President Bola Tinubu started his government with an audacious move to remove a slippery fuel subsidy regime that former presidents had dreaded to touch. He had also floated the naira in the foreign exchange market, and went on an all-out mission to rein in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from perceived fiscal excesses. He has also dared to fire and/or support the prosecution of erring ministers.

Yet, the president is faced with a worsening heritage of insecurity, sectarianism, economic hardship and corrupt leadership. The frightening nature of these problems has blighted the positive moves, if any, that Tinubu has made to govern the country, and Nigerians are not to blame for expecting a lot more from their president. Tinubu and his men are searching frantically for the way out. Are they?

For the sake of insecurity, the president took another audacious aim at police reforms and constitutional changes in late 2023. He constituted a committee to look into police reforms, and to oversee the necessary constitutional amendments to bring about the reforms, which have not occurred since 1861 when the police force came into being in pre-colonial Nigeria. Since the turn of the new democratic dispensation in 1999, insecurity and constitutional reforms have been at the core of the demands of a great majority of Nigerians, who insist that successive governments have been half-hearted in their reform approaches.

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