THIS article is not really my as sessment of the “performance” of the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his Deputy, Vice President Kashim Shettima. There are only two major things to write home about this presidential pair: untold hardship for Nigerians and wasteful spending based on misplaced priorities.
What really brought me to this topic was an utterance credited to one Salihu Lukman, a former National Vice Chairman of the president’s All Progressives Congress, APC, who recently wrote an “Open Letter to Northern Politicians”. He complained that very soon, hungry people will start breaking into people’s houses in the North to loot.
The PDP presidents more or less conformed to these expectations due to their party’s power rotation and sharing formula, though some abused their office by unduly favouring their ethnic and regional bases. It was APC’s Muhammadu Buhari that primitively declared that he would favour his religious, regional and ethnic groups who voted for him and marginalise the Igbo and South-South groups who did not vote for him. He carried out this threat to the letter for eight years.
My question for Lukman and his cohorts is: where exactly did Buhari’s nepotism leave the North? Whatever Northern politicians ate under Buhari, they have passed out as faeces long ago, and the hunger is back!