THE SEED OF BETRAYAL AND THE FRUITS OF BLOOD: HOW APC’S POLITICS INVITED FOREIGN HUMILIATION.

THE SEED OF BETRAYAL AND THE FRUITS OF BLOOD: HOW APC’S POLITICS INVITED FOREIGN HUMILIATION.

The night was heavy with terror in a forgotten Nigerian village. Children clung to their mothers as the sound of gunfire shattered the quiet rhythm of life. When dawn came, the ground was red, the air thick with grief, and the silence unbearable. Families searched through the carnage for faces they would never see again. No rescue came. No official visit. No word from those who claim to govern them. Only the cries of the living and the cold stillness of the dead.

Yet, in the same country, hundreds of miles away, the rulers who swore to protect those citizens were clinking glasses at a lavish party. They laughed, they toasted, they danced beneath glittering chandeliers while the people they were meant to serve bled in the dark. The banquet of betrayal continues, and Nigeria’s tragedy deepens under the All Progressives Congress, APC — a government that has turned apathy into policy and indifference into art.

Under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria has become a nation of painful ironies , a land of unburied dreams presided over by men of unrestrained luxury. Tinubu’s government is not just failing; it is feasting on failure. Power has become performance, leadership has become theatre, and governance has become a grotesque parade of self-worship.

But this story began long before now. In 2014, when the APC was still in opposition, its leaders made a pilgrimage abroad to court foreign sympathy and report their own President, Goodluck Jonathan, to the United States. They labelled him incompetent and accused his government of failing to secure the nation. They sought the world’s approval to dethrone him. That act, dressed as diplomacy, was in fact an invitation — the very seed of foreign interference. Eleven years later, the harvest has arrived, and it is bitter.

Today, that same America , now under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump has turned its gaze upon Nigeria with accusation and threat. Trump, citing the killing of Christians and the government’s indifference, has declared Nigeria a “Country of Particular Concern” and warned of possible sanctions and even military action if Tinubu’s administration fails to protect its citizens. The same foreign power once courted by APC now lectures and threatens its own offspring. The irony is historical. The shame is national.

The APC called the world to judge its own country and now the judgment has come. Those who once knelt before foreign interests in search of validation now bow under the weight of global condemnation. The very stage they built for applause has become their dock of disgrace.

Meanwhile, within Nigeria’s borders, grief multiplies. The blood of ordinary citizens , Christians, Muslims, and children with no religion at all , continues to stain the soil. Terrorists and bandits slaughter freely while government officials attend banquets, foreign summits, and political ceremonies. In Plateau State, Benue, and Kaduna, the people bury their dead; in Lagos and Abuja, their rulers clink glasses.

It was this heartless contrast that moved Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice President and beacon of conscience, to chastise President Tinubu as a man devoid of empathy. Atiku condemned Tinubu for attending a political celebration in Plateau while families mourned the slaughter of their loved ones in the same region. “How,” Atiku asked, “can a leader celebrate when his people are being buried?” His words cut deep , the voice of reason against the noise of revelry, the echo of humanity against the orchestra of indifference.

Atiku’s rebuke is not politics; it is prophecy. For no nation can survive when its leaders rejoice at the sound of their people’s weeping. Tinubu’s cold detachment from tragedy is the clearest symptom of moral decay in governance. A government that feels no pain cannot heal a wounded nation.

The APC has turned sovereignty into mockery. It boasts of power yet trembles before chaos. It claims to lead, yet follows the path of moral blindness. The same party that once cried for international attention has now been dragged before the same tribunal of world opinion it created.

The words of history’s philosophers speak again. Max Weber warned that the state’s legitimacy depends on its monopoly of force ,a monopoly now surrendered to kidnappers and killers. Jean-Jacques Rousseau declared that when the social contract collapses, sovereignty reverts to the people and that hour has come. Hannah Arendt wrote that evil thrives when good men do nothing and today, Nigeria’s greatest evil is silence.

The people must now rise — not in chaos, but in courage. The time for patience has expired. The time for endurance has become betrayal. The time for action is now. We must stand as citizens, not spectators; as voices, not victims. We must reject this government of greed and indifference and restore the conscience of the republic.

The APC’s long flirtation with hypocrisy has come full circle , from the arrogance of 2014 to the humiliation of 2025. Those who once begged foreign powers for validation now plead for mercy. Those who once mocked suffering now face the storm of accountability.

Nigeria stands at a crossroads: resurrection or ruin. And the people must decide. We must tell the APC, in words clear as daylight , you have failed us, you have mocked our pain, and you have mortgaged our dignity. The nation is bleeding, and we will not die in silence.

If the leaders will not stop the bleeding, then the people must stop the leaders.

Aare Amerijoye DOT.B

Director General,

The Narrative Force