Ahmed Tinubu’s Fascism, A Cause For Reflection.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s rabid Yorubanization policies as being witnessed by his irriducible ethno tribal appointments in a heterogeneous nation is ignoble, shameless, too insensitive, destructive and myopic. It is fascism in the brutal sense of it but twisted in tribal blend.
After Buhari’s fulanization conquest in the years between 2015 and 2023 that took the nation backwards by 50 years, no one had any shred of imagination that another tribal warrior could emerge that would worst the ethno tribal records set by the fulani General.
Now comes Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a southerner with supposed better education and exposure but making Buhari look like a saint. There is no intellectual prognostication that can justify Ahmed Tinubu’s dive into such cesspit of social anomie other than the fact that in Nigeria, anything is possible in the realm of the most irrational beings.
By today’s counting, Tinubu’s appointments is overwhelmingly 90% pro Yoruba race while the rest of the country of over 200 tribes and approximately 200 million people are sharing from the remaining 10%. That is what justice means in the eyes of the one once celebrated as a social justice crusader in the days of yore. What a pretentious being?
As more appointments reel out from his narrow potentate, he corners for himself and his tribe, all juicy appointments meant for the Southeast, Southsouth and Middle Belt ethno tribal diversities. The same people he’s been busy grouping together under the aegis of Southern Nigeria to fight the ever ebullient North.
In Tinubu’s gripping politics, the Igbos should completely disappear and never to show their face. That is where he’s making a huge mistake and like Buhari, he will also be made to pay for his misdeed for mismanaging this beautiful estate called the Nigeria nation and being adjudged by history as the worst thing that ever happened to Nigeria.
Without appearing immodest, Igbos are the only developmental group in this nation. Igbo people cannot disappear for Tinubu’s tribalism, just as we also saw off Buhari’s hatred to its end in 2023. Tinubu’s continuation of Buhari’s antics can only surly his government into something worst than his predecessor’s administration. He can only have himself to blame for having the opportunity to unify the country and failing woefully to do so.
Now that hatred for him and his Yoruba conquistador has taken a turn for the worst from the North and from the South, what more hope does he have to cascade his fascist opportunism that has unleashed mass hunger, deprivation and penury across the length and breadth of this country? How would he cope with the mass revolt that looms large across the country arising from his incompetent ethno tribal policies?
History has thought us that fascism is the direct outcome of highly unpopular regimes, just like Tinubu’s government that has become egregiously so unpopular in today’s Nigeria. Can Tinubu and his narrow tribal soldiers be able to ward off what we know will eventually turn out a pathway to a violent but sad end to their fascist dispensation? We know and can refer them to what became of other fascist regimes in history; Czar Nicholas of Russia, Benitto Mussolini of Italy, Hitler and the Nazis, Idi Amin Dada of Uganda, Mobuttu Sese Seko of Congo, etcetera.
They were all highly unpopular regimes that ended on a sad note of malevolent dictatorship that also estranged the rest of their people and precipitately turning themselves to pariah isolationists. Tinubu’s government if not quickly and reversibly amended will dovetail to a pariah status concomitant to an irreversible decent to fascism with very predictable circumstances.
His government’s lack of nationalism and national cohesion will do his Yoruba stock no good. He should listen to the prescient counsels of Afenifere to reset the nation along the path of progress.
Today, Buhari and his erstwhile narrow tribe of tribulators are now holding the short end of the stick after losing their own power, no thanks to their regimes unprovoked tyranny against the rest of us that included the Yorubas. Again perhaps, very apt will be the lesson of Vladimir Ilych Lenin who led the Bolshevic Revolution in the former USSR against the erstwhile Russian potentates who’s grave may be turning today seeing what the ethnic Russians have turned his Ukrainian tribe to. Most wars are historical vendetta waged to settle old scores. Are we learning something here?
In Politics, what goes around certainly comes around. Let us end the hypocrisy of the indivisibility of Nigeria and start to actually build a one Nigeria of our dreams or just split the nation peacefully. Tinubu should stop deceiving the rest of the nation with his government of the Yoruba by the Yoruba for the Yoruba.
Dr. Engr Odo Ijere
