President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been around the corridors of power since 1992.
He knows quite a bit about power In Nigeria. Tinubu served as a ranking senator in 1992.
He jumped onto the turbulent wagon of opposition politics after the annulment of June 12 1993 presidential election that Moshood Abiola won.
Those were tough days that brought anti-military agitation to a head. Nigeria was at the crossroads.
But it’s no longer about the erring military slamming reporters into the gulag for
writing bad verses.
For Nigeria has gone full circle where great agitators now call shots from cozy power corridors.
But Tinubu sits pretty at the control in a time of great ferment. And this this remains his own challenge.
Tinubu threw tantrums and marched in protests when the price of gasoline was marginally raised from N86 to N115.
His compatriots even threatened to run a parallel government and even engender a second Nigerian civil war to fuel personal political ambitions.
What’s the price of fuel now? What about the price of rice and cooking gas vis-a-viz those modest prices when he was in opposition?
What of security? Chibok of yesterday versus the dozens of weekly mass murders in Benue, Plateau, Adamawa, Kogi, Niger and Kwara?
Frankly, Tinubu owes Nigerians an explanation if not an apology.
But his handlers – Onanuga, Bwala, Omokri – are doing a good job. They finger the past, the opposition as the problem.
They also blame the war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz as the problem.
2027 is knocking and a frustrated population waits to take a pound of flesh in revenge.
We wait….
…Mr. Josiah is a veteran Nigerian journalist writes from Miami, Florida in the USA
