Editorial

Nigeria in distress: Why blame Tinubu?

Published

2 years ago

January 31, 2024

Did Bola Tinubu at anytime during the pendency of his quest or the campaigns for the 2023 presidential election project himself as possessing the capacity to run Nigeria? If yes, at what point? Was it at the campaign grounds that were suffused at each point with some melodramas that at the best presented the audience and Nigerians in general with some comic reliefs and at the worst, foretold the impending doom his possible presidency could conduce?

Was it at the townhall meeting in Owerri, Imo State, where he created that Bala-blu, bulaba, wacky musical conjunction that became a kind of national mantra even children participated in mimicking? Could it be in Port Harcourt, where at the singing of the National Anthem, he raised his walking stick like Professor Pella before his magical acts?

Was it in Bauchi or Kano where he only danced to music or in Ogun, where he told the people so re-assuredly that he would win, come rain, come shine? Where indeed did Tinubu present himself in any manner capable of promoting some confidence that in him, Nigeria could have a breather from the cataclysmic eruption of pure violence across the country at that time that left the people sleeping with both eyes open?

Where did he demonstrate the littlest understanding of the monstrous economic crisis that had at that time plunged the country into the bottomless pit of hopelessness and millions of hitherto thriving citizens into the nadir of fiscal penury, poverty and want that signposted the entire disastrous eight years of former President Muhammadu Buhari, let alone have a solution for the situation?

Was it in practically mocking Nigerians by scoffing at the various presidential debates where candidates were supposed to not only personally own the manifestos that could have been written for them by some experts in the cozy rooms in their consulting offices, but project them with clarity of thoughts and understanding as his opponents strove to? Was it at the Chatham House, where he farmed out virtually all the direct questions he was meant to answer to his retinue of hangers-on that are now mostly in charge of the country?

So, why then blame him for the situation where Nigeria is today, galloping from the critical state of the Buhari years to the fatal – endgame period the country is now witnessing with one dollar exchanging in the last hour at above N1,500? Nemo dat quod non habet, the Latin word for “no one can give what they do not have,” is the simple explanation for the systematic bastardisation of Nigeria today.

Just like Buhari, who ought not pass beyond a local chief or at best Emir of Daura, but pitiably became President of Nigeria and as a result inflicted it with the multifaceted disease in the polity today, Tinubu simply does not have what it takes to pull the country out of the woods. Indeed, the current experience is just the beginning because there are more and would be more, where the present suffering in the land is domiciled.

It would be a good bet to suggest that Tinubu himself knows that he has no solution, assuming he has any desire to do good with the powers he now has. Else, how could he choose this period as the best time to jet out of the country on a “private visit” to France? Who does that? Not even the infamous Idi Amin Dada of Uganda, with all the gory story around him nor Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa of the Central African Republic (CAR) said to use human flesh as desert after dinner or even their Nigerian equivalent, Sani Abacha, could have been more insensitive.

Of course, nobody with close eyes on the situation of Lagos in the last two decades is likely to entertain any iota of doubt at the odious fate sure to beset Nigeria in the next eight years that Tinubu is likely to remain in office. It is a period Nigerians are likely to eat each other for food, because by the time the hands of the clock turn, only those in the corridors of power and those associated with them, would likely find or afford real food.

Ostensibly, Tinubu’s disastrous outing in the state in the last presidential election, in spite his vice grip on its levers of power in the last 24 years, underscores the fact that Nigerians are not daft, especially those in Lagos, regardless the attempt by some to infer otherwise. Nigerians know the reason the only response those in charge of the state has right now is to resort to the pure intimidation of bulldozing the houses of some residents to whip them into line. It is simply meant to divert attention from the reality.

Yes! As Nigerians were no daft in Lagos, so, they were not anywhere nationwide. Not in Abuja, not in Borno, not in Kano or Kaduna, not in Benue, Oyo, Edo, Akwa-Ibom or Enugu and certainly not in all the military formations in Nigeria, where election bandits had no access.

It takes only an imbecile or demons sworn to mortal attack on the Nigerian nationhood who are prancing about today, enjoying every bit of the horrible situation of the country, to say that they do not know the true winner of the 2023 presidential election, an event which is the beginning and end of the present state of the nation.

Yes! If indeed the true winner of that election had been allowed to emerge and the New Nigeria, citizens had hoped to create by the momentum they generated, there is no telling the fact that the situation would have been different. If anything, there would have been some direct and manifest steps to mitigate it if not totally reverse it. But what did you have? That effort was killed. The plant was attacked at its roots by vested interests before it could bear the desired fruit.

So, instead of blaming Tinubu, blame the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for that “Technical Glitches,” that ensured that INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) was shut down on the day of the presidential election. But more than that, blame the judiciary – those judges at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) and their senior brothers at the Supreme Court.

Yes! If INEC under Yakubu Mahmood, had been as forthright as that of National Electoral Commission (NEC) in Ghana led by Kwado Afary-Gyan that refused to declare Nana Akufo Addo, President in 2008, who won at the first balloting but missed the benchmark for outright win by a tiny fraction, Nigeria would not be where it is today.

On the other hand if the courts had put a stop to the institutional heist that underscored the 2023 elections, as they did elsewhere, including Kenya where David Maraga, the Chief Justice, cancelled a presidential poll “because it was not conducted in accordance with the constitution,” and ordered a repeat, it would have, apart from resetting the brains of the election managers, sent a clear message on vital democratic ethos and the need to do the right thing.

Was it not surprising that Tinubu never showed any iota of doubt about winning the last election in spite of his obvious shortcomings? What gave him that confidence? Whatever aided him to do so, is where the focus of Nigerians should be right now, not on him as a person.

That is the exactly the reason he would be striding about in the lush garden or rolling gingerly in his posh sofa, remote control in hand and sipping the best of French wines, in his current abode in Paris, while Nigeria practically burns.

At the last count, 2,423 Nigerians are said to have been killed while 1,872, were kidnapped in the last eight months Tinubu has been in power. Of course, this is conservative from the actual picture, because many of the cases are unreported. Yet, even as this is enough to bring down any government, the latest engagement of the President is to appear in photo-ups with Daniel Bwala, former spokesman of Atiku Abubakar, his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) opponent in the last election. It must have been such a big catch worthy of celebration. Now with that as the main priority, you could be sure what the picture would look like in the next eight years by the time he is done.

But even if that Armageddon comes and half of Nigeria is wiped out by bandits and more are kept in the bush by kidnappers, even if Naira, which today stands at N1,500 to a dollar, exchanges for N10,000 to a dollar in the next eight years, which is not unlikely and most citizens exhaust all the rats and lizards likely to be the only remaining source of meat they could afford, Tinubu will still win the next election.

No one needs look far for the reason. As long as the vested interests, whose only desire is to maintain a status quo where a large chunk of the proceeds from oil production in the Niger Delta ends in private pockets or create a situation in Plateau and Zamfara where locals are sacked from their ancestral land for illegal miners to take over or enable gun manufacturers abroad keep their factories booming by creating conflicts and human carnage in Borno, Katsina, Imo, Benue and other theatres of bloody conflicts, are in control, the story will remain the same.

INEC will do the needful in the next election. The courts will sanction it, the international community, will play their complicit role in hailing it, just as they hailed the last election and are presently hailing the current economic gymnastics that have led to the soaring crisis in the county as the best step.

To boot, there will be many Bayo Onanugas to tackle any Atiku or Peter Obi that may have the temerity to challenge the ugly situation as sour losers of election still nursing the wounds of their defeat, while Nigeria will ultimately continue in the circle of doom.

Make no mistake about it, these vested interests were there before Tinubu and they will be there after him and unless by divine miracle something positive happens to change the trajectory, they will be there long after the bones of the current players become dust. So, instead of wasting time blaming Tinubu, the focus should be to look for that divine miracle. Else, the tragedy continues!

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Editorial

Before they kill Peter Obi and ‘The New Nigerian’ dream!

Published

3 days ago

July 13, 2026

Whirlwindnews

On Wednesday, July 8, 2026, Peter Obi, candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), practically took the media space of Nigeria by storm, with his alarming claim that he might not be alive to contest the 2027 presidential election.

Obi was not talking about some strange illness discovered by his doctors, which had limited his days on earth or alluding to any other kind of natural cause of death. On the contrary, he was forecasting of a more diabolical, highly sinister variant of unnatural, untimely kind of death – political assassination or any other dimension relating to it.

The former Governor of Anambra State, who has remained the main thing in the polity since taking the Nigerian political firmament by storm with his emergence as contender for the nation’s number one job in 2022, ending up with a stunning performance in the February 25, presidential election as candidate of the Labour Party (LP), despite all odds, and prediction of naysayers, was not in doubt about where the threat was domiciled.

A guest of #WithChude, a popular podcast, hosted by Chude Jideonwo, he was instead quite emphatic that his reading of his current ordeal suggests that his traducers, might not stop with their clear intent of preventing him from being on the ballot in the 2027 presidential contest, but up the ante to the level of taking his life if the push eventually graduated to shove.

He did not mince words where the arrows were coming and who was pulling the bows, but was equally emphatic of that as well – the All Progressives Congress (APC) government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Hear him: “Every single thing I do for a living, this government is frustrating it. Deliberately so. Everything. So, there is even a possibility, if they have the opportunity, I will not be alive.

“It’s not an accusation. I know. I get frustration every day. Because you do things that you think would be normal – it is not normal anymore. They won’t come directly and say, ‘Oh, we’re doing this,’ but you can see their hand in virtually everything.

“They are attacking everybody who is in opposition personally. I am being attacked personally. Everything. Even to provide me with necessary things that I should have been entitled to, not at all. I had a case recently at the airport, where people who work in the airport came and locked my car. And I said, ‘It’s me.’

“But I said, ‘Look at the cars of other people.’ And you could see them talking to each other, as if, ‘Who is this one? And I see people I know at the airport, they will not greet me because they are fearing that if they greet me…And I have people send me invitations and say, ‘My son, my daughter is wedding, but please don’t come.’”

Since this outing, it has been hoopla on the Nigerian turf as the centrifugal and centripetal forces pull from all sides on the matter in a dog-fight between the government forces and Obi’s supporters.

In fact, Abuja did not waste time in producing a quick riposte, with Bayo Onanuga, spokesman of the President, ostensibly conveying the sentiments of his boss on the matter, dismissing the NDC candidate as a liar and a cry-baby.

He has support from Festus Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Management, who quickly pulled out a video of what was supposed to be the airport incident Obi was referring to underscore the point that the former governor was indeed the guilty party.

In fact, so intense was Keyemo’s intervention that he not only instructed Obi to render an immediate and unreserved apologies to the airport staff – the selfsame people he accused of insulting him – but pay N25,000, which he claimed was the mandatory fine for the “crime” of parking in an unauthorised place, he allegedly committed.

Now as the drama in the nation’s theatre of the absurd continues to build up into a fearsome political fireball, it is pertinent to assess the situation, based on the facts on the ground – past and present.

In so doing, it is apposite to review the images on the huge national screen playing from the reel of events since Obi happened on the Nigerian political space. This will underscore whether his outcry could be considered as coming from genuine fears or dismissed as non-issues, as the Aso Rock Villa, enjoins.

Does NEXT International Supermarket, arguable once the biggest monuments in Abuja and one of the visible concerns linked to Obi, suddenly going up in flames some years back, not deserve a mention in the current conversation?

What about the outburst of Monday Okpebholo, Governor of Edo State, warning the NDC candidate never to step his foot in Benin the capital or anywhere within the territory without his express say-so? Where does that fit in?

How does Abuja capture the real life attack on Obi, then a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), in the same Benin under the nose of the selfsame Okpebholo? Does that bullet-ridden vehicle that told the story of the entire macabre event in more ways than words not mean anything?

Okay, how is Obi supposed to process the silence of Abuja after an APC chieftain warned him not to step his feet into Rivers State or do so at the pain of death, when elsewhere such open threat ought to instigate an instant action, including the arrest and prosecution of the culprit?

What about the outburst of the selfsame Onanuga warning the NDC candidate – never to interfere in Lagos politics – following the blitzkrieg that came after trouncing Tinubu in his own backyard during the 2023 presidential election?

How was Obi supposed to process the pulling down of a prime property in Lagos belonging to his brother, in the context of this warning and other events that nuanced the actions of Alausa and other players since that 2023 routing?

Given this list of what is in the public domain, though not exhaustible yet – not knowing what else could have transpired beyond what is known to him and his supposed traducers alone, does it make for Obi to be complacent and believe that all is well?

For us, no politician in Nigeria today could be accused of being too careful with the foregoing events, not the least, Obi, given the long list of unresolved political killings history in the country.

The horrendous cases of the likes of Funso Williams, Bola Ige, Aminasori Dikkibo, Harry Marshal, Ogbonnaya Uche (OGB), who fell to the bullets of gunmen at various times, have not continued to blur the nation’s political firmament, but remain sad reminders of how awry things could go.

WHIRLWINDNEWS believes, therefore that the case of Obi deserves more than being dismissed with a wave of the hands as Abuja has since done. We believe that, not only the NDC candidate, but the nation needs the assurance that he is alive to contest in the election.

The consequences of Obi coming to harm might be graver than those who believe they are safe in the fortresses of Abuja foresee. It might signal the doomsday. Therefore, that assurance must come in visible words and deed. Now!

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Editorial

Rabe Abubakar et al: Different military, shame of a nation!

Published

1 month ago

June 14, 2026

Whirlwindnews

What does Dura community of Dura-Du area of Jos South Local of Area of Plateau State, 2018, Okporo, Ihuoma and Amaifeke communities in the Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State, 2022, and Okuama community of Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State 2024 have in common? Do they ring a bell?

Certainly! They are just a few of many demonstrable examples of military anger, recently on display in the Nigerian polity. Here are some details.

In September, 2018, Idris Alkali, was declared missing. The retired Major General of the Nigerian Army, was said to be travelling through Jos, Plateau State to Bauchi when he disappeared.

Reactions: The army came calling! In what they termed “search and rescue operation,” soldiers descended on communities along the route. It was a brutal exercise – the imprimatur of military operations. The youths of the communities, especially Dura-Du area in Jos, virtually disappeared into the bush or scampered out of town to escape the blitzkrieg.

Scores of the unlucky ones who fell into the wide net they cast on the entire area, meant to drag everyone in, regardless of status, were reportedly subjected to some of the most harrowing experiences they might not forget in their lifetimes.

The situation even worsened when the remains of the ex-military top brass was discovered in a disused well in one of the communities. That was when war was actually declared on the people in their bid to fish out the supposed culprits – albeit – military style.

Even after more than four years, the people of Okporo, Ihuoma and Amaifeke communities, are still nursing the physical and psychological wounds they sustained in the hands of the military who came visiting in April 2022.

Their only crime was to be the host of a hot gun battle between soldiers and elements said to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), during an ambush, which reportedly left casualties on both sides.

Many reportedly lost their homes and businesses in inferno, as the soldiers who descended on the communities, reportedly set many facilities on fire outside mowing down many residents, who they termed IPOB members.

What about Okuama? The case of the Delta community perhaps the freshest in mind. There, residents are still reeling in the pain inflicted on them in similar circumstances as their counterparts in Plateau and Imo, following the military operations that took place after some 16 personnel, including two officers were reportedly ambushed and killed by natives.

Tukur Gusau, then spokesman of Defence Headquarters (DHQ), Nigeria’s seat of military authorities, who reported that the troops from the 181 Amphibious Battalion were deployed in the Bomadi region and were on a peace-keeping mission in the Okuoma community when they were killed, had indicated that there would be grave consequences.

That promise was kept to the letter, with virtually nobody escaping the wrath of the military, from the ordinary citizens, the community leaders and even the traditional institutions. Even the fishes in the river and trees in the forest of the Niger Delta community, felt the anger of the soldiers.

Now, the question: Where is that anger today? On Saturday, Nigeria and its citizens were dazed from the hangover of another celebration of Democracy Day with the news of Abubakar Rabe, a retired Major General and former spokesman of the Nigerian Army.

The ex-military boss, just retired after more than three decades of service to country, died like an infected chicken in the hands of some rag-tag ruffians, unfit to polish his military boots when he was in service, who took him hostage and detained him in the bush in the last two weeks.

Yes, for two weeks, Rabe, who was abducted alongside his wife while travelling through Katsina, a hotbed of terrorist activities in Nigeria, was kept in the bush in a decrepit condition with signs of obvious failing health quite evident.

There was even a video of him begging the authorities including the Katsina State Government to come to his rescue, all which failed to get any positive result until he eventually took a bow on Friday, the same day the same country he served were celebrating what they termed – Democracy Day. What an irony!

Neither the central government under President Bola Tinubu, Katsina or the military authorities to whom he devoted his youth, could lift a finger to help him, or his wife, whose fate even remains unknown after the sad incident. What a nation!

But Rabe Abubakar is not an isolated case. Maharazu Tsiga (rtd), a Brigadier General and former Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) was abducted by bandits from his hometown in Bakori Local Government Area of Katsina State, spent 56 days in captivity before eventually regaining his freedom, while Rabi’u Garba Yandoto, a retired colonel and two of his children were abducted along the Gusau-Tsafe road in Zamfara State, also spent 10 days in captivity before regaining freedom.

They were the lucky ones. Others who were not that lucky, never lived to tell their story. One of them was Musa Uba. The late Brigadier General, and former Commander of the 25 Task Force Brigade, was leading his men and members of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) when insurgents struck.

The attack, which reportedly happened along the Damboa–Biu axis, led to the killing of four operatives: two soldiers and two CJTF members.

However, Uba, who reportedly escaped the initial ambush, was again encircled by the terrorists as he was communicating with military authorities on how to be rescued and returned to base. He was captured and subsequently killed.

Again, on April 8, 2026, Oseni Omoh Braimah, another Brigadier General Commander of the 29 Task Force Brigade, under Operation Hadin Kai, also met a fatal fate in the hands of the same Boko Haram -ISWAP fighters.

They were said to have launched a coordinated, midnight assaults on military formations in Benisheikh, a strategic town in the Kaga Local Government Area of Borno State.

Before then, Alex Bardeh, a retired Air Vice-Marshal and former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) was killed on December 18, 2018 by hoodlums who attacked his convoy on the Keffi- Kaduna Expressway while he was returning from his farm on the border between Nasarawa State and the Federal Capital Territory.

Ironically, all these tragedies took place under the nose of the All Progressives Congress (APC), a party, which, before assuming power in 2015, had made a song and dance of how they were going to offer Nigerians a breather from what they saw then as the parlous condition of the Nigerian polity, particularly in insecurity.

Interestingly, the government of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which they heavily assailed as incompetent and clueless in arresting the situation, did not count a single case of a General being killed in such a manner.

Today, the terrorists who had hitherto seemed to be acting scared by hitting soft targets and disappearing, now appear quite frontal unfazed.

They no longer limit themselves to civilian targets. Outside kidnapping and outright carnages on civilians, which are now daily stories, they have since upped the ante – hitting even some of the highly-fortified military bases, slaughtering soldiers at will.

After Alex Bardeh, Musa Uba, Omo Braimah and now Abubakar Rabe, the question that seems quite natural now, is who is next? The other question, is where is the notorious Military Anger that kept the polity in check and the nation safe?

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Can Nigerians endure another term of Tinubu’s years of poverty, tears and death?

Published

2 months ago

May 31, 2026

Whirlwindnews

It began less than 10 minutes after taking the oath of office. In his address to the nation, he uttered those three-letter words – subsidy is gone. The ink with which he signed the documents declaring him President was yet to dry.

That was it. From that moment, Nigerians have known nothing but poverty, tears and death. It was a declaration that came out of impulse rather than articulacy. It was not even contained in his original speech prepared for the occasion. But it sprouted out – from a rash, unthinking and impetuous mental construct.

But the effect was instant, the impact direct. From that moment, Nigerians have never known peace. Every thing took a cue. Minutes after, the news broke that the price of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol had jumped from N189 to N550. It was that instant. Today, it hovers around N1,500.

The effect: Within minutes, transportation cost quadrupled. So too, commodity prices. Caught unawares, marketers, who had earlier thought it was a day of the rains as customers rushed to their shops, soon became suspicious and then got wiser – these were not ordinary customers but smart alecs playing a fast one on them.

They stopped selling, retrieved the items they could from those who had not disappeared with their goods and closed shop to study the situation properly. Hours after, they responded. A plate of eba and soup, went up from N200 to N1,000. Prices hit the rooftops.

In fact, the vehicle transporting what used to be Nigeria, which had been moving at a horse and buggy pace in the days of Muhammadu Buhari, stopped abruptly, engaged the reverse gear and began galloping backwards. That has remained the ugly, parlous tale of the Tinubu days, since May 29, 2023.

Now, the expectation would be that the President and his government that wrought such a horrendous punishment on the polity, would themselves take some blows. But nada! Instead, the opposite was the case. Within months of plunging the citizens into the untold hardship Tinubu went on a binge, spending money – in the words of Olusegun Obasanjo, former President – like a drunken sailor.

Few weeks after, as Nigerians were reeling and gasping in pain from the impact of their new situation, 469 newly-minted Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs), rolled out from factories in Japan, where they were produced into the premises of the National Assembly for the just inaugurated members.

Put the cost at N100billion – that is N160million for each unit, plus other charges. Reason: The lawmakers needed the vehicles because of their good suspension system, to navigate the so many bad roads in Nigeria. Yes, you heard right. How could they think well and make good laws after the hassles of the bad roads? Tinubu saw reasons, acquiesced and voila!

But it did not end there. Tinubu suddenly realised that Kashim Shettima, his deputy, needed a new home “befitting” his new office. Pronto! A voucher of N21billion was raised and he had it. Till date a haze still hovers over the project.

The last news that was heard was that Number Two refused to take residence because the entire environment, including the toilets was wired to the teeth to monitor him. And Number Two needed privacy.

Again, in the same weeks, Oga Patapata, also realised that Madam needed to transport more comfortably. Pronto! It was arranged. Another voucher was raised for cars for the Office of the First Lady. Cost N1.2billion. Of course, madam needed the comfort for peace at home.

Naturally, since transportation is not done by land alone, he also took care of that. For the sea, a yacht was procured. Cost N5billion. Because the birds in the presidential fleet were not good enough, Tinubu did the needful.

He enriched the fleet with the one befitting of his status and had it transformed to mimic the US Air Force One. To complete the status symbol project, he also added a replica of The Beast, the US presidential automobile.

Ironically, the funds used in procuring these luxury lifestyle, came, not out of productive ventures of Nigeria, but through borrowing. Today, Tinubu has practically borrowed Nigeria blind, doubling or even tripling that of his predecessors.

Meanwhile Nigerians had upped the ante from mere groaning and skreiching. Citizens, unable to take it anymore, now stop their hitherto sleek vehicles on the Third Mainland Bridge and plunge into the Lagos lagoon to end it all. The option is now more rampant than remote and occasional.

Many others, taking the Socrates option, now drink hemlock and many more simply sleep off without any intention of waking up. That is where we are. That is the new Nigeria – the Tinubu Nigeria. But there is more.

Terrorists and the landlords of the forest, having now discovered that the Commander-in-Chief has other fancies than security and welfare of the people – the constitutionally-declared primary purpose of government and scant regard for the citizens, have practically gone haywire. They have taken over and established their authority.

Presently, outside those wantonly slaughtered or butchered in their homes like animals at the abattoir, incinerated alive while sleeping on their beds, among other forms of decimation, many more citizens are now spending months, going to years as victims of captivity with them in various forests in Nigeria.

In their rampage, the terrorists have since broken all barriers considered out of place hitherto. One of their escapades is the present videos of the school children and teachers taken from Oyo State. The gory imagery captures the current Nigerian story.

For instance, on Thursday, just as the sound of heavy celebration was going on in neighbouring Ogun State as the world marked the Ojude Oba yearly carnival, two of the victims, one of them with a toddler on her back, were pleading for their lives, as others went through various forms of torture, including heavy whipping like beasts.

Don’t forget that the terrorists had earlier slaughtered one of their colleagues. In the new video, the totally terrified women, informed that they had chosen another victim to be similarly eliminated. Yet, no word about rescue! Terrible!

Interestingly, if not painfully, Tinubu’s response, in the few cases he bothered, was to see the crisis through the politics lens. His most recent reaction was to tell the world that the harvest of attacks and carnages ravaging the country, were sponsored by his political enemies, intent on shoving him out of power. That to him was all that mattered.

Now, where are your powers as C-in-C? They are mostly found in the most disgraceful economic and political acts of impunity. Nigerians now waking up to hear of the award of brain-dazing contracts such as the N15trillion Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and Badagry-Maiduguri Highway – with scant regard for official regulations, is now becoming more common than rare.

Few days after one of the teachers was beheaded and the video of the hideous act made to circulate on the social media, the President and his All Progressives Congress (APC), party, rolled out the drums of his winning the party’s ticket to contest the 2027 presidential election.

To say that it has been three years of weeping, wailing, mourning and gnashing of the teeth, is a clear euphemism. There is no starker way of putting it than calamity – pure, unmitigated catastrophe – disaster.

Then comes the big question. Nigeria is already breasting the tape of these ruinous years of the first term. Suppose Tinubu succeeds in renewing his tenure by January next year? Will Nigeria survive five more years of a life like the last three? What will be left of Nigeria? Is there a way out, outside shouting – God forbid!?

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