Following the 2023 presidency, Nigerian Author and Journalist, Farooq Kperogi has said that Replacing Buhari with Tinubu is like Jumping from Dementia to Drunkenness.
Tinubu is expending every imaginable financial, political, social, and symbolic resource at his disposal to become president. But after 8 years of Buhari’s absent, dementia-plagued presidency, the last thing Nigeria would need is even a single day of a drugged and drunken presidency.
Tinubu, as most people know, is an unremittingly drugged and drunk man who is incapable of a basic presence of mind or a coherent thought-process for a sustained period. He obviously has excellent speech writers and artful PR professionals around him, but he’s a narcotic and alcoholic disaster.
If Nigeria is to have a chance at survival, it shouldn’t make the mistake of replacing a dementia-ravaged Buhari with a drunk and drugged Tinubu. At the minimum, we need a sober, self-aware, cosmopolitan person who is likely to be sensitive to public opinion.