By Basil Okoh
What President Tinubu is doing now to the Niger Delta, he will not hope to do in his own region, the South-West. He is organizing a hostile and violent political takeover of the region, not minding the consequences or the possibilities for violence in the region. And the politicians who hope to benefit from the travesty and abuse of power in their own region, are urging him on.
Tinubu is hoping to make up with Southern votes, what he stands to lose in the North. So he is planning a violent political takeover of the South-South region and the politicians of the region are left helpless or forced to join him in the rape and abuse of their own people and region. But we do know that the plan, no matter how well made or elaborate, will come to nought as a third force will rise to win the embrace of the people and neutralize the plan of President Tinubu. It will happen, just like the last time.
Bola Tinubu is showing the region such utter disrespect, encouraged by renegades like Adams Oshionhole, Godswill Akpabio, Nyesom Wike and even Sheriff Oborevwori. Tinubu will not dare to do elsewhere, particularly in Yorubaland or the North, what he’s doing today in the deep south, sacking the Rivers governor illegally and forcing others to come to him or else. He cannot implement the same smash and grab election unleashed on Edo State anywhere in Yoruba land. He could not forcefully take Osun state even as sitting President.
He could not dare or he would have had a political crisis far worse than “operation wetie” in his hands to consume him. Even in his claimed Lagos state, there is a groundswell of forces rising to counter his hegemony in 2027 by the indigenous peoples of Lagos.
Because he has seized the economy of the Niger Delta, has such low regard for its politicians and because they sucker up to him, he lost respect for the voters who threw up such losers and groveling scum that do not deserve his respect. So he is planning to implement a scorched earth policy to take over the region where votes won’t count but results announced just as it happened for him in Rivers state in the 2023 presidential election.
Though it worked to his favour and made him president, Bola Tinubu lost his respect for Niger Delta from that Rivers encounter, as he himself confessed, it couldn’t happen anywhere else in Nigeria.
We will keenly await the activation of Tinubu’s master plan against our people and region as he blackmails and railroads the governors of the Niger Delta into APC and makes the entire region his footstool.
@basilokoh.
