Where is President Tinubu’s renewed hope agenda?

, especially around the economy. But quite confounding are the policies’ glaring conflict with the platitude of hope and a better country for Nigeria. The truth is that the country is now worse off than Tinubu met it, yet the administration seems adrift from the existential free-fall into which it has plunged the country in just 12 months.Section 14 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, delineated the primary responsibility of government as the welfare and security of life and property.

More like one who had longed for office all his life, Tinubu, from day one, rolled out aggressive economic reforms of the neoliberal market models. That first led to the removal of the fuel subsidy, then the electricity subsidy, the imposition of more taxes, including security levy, and the devaluation of the naira. Suffice it to note that these are all costs passed on to the people, 63 per cent or 133 million of which are multidimensionally poor.

Amid the unprecedented buffeting of the economy, insecurity has also continued to fester across the landscape. Tinubu, who described security as the “bedrock of a prosperous and democratic society,” had assured Nigerians that if elected, his “administration will be committed to permanently securing the safety, freedom, and prosperity of all Nigerians.” The only noticeable achievement in security is the significant increase in the budgetary allocation to defence and the economies of war.

Tellingly, Nigerians are fed up in just about a year of this administration. Yet, given that there are three more years to go – out of which at least one would be devoted to the politics of 2027 – the Tinubu-led administration still has a chance to change the narrative and not continue to take Nigerians for a political ride.

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