Nigeria may not be facing a constitutional vacuum today, but there is a disturbing vacuum of political leadership.
I have travelled, lived and spent time abroad, and I have never pretended otherwise. But there is a fundamental difference between the travels of a private citizen and the responsibility of the sitting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Consider what Bola Tinubu is leaving behind. Petrol priced beyond the reach of ordinary people. Families rationing food. Transport fares that have turned a journey to one’s own village into a luxury. Insecurity that buries Nigerians week after week. And in the middle of all this, President Tinubu has packed his bags for three weeks in Europe.
The Vice President is abroad on official duty. That makes the President’s decision even more difficult to understand. Leadership is not merely the constitutional right to occupy an office; it is the judgment to know when your country needs you at home.
A father may travel when all is well. But when his roof is burning and his family is trapped inside, he does not pick up his suitcase and head for the airport.
That is the issue here. It is not that a President must never rest or travel. It is that Nigeria is burning, and the President has chosen a boarding pass over the fire extinguisher.
Millions of Nigerians are being grounded by hardship while their President is airborne. The people can barely afford to move, but the President keeps moving.
A government that cannot feel the pain it inflicts will never summon the will to end it.
Tinubu made Nigeria expensive. I will make Nigeria affordable again. -AA
Fellow Nigerians,
It is time for every eligible Nigerian — young and old, in the cities and in the villages, at home and in the diaspora to take two decisive steps:
1. Register to vote with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) without delay.
2. Register with the African Democratic Congress (ADC). - RMK
Ya kashe PDP, ya kashe Labour, ya kashe NNPP, an koma ADC itama yana neman kashe ta. Ku tuna masa dukkan mai rai shi ma mamaci ne. Yau ina Fir'auna?
~ Salihu Tanko Yakasai
حَسْبُنَا ٱللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ ٱلْوَكِيلُ
Ḥasbunallāhu wa ni‘mal-wakīl
Allah is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs.
Allah Ya ishe mu, kuma Shi ne Mafi kyawun Wakili Mai kula da al’amuranmu.
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