Dear Mentor, Royal Father,
My Mentor, My Royal Father, as I write this letter to you I do not know where you are now but i know that you know the reason behind my letter to you. As I am writing this letter, I have thousands of thoughts running through my mind. Through this letter I want to express my love to you and how Governor Umar Ganduje disgraced himself not you from your forefathers' throne.
My Royal Father, SANUSI LAMIDO SANUSI ( Muhammadu SANUSI II), I have been reading and watching your speeches before you ascend to the throne of your forefathers and even when you were occupying the position as Emir of Kano. For the past few weeks now i have being watching your speeches especially concerning the state of northern Nigeria. I was motivated and challenged by your speeches and i now know why the whole north ganged up against you by using Ganduje to dethroned you.
My Mentor you are a great asset not only to the north but to Nigeria.You are a well-informed person, erudite, cultured, Scholar, a person with great knowledge,well-educated, experienced, intelligent, sensible, well-rounded,brainy, lettered, quick-witted person.You are a blunt somebody, you criticized the state of the north and the educational backwardness of the northern Nigeria. You spoke out on government policies. You criticized the government of misplaced priorities.You condemned corruption and misgovernance among northern elites, you also condemned the polygamous nature and family planning in the northern Nigeria which has contributed greatly to poverty and insecurities in the north which did not go well with some northern elites. In one of your speeches you asked how do we defined sharia, and how do we defined Islam? Illiteracy? Malnutrition? children on the street, you said you people cannot ask those questions until they understand that people have to live well in this world to serve Allah in the hereafter. You also said "For Islam to prosper we need educated Muslims, we need Muslims that are not begging, and we need Muslims who are standing on their feet". You also warned that if poverty continue in the north, Islam would disappear from the region. You noted in one of your speeches that street children in the north are products of bad economic policies and wrong priorities, you asked a rhetorical question that what part of law, what part of the Quaran allows a father to give birth to a child and leave the child to go and fend for himself?, all these speeches did not go down well with northern elites who wants the region to remain poor and backward and this prompted them to ganged up against you to dethroned you.
My mentor, it is so unfortunate that you are born in a region where truth is sin, where fact is flaw, where naked truth is unjust, where they sees plain talk as falsehood. I am deeply saddened to see you being dethroned from your forefathers' throne because of saying the truth. You really portrays the kind of person you are, you are truly the synonym of integrity. I am telling you now my Royal Father that your contribution to the development of the north and Nigeria will remain indellible. I am sending this message to you to support you in the hope that it provides you in some small measure with reassurance and a degree of comfort that you are not alone in your valiant struggles to confront corruption and the social challenges bordering northern Nigeria. My Royal Father, I want to use this medium to appeal to you that you should not be disturbed by the circumstances surrounding your dethronement but head on with the fight to liberate not only the northern Nigeria but Africa as a whole. My Royal Father, don't be deterred by the roaring voice of the northern lions to wipe out corruption, inequalities, injustice, poverty etc in the northern Nigeria.
I look forward to your accepting this challenge and to your helping to create such a platform that you can lead towards the moral revolution that we so badly need and deserve.
I am wishing you the best.
AKINLABI OLATUNDE JOHN MAGNATE DIII BRIGHT.{Young Pan-africanist from Western Nigeria}


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