11-6-2025.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu marked his two years in office with an unnecessary fanfare, which included the commissioning of one of his pet projects, the N15.6 trillion Lagos to Calabar Coastal Highway (only 30% completed) attended by some tribal champions who are not in anyway interested in the development of their country, apart from making noice when it serves their purpose.

To me, the only thing that the president has succeeded in Nigeria is creating a more RENTIER society than he met. Without saying, it is a very bad development for the country, because the nation will remain underdeveloped with such people in charge of political affairs in the country. The country at the moment is no better than a Banana Republic.

A politician in the opposition New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Alhaji Buba Galadima, aptly put Tinubu’s two years in office as, CI GABAN MAI GININ RIJIYA (the progress of a well digger). The digger of a well goes down, NOT UP. It is indeed no more so for most of Nigeria's citizens, who wallow in abject poverty, extreme need and severe hunger. How can a sane mind call these woes a success?

The totally unprepared president, beat his chest to the chorus of his cheerleaders, claiming that his regime’s two years in office was a success. That the Nigerian economy Indeed it was a success, BUT ONLY for him, the rest of the members of the CABAL, his very close family, his noice making official and unofficial aides, as well as his praise singers.

And according to a Daily Trust Newspaper of 28-5-26, “the Debt Management Office (DMO) indicated that ₦56.6 trillion of the country’s current ₦144.67 trillion debt profile, was borrowed by Tinubu’s administration as his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, left it at ₦87.379 trillion.

And someone who calls himself Jimoh Jimoh on the social media, claimed that, “Buhari paid subsidies on virtually all our consumption commodities, Built infrastructures, Paid pension, Gratuities, Allowances, Salaries and entitlement arrears of public servants like those who retired from Nigeria Airways, plus the benefits of soldiers and Police officers from the South East who fought in the civil war.” But Tinubu did none of that, but busied himself with enriching himself and his cronies.

Nigeria is a nation where a politician, a ‘you are right, your Excellency’ a praise singer and their like, is REGARDED MORE than academics, and others who ADD great value to the country, under the Tinubu regime. This appears to be the complaint in all citadel of learning in Nigeria NOW, because it is ruled, in the main, by liars and cheats who claim to be what they are not, to posses qualifications that they do not have, and occupy seats that they are not supposed to be found anywhere near.

An academic in one of the Ivory Towers in the country, Kabir Danladi Lawanti, wrote that, “Our contempt for education is no longer hidden—it is becoming a state policy. What jolts the conscience, however, is not the ridicule, but what we choose to normalise . Just days ago, my professional colleague Ismail Auwal posted that a Professor, a man who has spent his life in classrooms, lecture halls, and libraries” is now “selling kayan miya (soup ingredients) at a roadside stall, simply to survive. 

“Before we could recover from that shock, another viral story emerged - a professor from Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, now publicly crowdfunding ₦13 million for urgent medical treatment. And he’s not alone. I personally know of a senior lecturer in another university seeking ₦23 million to travel for life-saving care in India. 

“Nigeria’s biggest threat to education is not Boko Haram. It is not the “skills over degrees” evangelists, who fail to understand that skilled societies still fund research and education. 

“The true danger is a political economy that systemically despises knowledge. A state structure that rewards mediocrity and punishes competence. A bureaucracy that cannot pay salaries on time but allocates billions to legislative perks. A national mindset that glorifies quick wealth and trivializes intellectual labour.

“What system allows its most educated citizens—professors—to fall into destitution, while elevating those who offer nothing beyond noise, showmanship, or connections? What incentives does Nigeria create for intellectual excellence? 

“What signal are we sending to our younger generation watching their lecturers beg for survival? What kind of society crushes its knowledge base and expects transformation?  

“The average Nigerian professor, even after decades of work, has no health insurance that works, no pension that protects, and no society that respects them. What they have is debt, mockery, and the daily indignity of watching politicians fly private jets while their students study under leaking roofs.

“The question is; what is the cost of normalizing the collapse of our universities? Because when you bankrupt your brain trust, the entire society collapses—intellectually, morally, and eventually, economically. A society that does not fund thinking will soon have nothing worth defending. And when your best minds are trading books for kayan miya, understand this; the crisis has already arrived”.

Many members of the highest hierarchy of the Tinubu regime are controversial at best, and discredited at worst. Such people include the three heads of the Executive, Legislature and the ‘Judiciary’, Tinubu (alleged SPY), Goodswill Akpabio (allegedly did not contest, not to talk of winning, the Senate election) and Nyson Wike (the alleged boss of the judiciary). The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye  Enitan Agunwusi, even wonderred how Wike, the serial betrayer, made it in the cabinet of Tinubu, by urging universities to “study how Wike became a minister”.

No less controversial is the Junior Minister of Defence, Honourable Bello Matawalle. A Muslim preacher and one of the infamous bandits alleged that the minister was behind some of the most notorious bandits operating in the North West of Nigeria. All public figures trailed by controversy, ought to have resigned from their positions. Unfortunately, doing the NEEDFUL happens elsewhere, but NOT In Nigeria.

There is also the disaster called the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, who is more infamous for his provision of, at best, epileptic electricity, and at worst, DARKNESS, to most parts of Nigeria. Only the government houses, the houses of the big politicians and those of the haves in the society have electricity regularly.

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Olanipekun Olukoyede, claimed to have “rejected N500m given to me by ministers, others during my mother’s burial”. And no punishment was meted to them, even though the gesture was extended to someone who is supposed to be the head of the main anti corruption agency in Nigeria.

Someone observed that, “In Nigeria, Tinubu may have captured the party. He may welcome PDP defectors daily with red carpets and fanfare. But he hasn’t captured the people’s stomachs. Fuel is over ₦900. Electricity is a rumour. Naira buys less every week. Jobs are vanishing. Students are stuck. Hospitals are ghost towns. And every street corner has someone whispering: “This is not what we voted for.” 

And that, “Even with all his famed political machinery, Tinubu faces one brutal truth—people vote with their pain, not party loyalty. It’s not about PDP collapsing. It’s about whether Nigerians can breathe under APC. No matter how crowded APC becomes or how many politicians he recruits, Tinubu can lose. Not because he lacks tactics. But because he lacks the people”. 

Even foreign institutions and individuals agree with the obscene retrogression in this country.

The regime’s two years in office was indeed so ‘successful’ that the World Bank (WB), a Washington DC based financial powerhouse, said that “President Tinubu’s economic reforms did not benefit majority of the Nigerian citizens”.

The bank ominously predicted that more Nigerian citizens would become poor by 2027, even as 106 million currently live in extreme poverty. This is NOT in AGREEMENT with the regime’s claim that the country’s “economic reforms are working and that “the future is bright”, stated in the president’s anniversary speech. Total lies, even to their speaker.

On its part, another Washington DC based financial behemoth, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has an issue with the claim by the president that that Nigeria had cleared all her loan with the institution. The IMF INSISTED that the so called giant of Africa still owes it N190 billion debt.

Fox News, a US based news programme, made a documentary about the two year of President Tinubu, and described him as a FLOP who would not succeed in his attempt to win a second term. The anchor concluded with finality that “Tinubu is a ONE TERM President”.

Amnesty International’s statistics of those killed in the two years of Tinubu regime is 10,217, with 672 villages sacked, all due to the ravaging insecurity in Nigeria. Most of the victims were ‘common’ citizens, and the sacked villages belonged to ordinary citizens. Nobody calls the wanton killings of 10,217 people, and the sacking of 672 villages a success unless that person is not balanced in his upstairs. 

A Nigerian economist, who spoke on Arise Television, vehemently stated that “All region’s largest population is the largest economy, except Nigeria in Africa”. Nigeria used to be the largest economy in Africa, until Tinubu came along as President, and the nation fell down to become the FIFTH (5th) ranking economy on the Black continent.

Under President Tinubu, Nigeria is a country where subsidy is said to be removed for good for the sake of the children of the future, only for the government to go to the Brenton institutions to BARROW money to CUSHION the effect of the (subsidy) removal.

It is therefore obvious that some people close to the President, like family members, ministers like Wike,‘ranking’ NASS members, like Akpabio, the Reps Speaker, the Chief of Staff, etc, are NOT telling Tinubu the truth about the happenings in the country.

Some wit ruefully asked three questions at the same time, “How can one country have Bola Tinubu, Nyson Wike and Godswill Akpabio at the same time and in the same dispensation? Who did we offend? What is our crime?

And that, “It’s very unfair to inflict a single country with three political demons at the same time and in the same dispensation. Maybe, this is our own share of natural disaster, but to be given three at the same time is way too much. Let’s just pray it ends in 2027. We can’t survive these trilogy of evil beyond 2027.”

Even Tinubu’s ‘revel’ biological daughter, who had revealed that that her father’s REAL age was 83, not the political 73  given by the government, do sometimes gets lost for the right words to tell him that many of the people close to him are expressing fake support. She alleged that their sincere support is to their pockets, not him, citing Akpabio as one of them. Claiming not to be afraid of Akpabio, and even DARING him to do “his worst”, she referred to him as one of the worst mistakes that her father (the president) has made.

There is just no reprieve for the poor citizen under the Presidency of Tinubu, only incremental HARDSHIP in Nigeria for the have nots. Three things appear to be PRIORITISED by President Tinubu at the moment, and these are: (1) 2027 presidential election, (2) move the capital of Nigeria back to Lagos, his hometown, and (3)make money from the Commonwealth by hook or by crook. In that order.

May God never again ‘enrich’ Nigeria with the kind of progress that President Tinubu has achieved in his two years in office. May He also never allow Tinubu and his crowd the opportunity to have an encore in office again. May He cause the RETURN of the money STOLEN under the Tinubu regime back to the Commonwealth from which it was taken.

Malumfashi wrote from Katsina.