Tinubu, Gumi, Tax, not on my 2025 Hall of Infamy list
FOURTEEN years ago, then President Goodluck Jonathan increased the price of fuel on 1 January 2012. I summarised 2012, then, as the year that almost wasn't. The President's single act raised the prices of everything and some who travelled to our villages for Christmas made it back to the cities later as they struggled to raise new transport fares.
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Has the President become too ashamed of his trips to France that the answer to where the President was is to leave Nigerians guessing?
We know what a great sacrifice not going to France earlier is. Wherever he is, those who are interested, found out within minutes of his departure from Nigeria.
Tinubu should have been around to see the early days of his new tax policies through. The Vice-President dare not do it, and no one else can. A lot of damage is being done in the absence of clarity about the tax's implementation, implications, and complications. Unlike Jonathan’s fuel price hike, tax policies are more than changing pump prices.
Tinubu has got the tax policies he wants. Let him come back and superintend them. Those who should tell Nigerians what the taxes are about appear too scared to say something that could upset Tinubu.
Perhaps it is the French who would explain the taxes. Then, they should come, speaking enough English for us to tell majority of our people who would want to understand these matters in our mother tongues.
Tinubu cannot be in hiding or heading to some fancy week-long festival in United Arab Emirates, with all the uncertainties, plus insecurity in Nigeria where Tinubu is the Commander-in-Chief, at a time of expected more US bombings against terrorists in Nigeria.
Is that the time to stretch a holiday abroad? A major achievement of the UAE trip could be another visa misinformation.
Tax like the issues before it would not make the 2025 Hall of Infamy. Tinubu should contest this.
Nigerians must stay woke in 2026. It is not too early to start asking Tinubu why he has been a constant star in thinking Nigeria was his alone, particularly since 2014. It is also not too late to ask for a full disclosure of who the President is.
Happy New Year, as you stay woke.
Finally...
SENATE President Obong Godswill Akpabio started the New Year on a clean slate. According to him, he is withdrawing all defamation cases he initiated after a New Year message moved him. I hope those who countered sued him for defamation are also moved to forgive him.
MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Barrister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike speaks in manners that suggest that he is unaware that the APC train has left Obi-Akpor without Wike. His former political godson Simi Fubara is on board and is inviting passengers as leader of APC in Rivers State. What is Wike in APC Rivers to keep discussing how he will change leadership in Rivers in 2027? Didn't Wike know when the train passed?
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