President Bola Tinubu, according to Nimi Wariboko, a professor of social ethics at Boston University, has not yet demonstrated that he was ready for office.
“Eight months into a government system is too long not to have a plan,” the author and investment banker said on Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, aired on Channels Television on Friday.
He bemoaned the lack of a well-thought-out plan to mitigate the economic impact of the elimination of gasoline subsidies and other policies by the President, who emerged victorious in the February 2023 presidential election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The policies of the current administration, according to Wariboko, are “knee-jerk reactions,” meaning that the government lacks vision.
“There’s no point complaining about (ex-President Muhammadu) Buhari. There’s no point complaining about the goodness or the expectation of Buhari. Now, the ball is in his (Tinubu’s) court and he has to do it because he said it was his turn.
“People keep saying he was prepared; he’s been a politician butthe test of everything is the result we are seeing and I don’t thinkwe have seen any results so far that would justify that accolade being heaped upon him.
“The Bible says: If your strength fails you on the day of adversity. it is small. I always tell people that: If your strength fails you on the day of adversity, it was not there. It’s a simple case; we are not seeing the result, we are not even seeinga clear vision of where the country is going.”