Bello Galadanci, a well-known northern activist and good governance advocate also known as Dan Bello, asserts that the United States Senate, House of Representatives, and the European Union are currently reviewing reports regarding what he terms “Wike’s destruction of democracy in Nigeria.”
In a video shared on his X account on Thursday, Dan Bello stated that his concern is rooted in a duty to protect Nigeria’s democratic institutions rather than political partisanship. He suggested that Nigeria is at a critical point where the decisions of “a few powerful men,” particularly the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, could determine the future of the nation’s 250 million citizens.
Dan Bello emphasized that the issue goes beyond personality, focusing instead on “a pattern, about power, about the systematic erosion of democratic norms.” He warned that if this pattern is “left unchecked, this process could drag Nigeria into the same darkness engulfing parts of the Sahel.”
Citing a document allegedly submitted to the US Senate, Dan Bello claimed that Wike has become one of Nigeria’s most powerful unelected figures, allegedly misusing state resources, the judiciary, and security agencies “not to strengthen democracy but to stifle dissent and weaken the opposition.” He further accused Wike of causing divisions in opposition parties, including the PDP, Labour Party, and ADC, manipulating party structures, improperly using the police, and exerting inappropriate influence on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). He concluded by stating, “This is the suffocation of multi-party democracy. Nowhere is this clearer than in Rivers State.”
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