THE RETURN OF ELIJAH.

“I’m trying to reach you now sir, they have blocked us, they have stopped us.”

“This is the police blocking the senate president from leaving his house on Lake Chad junction. He’s about to report to the force headquarters but then the police have blocked his convoy. Look at this everybody..this is Model Secondary School Maitama..”

The above is a  transcript of what two distinct voices said in the short video published on twitter by one of Senator Saraki’s aides to kickstart the defection storm that belatedly hit the house of assembly a few days ago.

Tweet by Saraki's aide Bamikole Omisore at 7.54am that set the ball rolling

From all indications, the men who spoke in the video knew that the senate president was not in any of the vehicles parked on the road outside the aforementioned secondary school. As far as I’m concerned, those were just vehicles in a convoy parked for a photo shoot. Two white squad cars allegedly donated by Dangote were in front and behind the vehicles belonging to the office of the senate president. Two Mercedes Benz cars, one ambulance, one white pick-up van and one black pick-up van containing a handful of mobile policemen made up the props.

Apart from a few armed policemen standing at strategic points on the street and one or two men dressed in suits, that scene did not look like a standoff. The Police Force public relations officer told his hounding interviewers on Channels TV that the senate president alone had over forty (40) policemen in his detail under the direct local command of the latter’s chief security officer and aide de camp. A previous story in the tabloids about the reduction in number of secret police operatives to the senate president and speaker of the House suggests that there are at least fourteen (14) operatives still with the Senate president. If the convoy was indeed obstructed on that day, I expected to see a chaotic scene and face offs between the obstructors and the protectors but there was nothing of such, just a short clip of stationary cars and policemen. We were in this country late last year when SSS officers resisted the arrest of the former SSS and NIA bosses by EFCC operatives. We observed how Governor Wike foiled the arrest of a judge with his police detail and how Governor Fayose did similarly and whisked apostle Suleiman to the Ekiti government house.

Forgive me if I can’t make any sense of the entire plot. Saraki was not in the vehicle so he could not have been headed in the direction of the police force headquarters and I do not think his residence is adjacent or proximal to Model secondary school Maitama. Saraki himself told the press he was barricaded in his house but one wonders how they managed to get his vehicles on the road and drive for a few minutes before eventually getting halted by just two cars. We saw the number of SSS operatives running alongside his open roof van when he made a triumphant entry into Ilorin after the Supreme Court judgement; I’m baffled that two squad cars did the trick in Maitama. I searched for the senate president’s residence on google map and plotted the distance of the Senate President's guest house to Lake Chad crescent even though I am not sure if that is exactly where he resides. It must have been at least a 3 minutes drive.

Senate President's guest house to Lake Chad crescent. Google

When the story of the  Ekweremadu siege where over 200 men allegedly held him hostage for over 6 hours in the same Abuja and time frame that Saraki was escaping in a rickety car is compared to the convoy blockade; one wonders if the 200 or more policemen sent to pin down Saraki were infants. Did the NPF send 200 to Ekweremadu (I wonder who did the census while he was held hostage) and far less to the Saraki who has even more protection?

After the Ekweremadu Siege with dino, Ben10, Brigadier David Mark and is that Kwankwaso eating rice on the left?

Governor Fayose it was who claimed to have been slapped and hit with the butt of a rifle by a policemen. He also got genetically engineered teargas treatment and all of these necessitated his doctors to fit him with a neck brace and keep his left hand in an improvised sling which was looped around his neck brace. He wept before cameras and collapsed in a heap surrounded by his supporters dressed in sparkling white attires. The video of him being transported in an ambulance to an intensive care unit is incredibly laughable. Mr Fayose appeared from all these shenanigans and was captured praying for his stooge who knelt before him to receive anointing to win the elections. Fayose even had his left hand planted on the head of the professor. How did that man even become a professor?

Fayose with his brace and sling surrounded by his supporting cast

It is my opinion that Governor Ortom is one of the weakest men ever to hold office in Nigeria. In terms of character, I think Fayose is even better that he is. Ortom launched an amnesty program soon after he got into office to take weapons from already armed Benue indigenes. One of them Tewase Akwaza aka Ghana was directly accused by the governor of attacking and killing people at the Zaki Biam market in early 2017. Ortom made this accusation on the day he visited the disaster site even before any investigations were done; he seemed capable of telling who did what without any help from the Police. Ghana and one of his associates who spoke to Channels TV late in 2016 when answering to accusations of murdering one of Ortom’s senior special assistants mentioned that the state had not fulfilled promises made to them on the day they surrendered their arms. Ghana even mentioned that he bought weapons at one time from one of Ortom’s key special assistants. The man who is a retired soldier denied the accusation, he said he’s a decent man.

Ortom and Ghana on Amnesty day 2015.

Ortom in my opinion is directly or indirectly complicit in the failure of security in his state. He spoke to the press at one time and accused certain community leaders of protecting Ghana but in the same report, Ghana himself was interviewed by Channels TV and mentioned where he was. How did Channels find him in Kastina-Ala and the governor couldn’t? Ortom must imagine he’s the state's chief coroner and not the chief security officer. If every governor were like him, there’d be civil war everywhere.

My opinion on the state’s law on open grazing is already known. It was made in bad faith and out of anger. The governor has his own ranch with exotic Argentine cows therein but he claims he’s doing the bidding of his people by enforcing a law that makes doing business extremely difficult. He is always quick to say “the people said, the people want..” yet he’s owing the people salaries. Like the biblical King Saul who made errors on account of focusing on the people, Ortom in my opinion has not done well to ensure peace in Benue. A grown man was on his way to Abuja with his full security detail and the press tagging along, only to then be stopped by ‘the people’ who ordered him to turn around and abandon the All Progressives Congress and he did. The people had several printed placards and the one that struck me was one with “APC is Miyetti party.” I fear the Benue people don’t recognize who their real enemies are. Suswam and Ortom have big ranches with sufficient water and food supply; their cows cost more than those from the herders but people think they are doing the Lord’s work. Kòkòrò tí ń jèfó-. Ortom is weak minded, come out and leave a party on your own terms and based on principles. No way, he left because they told him to and promised him that they wouldn’t vote for him if he ran on the APC platform. I think he’s done as a politician; I don’t see him getting returned as governor, at least he has his ranch to return to.

1 Kings 19 talks about Prophet Elijah fleeing into the wilderness after his life was threatened by Jezebel. This is also where Dino Melaye fled to after being attacked by a Sienna. He’s back like we expected and God was acknowledged for spearing his life yet again. Who needs security operatives, bulletproof vehicles or jazz when there is the God of Dino? How many people can survive more than two gun attacks, tear gas, a jump or push out of a moving vehicle and an attempted kidnap and yet return with back to back chart topping hits? Only a man of steel, a man of timber and calibre can go through all these and come out alive on a stretcher and in neck brace: Dino. The man is a cyborg.

Prophet dino and the legendary RMD

Mr commonsense Ben10 Murray-Bruce is playing multiple sides in all these. He’s the ultimate gambler, I wonder if he owns a casino. He’s already anointed Atiku as the next president but he is regularly at Dino’s side as his spokesman or healthcare aide. He was the informant of the recent episode titled “Sienna in the Wilderness” and his tweets are usually devoid of sense.

Ben10 Broadcasting services reporting emphatically

Throw Olisa Metuh into the mix

When you put all these individuals in the same movie and tell me they are the actors while Buhari is the villain; I can only do one thing and that is to laugh out loud. These are the people some intelligent people claim are on a mission to rescue Nigeria from what they perceive as tyranny. A group that uses ‘agbari’ to evade court appearances is the one that folks claim are on the side of the law? If you believe any of the plots from this crew, I can’t take you serious. It’s like those who still believe wrestlemania with Hulk Hogan and associates involved real combats.

I had to write this now before they introduce another twist. We await the move by the chief plotter, Saraki. Just look out for his social media guys and associates, you’ll find out the true content of their hearts. To those egging him on, don’t forget he’s a Northerner and a Muslim too like the one you despise. 

We now have a press who take the words of family members and social media associates of these politicians as truth over what the Police and Military say. The Channels TV early morning crew practically attempted to ridicule the Police Force PRO on their show by repeatedly asking the same question he had clearly answered and suggested that there was a loss of control by the police hierarchy. I don't know for now what their end game is but it is looking like 2011 all over again. I hope those who have chosen to be gullible or deliberately mischievous have been well paid or at least been sent promissory notes. 2019 will be LIT!!!