The Director of Publicity and Advocacy for the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has voiced his displeasure with the Federal Government’s hasty decisions that do not address the urgent problems that ordinary Nigerians face.
The Director claims that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s first few weeks in office were marked by disastrous leadership that only made matters worse.
The NEF is worried that the administration’s attempts to fix problems have mainly failed.
The forum warned that Nigerians’ already deplorable living conditions could get much worse as a result of the plethora of planned plans and programs.
On Monday, Baba-Ahmed issued a statement in which he claimed, “Northern Elders Forum has exercised an informed restraint to speak on condition of affairs of the North and Nigeria for reasons elders should be affiliated with. First, legal objections are still being considered, so the electoral process is technically ongoing.
Respect for those who, according to our constitution, have powers to lead us at this time is something that responsible Nigerians owe our democratic process. Efforts to tarnish the judicial process’s image for partisan or other objectives must be rejected, and the process itself should be supported so that it can fulfill its mission. Second, our Forum understands the difficult conditions in which the Tinubu administration took charge of rescuing Nigeria from further crisis.
We should be praying for our leaders and offering them words of encouragement and advice rather than passing judgment on them too quickly. Lastly, the Forum has maintained a keen awareness of the importance of making productive use of time and resources, especially in light of the unprecedented adversity under which Nigerians currently exist.
However, in order for the government and the people to establish common ground as they consider their next moves, it is now time for me to address a number of pressing concerns.
The Forum believes that the way in which President Tinubu’s administration makes choices and implements its programs would improve now that a cabinet is being formed.
“Most Nigerians do not need convincing that the country had been degraded to a very sorry situation by the past administration and that sacrifices and informed policies and judgments will be required to make the transition to a more productive economy, more secure neighborhoods, and a more united country.
We think the government made a mistake by jumping into substantial policy changes so soon after taking its first shaky steps into office.
The failed attempts at error correction have been compounded by the onslaught of proposed laws and programs that will make the Nigerian’s existence even more unpleasant.
Where mistakes have been attempted to be corrected, the decisions seem to have been made too quickly and would accomplish little in the long run to ease the terrible circumstances that Nigerians face on a daily basis.
Overall, President Tinubu’s first weeks in office will go down in history as the work of a leadership that made bad problems substantially worse without offering any explanation as to why. While the Forum would want to think otherwise, it understands the pain of the average citizen whose life has suddenly deteriorated dramatically over the past several weeks.
The Forum suggests the government take some easy measures to better the environment in which it can accomplish its immediate and long-term objectives. At this point, it’s most crucial to convey to Nigerians why it’s imperative that we endure such severe hardships, and whether or not this course of action is unavoidable.
The citizen has a right to know why millions of families are struggling to put food on the table, why his kid might have to drop out of school, and why his situation seems hopeless.
The people of Nigeria are curious as to how we ended up in this predicament, who or what is to blame for the consequences that have been visited upon us, and what the government intends to do to make amends for the mistakes of the past.
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