In President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Nigeria, hunger is ravaging the citizens.
Poverty is wrecking havocs.
The sick are dying in drives due to the unprecedented hike in the prices of drugs.
I will not say that the president has not been directly or indirectly responsible for the problems in the Land.
My biggest problem however, is that both president Tinubu and his handlers thought Nigerians should understand and bear with the Government despite the harsh economic realities just because they should!
The art of persuasion and explanations are talents.
Not everyone who can speak phonetics or some beautiful English possess them.
Whatever president Tinubu is doing to alleviate the current hardship, largely caused by him, has no meaning to Nigerians and that is simply because both the president and his cabinet are not explaining and persuading Nigerians.
They have simply being talking to Nigerians and not all talks carry meanings.
It has come to a point where president Tinubu’s Ministrers and Aides ought to have been dispatched from the comfort of their offices to their respective states states to try and explain Governments policies and programs.
However, there’s a problem with that.
Most especially in the South and particularly the South West of Nigeria.
I wonder where some of the Ministers from the South West will go.
Is it their adoptive abodes, Lagos, where most of them have spent years, neglecting their natural states of origin or, their natural states where they have neglected and never played politics but whose slots they usurped for convenience?
That is the biggest problem of this Administration.
The Government of president Bola Ahmed Tinubu is wanting in veterans and men who possess persuasive abilities and it is very interesting, though, sadly so.
Even, during the first term of former president Mohammadu Buhari, his Ministers, led by Lai Mohammed, erstwhile Minister for Information were in every Town Halls trying to force the RUGA down our throats.
That is not to say that only RUGA was on their menu.
For a man who had used information as a tool to take down Governments and install Governments, I expected president Tinubu to have deviced a formidable method of explaining his policies and persuading Nigerians to walk with him.
Like I said earlier, politics and governance go together.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu should know better that some of his Ministers and with due respect to them, do not possess the wherewithal to steer the ship of state on turbulent waters, such as we presently have.
Politics itself is an art.
Great men like Awolowo and Akintola were not only sagacious in the art of governance, they were brilliant politicians and they had eyes for men who combined both to join them in office.
I have many times look through president Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s cabinet and I always shudder when I see those who made the list as against those who should.
I have always asked myself, why are people like Fayemi, Amosun, Fasola, Aregbesola, Mamora, Folarin, Nasir El Rufai, Adeolu, Rauf Olaniyan, Akanbi and many more missing on the table?
Times like this requires men of means and grit.
I believe those who, for whatever reasons are left out would do a better job than many of those on the table.
I see a Government where those who should actually be assisting the president by communicating with Nigerians were either overwhelmed, overconfident or clueless.
Fortunately for the president, there is no Law that stops him from rejigging his cabinet for better outputs.
It is unfortunate that even in the South West, the base of the president, protests are being staged to condemn the policies of his Government.
That should worry the president and those presently with him in Government.
Why are Ministers appointed per states?
Are they not supposed to be the president’s eyes and mouths in their respective states?
Now, where are the mouths and eyes when protesters were shouting “.. down with the president”?
It is not too late for president Tinubu to readjust the load that has fallen from his head.
The battle in front of him is not for the lilly livered.
It is a problem that requires men with prerequisite knowledge of tough situations and the APC have them aplenty.
The damage the president have done to some state chapters of the APC when he was putting his cabinet together is yet to settle.
Most of those he chose were unjustly chosen.
Another question that bothers me presently is, what is the party, APC doing at this moment?
Certainly, things are not as they should both in Government and the party.
President Tinubu as Leader of both the Government and the party must look at this.
The party, methinks ought to be at the forefront now.
