By Ayodele Fagbohun

Without  being  immodest  and in the  face of daunting  almost in superable  but not insurmountable  socio- economic and political challenges bedeviling Nigeria  most of  which are self  inflicted by those at the helm of affairs. However, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, remains unperturbed!; well  focused, possessed in ample qua from  the requisite talisman couple with right ideological orientation to rescue the country from the iniquitous socio-economic and political trauma  to the path of  rectitude, sanity  and  political normalcy in all its  ramifications within the shortest possible time.

President Tinubu can easily and aptly  be described  as a political tactician, strategist imbued with God given  talent of high intelligent quotient, adept party organizer and  mobilizer of men and  resources  to maximize  profit.

The president’s inaugural address  and  promise to revive the ailing  and visibly  battered economy, create jobs and influence  business growth, inspired youths and entrepreneurs.

While  congratulating Mr. President on his assumption of office, the founder of Arica’s Young Entrepreneurs  Organisation (AYE), Dr. Summy Francis said  entrepreneurship is a major  catalyst for job  creation, poverty eradication and  economic  growth.

He urged  the young  entrepreneurs to take advantage of this new political dispensation.

President Tinubu rightly said  without mincing  words that  young entrepreneurs hold the key of Nigeria’s present  and future  progress and development.

Francis  advised  the youths to position  themselves and their businesses towards  opportunities that will emerge from this political and economic shift.

As a pragmatic leader-politician who has  transversed and navigated the same slippery political terrains by virtue  of talismanic performance of the former Governor of Lagos  State, the redoubtable Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande of  UPN phenomenon in the Second Republic politics.

Ahmed Bola Tinubu, no doubt, hits  the  ground running  in his laudable  mission and vision of renewed hope and  work assiduously to fix Nigeria and essay to leave the economy more resilient and buoyant than he met it.

The  herculean and yeoman task embarked upon by President Tinubu and his financial team is nonpareil  and  beyond the ken of the novice in the ragtag political  party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) which in the first instance had messed up the economy of the nation.

PDP and its leadership at the  helm of affairs foisted ignoble rule on the people and vowed, out of greed and  myopic shortsightedness, lack of vision,  to rule and lord  it on the country for 60 years running!

It would  be recalled that PDP in its giddy days  vaunted to its peril, without shame, quite oblivious of  the  constitutionality of civil rule, threatened  to rule till  eternity! What  sheer bunkum!! Power  enslaves and absolute  power enslaves absolutely.

Now the  opposition parties notably, the main opposition political party i.e the People’s Democratic Party in its vast  shrinking  base form, has failed  abysmally to  manage its  ill gotten, stolen mandate recklessly seized by the jugular largely due to the corrupt  influence  and greed of the former President, General Olusegun Obasanjo to perpetuate reign of  villainy  thus  pushing  Nigeria down the cliff of political brinkmanship.

The decrepit political “philistines” under  the pretext of membership in the various registered political parties; majority in the main opposition, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) whose accomplices  ran the country under  for upwards of two decades!

The derelict and political spent  force in the group are only afraid of their own shadow which follows and taunts  them sorely  wherever they go having brazenly plundered the economic resources of the nation and betrayed the tenets  of democracy and course of good  governance in the country.

Doubtless, the PDP and its cohorts are afraid  of the  rising  profile  of indomitable President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his financial team in the course of remolding  and remaking  new Nigeria will clip the wings of the opposition.

Had it been the likes of religious bigots and brazen Islamic fundamentalists in the  rank of former Vice President, Abubakar Atiku and his fellow travelers  are wrongly in the saddle of  Federal Government, Nigeria may probably have by  now  grabbled with religious  mayhem that would have  rendered the erstwhile religious war in Ireland a child’s  play in the contemporary Nigeria.

As things stand, the good people  of Nigeria welcome the relative peace in the Tinubu presidency having conscious of the fact the there is  room for improvement in the face of pockets of violence and tribal warfare especially in the Northern part of the country. All these  crises shall  be a thing of the  past as spirited efforts be adequately mustered to restore peace, harmony and  concord  across the nation.

As hands must be on deck   at this  juncture to  muster and organize the people of Nigeria especially the  youths supposedly  the leaders of tomorrow  to rally round the  president,  in the task of good  governance along the credible and sustained path of socialist ideological framework to better the country for  a new beginning!

Suffice to say, the nation is naturally endowed  with  incredible manpower, natural  resources and the wherewithals to promote  economic well-being, and the best  interests of the entire population on the  path of  self sufficiency.

Besides, there should be enough for export and to  boost food production especially at the domestic level must be the ultimate priority.

Doubtless, and  simultaneously agro-allied industries should be given the right  momentum and  necessity to accelerate industrial revolution  which is the driving force of this new dispensation.

Only a courageous, astute and seasoned politician,  elder statesman, made  up of  sterner stuff and stout  constitution can perform this feat.

The present occupant of Aso Rock Villa, President  Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Jagaban of our time  who won’t  give a damn, will  urgently perform and do the needful , thereby turning Nigeria in our lifetime into a  vast industrial state!!