‘Rivers State crisis not America’s business’

As we near the end of the second half of the first four years of the tenure of our dear President, we have to make it clear that no foreign authority has the liberty to interfere in Nigeria’s political and other domestic affairs.

The recent call on President Bola Tinubu by Institute of Law Research and Develop (ILAWDUN) to reverse the emergency rule that he invoked on Rivers State is an interference not welcome.

I assert that the call by ILAWDUN is an insult which the Government of Nigeria should respond most appropriately to.

Nigerians have been suffering excruciatingly for many years at the mercy of dictatorial Western interventions that serve the selfish agenda of the global European power-establishment. America has no history of actually serving Nigeria’s stabilisation and prosperity needs.

The political crisis in Rivers State is basically an offshoot of Nigerians’ political learning-process over which no foreign organisation or personality has authorityz.

President Tinubu is currently the highest political authority in Nigeria whose emergency rule decision in Rivers State is not subject to the command, control or prescription of ILAWDUN.

The Nigerian mouth-piece of that American Institute, Professor Cyprian Edward-Ekpo, knows well-enough that Nigeria is not a constituent state of the United States of America. The era of global US dictatorship under the guise of either humanitarianism or democracy has expired.

The US Government and its institutional adjuncts such as ILAWDUN should embrace the unstoppable global mass awakening sooner than later in their best interests. A new world that will favour all members of the human race is emerging and Nigeria is transiting pragmatically towards it.

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The political upheavals and the seemingly endless economic squeeze in the country are temporary. They are, fundamentally, products of protracted Western imperialist meddling in Nigeria’s affairs.

Nigeria should be left to evolve as a sovereign geo-political entity, same way America and other thriving countries did, irrespective of the nature of the attendant domestic tumults.

Satguru Maharaj Ji, Ibadan, Oyo State