Kio Amachree
“Every time terrorists slaughter Nigerian citizens, President Bola Tinubu and his inner circle reach for the same exhausted, hollow script. A few words. No plan. No arrests. No accountability. And then silence until the next massacre.
This must stop. The killing of our people is not a governance inconvenience to be managed with press statements. It is a dagger through the heart of every single Nigerian citizen, at home and in the diaspora. Every death is personal. Every village burned is a wound that does not close.
The first thing any competent, caring president would have done is arrest those who finance the terrorists, cut off their funding at source, identify and root out every security leak and traitor within the system, and make clear to the nation that there are consequences for betrayal. That requires courage, institutional discipline, and a genuine sense of duty to the people. None of these appear to be qualities with which the current occupant of Aso Rock is familiar.
Tinubu did not come to Abuja to govern. He came to prove a point — that where MKO Abiola was stopped, he, the self-made man from Obalende, would not be. The presidency was a trophy, not a responsibility. The result is what Nigerians live and die with every day.
What I find particularly infuriating is the sheer arrogance of the Tinubu family circle Remi, Seyi, and Bola himself back-door entrants to high society who have mistaken proximity to stolen power for legitimacy. Let us not forget that Obalande, where our president claims his roots, was once best known as a settlement for race horses and their Hausa grooms. Perhaps that is where he picked up just enough Hausa to understand what the old horsemen knew well: In inda ba ka maraba ba, tafi where you are no longer welcome, go.
Air France operates the only nonstop flight from Abuja to Paris , and the journey takes approximately 6 hours and 15 minutes. I have no doubt whatsoever that the Tinubu crime family and I use that term with full deliberation has every grain of sand on that flight path memorized. The go-bag is packed. The Chagoury connection in Paris is warm and waiting.
But Nigerians are watching. The mood of this nation is ugly, and it is darkening. A president who governs only for himself, his family, and his business partners — who normalizes the killing of citizens with casual condolences while looting the treasury in plain sight is not managing a political crisis. He is booking his own flight.
Kowa ya dade sai ya ga dadau. Whoever overstays will witness his own disgrace.
The question is not whether this administration will fall. The question is what Nigeria will look like when it does and whether the institutions will hold, or whether the streets will write the final chapter.
Nigeria deserves better. Nigeria demands better. And the reckoning is coming.
Kio Amachree | Stockholm, Sweden | President, Worldview International
