Tinubu's One Year in Office »

Officially, coming 29th of this month, will mark Tinubu’s one year in office as the President of Nigeria. Undoubtedly, it’s safe to say that it’s a year of hopelessness taking into consideration the formation of his administration up till this very moment.

It’s not a hearsay that they, too, have realised their ineptness considering the official statement from the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume. He was reported to have said that the President and his cabinets will celebrate the one year in office “low-key”. One who can decipher need not to be told what that means.

Prior to that comment of his, I was wondering, within myself, how the presidency has planned to celebrate the one year in office. It’s best to be tagged as a year of tribulations, inhumane and fraudulency. They have reshaped the economy in the sense that you would have to steal before you survive. Because, with a mere observation, one would notice that the only people who can attend to their basic needs without panic are the politicians. They extort from the low-income earners to enrich themselves.

Fuel subsidy was removed without hesitation but workers are still receiving a minimum wage that can’t even buy a bag of rice while the legislative members have their salaries increased in millions. A committee to draft and implement a decent minimum wage for workers was allocated the huge sum of 1billion Naira but even a fifty thousand Naira, workers are yet to receive as minimum wage.
This, which is strictly the responsibility of the minister for economy, is yet in great mishap.

Should we talk about the most incompetent of them all, Adelabu? The power minister who has sworn to take after his boss, the Lagos tax master. Oh! I mean task master. No plants has been newly executed since the resumption of his office. The country has gone blackout several times for days that it justify he should be called the minister for darkness.

Is it the suspended humanitarian minister, Betta Edu’s fraudulent acts that should be celebrated? Oh! I just realised no one has even been appointed to oversee the administration of that ministry since the occurrence of that incident. Safe to say that it’s inactive. What about the investigation and the trial of the culprits in question? Everyone has kept mum. The one year in office is really a good demo for an administration on the verge of hopelessness.

The only serious-minded ministers in his cabinets, who actually have remarkable achievements to showcase are: David Umahi of the Works and Housing, Nyesome Wike of the Federal Capital Territory and Tunji Ojo of Interior. They know their onions and they should be given their flowers. The earlier the President reshuffle his cabinets, the better for him.

Yusuf Danjuma Yunus is currently a 300 level student of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and a Columnist at InsidestoryNG. He can be reached via: theonlygrandeur@gmail.com