Obasanjo to Tinubu: Wipe Out Bandits Now or We Call the International Community
By: Abudu Olalekan
Obasanjo no dey smile again. Baba don talk am raw on Friday inside Jos, Plateau State. He face President Bola Tinubu direct: end these bandits wey dey slaughter Nigerians every day, or make we call the whole world come help us. Yes, he said it like that.
The old general climb stage for the Plateau Unity Christmas and Praise Festival, Ten Commandments Prayer Altar, Dwei-Du, Jos South. Everywhere quiet. Then Baba drop the bomb.
“If our government no fit protect us, we get right to call international community. Simple,” he fire. “We be part of the world. If dem dey kill us like chickens and government just dey look, we go shout give the world make dem come do wetin our leaders no fit do.”
He come vex proper. Say the killings no get meaning again. “Nonsensical!” he shout. Christian, Muslim, pagan—everybody dey die. And government just dey fold hand.
Baba no even hide am. He say technology don pass the level wey criminal fit hide. “This time of satellite, nobody fit commit crime run go hide for bush. Dem go see you. Before I comot from Aso Rock, we dey already get capacity to locate anybody for Nigeria. The only thing we no get that time na to pick the person without road or helicopter. Now drone full everywhere. You fit just carry the person or even finish am from sky. Why we never dey do am?”
He pause. The whole place hold breath.
“Why we dey negotiate with criminals? Government go pay ransom, come turn around say ‘we no pay anything’. Which kind lie be that? We don tire. Nigerians don tire to dey die every day.”
Obasanjo come remember his own time. Say if na him still dey there, many of these bandits for don disappear since. “Life of every Nigerian matter,” he hammer. “Christian, Muslim, traditional—na Nigerian. Make the killing stop today.”
People begin clap. Some begin cry. Because deep down, everybody know say Baba talk truth wey dey pain.
He no dey threaten for mouth. This na the same Obasanjo wey send soldiers go Zaki Biam, wey face Odi matter, wey no dey fear anybody when e come to security. Now he dey tell Tinubu say time don reach to do the same thing—or comot from road make person wey fit do am enter.
The message clear die: no more excuses. No more “technical defeat”. No more paying criminals billions under table while dem deny for camera. Use the drone. Use the satellite. Use everything. Wipe them out. Or step aside make the world come do am for us.
Because Nigerians don tire to dey bury their children.
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