Hello, everyone.
I welcome you to my blog. Africa is indeed a blessed continent, but bad leadership has turned it into what we have today. Indeed, when the wrong set of people are in power, the people suffer, but funny how for Africa it has always been the wrong people that get into power. We have never really experienced good leadership or had a leader that had the best interest of the people at heart. It has always been those who are only after their selfish interests and after securing wealth for them and their generations to come without even putting what the masses will go through when they do that into consideration.
As an African living in Africa, every day is a struggle; you need to struggle every day to stay afloat lest you drown because of how hard our leaders are making life for the masses. Down here in Nigeria, ever since the current president took over, it has been from one drama to another. In the space of two years, a lot has really happened in my country. Sometimes when we watch the drama play out, we just watch and smile and do nothing, but while it plays out and we stand by and watch, things keep getting worse, and I think it is time we start to speak up. Rise; a time will come when we can no longer bear it.
When it comes to sharing about what is trending in my area currently, I have a lot of things I can actually talk about. Like I said earlier, since the current president took over power, it has been from one episode of K-drama to another. This is actually worse than K-drama because it is our reality. We have not had a single day where there was no drama at all. It is either the politicians are the ones acting or the masses are the ones acting, but it is always extraordinary every day.
You must have heard about how the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria suspended a state governor and declared a state of emergency in the state for unclear reasons. Last time I checked, there has to be a kind of insurgency or clear reasons as to why a state of emergency is declared, but this case only proves that politics is a dirty game. Both the minister of the federal capital territory (Nyesom Wike) and the president (Bola Ahmed Tinubu) made the governor of Rivers State (Siminalayi Fubara) look like a weak man who cannot stand his ground or has no power of his own.
Those who know the constitution well are out with claims and evidence to back their claims that no president has the power to suspend an elected governor after all; both the president and the governor were both elected, and the only way a governor leaves office is if they die, resign, or are impeached. The suspension of the governor and declaring a state of emergency in the state is causing a lot of chaos both online and offline.
I was watching some international news about Nigeria. Unfortunately, you have to go through all of this mess.
Do you know what? The world is in turmoil. One way or another, we are all struggling and fighting for the good.
Sometimes I wonder if the things I was thought in government class when I was in school does not apply to Nigeria. Our leaders don't follow the protocols and procedures outlined in the constitution, they are power drunk.
So you guys still don’t know the real reason why that governor was sacked?
Godfatherism problem and some over zealous unscrupulous element trying to turn the state to a war zone.
Given my experience with the Warri Crisis, Tinubu actually prevented Rivers State from entering Oblivion. And no he did not just suspend the governor for suspending sake or just declared a state of emergency but there were series of pipeline vandalization and the governor did nothing to curtail it.