Brother Cornelius Hamelberg,
"Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make [real] mad!"
Your post is an excellent "food for thought." Indeed, the current Vice President of Nigeria once told us that due to the political instability in Nigeria for obvious reasons, the "most corrupt and incompetent Christian from the South should be crowned as the Senate President…" and the rest is history. It was Niccolo Machiavelli who once informed us that in politics, and probably in other professions, "the end justifies the means."
To piggyback on your opinion in this post, some scholars here and elsewhere have warned that due to Bad Governance in Africa, and especially in West Africa, it might be foolhardy to dismiss more coups in the region. Accordingly, "a word is enough for the wise."
Ike Udogu
At this juncture, Sabr ( Patience )
is the watchword.
It's a time for cool heads and we wish the Nigerian delegation well.
We wish them all success with their diplomacy.
A major question arising : And if there is a coup in Nigeria - an eventuality which is within the realm of possibility - according to some calculations - a coup that could be precipitated by disaffection within the rank and file of the Nigerian military being ordered to invade Niger which shares a border with seven of Nigeria's Northern brotherly states, if such a coup were to happen - and as always, talk is cheap , this saying still obtains : "An idle mind is the devil's workshop", Ghana's president Akufo-Addo for example speaks good French but when it comes to action and to putting his money where his mouth is, in such an eventuality ( a coup in Nigeria) and acting in accord with the same principle, the question is, which members of ECOWAS would be going to get together to invade Nigeria, in order to " to restore Constitutional order" ?
Ghana?
In the eventuality of the likely coup in Nigeria, I'd like to know, which member states of ECOWAS would like to invade Nigeria in order "to kick ass" and to restore President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to power or to restore him to " Constitutional order", to constitutional law and order?
And which countries would like to pass inhuman and inhumane sanctions on Nigeria, cut off Nigeria's electricity, if possible, maybe sanction their oil too, and prevent medicines and food being sent to the country, by land, sea and air ?
Or is it only the strong that have the right to bully the relatively weaker?
I'm thinking of Israel and the Palestinians , if in the name of Righteousness, Fair play, Justice and Mercy, and in the name of the LORD, in the name of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité ,and in the name of HUMANITY, if the military wing of ECOWAS would like to send an invading force to over there - to the Middle East, to help sort things out there - after sanctions, and cutting off electricity etc. ? And maybe much closer to "home" also to Sudan and the Central African Republic..
The bloodless coup in Niger has a lot of popular support within the country.
The government appointed by the new military leaders intend to transition to a civilian government/ to a restoration of so-called "constitutional order" in three years time, a reasonable and feasible time frame, if we are to go by praxis from similar situations in the past.
For peace-loving Africans , all over Africa, including Mali and Burkina Faso, the consequences that may arise out of the proposed alternative to this bloodless coup, namely some really bloody military intervention, is far too horrible, terrible, undemocratic, to even contemplate - unless of course, the enemies of Africa would like plunge the whole region into an endless, mindless reign of terror with all kinds satanic weapons flowing in from everywhere with the sole aim of visiting death and destructions as we have seen elsewhere; and such an intervention would begin a war without an end in sight , at least not within the lifetime of this generation of the current ECOWAS military's decision makers…
The Powerful Believers & B.B. Collins : Sing to Praise the Lord
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