True Power is Calm and Composed: Wike vs. Yerima

True power does not make noise neither does it shout. It operates silently and still get wielded successfully.

In the incident between the FCT minister and the young military officer, the minister, in a bid to project power, was shouting and barking insults while the officer who seem more self-assured, remained polite even while being quite firm and assertive.

In the end, the officer, despite being calm and polite, successfully had his way while the minister, despite all his shouting, turned back in disgrace.

Meanwhile, all the minister could have done, if he wasn’t consumed by the usual Nigerian bigmanism, was to simply go through the established chain of command by calling any superior officer at the Defense Headquarters who would simply use the proper channels to issue the necessary order to have the officers and men on ground stand aside.

Imagine a govt minister trying to engage in verbal and physical confrontation with military officers who were carrying out orders from their superiors and thereby putting himself and all the men with him in grave danger. What if the situation had escalated when the armed DSS man, in a bid to please the minister, pushed the military officer?

Even the Chief Security officer of the minister joined in the show of shame, instead of taking his boss away from the scene even if he had to use force (this is the standard procedure all over the world; take your boss away from the spot even against his will)