By Abdu Labaran Malumfashi.
1-5-2025.
Although Islam expressly forbids rejoicing at the misfortune of others, when that misfortune however, leads to the relief of not just an individual or few individuals, but millions of other people, then that misfortune calls for celebration, not mere rejoicing.
After spending almost the whole day without the power to charge my laptop, I eventually got the machine started when I got it charged at the neighbour’s, and the first news item that attracted my attention was the SACKING of ministers of INSECURITY and their colleague at the DARKNESS ministry earlier yesterday. Reportedly, the Nigerian President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has sacked the three in what many citizens would hope to be the beginning of good things for the country and the people.
A brief statement on the X handle of the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, simply announced that “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has removed both the Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, and Bello Matawalle, the Minister of State for Defence. Additionally, the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has also been sacked. The statement explained that the dismissal of the Defence ministers was due to their failure to stop the ongoing killings of innocent Nigerians across the country, while the decision to remove the Minister of Power was based on his inability to improve the power situation over the past two years.
It is however, hoped that the sacking of the three ministers is not a grandstanding by the number one citizen, who is expected on an ‘official’ visit to Katsina state, the hotbed of the stark failure of the government officials in charge of providing security (instead of the insecurity that regularly prevails in the state), and electricity (not the darkness the North West is more noted for).
Grandstanding or political correctness, would appear to be the in-thing in Nigeria at the moment. Given the desperation of the regime to be ‘re-elected’ for a second term, in the face of the fierce opposition by most of the North, which has come to the realisation that President Tinubu is pursuing an agenda that excludes the Northern region from his calculations, it may not be far-fetched to believe so. It may be part of the statement the President had made long before he became Nigeria’s number one citizen. He then claimed that he did not “believe in the unity of Nigeria”. He also declared EMILOKAN to an exclusive tribal listeners.
Of course, during the presidential visit, preselected courtesy callers would be given the opportunity to visit and tell the president what he wants to hear (false praises), not what he NEEDS to hear (the runaway suffering caused by his many ill advised economic policies). The deliberately caused economic crisis in Nigeria only succeeded in producing millions of impoverished citizens, which is of course, in direct opposition to the many billionaire members of the ruling CABAL, who, apart from being busy “eating while you protest”, also smile to their bank with ill gotten loot, most of the time.
These night-time surreptitious visitors to the number one citizen in the country would be amply compensated in gold and silver for their efforts, even though millions of their compatriots would go to bed that night with little or nothing in their stomach. The so called ‘people of God’ would not be left out, by the way.
I have written (perhaps) more articles on the need to sack the ministers for their woeful performance in the discharge of their assigned duties, so much that I considered the past cabinet reshuffle after which the three were retained, as ‘shambolic’. It is a shambolic reshuffle in which a minster would be removed from the cabinet only for the same government to give him another appointment of equal, or even more significance elsewhere in the country.
The Minister of Power, Mr. Adelabu Adebayo, in particular, was my regular whiffing boy for his abysmal failure in the two years he held fort in charge of the ministry that turned out to be the provider of DARKNESS, whereas electricity users in the country continue to periodically pay for the light which is NOT made available most of the time, up to this day. The minister even had the cheek to tell the world that “150 million Nigerians enjoy regular supply of electricity under the Tinubu regime. But the President himself came out to say that N10 billion was spent on the purchase of solar panels to provide power to the Villa.
Some of the articles on the need for the sacking the under performing ministers were written on 20/4/2025 (More Tariff For Darkness), 14/4/2025 (Nigeria Does Not Need Another Shambolic Cabinet Reshuffle), 20/11/2024 (The Skyrocketing Monthly Electricity Bill In Less Than One Year Of The Tinubu Clueless Administration), 5/11/2024 (KEDCO Wants Our Support And Encouragement Not Our Condemnation), 28/10/2024 (The Shambolic Cabinet Reshuffle By President Tinubu), 19-10/224 (National Grid: One Collapse Too Many), 31/12/2024 (EMILOKAN: Is President Tinubu On A Revenge Mission?), 30/8/2024 (Banditry: Has Dan Bello Finally Found The Answer?), 15/9/2024 (Banditry: The Outlaws Have More Than The Sokoto Islamic Cleric To ‘Deal’ With), 27/9/2024 (Has The Bandits’s Magic Wand Gone AWOL?) and 2/3/2025 (Doctor Murtala Dandashire: The Patriot Who Was Nearly Assassinated By Bandits).
Other articles are written on 17/10/2024 (Who Is Behind The Illegal Diamond Mine In Zamfara State?), 1/10/2024 (The President’s Speech And A Minister’s Long Tale About Electricity Situation In Nigeria), 21/9/2024 (Who Operates An Illegal Airport In Zamfara State?), 17/82024 (The Increasing Bandits Attack In Katsina State), 28/7/2024 (Sighting The End Of Nigeria’s Security Challenges), 10/7/2024 (Electricity: Not Yet Uhuru For The North West), 28/6/2024 (Light Is Also Security), 1-4/2024 (Nigeria’s Minister Of Power Is Unserious) 24/4/2024 (DISCOS: Agents Of Darkness) and many more others.
Anyway, a serious new minister of power may get around the problem of constant power outages, but no matter how serious the new ministers of defence may be, they can only succeed to the extent that France and other Western imperialists want them to. This is because of the strongly held belief that some of the leading Western countries are alleged to be responsible for the insecurity bedevilling Nigeria.
The US and France in particular, are alleged to be not only funding, but also actively participating in the insecurity in the country, because it afforded them the opportunity to continue carting away to their countries the vast mineral resources that Nigeria is endowed with.
I have also read on the social media that the Nigerian president has allegedly given the go ahead to the French to cite their military base to Nigeria, so as to help the country in the fight against the ravaging insecurity in the land. This is a very BAD news for the Nigerian Muslims, especially those in the North West, where the activities of bandits (insecurity) are frequent and most noticeable. France is noted for its rabid bigotry against Islam and Muslims.
Under President Emmanuel Macron, France has declared that any Muslim woman who wears a Hijab in public is a terrorist, while a Christian NUN who appears in public donning the Habit, is simply fulfilling a religious obligation.
In any case, if the French soldiers were that good, why were they not able to contain the insecurity that was only increasing in many of their former African colonies, if not doing so would stop them from STEALING the wealth of the host countries? A former President of France, Jacques Chirac, once told an interviewer that France was annually getting $500 billion (half a trillion dollars) from her former African colonies in a repayment of a (forced) loan. He claimed that but for the money, “France would have become one of the poorest countries in the world”.
As it were, in addition to having the half a trillion dollars annually in her possession in banks on the mainland, France is said to also possess the second largest gold reserves in the world, thanks to the massive exploitation of her former African colonies, since the mainland does not have one single gold mine.
Although Nigeria boasts of competent and financially viable oil people like Aliko Dangote, of Dangote Petroleum, Akinruntam of Obet Petroleum, Mike Adenuga of Conoil and AbdusSamadu Rabi’u of BUA Oils, it appears from all indications that the President plans to please his masters in the US and Western Europe by handing over to the French (Again) the nation’s oil sector to run.
Meanwhile, President Tinubu’s drug allegations case is expected to resurface again on 2-5-2025, when the some of the leading US agencies are requested by a court to bring the files they investigated the Nigerian number one citizen and three others, according to Premium Times online magazine.
The suit was filed by a US citizen, Aaron Greenspan in June 2023 under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), against the offices of the four US Intelligence Agencies, accusing them of violating the FOIA by failing to release within the statutory time “documents relating to purported federal investigations into” President Tinubu and one Abiodun Agbele.
Between 2022 and 2023, Greenspan was said to have filed 12FOIA requests with six different US government agencies and components seeking information about the joint investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), DEA, and the US Attorney’s offices investigated for the Northern District of Indiana and Northern District of Illinois.
In each DOIA request, Mr. Greenspan sought criminal investigative records about four named individuals “allegedly associated with the drug ring: Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Lee Andrew Edwards, Mueez Abegboyega Akande, and Abiodun Agbele. But the Nigerian Presidency claimed that the information being sought was not new, and that it did not indict the Nigerian leader.
However, I later came to understand that the president had dismissed the allegation of the sacking of the ministers as ‘fake news’, it is the hope of many in the North that the story is true, since it had earlier been reported that the president would tinker with his cabinet again.
May God guide the Nigerian number one citizen to do what is right for majority of the citizens of the country, not what is politically correct for his second term reelection in 2027.
Malumfashi wrote from Katsina.
