Tinubu-Shettima

The 2023 general election has come and gone, but the dust it raised will last a time.  A close source of the President-Elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu has hinted at an impending plan by the Tinubu-Shettima-led APC government to decimate and incapacitate Igbos economically. 

Part of the plan is to review and revoke many Certificates of Occupancies traceable to Igbos as well as demolish and relocate markets hitherto dominated by the Igbos. Abuja, Lagos, and Kano fall within the first phase of the project of this anti-Igbo campaign.  

Nyesom Wike would be used as a strong anti-Igbo force in the South-South region, the source hinted.

Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Kwakwanso of Kano State, Lagos State Governor Sanwo Olu, Femi Fani Kayode FFK and Barrister Festus Keyamo have been ‘mobilized’ to lead the anti-Igbo economic warfare.  They will hit the ground running immediately after the inauguration. Aside from the anti-Igbo economic warfare, there are plans to militarize the South East Geopolitical Zone. 

“The military would be massively detailed to Southeast to ensure that Igbos are suppressed, with a special target at the youths who they believe would mount a resistance through series of protest and a regional campaign for self-determination”.

Part of the plan is to woo the media as partners-in-the-game.  FFK would be in charge of managing the media and strategic media campaign that would see most media house either aligning with the government or having their stations constantly subjected to paying fine.  Few stations have been marked for total revocation of their licenses.

“Tinubu has already planned and voted billions of Naira to woo the media.  They are already identifying willing media partners who will suppress dissenting voices.   The media would be so controlled that anti-government remarks may earn instant closure or outrightly withdrawal of the operating licenses of media houses seen as not being part of the government.

“Currently, FFK is calling and reaching out to many pressmen from the Southern part of Nigeria.  Part of his job would be to lobby, finance and coerce the press into either looking away in silence or aligning with the -government’s anti-Igbo policies.

Another group stationed in Europe and America would serve as a lobby group for the government.  Their jobs would entail disrupting information and presenting it before the Western world as the collective desire of the people.

The source worries that since the fall of Libya, Nigeria has been targeted under a scheme called “expendable”.

Recall that the anti-Igbo campaign greeted the last election where Igbos were profiled, humiliated and thoroughly disfranchised in Lagos.  It was stated that the humiliation the President-Elect suffered in the last general election in Lagos State (considered his strongest hold) would not go unpunished. Recall that Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu lost his stronghold Lagos to Mr. Peter Obi, a feat Tinubu was said to have vowed would be utterly altered.

Part of the plan is to ensure that Igbos are demoralized into participating in political activities, following their recent political reawakening which saw the President-Elect losing in their entire South East, and most states in South-South.  Aside from winning the Federal Capital Territory, Peter Obi is believed to have massively won in North Central States like Plateau, Benue, and Nasarawa.

The thematic objective of the exercise, according to the source is to box Igbos to a corner where they would recoil politically and rendered economically unstable.