Allow me to reintroduce myself to those that could not perceive why I’ve determined to put in writing on detected ‘tactical errors’ the presidency must clear for the majesty of democracy to emerge in Africa’s most populous nation. Within the final 36 years of my journalistic legwork, I’ve coated 9 (9) Heads of State and Presidents of Nigeria earlier than our present chief emerged. And so I feel in all modesty, I can look into the seeds of our presidential instances and advise on the way to clear some tactical, tragic and even strategic errors of any serving president of our nice nation, even the enduring Madiba claimed the black race had been ready for as s supply of satisfaction and confidence. Forgive me for this ‘immodesty’ of counting a few of my journalistic blessings and credentials. These digital instances when some younger ones simply abuse elders on-line for lack of know-how name for this uncommon clarificatin.
The 5 (5) tactical errors President Tinubu ought to clear immediatelyWeak(ened) presidential paperwork:I’ve written about this tactical error a number of instances however as a result of the error hasn’t been cleared important indicators are starting to indicate that it’s quick turning into a tragic error, which might result in tragic failure. The focus of Nigeria’s presidential paperwork is the workplace of the Secretary to the Authorities of the Federation (SGF). The presidential paperwork construction contains the SGF’s Workplace, Workplace of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSF) and the Workplace of the Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Fee (OCFCSC). These workplaces are a creation of the structure however in our latest observe, the Workplace of Chief of Employees to the President has been ‘built-in’ into the presidential paperwork and so can’t be ignored.
Nonetheless, among the former presidents didn’t enable their Chief of Employees to undermine the capabilities and authority of the SGF because the natural head of the presidential paperwork and the cupboard secretariat. The SGF’s workplace is the place most the presidential appointees and appointments are coordinated for bulletins – more often than not. The President approves appointments of political workplace holders and a few public servants of assorted cadres and the workplaces of Everlasting Secretary State Home, the Chief of Employees, Principal Secretary, and many others pay money for these approvals and dispatch accordingly to numerous chief executives, ministers, and heads of extra-ministerial departments and businesses, focal factors for bulletins by means of press statements and circulars, particularly from the workplaces of SGF and OHCSF.
It needs to be famous that President Yar’Adua refused to nominate Chief of Employees to the President as his predecessor Obasanjo who started the observe. However President Jonathan reinstated the workplace of CoS-P and it was noisome, no because of some impurities reported concerning the workplace.
Particularly, the identical presidential paperwork has been chaotic since President Tinubu assumed workplace as even appointments of Everlasting Secretaries have been introduced straight by means of the Particular Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity. And so most presidential appointments are being frequently introduced by the workplace of the President. Surprisingly, they usually announce this as quickly as approvals are observed thus: “Tinubu Appoints New Everlasting Secretaries”, not at the same time as “Tinubu approves appointments of recent Everlasting Secretaries…” There isn’t any level to show right here. Most of those bulletins of approvals of those presidential appointments have all the time come from the workplace of the SGF. Moreover, credentials of the appointees have all the time been correctly documented within the statements. Today, typically, there isn’t any phrase about even the bio information of appointees and we marvel the place most of them have labored. What’s now worse, there was a report the opposite day that the Chief of Employees to the President was performing some oversight on some authorities businesses and was quoted as making weighty coverage selections and even reversals on public insurance policies resembling suspension of implementation Oronsaye Panel’s Report that Workplace of the SGF is coordinating. That is so curious! This improvement is worsening an already chaotic presidency. That is one other strategic error that the majority be corrected. The workplace of the president isn’t an extraordinary one. It needs to be superior by the ability of orderliness and shouldn’t be related to any disaster of coherence and competence.
The NNPCL conundrum: It is rather tough to put in writing about Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Firm Restricted (NNPCL) at the moment when the political financial system of a free press is sort of difficult. However public curiosity inside the assemble of our social duty needs to be the overriding issue. The story of NNPCL can solely be understood by those that run the nation’s very strategic oil firm. The corporate, as an illustration, declared trillions value of revenue a couple of weeks in the past. However unbelievable as it could sound, early this week, the identical firm that has persistently affirmed ‘subsidy-is-gone’ presidential declaration was curiously quoted as declaring that it was owing oil entrepreneurs a whopping $6 billion. The corporate was mentioned to have adjusted PMS value to N857 forward of launch of Dangote’s refined product to the market. The almighty NNPCL was additionally quoted as saying with out rhyme or purpose that it will even be the only purchaser of no matter Dangote has in inventory. For the time being, regardless of the inexplicable and excessive PMS value even to the tune of N1,500 per litre in sure areas, the petroleum product isn’t accessible. What’s extra, the Minister of State, Petroleum has denied that it authorised improve in petroleum value. Whereas one is questioning concerning the complexity of what’s going on with the opacity of operations and funds of the NNPC, no replace once more about when the $1.5 billion value of Port Harcourt refinery’s turn-around upkeep will make accessible its product after six guarantees. Can’t we marvel why the federal authorities isn’t considering profitable launch of the Dangote’s $20 billion value of refinery? Isn’t it a tactical error that the President hasn’t visited the refinery? Why can’t the federal authorities be the chief public relations supervisor of the non-public refinery that has been reported to have capability to make Nigeria proud? Is the NNPC not happy with the Dangote refinery? The president ought to know that it’s his duty to overtake the almighty NNPCL in order that we will breathe from power disaster that has made his authorities very unpopular.
Electrical energy Distribution Firm’s Poisonous ‘Band A’ We could not be capable to know the intelligence President has been getting from the discriminatory electrical energy tariff from Band A-to band Z.. because it appears. However regardless of the case, that is one ‘fiscal coverage’ that has the identical insufferable impact as PMS value on the individuals and enterprise. A latest meretricious discount of the killer tariff by 50% for hospitals and tertiary establishments can’t clear up the issues for the well being and training sectors. The establishments can’t nonetheless address the demand, not to mention the individuals who pays their very own and pay for the hospitals and colleges of their kids. It’s one other strategic error that will spark off uncontrollable disaster for the Tinubu administration. The mixed results of excessive PMS and Diesel costs with excessive electrical energy tariff have already triggered anger that may manifest into extra protests before later. Nobody is aware of the consultants who did threat evaluation for the President on this. How many individuals can go to work from now? How many individuals can fly a method inside the nation the place we’re already paying greater than N250,000 for one-way flight ticket? President Tinubu ought to return from China to handle all these financial hardships earlier than it’s too late! Permitting power disaster to compound hardship will certainly end in a tragic error that will show too pricey for this authorities.
A cupboard of many mediocrities:That is the correct time to inform the president that some members of his first cupboard have been so mediocre that we now have had to make use of Google to seek out their names as a result of they’re obscure. This isn’t new: we now have all the time celebrated a tradition of mediocrity and low expectations. However this tradition is now too costly; we will’t afford it. Leaving a mediocre staff that may’t handle the nation’s quite a few socio-economic challenges is one other strategic error that should be cleared now or by no means. The President wants youthful and extra passionate technocrats as cupboard members and company heads who perceive modern challenges, not the numerous illiterates of the twenty first century who can’t be taught, unlearn and relearn. Nigeria is simply too necessary to be left to some reckless mediocrities who’re being introduced as heads of even delicate businesses and extra-ministerial departments.
Absence of sturdy civil service I’ve noticed that the President has by no means paid sufficient consideration to the standard of the Federal Civil Service he inherited from the earlier administration. If he had set the correct one with a useful presidential paperwork, he would have detected the fragility of the civil service that he has been complaining about. However is the president conscious that the federal paperwork isn’t as sturdy and educated because it was? Is the president conscious, as an illustration, that the fast previous Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF) didn’t speak in confidence to the brand new administration the true standing of the service now full of officers the political class from 1999 until the current imposed on the federal paperwork? Has the president been instructed that on the eve of leaving workplace, members of the Nationwide Meeting and Ministers have all the time arm-twisted officers of the Federal Civil Service Fee and allied our bodies to make use of their outgoing aides as senior officers as much as directorate cadres with out interviews? A few of these incompetent political aides will rise quickly to be even Everlasting Secretaries.
Is the President conscious that the identical Head of the Civil Service of the Federation who left workplace barely two months in the past additionally deceived the presidency and the nation about implementation of the Tenure Regime for Everlasting Secretaries and Administrators to retire after eight years? The Head of the Civil Service quietly issued a service–vast round for the implementation of the coverage for Administrators solely and artfully excluded Everlasting Secretaries cadre as a result of it will have additionally affected her on the time. Was the identical Head of the Civil Service of the Federation not praised to excessive heaven when she left workplace just lately? There are extra problems with mediocrity and corruption within the federal civil service that seem unknown to the Chief Govt of the Federation at the moment. It has been a tactical error that politics has trumped consideration to public coverage thrust that ought to drive progress of this authorities. There’s due to this fact a way through which one can declare that if there had been a useful federal paperwork, there wouldn’t have been a chaotic presidency and a sophisticated NNPCL that has turn into untouchable by its homeowners. On the finish of the day, the buck of all these stops at desk of solely the President who ought to clear all of the 5 tactical and strategic errors that may devour his presidency.
