We need to keep a watchful eye on Tinubu’s presidency. It quickly dismissed ambassadors from the beginning as if it had a clear foreign policy direction to save the nation. After that, it was unable to select ambassadors for two and a half years, which left the embassies inoperable. The president traveled the world with the all-knowing ease of a magician in the midst of that perplexing shiftlessness. If he had been questioned during the campaigns, he would have boasted about his ability to quickly choose the most capable individuals to carry out his ambitious foreign policy.
The president did, in fact, develop a list of nominees two years ago. In Nigeria, people purchase votes in order to win elections, and others purchase appointments from those who purchase votes. However, the list should have been eliminated or purged if any Brother Jeros in the presidency had been vying for ambassadorial jobs as implied. Rather, the list was thrown away and allowed to collect dust, much like an unnecessary grocery list. The presidency didn’t panic like a scared one-legged chicken until Donald Trump shook the government and revealed our diplomatic weakness.
Suddenly, the old dubious list reappeared. Before the president sent the 68 nominees to the Senate, maybe a little disinfectant was added.However, one of them was the late senator Adamu Talba, who passed away in July 2025, many months before to the December submission. A deceased man’s nomination ought to have been a grave national embarrassment that demanded responsibility. However, there was no embarrassment on the part of the government. The rubber-stamp senate performed what a rubber stamp does after receiving the list. As if questioning them would denigrate the president who appointed them and paint him as frivolous, even infamous individuals who had fanned ethnic conflict for amusement and called the president a former drug lord went unpunished.
The new ambassadors awaited their appointment after being confirmed. However, there was then another round of abracadabra. A presidency that behaves like a push-and-start kabukabu attracts scorn from the continent and national mistrust. Only four of the sixty-eight ambassadors were announced to be posted by the presidency a month later, prior to a state visit to Turkey. Turkey, France, the UK, and the United States. Surprisingly, Tinubu’s initial list of nominations for the Senate did not include the man he sent to Turkey. It is important to closely examine the strategies used by the presidency to sneak the individual onto the priority posting list. When public indignation reached an uncontrollable level the following day, the presidency quickly overturned the questionable appointment, citing a “administrative mix-up.”
Some detractors questioned whether the presidency depends on juju. How did it believe no one would notice? Otherwise, what combination could have confused the entire administration to the point where it was unable to thoroughly screen a list of just four individuals? Tinubu’s presidency needs to be regularly monitored since it functions like a blind man using a stick to navigate uncharted territory, depending on public outcry to change direction and back off of mistakes.
It is referred to as “compound anyhowness” by some. Some claim it’s not that harmless. Because casual sloppiness typically conceals a sinisterness. It cannot be a clerical error to add a new, unapproved name to a high-stakes diplomatic list. The presidency is not a roadside bar with a run-down list of debtors. It can be an intentional act of disdain to highlight the senate’s inefficiency. However, it smells of arrogance, knavery, and impunity to get a former governor onto the list without hesitation. This is the administration that, in the face of overwhelming public uproar, pardoned drug dealers and murders in broad daylight, justified the move for days, and then dismissed it with a pinched nose like some rotten fish.
Benign incompetence alone is ruled out by such patterns. The nation appears to be plagued by a president who is battling pervasive moral deterioration in all of its forms. It explains why divisive bigots and clowns were chosen to serve as ambassadors and why dangerous criminals like Maryam Sanda, who was found guilty of murder, were initially granted amnesty. This decadence is still appalling but might be excused if it only crosses ethical boundaries by accepting racism or ignoring conflicts of interest in trillion-naira contracts given to friends without due procedure.
The country will be destroyed by looting and theft, but the conquered state will be the final step of the decay. Nigerians need to be on guard once the deterioration begins to promote a cash-and-carry mentality at the top levels. It’s better to think that all drug dealers are deserving of salvation than to let even one purchase a reprieve with money obtained illegally. A presidency that is transactional is risky.
Is the president really in charge? That is the true question. Tinubu may not be the epitome of virtue, but his assistants must come under more public scrutiny due to his many howlers, outrageous statements, and reversals. Once, Senator Ali Ndume revealed that Villa gatekeepers allegedly demand bribes to gain access to the president, even from senators, implying that the administration has been “hijacked by kleptocrats.” All of this is fueled by the blatant Sanda pardon, which is linked to powerful contacts and rumors of correctional service transactions.
types of suspicions. Although the audacity attracts rumors, proceed with prudence. Why this constant disregard for decorum if Tinubu is in charge? Instead of treating preventable embarrassments as scandals, why treat them as commonplace? The presidency slips from one misstep to the next, only to be driven into retreats yet it exhibits neither care nor sorrow.
These are not typical errors. If the president’s vision has deteriorated like that of biblical Isaac in old age, then why surround himself with Jacobs who is always ready to deceive and Esaus who is prepared to trade the country’s birthright?
Most recently, the tax reform laws voted by the National Assembly deviated from the gazetted versions. Between assent and publishing, unapproved clauses that were rejected by legislators were added, giving them undue coercive authority. The government brushes this off as a “typographical error,” even though it amounts to forgery and could be treason. Democracy is fundamentally undermined by such blatant manipulation. It is impossible to clear Tinubu. The fish rots from the head, according to our people.
If 10 heads are better than one, then why can’t one of his many advisors yell at the emperor and cover his head with a basket everytime he attempts to run out in his “new” attire, like he did when he gave his business partner GCON on his birthday?
It is a poisonous mixture of negligence, awkwardness, and corruption. This presidency has been marred by it. The presidency needs to be closely and unrelentingly observed.
