If you want to criticise President Bola Tinubu effectively, just focus on him and whatever failings you intend to centre. As soon as you delve into the futile dance of trying to suggest Peter Obi would have been doing better than we are seeing now, you end up undoing yourself.
Peter Obi once posted the strategists he was going to use to revamp Nigeria. They looked so clueless even in the photo, he had to delete the tweet. And he isn't going to create new people to help him deliver his agenda. We already know the people he'd trust to do it. People who care more about noise and agenda than they do about pretending to have better ideas. As we speak, he hasn't posited any better idea under than the word salad he serves when the agenda suits him.
So, let's focus on what we have and stop pretending someone who hasn't exemplified himself at any level in government - whether as Governor of Anambra where he failed woefully, or as Chairman of SEC where he was a non-event or as a member of the Economic Team of an administration that had no clue what to do with excess earnings from crude oil.
The Tinubu government is at its inchoate stage. Its first substantive budget is only in its first month. The realities of the reforms are of course biting. I live the reality myself everyday as one who works and pays bills here. Nigerians are bearing the brunt of the reforms. Anyone who is in denial might as well answer to being a fool. We need a sense of urgency on the part of the President. And he certainly needs top take another look at the cabinet. Sometimes, you don't wait till halftime to effect a change you already spotted. This is crunch time for Nigeria.
That said, as with our individual lives, it is not when we decide to change things that we start seeing the benefits of the change. More so for countries. Change takes time.
Supporters of the president should not shy away from asking better of him. It is your right, more so as you invested your trust in him. Sensible non-supporters are within their right too. After all, we want a better Nigeria more than we care who the president is. That's us.
Those of you who think you can use Nigeria's challenges to advance some obviously incompetent presidential candidate to become president, you can continue to wallow in your delusion. As you were in the banter against Cameroon, you are the weak point. Thankfully, you are also the minority. Nigeria will make it, you will be here to see it, even though you'd pretend to be blind. Like you always do when the news is good for Nigeria!