By Our Reporter
A member of the Osun State House of Assembly, Barrister Kanmi Ajibola has called on President Bola Tinubu to reassess his administration’s priorities, and urgently readjust his policies for the good of Nigerians.
Besides, the one-time Chairman of Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Ilesa branch in a 28-page letter titled “On the State of the Nation, not too late, if I were you” and forwarded to President Tinubu on Thursday, September 25, 2025 noted that his action was not politically motivated.
He said, “This letter is being written in discharge of my constitutional duty, as being provided for under Section 24 of the 1999 Constitution, and it is devoid of any political calculation or undertone”.
The human rights activist, who is representing Oriade Constituency at the Osun State House of Assembly listed ten issues where he called on President Tinubu to take critical look into, and make urgent adjustments.
The lawmaker hinted about the president’s economic policy since he took over, which according to him has led to naira devaluation, increase in fuel prices, inflation surge, high cost of living standard, increased poverty, floating of naira rate among others.
Bar. Ajibola wondered why the same policy, particularly the subsidy removal which the president vehemently opposed, openly campaigned and constructively worked against during his predecessors’ eras was pronounced before he even stepped into the structural office of the president.
The assemblyman also lashed at Tinubu’s economic team, saying, “The present state of the Nigerian economy is catastrophic and cataclysmic. This spells out one thing in the alternative, is either the Tinubu led administration does not have an economic team at all or it has one of the weakest ones in the world”.
The lawmaker in his letter knocked the current administration’s flares for foreign loans, call for capital punishments for corrupt officials, and ask the president to support rotational presidency which will help in bringing unity and harmony to Nigeria “as one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign nation under God”.
“Mr. President sir, I am writing to you as the person that understands and appreciates the full import of equality under the law. The most unreasonable and unjustifiable occurrence in the Nigerian political governance is making the IGBO nation to be an onlooker of the Nigerian Presidency while the Hausa and Yoruba majorly turn it to a game of chess between each other. I don’t think this will be acceptable to God.
“The only workable way to solve this power imbalance is to introduce the rotational presidency to our constitution with the immediate effect, that is, the constitutional need to go on rotational presidency among the existing geo-political zones in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Particularly where the Igbo Nation will not be calculated out of the Nigerian presidency as an outcast.
To get the nation’s vehicle fueled on its journey to greatness, the former NBA boss, urged President Tinubu to adopt and put into use the recommendations of the National Conference organized by former President Goodluck Jonathan.
“In the alternative, should you not have confidence, belief or be in agreement with the recommendations, you can make a move for another one. Just that, it is very important for the Nigerians to meet and channel their future together.
On the Nigerian legal system, the lawmaker said this sector needs a revolutionary attention, as “incorruptible legal system of any society is its life value” while noting further that, a strong legal system is extremely useful to sustain a democracy in the world.
He stated that after the establishment of the Justice Kayode Eso’s Judicial Panel of December 1993 under late General Sani Abacha’s administration, Nigeria presently with the challenges of trust and integrity and corruption crises in the judiciary, the country is overdue for another panel.
While urging for electoral reforms, Barrister Ajibola posited on what he called politicizing “Constitutionalism in governance and abuse of presential powers”, citing the emergency rule in Rivers State and the logjam over Osun Local Government withheld funds.
According to him, the president showed he wasn’t a listening leader when he totally rejected the NBA advices on the two matters while calling on him to apologize the association and act on other positive advice being given.