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… Nigerians smiling and suffering
Today will make it exactly one month President Bola Tinubu mounted the stage as Nigeria’s 16th president.
So far, so good it has not been a month of smiles rather it reminds one of Afro beats music legend Fela Anikulapo’s hit track of the 80s ‘suffering and smiling’.
In this report, TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) will take a curious look at what has transpired in the last 30days of the Jagaban administration.
Also, the era of political vengeance has returned to the Nigerian political turf as the presidency and governors had brazenly reduced perceived detractors to fourth class citizens. Governors who once ruled their states with iron fists are beginning to feel the heavy pressure after vacating office.
During his inauguration on May 29th President Tinubu left no one in doubt that he has the capacity to take Nigeria to greater heights of massive prosperity but dropped a bombshell when he declared that fuel subsidy was gone forever.
This was one policy that even Ex-President Muhammadu Buhari a retired armoured general could not touch with a very long spoon though barely a week ago, he confessed that if his administration had touched it, his party APC would have failed to return to power.
Tinubu also in an interview he granted to foreign journalists admitted that fuel subsidy was removed from his inaugural speech but as a brave Nigerian he announced it.
Barely 48hours after his announcement, pump price of fuel hit over N480 and cost of food items hit the rooftop. The urban areas had to pay as much as between N537 to N550 per litre. Nigerians felt it was a dream until it dawned on them that this is real!
The Brentwood institutions hailed this decision considering the move as splendid. Nigerians swallowed the pill gritting their teeth.
Vehicle owners now must pay annual mandatory fee on ownership.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) recently announced the unification of all segments of the Nigerian forex market.
The bank collapsed all official windows into the Investors & Exporters (I&E) window. This subsequently led to the close of the spread between the official and unofficial market segments.
His administration has also introduced the students loan Act described in many quarters as almost impossible for indigent students that’s aimed at may not be able to secure except it’s reviewed.
As the Jagaban administration continues more policies are expected but this administration should consider the human factor while formulating these policies because in most cases policies formulated in Africa are always imported.
Our institutions that are so weak and laced with corruption always ensured that the policies saumersault and are eventually buried in the graveyard when new administrations take over.
On the dissolution of boards of MDAs, Tinubu scored a political goal considering the manner his predecessor in his wee hours to inauguration made over 246 appointments even by 12midnight of May 28th, eve of his inauguration.
On the political turf:
Political vengeance in the 1980s may eventually be a child’s play vividly remembring the Shugaba era when a Nigerian could be deported from his own country for being too vocal.
The suspended Governor Godwin Emefiele had to swim in the ocean of the policies he introduced as Nigerians were not in a hurry to forget the bitter pills of his cashless policy that sent many Nigerians to early graves.
While the decision to give Emefiele a dirty slap was sweet revenge in some quarters it was considered a political vendetta as the man was simply obeying instructions from above but had to play the role of the’fall guy’.
The EFCC arrowhead, Abdulrasheed Bawa opened his mouth too wide when he said he had the anti-graft file of a powerful presidential aspirant.
His wide mouth now has turned him into a third class citizen being transferred from one facility into another to face exactly what he has been doing to those he considered corrupt.
The former governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Matawalle can tell the story better what his family had to go through after he begged all Zamfara citizens before stepping aside on May 29th.
Kano, Cross River and some other states are hell bent in ensuring that their predecessors have sleepless night in the next four years.
Conclusively, insecurity, inflation, hunger, banditry are still looming larger than life in Nigeria. Nigerians expect a quick fix in these major areas as they directly affect the super rich, the rich, the long dead average Nigerians and the poorest of the poor in the country.
The last 8years has been a sorry tale for most Nigerians except for the super rich. It was as if Nigeria was thrown backward to the days they had to feed from the dustbins in the 1980s. The task ahead is rough but Tinubu should give these policies a human face except he wants to rule over dead Nigerians.