RESPONSE TO DEACON TASSANG
October 19, 2020
Thanks for your very long letter. For being jailed because of your stance and our collective freedom l will forever remain indebted in gratitude and will continuously fight for your freedom. Last week I advised you privately to adopt the status of a statesman. A statesman bats for the general good even when his preference and affiliations are known. You can always do both. Speak for Ambazonia but be a member of an organization.
Each time I read from you I get a deep sense of anger and betrayal in you. What really happened in Nigeria and whatever is going on amongst you people in jail is a mystery to many. Your latest sermon touched on some issues which requires some background information. I know most of you who were in Nigeria will never forgive the AGOVC. The AGOVC refused to be tricked. We refused to be manipulated to legitimize a fraud. We refused to be used for an agenda that was hidden. On the other hand, you sold the Consortium for your personal political gains. Have you so easily forgotten that the Consortium was a Coalition of different organizations? You singlehandedly decided its fate through a distorted understanding of what unity is all about. Did you listen to the protest of different Consortium organisations? What did you get in return? Secretary General of SCACUF and deputy education secretary of an illegal government. But that was not the worse part. You sat in a government you did not believe in or approve of. You sat in but showed no loyalty to that government. You betrayed the Consortium and still betrayed the IG. The AGOVC is an organization of integrity. We don’t play games. We don’t play platitudes. What we say is what we mean and what we commit to is what we will honor and execute. Today, what was once a powerful organization that instituted the Monday ghost towns is now just a shadow of itself. John Mbah Akuroh has been handed a blank cheque to salvage a wrecked ship while you have long gone for the next adventure. What happened to the SCNC, the mother Council of our struggle? Pa Nfor handed it over. Each day that the SCNC was in the IG Pa Nfor never stopped crying. Why did he not walk away? At least he kept his integrity and accepted nothing in return. Kometa took his own part and sold it away. You sold your integrity and became a vessel for the greatest confusion in our liberation history. Today your eyes have opened but your brain still diluted. Yesterday, instead of strengthening the Consortium and building bridges you sold it in Zaria. You are so angry that according to you everyone who refused to board that plane is an enemy. You have now hired another Plane. The untrained pilot is Sako Ikome. You are now asking us again to abandon our organizations and board your new plane. You don’t have the humility to explain why. We should simply board it.
Finally, you have never listened to anyone until it’s too late. God also speaks to you in Arabic and that takes time to translate. Mr Tassang. You were the chief negotiator with LRC when we told you it will not work. You said your interest was to reform its educational system. For you and others, the history of our resistance started in 2016. You all wanted to ride the wave of populism. It took much pressure to move you and others to believe in the right of our people to be free.
When your Liberty was at risk you jumped into the nationalist ship and insisted you and your friends must be the captain. But that was not enough. You also insisted that SCNC,SCYL and AGOVC must go under you people or ceased to exist. The AGOVC rejected that arrogance and that has been its crime for the past four years. An unprecedented deadly surrogacy was unleashed to destroy everyone who opposed you people. Instead of being a voice for reason, a statesman to bring our people together, whatever Sisiku promised you people and failed will not stop the anger. From Chief Priest of the Zaria Mafia to the warlord of the Maryland Cartel. Consortium has been forgotten. Ambazonia is no longer an agenda. Whatever Sisiku promised you people does not concern us. I have been to Nigeria on your invitation. I flew to Washington on Sako’s invitation. I was in New York on the coalition’s invitation. Has any of you ever honored mine? Sako addressed the AGOVC Cabinet. Has he ever invited me to address his? When Sisiku was visiting Europe I was treated like a street boy. Do I owe you people anything? Does the AGOVC owe you people?
I begged you people to simply allow us to design a system of collaboration that was sustainable and productive. I was given an ultimatum. I ordered the elimination of terrorist. An apology was sent. I questioned the rationale behind being hurried into negotiations without adequate preparations. The AGOVC and ADF were banned and a secret mission payed for to eliminate me. You people declared that we don’t exist. We did not respond. I was attacked in London. You and I never responded. Yaoundé has told your so-called ACT that they cannot negotiate for Ambazonia. AGOVC can negotiate alone and it has the power to cause the implementation of any agreed upon premise. That power is not in the ADF. It is in a strategy.
I have bad news for you. And read this carefully. I don’t make threats against our own people. I don’t threaten other organizations or leaders big or small. The AGOVC is the main airport. Gogh once wrote: If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Dr. Cho Ayaba
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