Is Tinubu’s Presidency Careless, Clumsy and Corrupt? By Ugoji Egbujo

Tinubu’s presidency must be closely watched. At inception, it hurriedly sacked ambassadors like it had a clear foreign policy direction to salvage the country. Then for two and half years, it couldn’t nominate ambassadors, leaving the embassies rudderless. In the midst of that baffling shiftlessness, the president globetrotted unperturbed, with the all-knowing ease of a magician. Had he been asked during the campaigns, he would have bragged about his capacity to find without delay the best hands and brains to coordinate his visionary foreign policy.

Indeed a list of nominees was compiled by the presidency two years ago. In Nigeria, folks buy votes to get elected and others buy appointments from those who bought votes. But if ambassadorial positions had been hawked around by some Brother Jeros in the presidency as insinuated , the list ought to have been purged or scrapped. Instead the list was dumped and left to gather dust like it was a superfluous grocery list . Only when Donald Trump rattled the government, exposing our diplomatic vulnerability, did the presidency scramble like a frightened one- legged chicken.