Farooq Kperogi: Tinubu’s Risky Niger Gamble and Shetty’s Embarrassment. (People’s Gazzette)

Is Tinubu committing Nigeria to a violent entanglement with Niger on behalf of France because Paris is now his second home?

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday wrote to the Senate to inform it of an impending “Military build up and deployment of personnel for military intervention to enforce compliance of the military junta in Niger should they remain recalcitrant.” This is a dangerous, ill-advised, potentially self-destructive gamble Tinubu would do well to give up because it has the potential to consume not just him but also Nigeria.