“By Accusing The NSA Of Money-sucking, Wike Has Devalued Office Of The President” – Prof Oshodi

By Adesina Soyooye

A Professor of Clinical/Forensic Psychology, Egbeazien Oshodi, has drawn the attention of President Bola Tinubu and Nigerians to the degradation of the person and office of the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike.

In a long a write-up titled Wike, Why Not Just Resign And Leave The President Alone?, the Professor reeled out how much Wike has, allegedly, insulted the leadership of the ruling Party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, the Federal Cabinet, and even stolen the thunder from President Bola Tinubu. He insisted that Wike has disrespected the President in more ways than one.

He cited, for example the comment on the NSA by Wike. Recall that Ribadu, in company with other to officials of the Federal Government, had visited Rivers in connection with the Ogoni issue and, as required by protocol, paid a courtesy call on Governor Siminalayi Fubara at Government House.

While there, he told the Governor that the President was happy with him. That message to Fubara through  the NSA, obviously, did not go down well with Wike.

Wike showed it a couple of days later when on a trip to Port Harcourt, he made a statement that gave the impression that the NSA said that for financial gains. In local parlance it could be translated to: “The NSA gave the message because  he has come to chop.”

Not a few people who knows Ribadu were shocked that anybody could rate him that cheap. But beyond that, Professor Oshodi saw it as a mockery  of President Tinubu’s highest security officer.

In a sub-title in the article, “THE ABUSE OF THE CABINET AND THE NSA: THEY COME TO COLLECT, Professor Oshodi wrote:

“The Minister’s disrespect did not stop at the Governor, (Fubara), it climbed the very ladder of the Federal Government.

“When the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, visited Rivers to deliver a message of Presidential support for Fubara, Wike did not show respect, he showed contempt. He mocked the President’s highest security officer, suggesting the visit was a mere financial transaction:

“Everybody who comes to Rivers State today must say, ‘the President is happy with you,’ and they collect… for you to be able to suck part of that money, you must say Wike’s time is over’.

“By accusing the NSA of being a money sucker who sells the President’s happiness for money, Wike has devalued the office of the President. He has made the Commander-in-Chief look like a man whose endorsements are for sale. He has dragged the Presidency into the marketplace of suspicion with one reckless statement.

“That is not political rivalry. That is institutional humiliation. That is a Minister treating the President’s authority like a product that can be bought and sold.

“This is what it means to treat Tinubu like a child, to speak as if the President’s representatives can be insulted publicly without consequence, to behave as if the Presidency must absorb disrespect like a parent tolerating a stubborn child who refuses correction.”