Critical thinkers, Disruptive inventors, Empathetic reformers: Three Traits for Tinubu’s Team
Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, sworn in on 29 th May, 2023 as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, forwarded a first batch of twenty-eight names of would-be Ministers to the Senate on the 27 th day of July, 2023. Expectedly, the list has generated a plethora of reactions across the nation. As impressive as their individual academic qualifications may look, educational profiles haven’t always been directly proportional to public office results anywhere in the world, particularly in a complex space like Nigeria. In place of the prevalent sycophancy that hibernates in the ministerial corridor to swarm the occupant of Nigeria’s Presidential palace, there are three traits we anticipate sighting among President Tinubu’s ministerial register. I make bold to say that over the past forty years or so, Nigerians have not known the semblance of a functional society. I make bold to add that most persons, usually members of Nigeria’s political elite, who have occupied political