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Tinubu was in the opposition for many years. While in the opposition, he constantly criticised and even ridiculed those in government. He was seen as playing his role as a member of the opposition. He was commended for playing his role well. It is disappointing that under his administration, dissent is regularly demonised with a resort to ethnic baiting. It started during the campaign when key members of his campaign team and supporters like Bayo Onanuga, MC Oluomo, and others made inciting ethnic comments, yet they were not cautioned. Rather they were given political appointments after the election. That should not be encouraged.
It is clear to all that Nigeria is presently at the edge of the precipice in terms of economic, security and food affordability. Each day, the hardship is biting very hard the situation has pushed many people to take extreme measures, even as bad as taking their own lives.
We know too that politicians love new projects as these allow them to inflate contracts and thereby siphon public funds. In Anambra State, public funds were probably saved because Obi at least didn’t embark on kangaroo school projects. If he maintained the existing ones, that would be sufficient. It’s not compulsory that a politician build new schools. He didn’t need to if the data showed he didn’t need to. But did Obi have those with the head to take hold of such data and make mincemeat of an irrelevant allegation?