Democracy Day: Tinubu Should Have Given His Speech To K1 D’Ultimate.

Democracy Day: Tinubu Should Have Given His Speech To K1 D’Ultimate.

I endured the pain to listen to president Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Democracy Day speech this morning.

It is not that I expected something spectacular from the president on Democracy Day, at least, based on the performance of his Government in the past one year but at least, moving forward, I had expected that perhaps, the magicians of Lagos would at the minimum told Nigerians that the Minimum Wage have been effectively resolved and maybe, some positive policy statements that would seek to address the problems of prices of food and other essentials.

I regret listening to the speech of the president.

With due respect to him, that speech is the most uninspiring and sour message that a president would ever deliver to Nigerians and that is my opinion.

It is rather sad that despite the fact that the president couldn’t muster the courage to address Nigerians on the occassion of his first year anniversary, perhaps, because he knows that there was nothing to tell Nigerians on that occassion, he and his handlers have decided to entertain Nigerians with a speech that would have been a suitable lyrics for Wasiu Ayinde.

Honestly, if the president had told Nigerians that instead of a speech, he had engaged K1 to sing the praises of the heroes of June 12, he would have done better and heavens wouldn’t have fallen.

After all, he never addressed Nigerians on May 29.

Let me however say at this point that the time for the initiates in the APC and the accolytes of the president to get seriously worried has come.

” Ailaso lorun paaka, o to apewo fun Omo eriwo”.

The way we have been going about our politicking here in Nigeria is such that a Government have just about two years to work to convince the electorates if a renewal of mandate is required.

From recent experience, even, Governments no longer enjoy the luxury of two years.

The moment you fall to hit the ground running in your first year, then you’re in soup.

I am sure, even president Tinubu knows that his first year in office is a failure by all standards.

If you sing a song and the lyrics is lacking in melody, you should be the first person to notice.

” Bi eeyan ba nkorin ti o dun, sebi o nfi eti ara e gbo”.

If the president could not tell Nigerians through a speech either on May 29 or the Democracy Day speech, how his policies have impacted positively on Nigerians, then, there’s a big problem.

In the past one year, all Nigerians have harvested as fruits of the mandate they gave the president is hardships, disappointment and pains.

The Government seems to be confused about almost everything.

Policy reversals and denials are the order of the day.

Transparency is at ground zero!

Is this the same man who has been acclaimed to have built the modern Lagos that we see now?

From his first day in office, the president have betrayed his seeming lack of knowledge of the Nigerian situation.

His removal of fuel subsidy as an act of ” courage” without plan threw Nigeria into immediate Economic catastrophe which It has not recovered from.

The worst part of this scenario is the fact that we are now being told, albeit Government have been trying to explain it, that, Government have actually been paying subsidies!

The revelation about the payment of subsidies is sad to say the least.

Prices of petrol have risen from 260 Naira to 700 Naira as a result of the public announcement of the withdrawal of fuel subsidy.

Now that it’s been alleged that Government have gone back to paying for subsidies, why has it not reflected in a downward price of petrol?

There are more questions than answers for the president with regards to the withdrawal and the alleged restoration of subsidies.

It’s curious to note that immediately the announcement of the withdrawal of fuel subsidies were made, all Oando petrol stations across the country suddenly metamorphosed to NNPC stations.

That coincidence is suspicious when you consider the personality behind Oando and his relationship with the president.

These are issues one would have expected the president to address in his Democracy Day speech not the lyrics about the heroes of June 12.

We have heard that many times in the past and we are tired of those who celebrates June 12 but are not in any way thinking or acting like the hero of the day.

Even, MKO Abiola, Abraham Adesanya, Kudirat Abiola and others would shudder in their graves if they heard the president this morning.

What president Tinubu is currently serving Nigerians is not what those patriots envisaged.

Surely, Abiola would not threaten Labor for whatever reason as the president chose to do, though, veiled.

I do not support the attack of Government facilities by anyone or Group but when you keep making peaceful resolutions impossible, aren’t you making violence inevitable?

I also think the time have come for the president to understand that he doesn’t have the luxury of shifting blames on his predecessors, most especially, Mohammadu Buhari.

Each time he and his handlers attempt to shift the blames for their failures on Buhari, it amounts to insulting the sensibilities of Nigerians.

With what mouth will this Government criticize the Government of Buhari?

A Government Tinubu helped installed and defended for eight years?

I thought the president promised to continue from where Buhari stopped?

Now, he has continued the journey as Buhari charted the routes, if by now he feels the road is no longer leading to a desired destination, shouldn’t he just own up, change direction and chart a better route?

Or, the magician of Lagos, the pathfinder could not cope with the enormity of finding a path on the big stage?

One of the biggest undoing of president Bola Ahmed Tinubu is that he has chosen to surround himself with known yes men.

Yes, he got away with it in Lagos for several reasons, one of which is the fact that Lagosians have been toughened to cope on their own and less dependent on Government.

This is Nigeria. A stage that presents diverse challenges which is beyond the ken of those who act as the Big Boys in this Government.

By all standards, president Tinubu has around him the weakest team ever and that is with due respect to the Cabinet members.

For the president to succeed, he requires a blend of technocrats and politicians with deep knowledge of the ethno-socio- cultural realities of the country.

The problems of Nigeria is engendered from the grassroots.

How many of the present Ministers have touch with the grassroots?

There is no way anyone will be successful in governing this country without a proper grasp of the masses in the grassroots.

You can not effectively govern Nigeria from the statistics gathered from your computer.

As a president, once you lose touch with the grassroots, you are on your own and I think the reason president Tinubu have failed to impact on Nigerians is as a result of his disenchantment from the grassroots.

It’s very sad that while Nigerians are wallowing in hunger and poverty, the disciples of the president are celebrating the World’s largest canvass painting portrait of the president.

” Iya nronu, Omo e nroka”!

I will round up by advising the president to consider strengthening his party and concentrate on governance.

He has been dissipating so much energy on 2027.

Eng. Oluwasina Adeyemi.