GEJ - The autocracy just arising

GEJ – THE AUTOCRACY JUST ARISING
When in 2011 the Otuoke man of Bayelsa State was elected as the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I had two vivid hopes. I believed he was going to be the breath of fresh air, I hoped he would be the vehicle of transformation in the clearly misdirected marriage of inconvenience, Nigeria.
To brighten my hopes, he began talking intensively about transforming the Power Sector, eradicating corruption, re-building the transportation sector; enhance transparency and due process in the oil and gas sector and a host of other juicy packages which he said he brought. I believed I was not overtly hopeful because these intentions sounded like a real force of dedication and a positive drive towards a better Nigeria.
I must categorically state that, within the last few years of his leadership, the electricity situation has been greatly turned around. At least for the first time in years, my town could boast of a week-long not-too-interrupted power supply and we could sleep peacefully at night with the fan working without having to wake up in the middle of the night due to excessive heat. I truly loved GEJ for his giant strides in ensuring stable electricity. Claps!!
His efforts in the transportation sector also caught my attention and made me think this village former poor boy of Otuoke was going to be the reference point in the re-building of the broken walls of development in our dear nation Nigeria. After a long period of being moribund, the Nigerian Railway Corporation eventually roared back to life and even though still using the usually noisy and slow-as-snail trains, we could at least boast of having something travelling the rail lines. Thanks GEJ!
However, I began having conflicting feelings about this Doctor of Zoology during the Fuel Subsidy removal saga of January 2012. Personally, I was in support of the total removal of fuel subsidy, but I found problems with the approach employed by our dear husband of Patience. He came around with the bombshell as a New Year gift and despite public outcry for dialogue between stakeholders to fashion out modalities to execute such economy-changing programme, the dark-skinned Ijaw man decided to go ahead without worry. At the time, he occurred to me as an incarnation of Pa. Mobutu Seseseko! How can a democratically elected President not bother about the complaints of the people?
I was almost forgetting the fuel subsidy saga when he began having personality issues with Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State. Before the tussle could drag on for long, whatever Mr. Sylva had left of his personality had been wrecked by the sheer determination of our ‘oga at the top’. Just early this year, Mr. Sylva landed in EFCC net and I guess for him, unless some miracle happens, it is the beginning of the end. Why GEJ, why? Where are the freedom of speech and freedom of association rights in your copy of the Nigerian constitution?
Lest I forget, Olagunsoye Oyinlola also fell under the hammer. It is an open secret that the Okuku Prince has always been a pro-IBB person, call it military loyalty or whatever, it is your choice. He was clearly not disposed to the GEJ agenda before 2011 as there was no campaign office for GEJ in Osun and there was simply no structure put in place to assist the then acting President. Co-incidence or otherwise, Oyinlola was chased out of office by a controversial court judgement and his tale of woes began. As if that was not enough, he was again bundled out of the seat of the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by another controversial court judgement. Is it that whoever is not with Goodluck must be disgraced?
I loved this Otuoke man from the start, he was brimming with promise when he came in, but like Morgana of the fictitious film Merlin, inside his seemingly good heart, the darkness of tyranny is already growing. He started like the one who was going to be the fair king, but in his supposed fairness, an ugly face of a dictator is rearing its head.
Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi is the latest casualty in the GEJ autocracy agenda. What offence exactly can we say this Rivers man has committed to merit the series of witch-hunting moves targeted at him by the camp of Mr. GEJ? Do we talk of the grounding of his state’s plane, or the attack on his personality through the State Executives of the PDP in Rivers State, or the attack on him in the Nigerian Governors’ Forum? Even if it were to be the reckless talkative like the Headmaster in the 37th State of the Federation (the State of Osun) should he have merited such attacks?  
As if all these were not enough, what do we call his suspension from the Peoples Democratic Party on the grounds that he stubbornly dissolved the Local Executive Committee of the PDP in Obio Akpor Local Government of Rivers State when an action of that manner would have merely been termed ‘internal crisis’ in another state? Or, do we assume that he was suspended because he had a ‘stubborn’ star which had more ‘goodluck’ than that of GEJ that made him win the NGF election against all presidential odds?
Why should a man be so attacked because he had differences with the sitting President of a nation? Where is the freedom of speech in our constitution? Where is our freedom of association? Where are legality, sanity and fairness in the actions of Mr. GEJ and his ‘kitchen cabinet’? What kind of autocratic leader is GEJ quickly becoming? What kind of stubborn drummer is he that we all must dance to his tune?
Within this Otuoke born Ijaw Doctor of Zoology and husband of Patience is the spirit of a tyrant fast growing, in his heart a thick mass of rock is building, in his eyes a fiery fire of a ‘Sango-ish’ magnitude and his government is quickly changing the face of democracy to AUTOCRACY! Or, is he trying to bear serious likeness to the forcefully ousted Ivoirian well-loved democrat turned very-hated autocrat, Gbagbo? Whatever he is, GEJ should watch the autocracy growing in his style and deliver unto us the true fresh breath that he promised.
My pen rests!