Here’s an interesting article written by Femi Aribisala on the logo and
signature broom used by the All Progressives Congress, read below:
Both Christians and Muslims must reject outright the strange spirit that
the APC, in its lust for power, has imported into Nigeria.
On 27th November, 2014, at the inauguration of Rauf Aregbesola as
second-term governor of Osun State, Senator Bola Tinubu, National Leader
of the APC, asked Nigerians to prepare their charms and other juju
powers for the 2015 elections. Present on that occasion were the big
guns of the APC, including now President Muhammadu Buhari, former party
chairman Chief Bisi Akande and APC state governors.
Why would Tinubu, a practicing Muslim, ask people to seek occult powers
in order to prevail in elections? Why would Yemi Osinbajo, a Christian
pastor, later a$$ociate with a political party whose leadership dabbles
in the occult?
Nigerians are a deeply religious people, whether Christian or Moslem.
Both faiths believe in the Lord God Almighty. Neither permits resort to
witchcraft. However, Hosea warns: “My people are destroyed because they
have no knowledge.” Could it be that APC members and Nigerians at large
are unaware of the cultist foundations upon which the party is built?
Cultic broom
The broom symbol of the ACN was later adopted as the logo of the APC
with the coalition of the legacy parties. Millions of brooms were bought
by APC supporters during the 2015 election campaigns, to the delight of
broom-sellers. These were then brandished lavishly during the election
rallies.
Ordinarily, the broom is a powerful and effective symbol for a political
party. In practical everyday life, brooms are used to sweep away dirt.
It is therefore appropriate for a political party, especially one in
opposition, to use it as a symbol of its determination to sweep away the
government in power and clean up the filth and corruption in Nigerian
society.
However, the broom is also a witchcraft symbol believed by the cultist
to provide the power to rise above the earthly plane and to soar in the
spirit realm. In the West, brooms are a$$ociated with witches visualized
as hags who fly through the air on broomsticks. These witches use their
cultist brooms to sweep away their traces to avoid detection.
Herbalists use the broom to invoke the spirit of the dead. The broom is
used as a gate or door before a ritual space. A witch draws a magical
circle, enters it, and then places the broom over the doorway as a means
to keep out unwanted energies or people.
Bad luck
There is sufficient evidence to indicate that the APC employed the broom
as an instrument of witchcraft and superstition during the 2015
elections. What is cultist about the APC broom is the way and manner it
is displayed. The APC broom is held up and not down. It is held above
the head and then waved in the air. This gives it a hidden meaning not
generally recognised.
In the occult, when brooms are waved in the air, they have the opposite
effect of cleaning up dirt; they spread dirt. When waved in the air,
brooms pour dirt on our heads. This makes it sinister that the APC chose
this very gesture as its definitive slogan.
In this part of the world, it is considered taboo for men especially to
raise the broom above the head. To do so is to invoke evil spirits. With
the broom raised everywhere during the campaigns, the APC used it to
cast a spell on Nigerians. Many are just beginning to wake up from this
spell after 100 days of a do-nothing Buhari administration.
In Yoruba folklore, it is a bad omen for the broom to stand erect; it
must lie on the ground. The taboo is that if it stands erect, it will be
used by evil spirits to bring bad luck. The occult design here was
fitted for APC elector*l purposes. The party used its cultist broom to
sweep away good luck from Nigeria in the person of Goodluck Jonathan.
This means its success at the polls portends a bad omen for Nigeria.
Witchcraft mumbo-jumbo says if you sweep out the room occupied by an
unwelcome guest immediately after his departure, you will prevent him
from returning. Therefore, after President Jonathan and the PDP finished
their political rally at the polo ground in Kano in April 2015, the APC
Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso; his deputy, Dr. Abdullahi Umar
Ganduje, and some members of governor’s cabinet came out with brooms to
sweep the grounds. This shows they believed in the cultist powers of
their logo and invoked it on the president.
Generational curses
In India, from where APC borrowed this hocus pocus, the mother goddess
who waves the broom is called Shitala. This Hindu siren has several
hands and is a$$ociated with quite a number of debilitating ailments,
many not immediately apparent. At first, the broom would seem to meet
all of our deepest longings. But, sooner than later, its devastating
side-effects would emerge.
The broom is united at the bottom and this would seem to signify unity.
However, it is scattered at the top, which spells disunity. With the
scattered end waved in the air, the APC broom portends disunity for
Nigeria, both at the party and at the national level.
With Buhari now at the helm, Nigerians have witnessed a lot of squabbles
within the APC. Attempts to paper over the cracks are illusory. More
ominous is President Buhari’s emergence as a sectional ethnic leader.
His blatantly lopsided political appointments, designed to make the
South a colony of the North, poses great threat Nigerian unity.
This should not come as a surprise. When you employ the broom goddess to
sweep away your opponents, she also sweeps away your national image,
your honour, strength, peace and independence as a nation.
Bad omen
By electing the APC into power, Nigerians inadvertently accepted the
rule of the broom goddess. Unless a conscious effort is made to reject
this evil spirit, it will prevail over our national affairs in the next
four years. This will bring fruitless hard labour. People will work like
jacka$$es and eat like ants. Holes will be burnt in pockets. Lives will
be wasted needlessly.
The broom goddess brings emptiness and restlessness. She provides broken
cisterns that cannot hold water. There will be no peace in the country
and the people will reject the truth.
Indeed, the 100 days of APC government have been characterized by lies,
more lies and broken promises. Nigeria has gone from go-slow to
standstill. The currency has declined; the oil price has nose-dived;
Boko Haram killings have multiplied. It is increasingly obvious that
Nigerians were hypnotized and hoodwinked by the APC in the 2015
elections.
National redemption
It is not enough to claim disbelief in the power of the darkness.
Witchcraft is real. If it were not, many would not subscribe to it and
appeal to it. However, cultist power is far inferior to the power of
God. This means the occult should not just be ignored; it must be
resisted; otherwise its attendant evils will prevail. Therefore, those
of us who believe in God must be strong in the Lord and in the power of
his might.
Both Christians and Muslims need to fast and pray and take a stand. We
must reject outright the strange spirit that the APC, in its lust for
power, has imported into Nigeria.
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