, an engineer, is a philanthropist and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Ogun State. The former House of Representatives aspirant spoke toon the effects of President Bola Tinubu policies and ideologies and what must be done to ease hardship on citizens.
It would be recalled that a similar scenario happened during President Obasanjo’s first year in 1999. Even in the United States, President Barack Obama had a rough ride in his first year in office in his attempt to instill his own economic and political ideologies in governance. I think I have answered this question partly in your earlier question. One thing you should understand about President Bola Tinubu is that he is a democrat to the core and an apostle of western democracies, which emanated from his background as an accounting student and years of stay in the United States.
I am indeed very happy with the action taken by the President, though the action came six months late. I gave the advice to the President in April 2023. You see the security and economic challenges we have in this country today are results of ineffective and poor leadership. What made things worse is that there has been absence of governance at the local government level since former President Olusegun Obasanjo gave the control of local governments to the state governors.
In April 2023, in an interview with Sunday Tribune, I advised the President-elect then to run the country as a socio-economic enterprise and not as a business enterprise. As a socio-economic enterprise, I meant that the President should embrace a bottom-up approach of leadership and economic development, instead of a top-down approach that empowers the rich over the poor.