June 6, 2026
The most patient Nigerians are now exasperated. President Tinubu has run out of excuses. A once-passive nation is waking up to its perilous predicament. Indefatigable Pastor Enoch Adeboye says he has tried. He now begs his congregation to help him speak to Tinubu. It appears the President is inaccessible not only to senators. Does Tinubu need deliverance?
For years, many dismissed Adeboye’s silence and customary optimism as conspiratorial. They said an Ijaw man like Goodluck Jonathan was not so lucky. Only tribal loyalty, they argued, could explain it. Elders watching a tethered goat go into labour without raising alarm. It seemed Adeboye was doing a Soyinka—treating his friend Tinubu like a sacred cow. Yet others felt both men had paid their dues. Nigerians should seize the bull by the horns and leave old men to the blessings and toothlessness of old age.
But a nation bleeding and gripped by the jugular has no patience for tribal sentiment, filial bonds or cowardice. The menace of bandits, jihadists and insurgents has reached demonic proportions. Tinubu insists the deteriorating insecurity is the handiwork of his political enemies. This cynical view makes the crisis more hopeless. If massacres and mass abductions were organised by opponents, should that not make them more soluble? Adeboye’s public advice suggests the self-acclaimed master strategist has proved a lousy Commander-in-Chief.
