The task before Tinubu
BEING declared the winner of Nigeria’s most critical election in recent memory, places an onerous task on the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The challenge is more daunting than his dramatic, tortuous and contentious journey to the presidency. Apart from the questions arising from the electoral process that made his victory possible, Tinubu is inheriting a nation in turmoil. The country he is poised to govern isn’t the one Obasanjo handed over to the late Umar Yar’Adua nor the society Goodluck Jonathan left for Muhammadu Buhari. Not at all. It is Buhari’s Nigeria, a divided nation. It is a country driven to the brink by the fallings of the Buhari administration, and now more disillusioned by the grievances arising from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, handling of the presidential poll. For Africa’s most populous nation to function better and stay safer, President-elect Tinubu must realise he is taking over a nation in the middle of a national emergency. H...