And Tinubu Blinked, by Emmanuel Aziken

For too long, President Bola Tinubu and officials of his administration have celebrated the removal of petrol subsidy as perhaps the defining demonstration of his courage in governance. To his supporters, it was evidence of a president prepared to take decisions his predecessors could not fully implement.
Among Tinubu’s four predecessors in the Fourth Republic were two retired military generals, Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari. Despite their soldierly backgrounds, both confronted the political and social consequences of petrol subsidy reforms with caution. Obasanjo pursued repeated price increases, while Buhari left the subsidy structure substantially intact.
The other two pred...