12-4-2025.

Times without number, we have in the past linked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s many (often sudden) ‘working’ trips to France to serving the interests of his Western World masters, and oiling his legendary several foreign accounts with illegally acquired money.

But in some recently trending video clips, two people, including one of his biological daughters, and a high ranking  lawyer, confirmed that the president undertook his not infrequent trips to France to attend to his health, which CONSTANTLY suffers due to his REAL age, which is some where around 85 years.

They alleged that the 73 years bandied by the opinion shapers in the government is only a POLITICAL AGE, but his REAL AGE is close to 85 years old, considering that his eldest biological daughter, Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, is said to be 61 years old. It is therefore impractical that the president is only 73 years old.

When recently the Presidency announced via a press statement that the president was going to travel to France for, as usual, a working holiday, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, and some of his key aides, had already gone to Egypt for an official visit.

The President’s daughter asked the nation’s opinion moulders what they were afraid of by not telling the Nigerian citizens the truth. “Baba go for medical. Baba no well. This is the problem that I have in this country. After una go say this girl no get home training. What are the LIES for? The president IS NOT FEELING WELL. Someone who is POLITICALLY 73 years old, but is really ABOVE 80. You are now packaging for the citizens that BABA has gone for a meeting in France. Meeting ke?

“Who is that person who RELEASED that press statement? Instead of you people to tell the people the condition that Baba is, so that they will be praying for the president. Baba needs prayers. Nigeria has the highest number of Churches in the world. So why are you telling LIES that Baba has gone to France to review policies”? She said many other things, many of which were in Yoruba language, and so way out of the comprehension of this writer.

In another video clip, the lawyer declared in a that the Nigerian President went to France for “MEDICAL TREATMENT”, expressing doubt that the French leader was knowledgeable about the latest visit. The lawyer even asked  with whom the Nigerian president was going to hold his ‘working holiday’, “when his French counterpart and some of his officials were not in their country?

No one wants to mention it, but the ailing President Tinubu is not in charge of Nigeria. A CABAL is behind most of the bad things happening in the country, running the Presidency as it wants. The bad things are always happening to support the insatiable LUST for money majority of its members harbour.

A cabal is an amorphous entity which only takes the blame but not the responsibility of failure in the country. I am not in anyway trying to find an excuse for the near failure in the country, but a reason, because at the end of the day, the proverbial ‘buck stops on his table’. The cabal runs ugly and show of shame, but however, prefers that the status quo ante is maintained all the time, not the change that will bring its members many unmerited ‘benefits’ to an end.

It is an open secret that a member of the CABAL in the Presidency must be settled a huge amount of money in US dollars for ALL appointments to  ‘profitable’ agencies or parastatals. Failure by any prospective appointee would mean an automatic disqualification for the job. Some ‘applicants’ are alleged to stoop so low as to become ‘house boys’ serving tea, and doing some menial duties in the house of the powerful member of the cabal before the appointment.

No administration in the present Fourth Republic, from President Olusegun Obasanjo’s to the Tinubu regime’s, is ever free of blame of the capture of state power by a group of people who go by the loose name of ‘a cabal’. But the President Tinubu regime’s is most infamous of all of them.

At no time in the Fourth Republic had there been a flotilla of bad economic policies, which positive impact is not felt by majority of the citizens of the country as NOW. There are so many borrowings from the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the ‘President’, and the evidence has been the ever increasing runaway poverty and hunger in Nigeria.

The president is blamed for ‘his’ many dictatorial tendencies, such as ‘his’ lopsided appointments in favour of a particular section, and a particular religion, in the country, in clear violation of the Federal Character Commission (FCC), ‘his’ penchant for appointing only a particular tribe to the Commanding Heights ministries at the expense of the other tribes in the country, among many others.

The number one citizen in the country always takes the blame due to his deteriorating health, and old age ravaged by alleged years of self inflicted abuse or  hard substance 

The state capture is not limited to the federal level, it is also present at the state level where the actors go by the name of sycophants, but a cabal all the same. The sycophants are a group of people who LAUDS the principal (Governor) whether or not he is on the right track, or is doing the right thing. Many of the times some of the governors are not doing the right things, which a number of them may or may not be aware of.

But the sycophants will always tell the person in control of the purse that he is always right, as long as they would have their pockets full. They also switch their fickle loyalty, and abandon the person they were a little moment ago swearing to high heavens that ‘he is the best thing to happen to the state’, the moment there is a new sheriff in town.

The clerics are not left out of the insidious and corrupt utility at the federal and state levels, as some of them are in the abominable habit of visiting seats of power ONLY to ‘greet’ the occupants, and get huge payments for the gesture, either instantly or later in the secrecy of their homes.

Some of the clerics, belonging to all the dominant religious groups, travel in convoys of big expensive cars, that many a governor or minister may envy. Only favoured ministers in the present regime travel as ostentatiously, while millions of their poor followers wallow in abject poverty, misery, suffering and hunger.

Some of them commit their organisations to some very fanciful ventures that bring money to their pockets, not to the coppers of the groups for which the venture is registered.

May God expose the person or persons (president/governor or the cabal/sychopants) responsible for the severe hardship in the country. May He also protect us from falling victims of our inordinate desire for amassing illegal wealth, and guide us to doing only that which He commands us to do.

Malumfashi wrote from Katsina.