Brand it another cycle of political suspense. It is triggering towering momentum. Many Nigerians are anxious to read the nomenclature of President Bola Tinubu’s ministerial nominees. While they are deeply enmeshed in self questioning value as to the catalogue of our next ministers, I would rather counter it with the critical inquiry: who will be the next cabals of Nigeria?
I am more emotionally impulsive to decipher the potential cabals of the Tinubu government rather than the ministers for obvious reasons. In the last dispensation, I awkwardly felt the prodigal reign of political upheavals perpetrated by cabals who assumed too much airs than portfolio ministers. When former President Muhammadu Buhari’s self-designated cabals innovated the new naira ‘tsunami’ and coerced the masses to bitterly swallow it, the finance minister and all other relevant stakeholders, for that matter, were alienated from that obnoxious project. Their non-inclusion was loosely inspired by the cabals’ ‘selfish craftsmanship’. If they had been included, such an artificial disaster would not have occurred. But it is learnt that cabals survive only when there is instability.
Cabals are universally linked, insightful and conspirational wherever they are. Mafias are related in some close and selfish designs to boost their interest against that of the nation or community. They are merchants of political frauds and vendetta and their chaotic vision is constructing a world of their own passion that differs from ours. In their philosophical mandate lies gaining from our misfortunes. Can you tell me that this was not pragmatically deployed when the infamous naira rehabilitation reared its ugly head? Although cabals are of multi-structural forms and purposes, the political cabals are more pronounced, vibrant but ruinous. In a more definitive and instructive clause, they direct the focus of the government to holistically tally with their own ideology or interests.
The other omnipotence trend of the cabals is their potency of usurping part of the popular people’s mandate. And this was also craftily showcased under Buhari’s glorified ineptitude. We passionately voted for Buhari but transferred our votes to the cabals to enrich them with unlimited power. Indeed, the Villa oracles stole our mandate and rendered us hopeless as well as helpless. All our unanimous optimism for a polished masses oriented government was eventually illusive as it was badly negated by the mafia’s political callousness.
Nevertheless, Buhari was not the only victim of the cabals’ unceasing conspiracy. However, his lackadaisical disposition had largely not ameliorated the gravity of their evil designs that were unparallel and inconsistent with our national ideologies. Their organic operations were surreptitiously unbeknownst to those outside their inner circle. They existed and functioned via fraternised common ideology, emotion and interest to create complicated episodes of varying devastations. Can we forget the dramatic explosions that featured Mrs Aisha Buhari when she was at loggerheads with the Villa cabals? How can we not remember the obscene acts which attained their zenith proportions when some cabals were trying to assert their real ownership of the Villa and wanted to belittle Aisha, an ordinary tenant?
Conspirators’ major philosophical contention is that they can only prosper when there is chaos and anarchy. That was their inordinate ambition to knock down President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the eve of the last presidential election. It offered us food for thought that he cabals were ferociously angry with Tinubu whom they saw as a political sinner, forgetting their own ‘greater’ sins. However, we had to pay the exorbitant price of Tinubu’s sins without the cabals being vigilant of the dire consequences, of which Nigeria was almost brought to its knees by the cabals’ idiosyncratic naira crunch.
When a minority group of mafias manoeuvres to impose complications on the majority, the unity of their universal message re-affirms its spontaneous theme of global intrigues.To draw some tragic episodes of their attempt to create turmoils, two prominent global events are good examples. One was when some Leftists argued that the September 11 attacks were organised by President George Bush’s inner circle in order to justify the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. The other was the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which Hilary Clinton blamed a ‘ vast right-wing conspiracy’ for her husband’s predicament.
The Tinubu government will definitely be tested on the influence or otherwise of high ranking cabals. But it is better for him to give genuine imagination that he will be surrounded by rapacious elements as cabals. If this fallacy is given the objectivity it deserves, then Tinubu ought to produce a resisting template on how to repel mafias as political vultures so as not to desecrate the image of his government. He must be ready to fight them to depart from their subtle ‘rule of power plundering’.
Unlike the late Abba Kyari who ventured to act as a formidable Villa cabal when he was the chief of staff, it is unlikely that Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila acting the same capacity as Kyari would be another prototype in relation to cultivating the spirit of cabalism. For Gbajabiamila, his unflinching loyalty for Tinubu is seemingly not dead. He will continue to keep it alive and will not fall into political shambles to condone the emergence of the next Villa cabals. In a nutshell, Gbajabiamila can stand firmly and act as a watch dog to keep constant vigil of any attempt to import into the Villa another class of mafias
Meanwhile, some of Tinubu’s ministers are likely to be the next cabals. It all depends on their political disposition and performance. If a minister feels larger than his portfolio, he is deemed tempted to go into the cabal way to assert his relevance. If the president is satisfied with the performance of a particular minister, the former will be emotionally attached to him and the latter will clandestinely invade the president’s political thoughts with a view to remodeling them.
Impliedly, therefore, there are two main sources for the likely emergence of Tinubu’s cabals. One is negative and its counterpart is positive. If, eventually, his government is tested positive, then let’s wait and see the next high-profile cabals.
Abdullahi writes from Ringim, Jigawa state via [email protected]
