•Over Fear Of Possible Break Down As 2023 Approaches
•Many Believe There Will Be No Elections In 2023
The heightened spate of insecurity across the country has caused many senior citizens to consider relocating out of the country. In the last 6 months, research shows that 3 out of every 10 retired citizens leave the country for the western world permanently. This is excluding the explosive number of youths who are leaving the country in multiple thousands every month for greener pasture.
More than 9 in 115 Nigerians have said they would relocate abroad with family members if they had an opportunity, a according to recent survey
This is a whopping 41 percentage point increase from citizens who were hoping to emigrate in 2020 in the heat of COVID, when only about a third of citizens (32 per cent) said they were willing to relocate with their families out of Nigeria.
This may not be unconnected to the substantial decline in the level of insecurity that has spread across the country in recent times.
The notorious Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, which went into hibernation around late last year and early this year has begun to launch full attacks in the last 6 months. Between January and July, there have been no fewer than 70 attacks by Boko Haram alone, storming churches, schools, and military bases, killing scores of people, and abducting hundreds of people.
In March 2022, bandits attacked the rail line, train station, and bus park in Kaduna within 48 hours killing and abducting many people. Insecurity has gone worse ever since.
Three weeks ago, a few people died, while two others sustained minor injuries, when bandits attacked the advanced team of security guards, protocol, and media officers, ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Sallah trip to his hometown in Daura, Katsina State. Within the same period, bandits ambushed and killed an Assistant Commissioner of Police ACP, Aminu Umar Dayi, in charge of Dutsinma Area Command in Katsina, following a fierce gun duel.
Angered by Federal Government’s inability to meet their demands, terrorists who kidnapped the Kaduna-Abuja train passengers on March, vowed to abduct President Muhammadu Buhari and the governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasiru el-Rufai if their requests are not met.
The terrorists threatened to kill and sell off some of the remaining train passengers in captivity.
They stated in the video, “Just like the Chibok girls that were sold off, we will equally sell these ones as slaves. If you don’t adhere to our demands, we will kill the ones we need to kill and sell the remaining. By God’s grace, El-Rufai, Buhari, we will bring you here.”
In fact, report has it that President Buhari was not aware of the threat made to abduct him until he was informed by Kaduna State governor, Mallam ElRufai.
This marathon sequence of killings, attacks, and abductions has caused the majority of Nigerians to lose trust and confidence in the security framework of the present administration.
The latest report is the report of Boko Haram stating that their cells are ready to strike in all parts of the country, including Kaduna, Abuja, Katsina, Akwa Ibom, and Lagos State. The news has got so many people on their toes and they are fast-tracking their bid to leave the country.
Some analysts who considered the pattern of events noted that the serial attack may have been a plot to ensure that elections did not hold in 2023 so as for the Fulani agenda to actualize in Nigeria.
A UK-based Nigerian analyst noted that the Fulanis have achieved most of their plans in Nigeria within President Buhari’s 8 years and would not want any other successive government to foot drag their agenda, therefore, if the constitution or successive government will not favour them, it is better to shut down the system and impose an interim government to run the country for as long as possible, enough to actualize their primary agenda of making Nigeria the home of Fulanis spread in about 10 African countries and every part of the world.
An Abuja-based security expert who pleaded to speak in anonymity also told City People that the reason for the rise in insecurity can be linked to the emergence of Asiwaju as the flagbearer of the APC. He said Asiwaju was never meant to win the primary, if the plot of the cabal went well, as they want an individual that can be tele-guided. After the failed attempt to foist a candidate at the primary, they have resolved to make the country ungovernable such that the people will not feel safe enough to come out for election come 2023.
This has caused so many old people and retirees to break their safes and commence the relocation process to Canada, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and other developed countries so as to spend the rest of their lives in peace and comfort.
A 72-year-old retiree who resides in Lagos stated that the heightened insecurity may even be planned to exterminate key politicians in the south after they have sampled the core areas of the north.
“Who would anyone blame when the president has already lost two aides to the bandits’ attack and he, also has been placed on their wanted list, if at the end of the day, they storm the South and kill our major frontliners? Aren’t the handwritings everywhere in the air?
While the politicians can figure out a way to defend themselves, we cannot. We are old, weak, and tired already. If the Nigerian government can’t make me retire in peace, then it won’t be wrong if I leave the country and find my peace elsewhere”, he concluded.
