“I shall Always Listen To You, I shall Never Turn Back on you!”
On Democracy Day, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu addressed the Nigerian people amidst high expectations. His speech came at a critical time when the country is experiencing significant economic challenges, including high inflation, increasing taxes, rising electricity tariffs, and a declining education system. With the level of hardship in the country, which the government has consistently acknowledged and admitted are connected to its policies and actions, many people Nigerians probably listened to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Democracy Day speech with the hope of announcement of some changes that would deduce the current level of despair among the citizens. In a period of one year of his administration, Nigerians have experienced significant economic challenges linked to high inflation rate, increase in taxes, rise in the pump price of petrol, rising electricity tariffs, and astronomical rise in the cost of living associated with the increase in the cost of essenti...