Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Tuesday claimed that opposition parties are orchestrating Nigeria's security crisis to sabotage the ruling party before the 2027 polls. Speaking at the inauguration of the Nigeria Revenue Service Headquarters in Abuja, he argued that bomb blasts and kidnappings will vanish "in the first two weeks" after the election because "people are sponsoring it to distract you."
Akpabio praised President Bola Tinubu for scrapping fuel subsidy, saying the policy once consumed "almost 90% to 93% of revenue," leaving nothing for roads or bridges. He noted that work has resumed on long-abandoned FCT projects, transforming roads "some of us did not even know existed."
On the recent closure of the United States Embassy in Abuja, the Senate President dismissed local insecurity as the cause, blaming instead global fears of Iranian reprisals against American missions worldwide. "America is a bit worried about the bomb blast from Iran," he said, insisting Nigeria will "outlive this election."
Akpabio just confessed that Nigeria's security apparatus is so porous that faceless politicians can switch bomb blasts on and off like a light bulb. If a man who presides over the national budget truly believes killings and kidnappings are mere campaign jingles, then the victims of last weekend's attacks in Plateau and Zamfara have been told their pain is only a soundtrack for 2027.
The real subtext is uglier: the ruling elite now treat bloodshed as a weather system—something that blows in during election years and magically clears when ballots are counted. By bragging that Tinubu has "almost 32 governors under his fold," Akpabio reduces security to a head-counting game, implying that once super-majority is secured, the state no longer needs to keep citizens alive to win votes.
For Nigerians in Katsina, Benue or Imo, this translates to a chilling bargain: endure abductions, farm burnings and highway shootings for another 30 months because the electoral calendar says the pain is politically useful. Parents calculating school fees in the shadow of ransom demands now know their anguish is filed under "campaign strategy," not humanitarian crisis.
This is the logical end-point of a republic where bandits negotiate taxes with governors while the national legislature treats massacres as plot twists. When the line between partisan gossip and national security dissolves, every citizen becomes expendable background scenery in someone else's re-election trailer.
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