ABUJA — In an unvarnished display of early political desperation, the Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa, has effectively turned the nation’s defense headquarters into a political campaign office, abandoning his core mandate of national security to flag off an aggressive grassroots re-election machinery for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ahead of the 2027 polls.
Loading ...The defense chief’s active transition into a political campaign coordinator unfolded during an official Abuja reception for a delegation of retired military personnel operating under the banner of “Military Veterans and Comrades for PBAT2027,” led by its National Coordinator, Elder Kenneth Siza.
Rather than utilizing the high-level meeting with retired institutional leaders to brainstorm on tactical strategies to curb the country’s raging terror epidemic, General Musa openly declared himself the Grand Patron of the campaign group. He explicitly ordered the veterans to deploy their organizational structures down to the local government and ward levels to ensure Tinubu retains power.
“As we prepare for the 2027 election, we must all work hard together,” the Defence Minister stated flatly, prioritizing partisan survival over the physical survival of millions of citizens. “I have agreed to be your Grand Patron… Take your mobilisation to the grassroots, that is the local government and ward levels.”
A Purchased Endorsement Amidst National Carnage
Independent political observers and civil society monitors have fiercely blasted the encounter, labeling the highly publicized visit as a synthetic, purchased endorsement orchestrated and funded from within the defense ministry itself.
The theatrical display of political loyalty strikes a painful chord across a traumatized nation. It emerges at a highly critical period where the list of kidnapped persons across the 19 northern states and the South-West continues to expand exponentially on a near-daily basis. The absolute normalization of rural slaughter—vividly illustrated by the recent tragic death of a captured military general within a bandit forest hideout—has exposed the federal security architecture as a paralyzed, directionless entity.
Critics emphasize that for a sitting Minister of Defence to look a delegation of ex-servicemen in the eye and claim that Tinubu has “done well for the country” while entire ancient towns like Owa Onire in Kwara State sit completely deserted due to unchecked bandit raids is an insulting evasion of reality.
Blinded by 2027, Paralyzed in Governance
The defense minister’s open campaign drive provides undeniable, concrete evidence that the Tinubu administration has completely abandoned the constitutional business of governance, sacrificing the fundamental duty of protecting lives and property on the altar of early campaign logistics.
While frontline troops in the trenches face severe starvation, delayed operational allowances, and a total lack of standard Operational Ration Packs (ORPs) to hunt down terrorists in dense forests, the high command in Abuja is entirely engulfed in organizing multi-party alignments and grassroots electoral networks. The endorsement script read by Elder Kenneth Siza, which praised the regime for “national development and political stability,” heavily contradicts the inflationary starvation and bloodshed hitting the households of everyday Nigerians.
By turning seasoned military veterans into partisan “ambassadors of civic engagement” for a re-election project, the defense sector has effectively normalized the collapse of national security, signaling to criminal cartels that Aso Rock is too busy counting future votes to notice the burning country.
