our import bill. An Ogunlere would have enabled local refineries to refine cheap petrol for a productive economy, but the Ogundabede team of thieves sabotage our local production. Instead of making all government tiers buy only locally produced cars, they import luxury cars for themselves.
An Ogunlere, and not Ogundabede T-Pain, must build 5000 kilometers of rail grid to spur growth in heavy manufacturing that would provide good paying jobs, and three million houses every year to pass wealth to the masses and fuel growth of the durable consumer goods. With Ogundabede, the cost of governance will continue to rise and the peoples blood squeezed through taxes, devaluation and other T-Pain policies.
Whatever he chooses, the universe is based on karma cycles of life. The Odu Ifa of Ogundabede tells of karmatic repercussions. In the chart of life, we have Oya, the revolutionary change agent with the Oguns forcefulness but with morality. Oya’s 250 years cycle of winds of change will blow from 2024 till 2043 like it did back in late 1700s in USA, France and Haiti, bringing the end of our physical slavery. Our Olokun consciousness that started the current Ogundabede colonialism for 165yrs is bound to change by 2025. Just as Shango, the 84 year essence of Justice will also change in 2025. The dawn of a new era will challenge the Ogundabede perspective violently if care is not taken to make Ogunlere. Pastor RAT please take note!
Prince Justice J Faloye, author of The Blackworld Evolution to Revolution, President ASHE Foundation think tank and Afenifere National Publicity Secretary.
