Tinubu: Crises versus expectations

By Abdu Abdullahi

To achieve this, Tinubu must not sacrifice the political north for the northern political elites’ supremacy. In other words, giving juicy appointments to northern elites who will only enhance self-aggrandizement without meeting the wallowing masses’ aspirations will be a great political catastrophe which he will live to regrets.

We all know that the road to victory for the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was thorny right from the APC’s presidential primary to the general elections.

Nevertheless, considering the hectic and chaotic atmosphere, a profound thought triggers the mind that his government will mainly be occupied and defined by the forces of crises and expectations. Crises are the heaps of mess the government will clear away and the expectations are yielding to our collective yearnings and aspirations. How these symbiotic elements are effectively managed will eventually determine Tinubu’s governmental impacts, either negative or positive . While not traversing through the Buhari torrential path, Tinubu ought to unlock these crises and accord them the best approach they deserve to gift us a new lease of life.

Everyone saw the ugly virus of conspiracy that was injected into the interior politicking of the All Progressives Congress ( APC) to knock him down. He was about to become a great loser of the same political child he laboured to deliver. But like a miracle, he was eventually rescued and capable of sighting the light at the end of the tunnel. For our brooding recapitulation, the authored conundrums and political gimmicks were plotted to aggravate the political crisis particularly.

From the cited terrible experience enacted and executed by the political oracles, Tinubu should avail himself of all possible means to render them regret their ill-motivated actions by giving the best performance he could. At least, he will justify his mandate as being worthy of the prevailing circumstances so as not to pave them the easiest way to cast aspersions on his government when they find loopholes.

If I may be quoted right, the Tinubu’s regime hallmark will be based on crises of expectations. Of course, there are boisterous crises that are too much with us. The enormity of these problems has devastated our hopes and dreams beyond our imagination. Majority Nigerians have been coerced to live with broken hopes. Majority Nigerians have lost emotional comfort everywhere and want to reclaim it and Tinubu is fully aware of this.

Although he is not the architect of these national maladies, yet his party will have to be given greater portions of the blame because it is under Buhari’s rule, by extension, APC’s government that things degenerated from bad to worse. His particular efforts in addressing chronic matters will go a long way in restoring the lost glory of the All Progressives Congress( APC) in particular and the country in general.

But largely, the ordinary people will be highly desirous of getting their expectations fulfilled even though the crises will be too cumbersome to resolve. In the unfolding events, for every crisis there is a reserved expectation for which the people are anxious of its fulfillment. The multifaceted expectations are the democratic gains the masses are eager to reap. And the clusters of crises are what Tinubu should face and make his government popular or otherwise. It is this crisis management and its subsequent harmonisation with the people’s expectations that we are going to evaluate Tinubu’s regime. When a clash of crises and expectations ensues, two results are imminent. The crises are unresolved and Tinubu becomes a casualty. The expectations are unfulfilled and the masses become the victims. Ensuring a balancing therefore is the major objective of Tinubu’s government.

Resolving each crisis is putting options before him to choose the correct one. To learn from Buhari’s goofs, he expended so much time and thoughts indicting the PDP government of bad governance. In the long run, it became clear that Buhari was not a good crisis manager who squandered the opportunity given to him for national construction. This must be food for thought on the way forward for Tinubu.

By the time he must have been sworn- in to take charge of the nation’s affairs, he will be overwhelmed by the general expectation. Our general expectation is giving us what rightly belongs to us, good governance. This is the overall crisis of the crises of expectations. The past eight years have been a nightmare for our existence. What will be greatly expected therefore is that the incoming government should be a paradigm shift from the old order to a fresh one.

Tinubu will have to battle many fronts of crises to meet our expectations. In balancing them, the expectations belong to the general populace, while the crises are owned by Tinubu, albeit he is not the primary culprit. The way Tinubu will see, bear and handle the crises will not be the same way we will comprehend them. On the other hand, the people’s elated expectations may not be the same way Tinubu will perceive them. This conflict of perception culminates into another crisis which can be described as the crisis of lost confidence. And this is the starting point of the government forfeiting its credibility.

Whatever the case may be, Tinubu will fight inherited shambles from the man with whom they belong to the same party. But they have different leadership styles. It is hoped that Tinubu will not succumb to committing the same political suicide Buhari mistakingly did. He decided to fight the PDP and Jonathan as the problems with Nigeria while the real troubles continued to accumulate until Buhari could no longer contain them.

To confront Nigeria’s heterogeneous crises and meet our expectations, Tinubu must tactfully resolve the overiding crisis of confidence that is now seemingly lacking in government. In other words, Nigerians are waiting for a mini revolution to set them free from the shackles of poverty, inflation, insecurities, unemployment, naira devaluation, falling standard of education and the others.

In northern Nigeria particularly, the crisis of expectations revolves round the axis of political reciprocation in which the north contributed to his victory and expecting a payback. To achieve this, Tinubu must not sacrifice the political north for the northern political elites’ supremacy. In other words, giving juicy appointments to northern elites who will only enhance self-aggrandizement without meeting the wallowing masses’ aspirations will be a great political catastrophe which he will live to regrets.

Tinubu’s list of crises includes the seperationists palaver, the question of unity restoration, the religious pandemic of the same faith ticket and how to appease the gullible minds of those who voted against Tinubu’s faith and now want him to accommodate them in matters of appointments. Will Tinubu be a party to national inclination and reject party inclination when it comes to dealing with the right people to spearhead the affairs of the APC? There is indeed an overwhelmingly all inclusive crisis of depression cutting across Nigeria. This pathetic scenario is akin to the infamous depression of the post World War II. We are waiting for Tinubu’s response.

In a summary, Tinubu will act as a risk bearer to confront the unprecedented crises Nigeria is passing through. To succeed, fulfilling our expectations is very paramount.

Abdu Abdullahi is a Public Affairs Analyst.

Vengeance: The mischievous spirit

By Jimoh Hussain Kehinde

Can you imagine? A friend butchers her friend for snatching her boyfriend and the incident that happened 10 years ago. Even if we offend our creator and yet He forgives us because He is a Forgiver as mentioned in the glorious Qur’an ” Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed He is Most Forgiving, the Merciful (Qur’an 39:53).

Surprisingly, God created us differently in terms of Behavior, Culture, Religion, Ethnic, Color, Race and Language, and so on. Apparently, in different parts of the world humans are located be it State, Country, Region, or Continental. There are 8 planets in the solar system. Earth is one of them where homo sapiens are found. Over seven billion is the current population density of the world.

Today’s topic I opined on is “How To Forgive And Forget”. How do we forgive and forget? In this life, we are bound to sin with each other. Knowingly, when the sinner knows the weight of his or her action and decided to seek forgiveness, we ought to forgive and forget, even if the wrongdoer failed to seek forgiveness we can still forgive and entangle him or her to God

Most believe when they’re offended, the best thing to do is to avenge even without considering the repercussions of their actions. On March 26th a Nigerian woman allegedly stabbed her friend, Glory Okon, to death in her apartment. According to information gathered by Vanguard, Anita Ofili, who committed the heinous act, revealed that the deceased snatched her boyfriend 10 years ago.

“Glory and I had been good friends for years, but she betrayed that friendship by snatching my boyfriend.

“I had the intention of marrying him. Her action strained the relationship and we went our separate ways for 10 years.

“We only reconciled 2 weeks ago. I invited her to my house and the rest, you know.”

Can you imagine? A friend butchers her friend for snatching her boyfriend and the incident that happened 10 years ago. Even if we offend our creator and yet He forgives us because He is a Forgiver as mentioned in the glorious Qur’an ” Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed He is Most Forgiving, the Merciful (Qur’an 39:53).

” And O my people! Ask for forgiveness of your lord and then repent to him;

He will send you ( from the sky) abundant rain and add strength to your strength. Do not turn away as those given to guilt.(criminals, disbelievers in the oneness of Allah.” ( Qur’an 11:52).

According to the Bible in Matthew 6: 14-15 ” For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.”

Defeat the mischievous spirit today by Forgiving so that you can be light-minded. If you can’t forget what someone did to you, you can’t forgive them. Don’t go around with a heavy mind, forgive and forget today so that you can be light-minded. May God be with you.

Jimoh Hussain Kehinde is a Public Affairs Analyst.

Presidential aide describes NAN Deputy Editor-inChief as epitome of knowledge

MrFemi Adesina , the Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the President, has described Mrs Grace Yussuf, the Deputy Editorin-Chief , News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) as epitome of knowledge.

Adesina, who was represented by Mrs Patience Tilleygyado , Assistant Director, Information, State House said this on Tuesday in Abuja at the launching of a book authored by Yussuf.

He said Yussuf had displayed special skills in writing the book titled “ The Journalist, The Woman and Her Faith“ that really worthy of emulation.

The Managing Director, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr Buki Ponle, said Yussuf was a journalist with difference in her reportage as a journalist.

Ponle, who was represented by Mr Mufutau Ojo , the Director of Special Duties in the Agency , said Yussuf was a celebrated Journalist as the presence of the crowd had proved it.

The managing director pledged to keep promoting such laudable initiative among members of NAN staff, adding that he would further celebrate NAN Journalist who excelled in their endeavours.

He advised young female journalists to take a lead from Yussuf and put down their experiences in writing.

“Many have put in two to three decades in the profession. The new ones should learn from Grace Yussuf that have put in over three decades in the profession.

” The book is interesting and exciting. I recommend it to others to buy to take cue from there,” he said.

Prof. Joy Ezedo, Women Aid Collective (WACOL) said Yussuf had made herself outstanding among women through her personal efforts.

Ezedo , who was represented by Mrs Ijeoam Ezeude , WACO Head of Legal Unit, said the author was worthy emulated as she had balanced the roles of wife, mother and journalist.

Mr Joe Bankole, a Former Managing Editor, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who reviewed the book said it was a typical story of a typical professional in a typical Nigerian setting spared none from pains and comfort.

According to him, the book titled “ The Journalist, The Women and Her Faith“ is a “Memoirs of a Nigerian Female Journalist“.

Bankole said the uniqueness of the book reflected in the sincerity, passion and candour with which the author told the story.

“It is a beautiful work of art that is good and pedagogical.

“It provides the platform for an enduring litany or lessons for young professionals in the field, working journalists and Christian women who want to stick to their faith no matter challenges in any sphere of life.

“I proudly recommended this book to all of a disciplined life, and one dedicated to the praise of God Almighty,” he said.

Mrs Grace Yussuf, Deputy Editorin-Chief, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), thanked everyone that came for the occasion.

She further thanked everyone that had helped her during service years and those she had leant from to attain the feat.

Yussuf said she had covered many beats, including , Economy and Industry beat for NAN and visited USA, Spain, Japan, South Africa, Gabon, Cameroon and Gambia to report events. (NAN)