Tinubu’s run-with-the-hare-and-hunt-with-the-hounds statement on Amotekun pretends to be statesmanlike and evenhanded but it actually only cleverly conceals its attempt to please the Aso Rock cabal. Only people with subnormal cognitive capacities will fail to see this.

Why didn’t he exercise this sort of even temper when he asked “where are the cows?” after Chief Reuben Fasoranti’s daughter was murdered in cold blood by people alleged to be herders? Tinubu might well have been right that the woman wasn’t murdered by herders, but he couldn’t have known that for sure since no investigation had been carried out. And he said it when emotions were still aflame. Plus, herders who choose to murder don’t take cows to the murder scene, which made his sarcastic question at once pointless, insensitive, and unstatesmanlike. Incidentally, it's the intensification of senseless, unresolved murders such as the one he taunted that inspired the formation of Amotekun.

Tinubu’s neither-here-nor-there statement mirrors the duplicity and opportunism of his symbolic actions on Amotekun. For example, neither Sanwo-Olu nor his deputy, who are both beholden to him, attended the formal launch of Amotekun, and Lagos was the only Southwest state where an Amotekun solidarity rally was disrupted by the police. These actions clearly typify opposition to the security outfit.

At the same time, Tinubu’s minions in the intelligentsia and his battering rams in the news media have come out strongly against the federal government’s—and some northern politicians’—opposition to Amotekun.

In wanting to opportunistically appease both sides in the service of his illusive 2023 presidential bid, Tinubu will appease none. The cold, calculating inner circle in Aso Rock is intensely aware that Tinubu’s fence-sitting is an insincere, self-seeking political maneuver to appease them, and the Southwest eople who were compelled to embrace Amotekun by the escalating sense of siege that unceasing mass murders by homicidal thugs have activated would be unimpressed by his ambiguity and lack of moral clarity.

People who are neither here nor there end up being nowhere, and, with time, nowhere becomes somewhere untoward.


Farooq Kperogi

Gibberish

Tinubu's attitude towards amotekun is the same problem the entire south east detests about the south west; Double-standard nature and refusal to take a stance (lingering is just the safe place to be).

This was the same case prior to the biafran war.

Its just politics.

Most Nigerians are intellectually daft , we just hide under our political ideology. Yes when fasoranti daughter was murdered was there any evidence of the killer been a fulani herdsmen? But we all felt it's convenient to blame fulani herdsmen for it

helinues:
Gibberish

it's actually not.

There is something called "firm stance" tinubu is paying lip service because if he opposes it openly it will blow up in his face.


Btw the thing is dead sef. Tinubu and other politicians have snuffed life out of the amotekun already.

Let the insecurity continue, it's such a small price for 2023 presidency

Amotekun is dead on arrival

The FG already declared their activities illegal so it won't fly.

ClassicMG:
Most Nigerians are intellectually daft , we just hide under our political ideology. Yes when fasoranti daughter was murdered was there any evidence of the killer been a fulani herdsmen? But we all felt it's convenient to blame fulani herdsmen for it

it was fulani herdsmen. Period. Or you want to tell us miyetti allah did not claim responsibility for the benue carnage .

We all saw miyetti Allah threatening to kill more people re miyetti allah people ijaws ?

Captainrambo2:
it was fulani herdsmen. Period. Or you want to tell us miyetti allah did not claim responsibility for the benue carnage .

We all saw miyetti Allah threatening to kill more people re miyetti allah people ijaws ?

you said miyetti Allah claimed responsibility for benue carnage was fasoranti daughter killed in benue and any evidence it was miyetti Allah that killed her ? Come with fact

ClassicMG:
you said miyetti Allah claimed responsibility for benue carnage was fasoranti daughter killed in benue and any evidence it was miyetti Allah that killed her ? Come with fact

no it was igbo herdsmen that killed her.



Can we now give it a rest ?

Who's surprised? Nobody because it's in the blood

Captainrambo2:
no it was igbo herdsmen that killed her.



Can we now give it a rest ?

you can't even come up with a single evidence. Ogbeni koshi si waju