Salihu Lukman: It’s difficult to predict direction of Tinubu’s administration

Salihu Lukman, a former vice-chair of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the north-west, says it is almost impossible to predict the direction of the President Bola Tinubu administration.

In a statement on Saturday, Lukman said the Tinubu-led administration is behaving like a “reactionary government”.

The APC chieftain was reacting to Tinubu’s directive on the implementation of the Stephen Oronsaye report, which would lead to the scrapping and merging of some government agencies.

The former director-general of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) said it is almost as though the federal government takes decisions before thinking of repercussions.

“Arguably, with respect to all these issues, it is as if the government first announces decisions before beginning to think in terms of what needs to be done to manage the consequences that follow,” he said.

“In which case, rather than acting as a progressive government that is dynamic, action oriented towards improving the welfare conditions of citizens, President Asiwaju Tinubu’s administration is behaving more like a reactionary government.

“Given such reality, it is almost impossible to predict what the goal or vision of the government is.

“This was clearly the same problem we had with former President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.

“The incomprehensible reality is that both former President Buhari’s and current President Asiwaju Tinubu’s governments are APC governments, which got elected based on the promise of changing Nigeria.

“Part of the change that is expected is having a government that guarantees and accommodates inclusivity, based on which the outcry of citizens is factored and utilised to guide design and implementation of government policy.”

Lukman said he hopes that Tinubu would recover his democratic credentials and reactivate his “progressive politics before it is too late”.