On April 24th, 2025, the Governor of Delta State, Sheriff Oborevwori, in total agreement – so we were told, with the State ruling political Party’ leadership, collapsed the structure of the People Democratic Party [PDP] in the State, and defected into the Nigerian ruling political Party, the All Progressive Congress [APC].
It was not too appropriate to call what happened that day in Delta State a defection. Collapsing the totality of a political party’s structure – which included the Governor, his Deputy, his predecessor in office [Senator Author Ifeanyi Okowa], every elected member of the State House of Assembly, all the Local Government Chairmen and their elected Councillors, all appointees of the State Government and whatever human factors left in the State, can be referred to as “an uncommon movement”.
This writer recognised the fact of that movement hence he called it Tsunami, in his last week’s presentation.
There was variant of names given to the event of that day in Delta State. Some called it earthquake, others say it was a tornado, while some say it was a hurricane.
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria called it Tsunami, just in the same manner l referred to it.
Let us listen to the president when he received all the defectors in Asaba, Delta State capital, with unlimited ecstasy. Speaking through the Vice President – Kashim Shettima, who represented him, Tinubu lauded Governor Oborevwori and Senator Okowa for the cordial relationship between them and for leading members of the PDP to the APC.
He said: “What can be greater than the promise of this day. This is a political tsunami of unimaginable proportion that has never happened in the history of the South-South region and barely in the history of this country”.
“A political tsunami of this proportion has never happened where all the members of the upper chamber of the National Assembly are in the APC. The Speaker and all the members of the House of Assembly. So many members of the House of Representatives, the Governor and his entire cabinet and 500 councillors across the 25 local government areas of this great state. What testimony do you have greater than this?”
We need to know a little more about that thing called Tsunami before navigating into the joyful interpretation of the President.
A tsunami is defined as a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and underwater explosions above or below water – all have the potential to generate a tsunami. Tsunamis are giant waves caused by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions under the sea. They speed along as fast as jet planes.
One of the deadliest Tsunami movements in recorded history would remain the December 26, 2004, Indian Ocean Tsunami, triggered by a massive undersea earthquake, off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. It caused widespread devastation and loss of life across coastal regions of the Indian Ocean and beyond. It went round Sumatra, Sri Lanka, Banda Aceh, Khao Lak, Tamil Nadu, and casualty figure was put at 227, 898 people.
It is an established fact of history that Tsunami destroys efficiently and does so mercilessly. And at any rate, the human knowledge, or even, the technology, of knowing the limit point of Tsunami’s devastative outreach – once it takes off, is not currently available to human’s endeavours.
This serious warning, specially emphasised on above paragraph, ought to be a cardinal point to all of us – both leaders and the followers, and it should be taken with absolute sanctity.
Permit me to advise our leaders – mostly President Bola Tinubu and his Executive, the Nigerian National Assembly leadership and the Nigerian Judiciary leadership, to be more knowledgeable in application of wisdom when celebrating the gains of Tsunamic movement, or crossover, because my rigorously intensive research has brought one revelation about that entity called Tsunami:
The Demon called Tsunami is totally a blind personality in its operation.
What that throws on us is that once this Demonic Entity takes off for operational duty, and because of its blindness in nature, it could destroy across frontiers of humanly demarcated boundaries. Even those who invited it can never oversee setting the limits and boundaries of its operation. And more often than anticipated, as precedents have shown, this Octopus do consume those that invited it – most times.
Since it is the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that I intend speaking to directly this time around, I shall, out of my understanding that President Tinubu, though a vast reader, might not be having likeliness for long writeup at this time because of different overwhelming challenges.
Ipso facto, I need to drop my sailing anchor here, with the promise of returning with part 2 – of this message, next week. Except to add that next week’s navigational sailing shall be taking us deeper into the Sea of voyage of discovery, where we should be giving out some home hidden facts. For sure, this will interest my President.
Observation
What is the problem of Nigerians that we are not always willing to give our Presidents any resting time? Haba – is this not becoming too much?
Or how on earth that some Nigerians, within jiffy of a time, which is less than 12 months, ensured that only 28 billion Naira out of the 100 billion Naira disbursed under the eagle eyes of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund [NELFUND] gets to Nigerian students? Isn’t this a wicked plan against President Bola Tinubu?
The Guru begs as many Nigerians as he can lay his hands upon to help in resolving this challenge – because it is one dent on the person of Mr President, which he doesn’t deserve, please.