By Chimennma Okolo Esq.
Recently the media was awash with a purported phone conversation between two opposition governors to wit; Bar. Nyesom Ezebunwo Wike (Rivers State) and Mr. Ayodele Fayose (Ekiti State).
The headlines on the leaked conversation gave the impression that the two governors were in cohorts plotting something sinister and unconstitutional! With the headlines and running commentaries I thought maybe they were involved in planning a coup against the Buhari government.
One of the reports from Sahara Reporters insinuated that the conversation showed Wike somehow manipulated the results of the just concluded rerun elections in Rivers State.
So I listened to the conversation and found it was just two friends bantering. It was a friend showing respect to another for standing against the odds. It was a conversation in which Fayose spoke in awe of Wike's capacity to resist the government's coercive might even in face of danger to himself!
I thought of it as a gambit to push a negative narrative against the duo especially in the face of their stand against this government.
But that would be a narrow perception.
That leaked conversation speaks of a far greater danger to Nigerians and our young democracy!
What that tapping of the governors' conversation has shown is that Buhari has brought us in to police state where you watch what you say.
We can no longer be sure our conversations are not been recorded. We are now uncertain especially for opposition figures that we will not be embarrassed with our otherwise innocuous conversations!
The Buhari regime is no longer hiding it, the gloves are off, we are in a fascist, tyrannical, despotic, evil and totalitarian regime!
However the positives is that Buhari is obviously frightened.
The negatives is that frightened men with power can be dangerous to a nation's survival!
If this fascist and tyrannical government can tap opposition governors phone, make no mistake they have tapped several others!
It's a shame that when we thought the democratic culture had come to stay in Nigeria we have unwittingly brought in the harbinger of its doom!
We are all in danger now!
You see tyrants will go after everyone supporters and non supporters alike.
God help us all!
Chimennma Okolo is a Lawyer, Youth Activist and Environmental Rights Campaigner.
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