By Fred Chukwuelobe
Somebody called me today and asked me to write on the reconciliation of suspended Rivers State Governor, Sim Fubara, his hitherto enstranged godfather and FCT Minister, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike.
I told him I was not going to comment on the matter. No bi everything I go de put my mouth into. I fit write now praising President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the master stroke in reconciling the two, and some people will eat me up, people who do not believe that the president is capable of doing ‘anything good.’
I fit write praising Gov. Fubara for agreeing to be a lame duck chief executive for the remaining two years of his governorship, and political pundits will tell me ‘if na you, nko? Who no like beta tin?’
If I write calling Wike a bulldozer who demystified Niger Delta militants and proved to be the czar of Rivers State politics, some people will tell me to ‘go and sit down,’ as if I was standing while writing this.
So, I won’t write. I will just watch as events unfold. Today, I watched the two – Fubara and Wike – attend an event in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, chatting, exchanging pleasantries, and smiling like reconciled lovers.
At least, Gov. Sim has two years to recover his expenses, cruise in his official convoy with security men and blaring siren in toe. These few weeks that he walked about without the perks of his office must have been very hard to bear. Not anymore.
As for President Tinubu, you may not agree, and please don’t k!ll me for saying so, the guy understands Nigerians and our politics. He did something that former President Olusegun Obasanjo couldn’t do in the case of former Gov. Chris Ngige and his erstwhile godfather, Chief Chris Uba.
He aligned with the elder brother to Chris, Nnamdi Andy Uba, the unseen hand in the debacle, and ran Ngige out of office. Yes, he did. Please, don’t debate it with me.
For President Tinubu to reconcile these two and thereafter departed for Saint Lucia and from there to Brazil, says a lot about his political dexterity.
Not even the resignation of his party’s National Chairman, Alhaji Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, and the disquiet over the fate of his deputy, Kashim Shettima, could bother him. He had everything taken care of before he jetted out, leaving us to continue to wail.
So, to my friend asking me to weigh in on the matter, I won’t. I am not a member of the opposition whose plans have been distorted by the resignation of the APC National Chairman, and the expected arrival of the doyen of Kano politics, Alhaji Musa Kwankwaso.
The only thing I can write is that these men are playing God. They are not playing politics; they are playing God. They think nobody can outsmart them. But there is something called the god factor in our lives.
It is called tomorrow. Nobody knows it except the great Architect of the Universe.
That’s all I can say for now.
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