on the internet of an interview the president granted wherein he talked about drastically curtailing French involvement in Niger.
Indeed from antecedents in Francophone countries, France the former colonial power will give the nod to the Cameroon military to prepare to take over if it becomes clear that President Biya is close to breathing his last.Nigeria will then be flanked by three military governments in Niger, Chad and Cameroon all of whom are French-speaking. Indeed with the addition of the Benin Republic to our western border, Nigeria is completely bordered landward by French-speaking countries.
The French-speaking African countries are chafing at years of French dominance and control of their countries and want the latter off their backs. They are simply tired of years of France’s control over their political, economic and social lives.This is what the Russians are capitalising on; offering military and economic aid to these countries and in the process aiming to secure a strategic toehold in the region.
This is where Nigeria comes in. Unlike both powers, Nigeria is not an interloper in the region. France has been in West Africa for exploitative reasons and Russia aims to be in the region in order to gain a strategic foothold in its proxy wars with the West in preparation for a probable spillover of the current war in Ukraine into a global confrontation.The prevailing situation points to the fact that the long oppressive dominance of France in the region is nearing its end.
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