Nyesom Wike: What Manner of Man

I am just very confused as I write. These kinds of narcissists bordering on a self-evolving feeling of messianic proportions have only been seen in such despots as Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin and Emperor Bokassa, my favourite. Those ones, you could understand that they arrogated to themselves the powers of life and death and carried themselves with the infallibility that made us all forget that they were mere mortals.

Mr. Wike seems to be very drunk in whatever drink that he has taken, giving him that sense of fake immortality and an invincibility that only him can decode and see. It’s    amazing how an “employee,” because that is just what he really is in his latest position, can carry along the way he has been carrying to the point that he is being labelled ‘co-president.’

This is what you get, when you weaken processes and institutions. It throws up power-drunk maniacs who arrogate powers they do not have to themselves. See him screaming “I paid for forms for everybody from the governor to the council man…” and nobody is asking, paid from where and how? Is it your money? Tax payers’ money? And you are shouting you paid? And because of that you now believe that you must be the Nebuchadnezzar of Rivers politics and by extension may be Nigeria.

I know Nigerians really do not like calling a spade a spade but instead they will be calling me and saying, “Duke you no dey fear, oya fire Wike.” Me sef will carry my big head and be firing.

But the truth is that Mr. Wike is a despot and not a very intelligent one at that. What has kept him going is the seeming inefficiencies within our system that allows such shallow-minded but power drunk individuals like this to run riot over the place.

The way this particular demi-god has been carrying along for the past four years has not only been embarrassing but a total shame to all 200 million of us. How could we have produced such a leader? Not only produced “it” but nurtured it and kept it going to the point where regardless of rules, structure and all, it will be moving along almost uncontrollably.

President Tinubu, I don’t know how you could be so comfortable with such a loose cannon in your backyard to the point that he is now being labelled your co-president.

I do not know what exactly Mr. Wike has on you, but you have to be a man and clip his wings, after all, he is just an “employee.” I never see this kind one for my life. I just tire.