Fubara: Governor only in name

By Amaechi – Oji 

In trying to recognize the funny behaviour of Siminalayi Fubara since his reinstatement arsenic the politician of Rivers State aft serving retired a six-month suspension slammed connected him by the headmaster of Nigeria’s democracy, President Bola Tinubu, and his people captain, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, I person had to instrumentality a 2nd look astatine the term, “Stockholm syndrome.”

An AI overview of the operation explains that successful August 1973, 4 employees astatine the Kreditbanken Bank successful Stockholm, Sweden, were held hostage by a robber named Jan-Erik Olsson and his accomplice, Clark Olofsson, for six days.

During the standoff, the hostages developed an affectional transportation with their captors and became acrophobic of the police. One of the hostages, Kristin Enmark, famously stated during a telephone with the Swedish Prime Minister that she trusted her captors but feared the constabulary more.

Following the saga, Nils Johan Bejerot, a Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist, who died connected November 29, 1988, coined the operation Stockholm syndrome successful explaining the unexpected behaviour of the hostages, who displayed sympathy and formed an affinity with their captors.

It was unusual and inexplicable to the Swedes astatine the clip conscionable arsenic Fubara’s behaviour 52 years aft has near a batch of radical scratching their heads successful disbelief. But information beryllium told, Fubara is arsenic overmuch a hostage arsenic the Stockholm quartet.

Here is simply a antheral who, though thoroughly humiliated and stripped of each powers, is inactive grateful to his tormentors for their ‘kindness and benevolence.’ But bash you blasted him? After all, allowing him to prefix, erstwhile again, his sanction with the exotic phrase, “His Excellency” and driven astir successful siren blaring convoys with information details to footwear is, indeed, a privilege successful his circumstance.

After all, didn’t his tormentor-in-chief, Wike, accidental connected Channels Television past Thursday (the precise time Tinubu lifted the authorities of emergency) that helium could person prolonged the exigency regularisation if helium truthful desired. “If we didn’t privation this authorities of exigency to beryllium lifted, we would person done 1 oregon 2 things to guarantee that it continues,” were his nonstop words.

So, wherefore won’t Fubara, who knows this fact, beryllium grateful that Wike, his lord and idiosyncratic saviour, was magnanimous capable not to question that way but alternatively chose to present him from the throes of abrupt governmental decease adjacent if helium attaches the astir stringent and obnoxious strings ever, as, indeed, helium did?

It is evident that the six-month quarantine play was utilized to purge Fubara of immoderate iota of self-worth and consciousness of grandeur that the exalted bureau of politician imbues successful occupants. First, his traducers ensuring determination was nary triumphant introduction for him aft helium was restored to office, kept him away.

Of course, Wike, who seemingly knew his whereabouts said nary instrumentality required him to resume enactment immediately. “Do you cognize whether helium is successful Abuja doing 1 oregon 2 things? Do you cognize whether helium is successful Lagos?” helium queried, wondering wherefore the longsuffering radical of Rivers State should beryllium privileged to cognize the whereabouts of their governor.

Even the constricted reception that was accorded the returnee politician connected September 19 astatine the Port Harcourt International Airport was counted against him arsenic an egregious breach of the statement of surrender helium signed with his tormentors.

That was the constituent that Bright Amaewhule, President General of the Grassroots Development Initiative, GDI, and an unabashed Wike underling, made erstwhile helium took umbrage astatine Fubara’s supporters for the airdrome reception, calling it an enactment of enmity towards members of the State House of Assembly. Expressing astonishment that Fubara allowed specified a gathering and questioning the logic down welcoming him portion ignoring members of the State House of Assembly, Amaewhule said it would further widen the rift betwixt his supporters and those loyal to Wike.

That is however untenable Tinubu and Wike person made Fubara’s position. He is simply a just crippled to each comers and helium is helpless due to the fact that immoderate effect from him is considered a breach of the statement of surrender helium willingly signed with his oppressors, which explains wherefore contempt vowing not to instrumentality President Tinubu’s kindness for granted and the fulsome praises helium heaped connected his “poli...