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THE GHOST OF WETIE: How Tinubu Is Reaching Into Nigeria’s Darkest Past — And Why the Past Will Not Save Him
By Kio Amachree | Worldview International
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I. A Ghost Rises From The West
History does not merely repeat itself in Nigeria. It haunts. And today, from Abuja’s Aso Rock corridors to the hollowed streets of a gutted Rivers State democracy, the ghost of Samuel Ladoke Akintola walks again — dressed in Agbada, flanked by lawyers, wrapped in the language of constitutionalism. His name this time is Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The parallels are not metaphorical. They are operational. They are structural. They are, for those with eyes trained on Nigerian history, terrifyingly precise.
II. Who Was Akintola — And What Did He Do?
Samuel Ladoke Akintola served as Premier of Western Nigeria from October 1, 1960, until the day soldiers put a bullet in him on January 15, 1966 — the morning of Nigeria’s first military coup.  He was brilliant, lethal, and ultimately self-destructive. His fall did not merely end his life. It ended the First Republic.
In May 1962, when the Western House of Assembly moved to remove Akintola after his party passed a vote of no confidence in him, crisis erupted on the floor of the House. The Action Group party broke into two factions, triggering a political emergency so severe that the federal government declared emergency rule in the region. 
Sound familiar?
What followed was a sustained, systematic dismantling of democratic opposition. Akintola’s regional government banned all public protest demonstrations. He then banned opposition candidates from contesting in some areas. The opposition candidate who was supposed to run against Akintola in the 1965 election inexplicably withdrew a week before election day, leaving the Premier without a challenger. 
In the 1965 general election, Akintola won his place as Premier not as a member of his original party but as leader of a newly established party, the NNDP, a faction in alliance with the ruling Northern People’s Congress.  He had essentially jumped ship from the platform that made him, constructed a captive coalition with the dominant northern power, and used that alliance to crush everyone who stood in his way.
Then came the elections themselves. Reports of rigging, intimidation, and violence spread like wildfire. Ballot boxes disappeared, and thugs chased away voters. When the results were announced, Akintola’s NNDP was declared the winner, and the people lost their patience. 
The result was Operation Wetie — a campaign of intense political violence, derived from the Yoruba phrase meaning “wet him” or “soak it,” describing the practice of dousing political opponents, their homes and vehicles with petrol before setting them ablaze. 
The outcome was a breakdown of law and order, killing and burning of properties of political opponents. The 1965 election represented the ultimate debasement of the democratic process through chicanery and thuggery. 
By the end of 1965, the Western Region was effectively ungovernable. Armed thugs patrolled the streets, and the rule of law vanished. The military, watching from the barracks, concluded that the politicians had failed.  Three months later, they struck. Akintola was dead. The Republic was over.
III. Tinubu’s Mirror Image
Now read this carefully.
On March 18, 2025, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in a nationwide broadcast, declared a state of emergency in Rivers State. In a move that generated widespread debate, he suspended the elected State Governor, his deputy, and the entire State House of Assembly for six months, appointing an administrator to oversee affairs of the State. 
This is not governance. This is Akintola in a presidential jet.
The founding National Secretary of the Alliance for Democracy, Prof. Udenta Udenta, accused the Tinubu presidency of dismantling democratic values and weaponising the judiciary and the Constitution against Nigerians. 
More than 40 court cases were filed challenging the legality of the proclamation. Human rights advocates warned that suspending elected officials undermined democratic norms, even if done under constitutional provisions. 
On the opposition itself, the pattern is even more chilling. Opposition leaders accused the Tinubu administration of using anti-graft and security institutions to intimidate political rivals and force opposition governors into the ruling APC, warning that state power was being deployed not for the prevention of economic crimes but for the systematic persecution of perceived political adversaries ahead of the 2027 general election. 
Political analysts noted that the growing unpopularity of the President in Northern Nigeria made the ruling party more desperate to win more opposition states and politicians, especially in Southern Nigeria, to enhance his electoral prospects — fueling speculation that joining the ruling party offers political insulation from prosecution. 
The scale of defections raised concerns among civil society groups, opposition parties, and political analysts, who warned that Nigeria risked sliding towards a one-party state — a development they said could weaken democratic accountability and concentrate excessive power in the hands of the ruling party. 
Akintola used the NPC alliance from the North to consolidate power in the West while imprisoning Awolowo. Tinubu uses the APC machinery, Wike as his instrument of chaos in Rivers, and the EFCC as his political enforcement arm — while locking up journalists, activists, and bloggers under cybercrime statutes.
In August 2025, authorities orchestrated the removal of 59 million pieces of content and the shutdown of 13.5 million accounts across TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, Google, and Microsoft. A National Youth Service Corps member, Ushie Uguamaye, had her certificate withheld and service extended after refusing to delete a TikTok criticising Tinubu’s economic policies. 
This is not democracy defending itself. This is authoritarianism learning to type.
IV. But This Is Not 1965. This Is 2026.
Here is where Tinubu’s historical plagiarism becomes not just dangerous, but delusional.
Akintola operated in a world of slow news, controlled radio broadcasts, and a population with no mechanism for instantaneous collective fury. When the Western Region burned, the rest of Nigeria found out days, sometimes weeks, later. The international community received carefully curated diplomatic cables. There was no smartphone in a Port Harcourt mechanic’s pocket recording the moment democracy died. There was no X. There was no diaspora with 200,000 followers pressing “post” before the ink dried on an emergency proclamation.
That world is gone.
Nigeria’s social media space in 2025 became a powerful mirror of the nation’s realities, amplifying joy, outrage, controversy, and collective pride — with digital platforms shaping national conversations and influencing public opinion across every major political decision. 
Tinubu himself, before assuming the presidency, admitted the terror of this new reality. He stated publicly that he no longer monitored social media because Nigerians abused him to the point of high blood pressure, saying: “They abused the hell out of me. If I read it, I will have high blood pressure and I get angry so I don’t read it.” 
A man who cannot withstand the legitimate fury of his own citizens has no business seeking dominion over them. And yet he presses on — trying to silence what he cannot bear to hear.
Tinubu’s own Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, called social media “a societal menace,” triggering widespread condemnation from Nigerians who accused the administration of seeking to strip citizens of their freedom to hold bad politicians accountable. 
The panic is visible. The blueprint is Akintola’s. But the battlefield is not 1965 Ibadan. It is global, instant, and permanent.
V. A Dangerous Game With a Known Ending
Akintola’s gambit lasted a few years. It ended with soldiers at his gate and bullets in his body. The Republic he helped destroy took decades to partially rebuild — through military dictatorships, civil war, and structural corruption that metastasised into the Nigeria Tinubu now presides over with such cynical familiarity.
The brutality of that era shocked the nation and drew international attention.  And that was before the age of satellite television, before AI-generated evidence packages, before diaspora remittance communities with political muscle, before FOIA litigation in federal courts in Washington D.C.
What we are witnessing today — brazen rigging of elections, using state institutions to intimidate and coerce the opposition, gagging dissent, using the courts to weaken and destroy opposition parties — is precisely what destroyed the First Republic. 
Nigeria did not survive Operation Wetie whole. It survived it scarred, fractured, and militarised for two decades. The question is whether Tinubu understands what he is gambling with — or whether, like Akintola before him, he believes that power consolidated is power permanent.
It is not.
The Nigerians who flooded the streets in the #EndBadGovernance protests of 2024, who document every affront in real time, who carry the evidence of stolen mandates and stolen billions to international courts and legislative bodies across four continents — these are not the passive citizens of 1965 who could be burned into silence.
They are connected, enraged, and, unlike Akintola’s victims, they have memory that does not fade and reach that does not stop at any border.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu is playing a very dangerous game with a very old script. But Nigeria has read that script. Nigeria knows how it ends.
And the man who authored the original paid with his life, his legacy, and his Republic.
Kio Amachree is President of Worldview International and author of The Kio Solution framework on Nigerian governance and accountability.
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Robert Mueller died last night.
He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving.
He had integrity.
And tonight the President of the United States said good!
I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good.
I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word.
Good.
This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather.
That is what is happening. That is what has happened.
The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming.
America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner.
And the church said nothing.
Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary.
Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him.
Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart.
JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn.
These men are something more painful than monsters.
They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again.
Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing.
Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less.
That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him.
And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it.
When Trump is gone, they will still be here.
Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous.
That morning is coming.
Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say.
He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true.
He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad.
The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it.
That is all it needed to be.
A man died. His family is broken open with grief.
That is all it needed to be.
Instead the President said good.
And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸
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Masaichi Hori, president of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification in Japan, addressed the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit 2026 to detail the grave threat facing his organization after the Tokyo District Court's March 2025 dissolution order.
He explained that the ruling—now under appeal, with a high court decision expected by March 2026—would strip the group of legal existence and all assets, not for any criminal conviction, but based on civil judgments tied to vague notions of "public welfare" and "social appropriateness."
Hori noted that this approach contradicts established Japanese legal precedent, which requires proven criminal acts for such extreme measures, and has drawn explicit warnings from UN special rapporteurs on religious freedom, who criticized the use of ambiguous criteria that could enable excessive state interference.
He framed the case as the start of a dangerous domino effect across Asia's democracies, pointing to South Korea's reported interest in studying Japan's model under President Lee Jae-myung and highlighting a Chinese state-affiliated group's public celebration of the ruling as a template for handling "cults."
Hori argued that what began as a domestic matter now risks normalizing the dissolution of religious groups without criminal wrongdoing, potentially eroding democratic safeguards for minority faiths worldwide.
The speech carries added personal weight, delivered the day after Hori's mother's funeral, underscoring the human stakes in this fight for religious liberty.
This issue demands attention because it challenges the resilience of religious freedom in established democracies, where legal tools once reserved for clear criminality are now applied to civil disputes.
As international bodies like the UN voice concern and calls for intervention grow, the outcome in Japan—and any emulation elsewhere—could set precedents affecting faith communities globally.
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