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[quote author=enemyofprogress post=124267094]ALEX OTTI IS PLAYING WITH FIRE!

By

JESUTEGA ONOKPASA.

[s]A picture is currently circulating of Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, addressing a group of people with his portrait on the wall behind him, where it should be by order of protocol, but an empty space where that of President Bola Tinubu should be by virtue of that same protocol.
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[s]It is being flaunted by those adamant on not acknowledging President Tinubu "as their President", whatever they might think such utter nonsense might really amount to, and of course condemned by those who see it for the dangerous development it actually is.
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[s]That Mr Otti has refused to place President Bola Tinubu's portrait on his office wall is, of course, not at all a simple matter of a Governor having a choice whether to do so or not.
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[s]It is a different kettle of fish altogether if someone like vote wasting phenomenon, Sarah Omakwu, keeps pouting nonstop never to "recognize" President Tinubu as her President - she is, at the end of the day, just another private citizen, just as entitled to her rights as to her delusions.[/s]

[s]Mr Otti, on the other hand, is the Governor of a state comprising one of the federating units of this country and he is most certainly not at liberty to ventilate his political grievances as some schizophrenic bigot or hysterical tribalist might be inclined to.[/s]

[s]What he has done by thus undermining the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, is not even merely condonement of REBELLION (or, in this context, SECESSION) but outright approval promotion and sponsorship of the same.[/s]

[s]This is a very serious matter and must be taken just as seriously, for in seeking to undermine constituted authority in this most visible and crucially symbolic manner, Otti has made himself into an active participant in rebellion.[/s]

[s]Perhaps, some might want to shrug off what Governor Otti has done as ultimately inconsequential and just some infantile excess better ignored.
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[s]Indeed, "what is the importance of a presidential portrait on a wall, anyway?" they might wonder.[/s]

[s]Well, by that token, we might as well ask what is the importance of referring to a President as "Mr President" and maybe not as "hey you there, how far?"[/s]

[s]For those who might be ignorant as to the significance of a mere photograph, there is a compelling reason why all over the world presidential portraits and those of other categories of heads of state are conspicuously placed in such places as post offices, train stations, banks and government buildings where they are most likely to be seen by the greatest number of citizens.[/s]

[s]The practice is a device for asserting the authority of the state and legitimacy of the government.
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[s]It is taken so seriously, even in those jurisdictions with ceremonial heads of state, that the moment Queen Elizabeth II demised, the entire machinery of the British state immediately proceeded about replacing her portrait with that of her son who had thereupon ascended to the throne and become King of England!
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[s]Alex Otti is not the first Governor with an axe to grind with a President in this country and is not entitled to challenge our constitutional order because his tribesman lost an election.
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[s]At the height of former President Olusegun Obasanjo's wickedness against then Governor Bola Tinubu and the people of Lagos State, Asiwaju Tinubu still kept his portrait on his office wall and in all public buildings across Lagos throughout his tenure.[/s]

[s]Former Governors Nyesom Wike and Samuel Ortom, easily former President Muhammadu Buhari's most implacable adversaries, never once took down his portrait from their offices or government buildings.[/s]

[s]If Alex Otti says he is waiting for the courts to deliver their verdicts before recognizing President Tinubu as President of this country, then his own portrait ought not to be on his office wall, as well, since his mandate is similarly being challenged in court![/s]

[s]But, all of that is really beside the point; the offices of President and Governor are creations and creatures of law and the protocols pertaining thereto are not up to the whims, caprices or mere preferences of anyone, not even the occupants of those offices.[/s]

[s]What is really happening is the latest manifestation of a poisonous dimension Peter Obi and his ulta-bigotted and rabidly ethnicist rabble are insistent on foisting on Nigerian politics.[/s]

[s]It must be fiercely rejected and the legitimacy of state power, authoritatively asserted.[/s]

[s]There can be no question of allowing a governor "to do what he likes with his office", for by that standard, we might as well allow Mr Otti to use his office as the staging post for high treason contrary to the Constitution of the Federal Republic.[/s]

[s]It is clear what Otti and his co-travellers are up to in Abia; they are testing the waters and will keep escalating their excesses in geometric proportion to the extent to which the Nigerian state proves itself to be so weak as to allow them get away with them.[/s]

[s]I cannot imagine what Alex Otti and his cohorts might have been thinking - if, indeed, he was thinking at all - when he decided upon what might seem, at face value, a most sawdust-headed stunt but is actually a clear and unambiguous challenge to the authority of the President of Nigeria.[/s]

[s]Whatever delusions their ethnocentrism and religious intolerance might have misdirected them into, we simply cannot, as a sovereign independent country, have a situation whereby we have a President, recognized as such by, and, according to law, and yet tolerate some other authority that is similarly a creation of law to howsoever seek to detract from the authority, prestige and legitimacy of the highest office in the land.
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[s]President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the President of Nigeria, therefore Peter Obi's President and Alex Otti's President.
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[s]Indeed, President Tinubu is Alex Otti's President where Alex Otti is not his Governor.
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[s]Bola Tinubu is also the President of absolutely every other Nigerian including the most implacable "Obidients" currently applauding Otti's unconscionable excess.[/s]

[s]While these children of discontent and apostles of hate may elect to wallow in denial, Mr Otti is a public official, indeed an elected one like his President, Tinubu, and he will just have to place President Tinubu's portrait on his office wall and everywhere else in Abia, wherein it normally belongs, or God help him.

Less than two years from now Alex Otti will be sixty but if in his case wisdom has not come with age, then he will just have to suffer the consequence appropriate to rascals and fools.

Governor Alex Otti of Abia State is playing with fire and will soon find, the hard way, that if you play with fire, fire will burn you.[/s]

[s]Onokpasa, a lawyer, was a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council and writes from Abuja.[/s]

Heap of rubbish as usual

Go and take them to Court if you dont like it

Yorubas are really drown in their old and cheap tactics of leaving their own problems and discussings that of another.

Apart from Lagos, South-West states are nothing to write home about. But that is not a problem for them discuss, their problem is their husband -Igbo.

You are forming love and attaching yourself by force with the south-south, but the people you are forming fake love with are smarter than you.

helinues:
How many people do you guys want to pick a fight with at the same time?

Una go dey provoke people unnecessarily and when they respond back, you start forming victims.

Don't some of you know how to have a decorum?

You yoursel, you are a mischievous fellow for anybody to take your word serious

Only Children takes Reno Omokri serious in Nigeria

This Ashawo that hawks herself on the streets does not even know how to do copy and paste. But they will always claim to know everything.

Average Yoruba of these days both men and woman are illitrate

I am from the South-South zone and a Niger Deltan, Asari Dokubo is not a Niger Delta activits, he is a criminal who fights for himself hiding under Niger Delta activism.

Making his children jump classes to finish sec. schls. at that age and not follow regular process like other children confirms his despirations in life.

By that age, Jamb should investigate the process through which his children got adminssions into the universities, if actually they have.
CRIMINAL

GodWrites:
What a scam product. Detoxification indeed. What then is the function of our liver, kidney, and skin? Our organs are always detoxifying the body 24/7. If it's NAFDAC approved, then I am highly disappointed.

Hmmm! I have been reading lame and stupid comments, but this is the most foolish of all.

Why do you take drugs at all, because you have your immune system to fight any kind of Sickness

You have gone to sit in one dry gin shop or gone to visit a friend this early morning and sit playing and typing rubbish, while Shinedu and Shukudi are in Ladipo hustling, tomorrow now they come to buy your land and after, you will start souting

arejibadz:
someone should tell me why the easterners dont like them selves?

The reason is because Yorubas are full of hate and dont even trust themselve. The reason why no South-West governor patronises Proforce in their fake and toy looking security vehecles.

And the reason why Ibadan man doesnt trust his Ibadan neighbour and other Yorubas can not give change to Ijebu person.

He is on point.
Even Mahmood Yakubu, we really need to be serious in this country

[quote author=EmperorHadrian2 post=123831169]Name one Igbo man that has called for restructuring and devolution of powers from the federal level to states and I will show you a unicorn in rainbow colours

True, there is dignity in labour.
But selling Okrika with those kind of kittings, and with that guy man hairstyle?

Sly is not just an actor, he is a movie producer, a director and scriptwritter. Infact, he writes most of those his movies.

Dude is among the big boys in Nollywood.

This is definitely a movie.
The poster knows, but he just wants to get traffic to his channel.

Nice one

I thought Tinubu is a master galvaniser and strategy, So his galvanisation strength could only give him votes from his regions senators.

Injustice to one is injustice to all.

You guys should return the guy bags and documents.

Which sensible and foward thinking people takes Yoruba people serious.
Who doesnt know that they are the no.1 hate-full tribe of Nigeria.