By Hon Charles Anike, National President Eastern Union.
Opinion Article
We congratulate and commend our beloved courageous brother, the executive governor of Rivers State, His Excellency, Mr. Sim Fubara who despite all the threats, intimidation and manoeuvring by the Abuja cabal was able to successfully conduct free, fair, credible and acceptable Local government Council election in Rivers State last Saturday.
It has gone on record that the election despite all the threats, kangaroo court judgement and police absence that the election was very successful. And results declared, winners announced and consequently sworn in.
We particularly congratulates GOV Fubara for his courage and doggedness to stand out to defend the mandate of the good people of Rivers State. There is no doubt that this actions has stand him out and has equally set a pace and paving the way for others still under hostages of their evil godfathers. His successes so far at liberating himself and the entire people of Rivers State will remain a reference and will surely be emulated and replicated across the Country. The evils and satanic activities of political godfathers in Nigeria has definitely crossed the red line and surely coming to an inglorious end in our political democracy journey.
This rear courage exhibited by this very gentle and supposedly political underdog has gone down to the annals of our history and can be likened to the stories of Biblical David and Goliath.
It can only take a courageous and fearless God dependent gentle but dangerous Fubara who was pushed to the wall, and like David in the Bible looked at the Inspector General of Police to his face to tell him the bitter truth about his unethical roles in the Rivers crisis. And also without mincing words called the corrupt judgement dispenser by his real name.
Well from the events so far, there is no doubt that Fubara is a practicing Christian who is living by faith in deed, because like the four lepers in the Bible that declared that ‘if they stay back and hold their peace they will die, and if they go forward to the enemies’ camp, they will also die, they rather therefore preferred to move forward to die at the enemies’ camp. But in the end they brought victory to the people. Fubara also like Queen Esther in the Bible ‘ if l perish l perish’ when danger loomed and he woke at midnight to lead his people to take charge of the State INEC office.
There alot of lessons to learn from Fubara’s victories:
*That nobody should toy or negotiate with the mandate of the people.
*That the only language the APC political bandits understands is courageous resistance. Fubara has proven to them that they not have the monopoly of violence.
*We has just also learned that without the Nigerian police elections can can be conducted peacefully. The police since the inception of the APC government at the centre have been tools for elections rigging and violence. The police are always used to intimidate and frustrate opposition to perfect rigging.
The successful conduct of the Rivers Council election has proven that Nigerians can conduct free, fair credible, violence free and peaceful elections.
it is also now very clear that any candidate that will stand out on behalf of the Nigerian masses going forward, especially in the Presidential election, must possess the courageous spirit of Sim Fubara to be ready to defend the people’s mandate no matter the threats. Someone who must not take No for an answer from any quarters.
The coming year 2027 must not be tolerated like 2023 where the people’s mandate was robbed at broad day light without firing a gun shot. It will and must not be a season to employ gentlemen approach or say let us go to already corrupt Nigerian courts or that the Nigerian youths should calm down.
It must be a time to say like Gov. Sim Fubara ‘if this is the only fight will fight, let us fight it to the end’.
It should also be a time to again say like Fubara ‘anything that will happen, let it happen ‘. I think that is the only way forward and exactly the solution to tackle the present situation to rescue and take back our Country from the political crooks. The only language they respect is force for force. Going to court or believing the rhetorics of INEC will be repeating the same mistake of the past, and making mockery and caricature of oneself and the innocent citizens. The present INEC and the present judiciary has been shown to be extensions or departments of the APC, so there will be no sense by anyone relying on any of them for anything good.
In 2027 we need leaders with Fubaralistic courage, and who not succumb to any form of intimidation, threats and blackmail. It must be leaders that will stick out their necks and be ready to die to defend the people’s mandate.
The truth is that these set of political bandits that are currently cutting the shorts in the Country are very daf, unintelligent, and only believe and relies on using propaganda, intimidations, threats and killings to sustain and retain power they stole. People should just take time to listen and read through their write ups, it will be easy to discover and confirm that they are botches of empty brains, BUT evil geniuses.
*In the coming election year, we need gentle but courageous Fubaras at both centre and across the Country. Those that they will take for granted to their perils.
We don’t need chicken hearted cowards if we must truly take back our Country indeed. We need men and women that talk tough and act swiftly like Sim Fubara, so that we can sincerely silence these men that operate and thrives in the dark. Evil men and women that feeds and feasts on the blood of the poor.
We must understand that nothing good comes easy and we must understand that power is not given but taken.
What happened in 2023 Presidential election should never and must not be tolerated or allowed to repeat again. To hell with their BVAS and electronic transmission rhetorics and deceit. Strategies to dislodge these mindless and brainless political crooks across the Country must be perfected before 2027, otherwise we and the coming generations will be doomed.
You can see that have started laying foundation towards 2027, with the state capture that took place at Imo, Kogi and recently in Edo. Anambra and Ondo are their next target.
This time, if we must Obi or anyone else, he must show himself capable enough, courageous enough and descive enough like Sim Fubara and Omeyele Sowere.
We are sick and tired of gentle approaches and idealistic approaches with lawless leadership. It’s surely time to declare and say ‘if we must die, let us not die like the hug driven and pinned in an inglorious spot, oh if we must die, let us nobly die, so that the mourners will honour us though dead’.