IN POLITICS INTEREST IS god…..MY JUNE 12 MESSAGE.
From geopolitics, through politics to political economics, interest is the god of politics!
….but the ALMIGHTY GOD IS FAR BIGGER THAN BOTH POLITICS AND INTEREST!
When POLITICS CLASHES WITH RELIGION, IN THE HEART OF (THE NATURAL) MAN, COLONIALISM, ANTISEMITISM, RACISM, IMPERIALISM AND NEPOTISM are invented.
For this reason the colonial masters would go to Church on Sunday and continue from where they left off of FRIDAY…….Exploiting people!
When INTERESTS speaks the language of politics, FAITH (in the natural man) gets shut out!
But there is an exemption!
William Wilberforce (1759 –1833), was the exemption! As a CHRISTIAN, he put FAITH ABOVE INTEREST (while most put FAITH below INTEREST) and started the process that ended the slave trade!
It was a major shock in the 1950s when Vietnam defeated France. The 7th of May 1954, defeat in Dien Bien Phu was proof……
…..that GOD IS GREATER THAN COLONIAL INTERESTS, but more was to come.
The same Vietnam under the identity of VIETCONG defeated the United States, for the same reason….
….THE ALMIGHTY GOD IS FAR BIGGER THAN BOTH POLITICS AND INTEREST!
Armed Force is the first line of SECURING AN INTEREST, that is why under Buhari, the Armed Forces are SECTIONAL not NATIONAL!
in Nigeria those who have secured exclusive control of the National Armed Forces for EXCLUSIVE REGIONAL INTEREST, should understand that…….
A military advantage is not a guarantee of victory, Ho Chi Minh made that point clear to five American Presidents across a 30 year period….Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon were the presidents.
From a general sense, June 12 was the day the “PRESCINDING INTEREST” enforced that INTEREST backed by the force of arms.
But from a strategic perspective, June 12 was more than the VANQUISHED date of democracy, it was the DEFEAT OF THE FEDERATING INTEREST in the commonwealth called NIGERIA, by the PRESCIDING INTEREST, in the power play to dominate the Nigerian state. Abiola was the victim that STRUGGLE.
……WHEN INTEREST CLASHES WITH THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE, THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE GETS THROWN OUT!
Francisco Franco of Spain made the point, that INTEREST backed by armed force can and will subjugate the sovereign will of the people. IBB proved him right on June 12. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey proved him wrong, the struggle is on in Venezuela….. Will a new phase start in NIGERIA?
The present glide of the country towards anarchy, with ETHNIC EVICTION NOTICES and OIL BLOCK TERMINATING COUNTER THREATS is a drama in another build up to a CLASH of CO-FEDERATING INTEREST…. for those with eyes to see and courage to speak!
Those herdsmen and their unchallenged war of attrition, with coercion in view, are the COVERT BATTLES OF AN INTEREST, determined to cling to power, using a faulty ANTI CORRUPTION fight to win public support, but betrayed by their own NEPOTISM and double standard ANTI CORRUPTION fight that budgets bullet proof cars for those it calls corrupt…..MOST RIDICULOUS!
an ANTI-CORRUPTION fight that shields men like Obasanjo and Amaechi,
(whose questionable financial dealings while in office should attract an INSTANT PROBE).
But what do we see? Obasanjo get a warm welcome anytime he visits the Vila and Amaechi?
A ministerial appointment and insulation from probes!
Why?
Both men betrayed the STRATEGIC INTEREST of their zones to the PRESIDING INTEREST for personal gain!
OBASANJO BETRAYED THAT OF THE SOUTH WEST and AMAECHI, THAT OF THE SOUTH SOUTH!
So PROTECTION is their REWARD!
INTEREST IS THE god IN POLITICS!
PROPAGANDA IS THE music that the ERRAND BOYS called the masses dance too with the news of the latest capture of another corrupt thief, those cheap steps of popularity have never asked why BABANGIDA THE SOVEREIGN UNTOUCHABLE and DON of corruption CAN NEVER BE TOUCHED!
This ANTI CORRUPTION fight is the political COERCION to silent the weak and get them to surrender to the RULING INTEREST.
What we have is CHEAP PAINT over RUSTY IRON……
The rust of the iron called NEPOTISM is showing through the cheap paint of an anti corruption fight, TOO TIMID TO TRY IBB, but goes after soft targets like Madueke.
(ALL THIEVES SHOULD BE SEEN AND TREATED ALIKE)
The goal?
To DISTRACT public attention from the truth of TRUE FEDERALISM and FEDERAL CHARACTER, the dual threats to the INTEREST that is ruling Nigeria!
Nothing has changed!
Nothing has changed, but ignorance has blinded many from seeing only the actors who changed and not the script that hasn’t.
Ignorance is the strategy in politics and this is what is playing out in NIGERIA!
THIS IS THE TRUTH OF NIGERIA, THE COMMONWEALTH DOMINATED BY A SECTIONAL INTEREST, that is why June 12 happened!
Amaso Jack is of the faculty of the Nigerian Institute of journalism Ogba, a public speaker and analyst.
The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author and not of Aledeh.
