At the onset of his administration, his incapacitation was glaring. He knows he lacks the sincerity, commitment and experience to pilot the affairs a country like Nigeria.
Amoda Yekini Ogundare aka Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has proven to be the stubborn politician he claims to be. He is stubborn because he has the instruments of power to misuse against opponents.
Today, even those who labored assiduously to support his political journey to the presidency in 2023 are the most disappointed and regretting in silence.
On assumption of office, and realizing his incapacitation to pilot the affairs of Nigeria, he hurriedly changed tactics. He recruited area boys, area fathers, clowns and touts to do his fight.
First assignment, was to create crisis within opposition parties, ‘forced’ the judiciary to compromise, and directed security agencies to support his biddings against opposition.
Therefore, whenever there is confusion at the highest level of governance, the confusion affects all segments and leads to lack of achievement of the objectives of governance.
The theory cannot be truer with respect to the administration of Tinubu as President of Nigeria. Management as a subject entails four major functions which include planning, organizing, directing, and controlling. From day one of the Tinubu presidency, he declared on the inauguration ground the scrapping of fuel subsidy.
He announced this major policy decision without a cabinet and due consultation with any known human being whatsoever. This is a testimony of a leader who displayed from day one that planning was not going to be part of style in government. This policy was pushed out without any plan to cushion the aftermath of the high price of fuel on the populace.
Transportation immediately became unbearable and inflation rose to the point of 34 percent before it was artificially brought down to 15 percent through a controversial scheme of inflation rebasing. Today, fuel price has risen from N195 that Tinubu inherited to about N1, 400 per litre.
Also, the government of Tinubu, in a purported bid to close the gap between the official foreign exchange price and the price of the Naira in the parallel market, floated the Naira in a policy that nearly landed the Naira to about N2, 000 to a dollar. The government had to reverse the policy and artificially protected the Naira from further decline to the abyss.
Rewane Bismarck, a renowned economist, revealed that it cost Nigeria more than $8billion to stop the Naira from collapse from Tinubu’s wrong policy. The inherited Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor in charge of floating the Naira, Godwin Emefiele, was fired and replaced with Yemi Cordoso. The workers are always the fall guys for Tinubu’s lack of planning before policy execution.
In the ensuring financial mess Nigeria was pushed into, today, the country is operating three budgets at the same time in an obvious breach of the Constitutional provision that the budget cycle of one budget is 12 months. This situation has brought confusion that permeates the legislature and the Federal Ministry of Finance does not even know the contractors of which budget they are settling. To compound the confusion, Tinubu himself does not even understand the amount of revenue that comes to the coffers of Nigeria.
In 2025, Tinubu boasted that by August, his administration had raked in the revenue projected for the entire 2025. This false claim exerted great pressure on the Ministry for Finance as the creditors of the ministry screamed blue murder at the inability of the ministry to pay them their money despite having a windfall of revenue. The now sacked Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, when he couldn’t sustain the pressure proclaimed loudly and diplomatically that Tinubu lied about receiving all the year’s revenue by the claimed August. He corrected Tinubu by revealing that it was only 25 percent of the revenue realized.
Every discerning Nigerian understood that Edun’s days in government were numbered for exposing the lying tongue of master. Tinubu brought Mrs Doris Uzoka-Anite from the Ministry of Trade and Investment to take over the revenue portfolio of the Finance Ministry from Edun. Unfortunately, Doris is from the marginalized South-east, so she couldn’t be allowed to take over from Edun as Minister. Tinubu found a reliable ally in Taiwo Oyedele, the tax master. Doris was deposed and replaced with Taiwo as Minister of State Finance. Immediately Taiwo settled, Edun was sacked and Taiwo promoted to full-fledged Finance Minister.
The World Bank report captured the great confusion and associated corruption in the Finance Ministry. It unequivocally quipped that 40 percent of all realized revenue does not make it into the Consolidated Revenue Fund for appropriation. This is a revelation that more than 40percent of Nigeria’s money is corruptly diverted for other not appropriated purposes. The only item the government of Tinubu accomplishes in each budget is the amount of borrowing stated in each budget.
Whereas Tinubu borrows all the money his government wants, most of the capital expenditures are not funded. What is all the borrowed money used for? Even the security budget has not received up to 7 percent of its total budgetary allocation for 2025, not to talk of other critical sectors such as health, education, agriculture and livestock.
The 2026 budget was approved by end of March, the end of the first quarter in 2026. Indeed, there is chaos in the financial sector of the Nigerian economy and this chaos is steadily spreading throughout the country.
Contractors are not being paid, they are protesting. Retired policemen are not being treated well, they are protesting. Resident doctors are not being catered for, they are protesting. Needs of academic staff of universities are not attended, they are protesting. Until last week, teachers in the federal capital territory were not paid.
It is in the area of insecurity that Nigeria is even most confused. Killings and kidnappings are hourly occurrence everywhere in the country. And the only available solution the Tinubu government offers is “perpetrators will be brought to justice. It will not happen again. We are on top of the situation.” And it ends there until the next episode.
This empty boast was made recently in Jos, Plateau State after the gruesome murder of innocent souls. The President reluctantly agreed to visit to commiserate with bereaving families but found it extremely difficult to reach the city of Jos where the violence occurred. Instead, he stopped at Heipang airport and directed families of the bereaved be transported from the city to meet with him at the airport. He was hurrying to reach Lagos for a break.
Tinubu is a President who pleaded with Nigerians not to vote for his second tenure if he fails to provide steady electricity supply to the country. It’s now almost three years while in power. instead of the promised steady electricity supply, Tinubu opted to connect the Presidential Villa with Solar at a whooping amount of over N10billion.
It is beyond debate to say that Tinubu is a confused president, and confusion is the daily occurrence in his style of administration. Little wonder the killings resumed even before he departed Jos on that fateful day. Nigerian Army Generals are killed like ‘desert shrimps’ at the theatre of war, our Colonels are murdered like antelopes, our Majors and other senior officers are ambushed and killed like ‘Christmas goats’. Our men in uniform and Civilian JTF are roasted by insurgents like bush rats. We are now a country soaked in tears and blood. In Borno, Kebbi, Plateau, Benue, Nasarawa, Kwara, Kogi, Niger, Zamfara and Adamawa, the story is same.
The confusion that has characterized the Tinubu presidency has spread to his political party APC. In three years, Tinubu has had three National Chairmen. They include Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and now Prof Nentawe Yilwatda.
Everything Tinubu does is 100 percent channeled towards his 2027 reelection dream, not towards good governance. This is why the confusion and insincerity is choking Nigeria and Nigerians. When he realized that himself, his Vice and party national chairman were all Muslims, he silently fired Ganduje and replaced him with a North Central Christian from Plateau State to placate the minority northern Christians.
Many state chapters of APC are loading implosion because Tinubu’s leadership style, which believes in cornering the political party and converting it to his family business. APC has been reduced to a theatre of City Boys.
This mindset in Tinubu towards rigging elections with the use of state machineries has brought the electoral process to tatters. Tinubu started with the doctoring of the Electoral Act, through the docile National Assembly, to produce the worst ever Electoral Act in the history of elections in Nigeria.
The Electoral Act was geared towards emasculating opposition parties. When Tinubu realized that opposition was too strong to be destabilized by the Electoral Act, he commissioned his aides to plant moles in opposition parties to weaken them and possibly destroy them.
Being scared of running on his terrible record with zero achievements, the only route he sees to follow back to Aso Rock Villa is to muzzle life out of opposition to run unopposed. He planted the ever intoxicated mad dog of Rivers State, Nyeson Wike in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to destroy the party, and he did with support of the Courts. PDP is now in the Intensive Care Unit gasping for oxygen to survive. The strategy he used was to make Wike FCT Minister than allowed to roam the streets jobless.
Tinubu is doing same with African Democratic Congress (ADC) where he planted one clown Nafi’u Bala Gombe and Leke Abejide to remain in ADC to destroy it with the support of the Courts.
Tinubu revealed this strategy through his Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila while speaking during a birthday ceremony organized by Abejide. Femi urged the lawmaker not to defect to APC, but to remain in the ADC to scatter and destroy it. He specifically asked the lawmaker to bring Nafi’u Bala Gombe to him to receive all needed support to destroy ADC.
What an express admission of guilt! The revelation rightly exposed the ongoing manipulation of INEC by the government through Joash Amupitan, to destroy opposition parties for Tinubu’s smooth sail. Otherwise, how can a supposed Professor of Law, who is also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) interpret a non-existent judgment of the Court of Appeal which declined jurisdiction to mean that a political party suddenly should be destroyed and its leadership derecognized by INEC just because the Court of Appeal said maintain STATUS QUO ANTE BELLUM? This is the power of a chaotic government which intends to spread the confusion it created to everything and to everyone in order to rule the people despotically spiced with corruption.
The danger, however, is that the confusion and insincerity spread by a chaotic and dishonest President may eventually tear the nation into shreds if the people refuse to wake up and defend the democracy and their destiny. Omologo means terrible things for Nigeria. He is not the President Nigeria deserves.
Muhammad is a commentator on national issues
