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TONY ABOLO

As I was contemplating both the title and content of this article, the twin cancer problems of Nigeria got a surgery from an unanticipated source to deal with the scourge. As far as rational and patriotic Nigerians conceive of how to move the country forward, Tinubu and Wike are the intractable problems of Nigeria. Tinubu is fixated on his lifelong ambition of being a life president via 2027, with the rofo-rofo aid of Wike. Wike is unrelenting on being an enfant terrible.

How can the Nation progress with one man forever looking into his unbiblical cord, which is tied to his ambition to return in 2027 and hoping to summersault in the style of Rwandese Kagame, Uganda’s Museveni and Cameroon’s Paul Biya’s forever on the throne, such that he can be on the pipe sucking the juice of the commonwealth, and humouring himself with lack of governance and forever telling us, the coast will soon be clear.
How can we endure merely the seasons of elections only to be forever in the cusp of elections and in between, no governance, in any shape or form. He loves to be deceived by his sycophants who tell him that his utterances, far from being policy statements and positions are working. And why not as far as he is concerned.

They distribute and redistribute GCFR and CFR honors in a capricious way to Nigerians least deserving of such honors. Palliatives packaged as “gifts” or “programmes” which are forever schemed to assuage the undiscerning. Take NELFUND. What is that in aid of? Universities, students, parents or the education system? Whatever happened to bursaries and scholarships which had structures honed steadily from the past? What about jerking up the pay, “allawee” of corpers, at a time you needed to get them set to vote in 2027? What about giving Federal and Supreme Court judges a 300% raise when it is not being done across the judiciary or throughout the Federal Civil service? Was it all for a job well done or in anticipation for a future endeavour? Oh, lest I forget, there is a youth conference which is intended to distract the youths for thirty days in a talkshop that would produce nothing, but nonetheless stuff the future young 2027 voters with enough “grease” to make them see. See what? A saviour? Whatever happened to the 2014 CONFAB REPORT DECISIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS? Who but Tinubu needs a thirty days youth uninformed and unresearched inputs into his agenda. For him anything and everything can stop, while the 2027 agenda and the post 2031 years are the main drive. Are we being served? Does he care?

At a time the government needs every revenue, in a scatter brain mode, VAT and other taxes on 67 or so items are being relaxed. And while these are being relaxed, it is that we forget the twin evil of foreign exchange merger and fuel subsidy removal. But the genie is out of the bottle. Inflation is raging. VAT relax is merely a panic measure for want of an organized economic management.

Like the eternal rice, corn, guinea corn palliatives, nothing can ease the inflation rate that exploded with “fuel subsidy is gone” and unless every recklessness that proceeded from it, and the unrelenting profligacy that accompanied it, the fiery storm will not abate. And unless he excuses himself or his raw ambition that has nothing to do with our lives, nothing will save Nigeria.

At the sidelines of all these shenanigans are the firming of unnecessary Ministry of Livestock, a duplication of schedules with the Ministry of Agriculture and Veterinary Services. If you ask anyone who should know, a non essential new/old National Anthem, purchase of SUV’s with 600 million naira each for parliamentarians, renewal of Dodan Baracks, a reconstruction of VP’s residence at 21 billion Naira, a ten million naira yacht, a 150 billion presidential aircraft…. all these at a time when Nigerians are hungry, poor and angry!!!. Can anyone say that President Tinubu does not exactly know the dangerous place he is putting not only Nigerians but himself as well?
Egged on by his impunity, Ganduje is in the know of the drama of two Emirs in Kano, an incendiary fire being set for 2027, and his boy”Friday” is being primed to build nonexistent “structures” in Rivers state in order to deliver Rivers in 2027, having achieved their nefarious aim of installing two unwanted babies in Edo state, as a consequence of a rigged election and now comes the coup de grace for Nigerians.

Fubara the needlessly embattled Governor of Rivers state, buffeted on all sides by a narcissistic and a megalomaniac Nyesom Wike, out of the blues deftly and silently, he puts a knife into the heart of Tinubu’s plan to “own Rivers state” and into the jugular of Nyesom Wike whose war cry is “structure” of Rivers state. What Nigerians have been praying for, a deliverance from the unending destabilizing ambition of Tinubu towards 2027 and the nuisance of Nyesom Wike was delivered to us on a platter on 5th October 2024. Two cancerous problems solved with a local government election held in Rivers state where APP won 22 out of 23 local government councils. As it stands, where is PDP? And where is Nyesom Wike and his unending “structure” cry and his vacillation dribbles between his two legged race, with one in APC and another in PDP? How on earth can someone who is a President, who claims he superintends over Nigeria tolerate a former Governor Wike in destabilizing his former state without cause and who won’t allow Kano to stabilize and who seem to have permitted the destabilization of the peace and progress of Edo state and now actively seeks to use the same template to destabilize Ondo and Anambra forthcoming elections? Like we say in pidgin, no be juju be dat?

Where does Tinubu stand with his grand design? Have you seen where a Federal court gives a judgement over and above a Supreme Court except in a lawless country like ours? Where do INEC and Police collude with a ruling party to the detriment of law and order as has happened in Rivers State?
It is time to rewrite the rubrics of the cannons of order in the army and the police. How can the old colonial order still be in the books where the Crown is above the people? Where is sovereignty? Tinubu is a Nigerian, a Nigerian President under the law!! The police or the army are to be subject to the people; to the sovereignty of the people, and not subservient to one man and one man’s ambition and dictates. Sovereignty belongs to the people. It is time we returned to law and order. Wike has overplayed his hands and Tinubu who relied on Wike for a 2027 “under his arm”, has been outplayed. He needs to redraw his plans apart from the onslaught of the opposition, Kano and other angry Nigerians. The surgery as performed by Governor Fubara has gotten Nigerians, health and pe ace. Democracy belongs to the people. The best blow to the “invincible” Goliaths has been delivered, Rivers will never return to the cancer of slavery. Nor Nigeria!!!!