A German-based Nigerian lawyer and consultant, Dr. Franklyne Ogbunwezeh, has said that President Tinubu cannot revive Nigeria even if he is given a hundred years to govern the country. The public intellectual revealed this during an appearance in the online interview programme, 90MinutesAfrica, hosted by Rudolf Okonkwo on Sunday.
“President Tinubu does not have the capacity or the competence to govern Nigeria,” the former Director at the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) in Frankfurt disclosed. “Even if you give him a hundred years, he won’t know what to do with the country.”
The former Director for Genocide Prevention at the Christian Solidarity International (CSI) challenged the president to show Nigerians the policies he has introduced to curb the ravaging inflation or to halt the downward slide of the naira since he assumed office. Rather, the first thing he did “was to remove petrol subsidy without putting any measure in place to cushion the effects on the people, simply because the IMF instructed him to,” he stated. “Immediately after, the forces that are hell-bent on making a buck out of every bad situation in Nigeria took over, and now he is overwhelmed.”
Commenting on the rumoured impending cabinet shakeup by the president, Dr. Ogbunwezeh said nothing would change so long as Mr. Tinubu does not have a clear agenda on how to govern the country. He argued that President Tinubu should set the tone for his appointees to follow; otherwise, no amount of reshuffling will change the present situation.
“The truth is that the country has been captured. The legislature under Akpabio cannot put a check on the executive, and the judiciary is corrupt.
“So Nigeria has been captured at every tier of government by people who don’t even know what to do with power. They are just there to make sure that money keeps lubricating their hands. Nigerians should brace up because things are going to get worse,” the author of “Integral Development, Ethics, Governance and Human Rights in the African Context” said.
He also accused the government of lacking in direction. “Now, the solution to every problem is to throw rice at the people. It has become a rice government,” he lambasted the Tinubu administration.
