Nigeria’s foundation is currently under threat. The years which the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have been in power have acquired a magical air in everyday discouse in Nigeria. It has become contemporary that you think it is a nickname for the guy next door. 2023 is some months away and for all its attraction, its real interest is that it is another election year.
For close watchers of the presidential villa, Abuja, these are not the best of times for aides of President Muhammadu Buhari. They have been caught in the web of political intrigues and deadly mistrust now rocking the country’s seat of power.
To remain in the villa’s good book and struggle for power, where high-tension politics is presently playing out, aides have been compelled to learn some survival tricks. Speak no evil, see no evil and hear no evil.
Sources have confidently revealed to ZN that three powerful camps have emerged from the seat of power for the struggle of who succeeds President Buhari come 2023. These camps are now on each others necks. They are doing everything to outwit each other just to get the president’s endorsement for the 2023 election.
It is a very dangerous development where a few people are granted the leeway, through pooling of excessive resources to determine the direction of the future of a whole nation, where the opinion of the masses, the majority becomes irrelevant.
Among these three groups are the Rotimi Amaechi/El-Rufai group, the Asiwaju Tinubu group and the Abubakar Malami/Fashola group.
Those in the know admitted that a complex power play is at work to the extent that nobody can say for sure how it will end.
However, all the groups are seriously working underground to produce the president come 2023.
Those who said that a complex power play is going on in Aso rock, which may sooner or later destroy the APC and PDP were not wrong.
The Tinubu group despite public posturing, believed that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu who is the leader of the group played a significant role in the emergence of President Buhari is the rightful person to succeed Buhari. They stated that the president has not reciprocated in kind to Tinubu, claiming that the best reciprocation that their leader can get from President Buhari is for him to handover power to Tinubu.
Mutual suspicion has become mutual animosity. The Malami/Fashola group that benefitted also from Tinubu has stood on their ground that as far as they exist, neither the Tinubu group nor the Amaechi group would be allowed to ascend to the position of the president of Nigeria except from their group.
Amaechi was a player to the emergence of President Buhari. He destroyed the power house of PDP and mopped up the PDP support for Buhari’s emergence like Tinubu.
According to sources close to Malami’s group, neither Tinubu nor Amaechi was fit and proper to succeed Buhari. This Malami group has remained the cabal within and outside the Aso Rock that feeds the president with wrong information.
In few months ahead when the race for 2023 is expected to take on a life of its own, the schism between the three groups may come more into the open.
It is said that he that trains a mad dog should be ready for a bite, if the dog finds no victim.
Bookmakers are not surprised that events in Aso Rock are taking a dangerous turn. It has been an accident waiting to happen. The seed was sown by the need of the APC leadership to capture Nigeria in the last election. As the saying goes, “the higher the monkey climbs, the more we see his behind.” But Nigerian masses are always consoled by the words of Lawrence Stein: “Those who would hunt man need to remember that the jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.”
No doubt, Nigeria is in an era where some mysterious beings are ruling the country and dictating the future of Nigerians. They have led the country into political kwashiorkor.
When shall the country stop having gangsters in power?
Nigeria, today is presently like a balloon fated for a puncture. The country is on the precipitous slope of disintegration. Federalism is an over-decorated lie as a destiny of Nigeria. It is not a sefe system for the ventilation of the wide, deep and open differences amongst us it is good as a concept but highly subjective and vulnerable in the face of manipulations, sectarian interests, obvious abuses to which it has been subjected in today’s Nigeria. When cloud are gathering, wise ones know that the rains are not far away. When fury, deaths and sorrows are parading the streets, perceptive mortals easily see the handwritings of anomie. Nigeria is sliding, the labours of our heroes past can no longer justify the bad blood, suspicion, distrust and centrifugal tendencies of individuals and groups in the land. Let us not insist on unity in diversity again because today’s Nigeria had become hostilities in totality. Men of foresight see future scenarios from present situations and analyse their possible outcomes and take proactive decisions to fit in and be compatible with times, while men of myopia are blind to the future. The things they see are things they can prey on at the moment like vampirish beings do. The present leaders of the country are vampirish beings.
