By Musa Bakare.
Nations do not collapse from a shortage of intelligence or resources. They collapse when corruption is normalized, indiscipline is institutionalized, and delay is weaponized by elites who profit from national failure.
For decades, Nigeria was not misgoverned by accident. It was deliberately stalled by systems designed to reward waste, protect privilege, and punish productivity. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has moved to dismantle those systems, without apology.
From the first day, the message was clear. Fuel subsidy abolished. Multiple exchange rates terminated. The era of fiscal deceit ended. These were not policy options; they were acts of political war against entrenched interests.
What Nigeria once celebrated as subsidy was organized theft. What it defended as exchange-rate stability was economic sabotage.
Tinubu named the lie, nailed and destroyed it.
The beneficiaries of chaos screamed. Every reform generates resistance, and the loudest voices are always those whose access to easy money has been cut off. These are not victims; they are saboteurs. They fear transparency because it exposes them. They resist discipline because it ends their racket.
Real reform is never polite. It confronts. It dislodges. It offends.
The APC was never created to manage dysfunction. It was founded to correct it. Tinubu represents the party’s original mandate: structural reform, not cosmetic governance. The promise was not comfort, it was correction.
2027 will not be a routine election. It will be a national verdict: continue the surgery, or abandon the patient mid operation and return to illusion.
The results are already visible. States are adjusting, not begging. Revenue is replacing dependency. Investors are reassessing Nigeria with sober interest, not pity. The backbone of rent seeking is cracking under the weight of irreversible policy.
Tinubu is not chasing applause. He is executing a mission. He understands that the most dangerous phase for a failing nation is reform, because it threatens those who thrive on decay.
The overdue cost of decades of economic cowardice caused pain and hardship. President Tinubu did not create the bill; he refused to keep postponing it.
By 2031, Nigeria may not be perfect, but it will be fundamentally reordered. Waste will be crushed. Dependency dismantled. Productivity restored as a national ethic.
History has no sympathy for leaders who delay hard decisions. It reserves honor for those who make them and withstand the backlash.
By 2031, the backbone of Nigeria’s saboteurs will be broken, not by slogans, not by sentiment, but by governance.
– Musa Bakare
APC Foundational Member | Political Analyst.
