HomilyFromThePew

“The wind has blown, and the fowl’s rump is exposed.”

This time, it’s not just a proverb. It’s a verdict, a sobering one.

And it didn’t come from the Federal High Court in Abuja, or the Court of Appeal in Lagos.
It came from a courtroom in Canada.

What Did the Canadian Court Say?

Douglas Egharevba, a Nigerian man who had been a member of both the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) from 1999–2007 and the All Progressives Congress (APC) from 2007–2017, was denied permanent residency by a Canadian court presided over by Justice Sébastien Grammond

Why?
Because of his association with Nigeria’s political class, particularly the PDP, a party the Canadian court explicitly described as undemocratic and incompatible with the values of a free society.

Some commentators have tried to reduce the ruling to a PDP issue, arguing that APC wasn’t mentioned. But that is a puerile argument.

At the time of filing his immigration application, Egharevba was closer to APC than PDP.
So if PDP didn’t save him, why didn’t APC?
Let’s not rewrite history.
Let’s not defend dysfunction.

The One-Party Masquerade

Truth is, there is no real difference between APC and PDP.

They are two faces of the same coin, one pot, one broth, many labels.

📌 Five governors once broke away to form the “New PDP” and then joined forces with APC to unseat PDP in 2015.
📌 In Rivers State, an entire House of Assembly defected from PDP to APC, while their godfather remains in PDP, yet serves under APC leadership.
📌 Atiku Abubakar has migrated between both parties more than once and is reportedly eyeing a new platform.

These are not ideological transitions. They are transactions.

And this latest ruling is just a snapshot of the rot we’ve all normalized.

The Curriculum of Lies We Teach

This Has Been My Argument for Years

This is the heart of my advocacy, and has been for decades.

We cannot continue to pretend we practice democracy while we teach, model, and normalize anti-democratic behavior.

We must teach our reality.
We must stop borrowing definitions and curriculums that do not define us.

Now a foreign judiciary has echoed this truth:
Our political parties are not ideological institutions.
They are gangs of ballot manipulators and power mongers.

Yet in our schools:

✅We teach “Government” as if we live in Westminster.
✅We describe Nigerian elections without mentioning vote-buying, rigging, or judicial compromise.
✅We teach civic responsibility with no civic credibility.
✅We teach history, yet erase the real betrayals.

In Finland, the Ministry of Education is officially called the ‘Ministry of Education and Culture,’ signaling an understanding that educational curricula must flow from the soul of a people.

Here, we import content, definitions, and textbook lies that have no connection to Nigerian experience.

What the Canadian Verdict Really Says

The Canadian ruling is not just about immigration.
It is a prophetic indictment.

It declares that:

Our political methodology is faulty.
Association with Nigerian political parties can now render you inadmissible in a free society.
That is how degraded our political brand has become.

As any honest researcher will tell you:

“If the methodology is wrong, the findings are false.”
And if your politics stinks, your reputation travels, across oceans and borders.

The Real Curriculum We Need

We must urgently build:

A social and political dictionary grounded in African realities
A civic education curriculum rooted in Nigeria’s lived experience
A truth-telling framework for history, government, and leadership
Let us teach our children about:

✅Ballot theft
✅Ethnic baiting
✅Rigging and judicial compromise

Not to normalize them, but to equip them to reform the system.
If we teach from experience, we spark a revolution of awareness.

Biblical Insight

“They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.” Jeremiah 6:14 (NIV)

We’ve wrapped this nation’s wounds with imported bandages, but the rot seeps through.

Final Word: A National Rant, A Father’s Homily

There’s one more truth the Canadian ruling tells us:

It is no longer honorable to be a member of Nigeria’s political class.

You may get photo ops in Washington or London, but your name is a diplomatic red flag.

The West may collect your donations, but they no longer respect your platform.

Some may accuse me of being a Quisling…
But I’m no traitor.
I am a patriot.

I come not in bitterness, but in burden.
I speak as a father, a Nigerian, and a man who still hopes.

So I say again:

🔺 Let us stop performing democracy and start practicing justice.
🔺 Let us stop exporting shame and start confronting truth.
🔺 Let us stop teaching borrowed civics and start writing our own curriculum.

The Canadian wind has blown.
The skeletons are in full view.
Let the writing of truth begin, in our schools, our systems, and our souls.

Do have an INSPIRED week ahead with the family.

N.B.: In a related ruling, a Canadian court described the Nigerian Police Force as an “evil force”, and denied permanent residency to former Nigerian Police Corporal Iyangbe Eriator due to his association with that institution. I’ll explore this further tomorrow in a different format.