After unlawful use of Federal might to seize political control of Rivers State through unlawful and fraudulent Local Govt elections, Tinubu announces the end of his military take over of Rivers State through the unconstitutional removal of the Governor of Rivers State in the name of declaration of a State of Emergency on that State.
Tinubu is glaringly making it unsafe for Nigeria to continue to exist as one country with a single President. After Tinubu, except you have a gentle, law abiding and conscientious character like Obi to rebuild trust in political leadership, Nigerians may never again trust anyone as President. Tinubu has made the Presidency to be at the risk of others outside of the ethnic group of the President or his party.
Nigerian presidency under Tinubu has become a very dangerous enterprise for Nigerians. He calls it exercise of power. The flip side is that Nigerians risk all, including their lives, when they allow anyone outside of their ethnic group to be sworn in as President. We don’t know for how long Nigerians are going to subject themselves to this until they decide that they have had enough.
Unfortunately, as usual, the judiciary turned a cold shoulder when Tinubu overthrew the Constitution in Rivers State and subjected the people to his own dictatorship in order to unlawfully seize political control of the State in breach of Federal structure of Nigeria that guarantees a level of autonomy at the State level. That structure guaranteed a level of safety from adverse political power by the centre, which may not be in the control of someone from the particular state or their ethnic group. That is the fundamental term of the unwritten agreement under which Nigerians agreed to live as one country.
Tinubu has trampled that agreement under foot and created a situation where no one in Nigeria is safe from adverse exercise of political power even in his own kitchen. Nations don’t blow up in a day. It is usually a series of thoughtless actions by state institutions and political leaders, until the last straw.
Nigeria needs the healing hands of a trusted and selfless Peter Obi to restore trust in the institutions of the State or there may soon be no more Nigeria. How can there be a Nigeria if the people do not trust either the politicians or the judges?
