May 29, 2026
Hope! Renewed Hope! Perhaps, the writer who said hope is better served as breakfast and not dinner did not have President Bola Tinubu in mind. Three years after, spanning 1095 days, the President’s minders are still telling Nigerians that their hope will be renewed. Whereas Tinubu himself acknowledges the suffering of Nigerians – or so he claims from time to time – some of his minders speak to a different thesis about the situation of Nigerians.
Some even claim that Nigeria of today is the best since independence, while engaging in self-flagellation and incestuous masturbatory relief that Tinubu is the best President Nigeria has ever had and will ever have. That is where some of President Tinubu’s problems start. If a leader is not sat down by his minders and associates, and made to understand the experiential realities of his citizens, he will carry on as if all is well.
For some Nigerians, whenever they see President Tinubu, the visage that confronts them is one of an unsympathetic leader. Partisans will disagree but that is the reality.
The concomitant effect is that whereas Tinubu is trying to do his best, trying to set right what had taken decades to destroy, engaging dynamic strategies to carry out his reforms, there is a disconnect between efforts and the deliverables.
