Recently, Aliyu Audu, a former senior special assistant to the President on public affairs, granted an interview after he resigned his appointment. The card-carrying member of the APC claimed he resigned with the intention to campaign against the president and make sure President Tinubu is not returned to the position of the president in 2027.

The President's offense is that the President is not promoting his opponents, the PDP. He sees this as not being democratic and a plan to turn Nigeria into a one-party country.

And does he have anyone in mind he wants to support for 2027? Not yet.  He has a platform, and it is called the APC Rebirth Group. Now this whole idea is odd.

Here's someone who has a position in the presidency where he can contribute his quota to the development of the nation, but he feels it is not proper because he would be supporting a dictator. You can not help but feel there's more than meets the eye in this matter.

In another part of the interview, he had with Seun on Arise TV, he reminisced about how some of his friends had to sell their houses, their cars, and their properties and move abroad only to go there to do menial jobs for a living.

But the question here is what wisdom is in that. You have a job, properties, but you sold all and went abroad to settle for an undignified life overseas.

Yes, the young people of Nigeria want a better life and a better Nigeria, but they seem to be losing it by the decisions they manage to make.  Why should a member of the APC be fighting the President, who is from his party, because the president is a friend of someone 'destabilizing' the opposition party?

When you respect the opposition party, but the opposition party does not respect itself, what can you do?

The opposition behaves like a football team desiring to play the ball into their net, and the President is guilty of not helping the opposition to defend their party.

When everyone can see that all the PDP needs is for Atiku to step down from his ambition to contest for president, but Aliyu seems to believe it should be the other way round. Tinubu should step down for the PDP crisis to be over.

And does he see this strategy as an own goal? And that own goals can only count for the opponent.

So the opposition party's destabilization is an own goal for the APC.

Why does Aliyu want Tinubu to collect a red card for his opponent's own goal?  Or is Aliyu a chameleon within APC ranks and is working from within for the opposition? Surely the dice aren't rolling in Aliyu's favour. And that's the reason for his decision. If you desire to correct what is wrong, certainly it isn't by bringing the roof down.

The colonial masters left Nigeria in the hands of one of the two major power blocs in Nigeria which is the northern Fulani caucus and their allies. And today, their political platform is the PDP.

Power seems to have shifted to the Southern Yoruba power bloc and its allies, who are the historical opponents of the Northern Fulani power bloc in Nigeria. So there is a need for the Northern elements to gather together to wrestle back power from the Southern Yoruba bloc.

Not many people will believe this theory of traditional power blocs, but nothing can be closer to the truth.

Why is it that Atiku cannot but contest in the 2027 elections? And why is it difficult for El Rufai to support Peter Obi? Heirs hardly give up the throne for others.

Tinubu is at risk of losing the support of certain northern elements in 2027 because he's not pursuing the Northern Fulani agenda like Obasanjo and Jonathan did. But he is seen as pursuing the southern political agenda of the south-west.   It is on this basis that Akiti Audu is fighting him. Of course, like a chameleon, he's wearing a different but unconvincing garb; still, his identity must be discerned.

Nigeria as a nation has been running away from the existence of the old power blocs for a long while, and we were pretending that the old power blocs exist only during the early postcolonial period. But what we have today is clear evidence of this fact.

Truly we're injecting different ideas into our different political attitudes to win more support, but the basic operating principles of the two blocs are very apparent in their operations.  Acceptance of new ideas may eventually make the two blocs meet in principles and ideals in the future, but for now and because they have always existed as opposing forces. People will have to take their stand.

If anyone claims he has another agenda for Nigeria outside of his two, he needs to articulate it, and if, for now, he doesn't want to align with any of the two power blocs, he may be playing the spoiler.

The Northern Fulani coalition promotes personality above structural development and symbolises the conservative spirit.  On the other hand, the Southern Yoruba alliance promotes structural development and so can be seen as the progressives, and their major platform is the APC