What One Year into the Administrations is Saying about Nigerian Politics
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In October 2020, about one year into Buhari’s 2019 administration, we faced the EndSars Fiasco. In 2024, another year of the same position, one year into the 2023 Tinubu government, we have been facing the petroleum price hike crisis and the worst inflation Nigeria has seen in many years.
Are we moving forward as a democracy? Are we getting better at addressing the concerns of the vast majority of citizens or are we just moving blindly in circles? It isn’t as if Nigerians just enjoy languishing in a state of complaint and bitter anguish.
The police brutality issue addressed by the EndSars movement was indeed outrageous. The multiple price hikes on motor fuels in 2024 have indeed posed extreme hardships. Consider that the cost of fuel is linked to everything.
Transportation is how we get our foods to the market, the supermarket, the dining table, the wedding event. The cost of transportation goes up and the cost of everything that needs to be transported goes up as well.
Hopefully Nigerian leaders are not the type who feed on their electorate’s woes. As in they get happy when the people are groaning.
It only seems that way because the people were told to brace for the removal of the fuel subsidy which they insisted had to be done. But even after the price increase that followed the removal of the fuel subsidy, the current administration has increased the prices again and again without new explanations.
The president has given new speeches about how this is what has to be done and people must tighten their belts and find alternative methods to cope.
It almost begins to seem the administration has a fondness for people’s anguish. Nigerians are tired. They are waiting for the administration that wants to see them thrive and shows it, rather than telling them that more suffering is just the way it has to be for now.
But we can’t say this administration is a great disappointment because it never promised much to begin with. He was not like Peter Obi or Omoyele Sowore who marched with the youth telling them of promises that their administration would offer them and their families.
Tinubu focused on the idea that he had been in politics and helped many politicians and it was his turn for the top office. So coming from that perspective Nigerians should have known he wasn’t the type that was super-passionate about their success. Yet he received millions of votes.
In the last election cycle, by November 2021, the 2023 aspirants were parading themselves in the media and making speeches and declarations about what they wanted to do if given the opportunity and what they think could make Nigeria’s destiny of prosperity and greatness come to life.
That means, most likely, by this time next year, the aspirants for 2027 will be getting ready and making themselves known to public and the media.
Hopefully Nigerians’ ability to only pay attention to those who exhibit strong interest and share ideas to improve their well-being improves.
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