Good governance is a Human right

Thank you, Mr Gregory Peter Obi @PeterObi . If you notice, based on your tweet as a private citizen of Nigeria which you posted on 04/09/2022 regarding removing multiple exchange rates, President Tinubu heard you and others as a listening President and fixed it. However, since you spoke your truth, that truth has been tested, but has now been twisted and flailed by you on various forums. You once argued for discipline in markets, today you dance around the consequences of that very discipline. You once called for courage in policy, today you retreat into comfort in opposition and say it was wrong. What changed, sir? Was it the idea or the identity of the man who chose to act on it? The current President, our President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, did exactly what you prescribed. Not in theory, not in tweets, not in tidy sentences, but in the hard, grinding reality of governance. He allowed the market breathe. He removed the distortion. He faced the storm. You asked for demand and supply, you got demand and supply, yet now you resist the very medicine you prescribed. May I call it what it is? What you have been doing is not economics and not policy. It is performance. Why? Because leadership is not about saying what sounds right, it is about doing what is right. And doing is different from saying, just as courage is different from commentary. You say let the market decide, yet when the market decides, you decide to disagree. You say it is simple, yet you complicate it with selective memory. You preach consistency, yet you practice convenience. So we must ask, and we will keep asking. What changed? Was it conviction or calculation? Was it principle or politics? Was it belief or benefit seeing that you are now in bed with those you said are the problems of Nigeria? Policy without consistency is noise, and consistency without courage is nothing. Or was that tweet, like too many things we have seen, a careful copy without commitment, a borrowed thought without ownership, a manifesto stitched together from the ideas of others without the discipline to defend them when it matters? You cannot demand reform and then reject reform. You cannot call for fire and then complain about heat. You cannot stand on principle and then step off it when it becomes inconvenient. Say what you mean, Mr Gregory Peter Obi and mean what you say. Also stand where you stood because in the end, the test of leadership is not what you once tweeted, it is what you are willing to defend when those tweets come alive. President Bola Tinubu will continue to Listen and act in the overall best interest of Nigerians. Otega Ogra

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