I Fought Abacha, President Tinubu Is Not Abacha - Reno -

 I Fought Abacha, and I Know That President Tinubu Is Certainly Not an Abacha!

This is me in the attached photo, taken in 1998. I was being honoured by Bastiaan Korner, the then Dutch ambassador to Nigeria, for my role in fighting for democracy against the despotic and murderous Abacha military junta. The other gentleman is one of the most patriotic Nigerians alive. He is the current editor of Thisday Newspaper.

Having fought that despicable regime, I will not sit idly by while persons like Farooq Kperogi and Dele Momodu make unjust and unfair comparisons between that government, if you can call the Abacha regime a government, and the Tinubu administration.

Making accusations that the judiciary is "susceptible to political manipulation" without supporting them with facts, data, and statistics is unhelpful to democracy, undermines the trust Nigerians have in their government, and is itself anti-intellectual. I wonder why a man like Kperogi would say such.

You shouldn't make such opinionated statements without backing them up, because that assertion is not only false but will also negatively affect Nigeria's FDI drive, as investors do not invest in countries without an independent judiciary.

And for Mr Kperogi to say the President is "stealthily but systematically weakening all the political parties that could provide viable platforms for his opponents in 2027" is fallacious.

Again, he, like Dele Momodu before him, offers no evidentiary backup for those strong words.

But it is not just that. These gentlemen betray both a lack of grasp of party politics and history.

Let me start with history. It is not President Tinubu who is systematically weakening opposition parties. No. The truth is that it is the character of his opponents that is ruining these parties.

Some of these persons have a history of lacking the patience to build solid structures and of causing dissension, whether they go.

For example, Peter Obi began his political career in the All Progressives Grand Alliance after he was picked up by Dim Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, whom he subsequently betrayed.

While in APGA, Peter Obi, in a now-viral video, swore that he would never leave the party. Yet he did leave, but not before dividing that party. The chaos he caused was so deep-seated that he was cursed by the then Chairman of APGA, Victor Oye! Please fact-check me.

Then he moved to the Peoples Democratic Party and also caused havoc in that organisation by insisting on contesting against his former principal.

After splitting the PDP, he joined the Labour Party, which then split into two factions, each producing its own Chairman and NEC.

When he had finished destroying the Labour Party as a viable alternative, he officially joined the African Democratic Congress on Wednesday, December 31, 2025.

After just three weeks in the ADC, the official spokesman of that party publicly called the Obidient movement a "divisive" mob!

And instead of adjusting their behaviour, today, the Obidient movement has released a statement attacking the ADC for calling them divisive!

Now, if you have gone through four very different political parties and ended up with the same result of division, quarrels, and factionalism, the question you should ask yourself is this: Is it the parties that are the problem or Peter Obi?

How can a man who has divided four political parties in a row unite Nigeria? And how can men like Kperogi and Momodu overlook this and blame the President for the failings of these parties?

And then, they also ignore the historical fact that parties in Nigeria tend to splinter when elections are around the corner.

This started right from independence and has continued into the Fourth Republic.

For example, under our government (the Jonathan administration), when the All Progressives Congress was established on Wednesday, February 2013, an alternate All Progressives Congress was established by some persons.

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