AROUND June last Year 2022. The Conscience of the Nation noted that some forces ruling the affairs of this nation are not supporting Asiwaju Bola Tinubu but many spectators waved the opinion as mere speculations.
You would recall that the longest ASUU strike was witnessed last year which was very avoidable and unnecessary, It was a plot and strategy to set the lecturers and the students against the ruling party and the candidate by the cabals ahead of the 2023 election.
Many of the lecturers and students were visibly seen showing their hatred for Tinubu/Shettima that represented the party by the ruling class.
The intervention of the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila helped to put the struggle in a very clear perspective and there was a solution. Need I give details of what transpired before achieving success?
Mr. Labour Minister never hid his desire to humiliate and frustrate this class of society against their own party. Today, the rest is history and that accounted for the major reason why INEC is considering the possibility of not engaging the university lecturers as returning officers.
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is not unaware of all their plots to frustrate his ambition, they initially set his people against him, the Yorubas in the cabinet were conscripted consciously and unconsciously into the game, thinking that the cabals will anoint them but later discover a foul game, it should also be noted that they have conscripted their mind on another script. Who knows, if there will be an interim head should the plan fails?
The recent outburst by Mr. Emilokan became necessary to call the attention of Buhari to the deliberate attempt to further frustrate the ambition due to all these needless policies on Naira note designs and implementation. Of course, the argument of Emiefele, who hailed from the same base as Okowa, the running mate of Atiku, looks more credible, especially from a security angle but the motive is more than his superior argument and Mele Kyari, the only Fulani man that has the right to single-handedly import petroleum too has sympathy for Atiku, his kinsman.
The opposition party, from another angle, is being conscripted too to feel that they are going to be the beneficiary of the anger of the cabals against Emilokan, unfortunately, the script is more than what they can smell.
The cabals are not interested in handing over but only waiting for Buhari to complete his legitimate terms of office and we should forget that a Yoruba man is coming to take over the throne.
Buhari may not likely be happy with the statement credited to Mr. Emilokan but he’s just playing along to prove that his emergence was not of man, even though it was the fourth attempt. He’s aware of this plot but not part of the plot.
He has warned all his ministers not to join the campaign and this, to a very large extent, is affecting Mr. Emilokan.
Cabals are not only angry with Mr. Emilokan but also with the Northern governors who felt they had the power to install the “King” against their projected plans.
How far this will go will further reveal itself in the days ahead.
But note that a Fulani man must not succeed another Fulani man.
The crisis in the Southeast is an intended scheme while the activities of the herdsmen have drastically reduced. They are a mere ploy to give our thinking a different direction.
•Kelechi Mbaka
Conscience of the Nation.