Tinubu wants to run for President on Hope Uzodimma’s legs 😂

1. If you did not understand the video below, let me break it down for you.
2. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT has told his campaign council that he will not accompany them everywhere during the 2027 campaign.
3. He says governance requires his attention, that Nigeria has bills to pay, that “the American creditors cannot wait,” and that investors must be courted.
4. All these things may sound reasonable.
5. But democracy is built upon another obligation:

the person asking for power must face the people from whom that power comes.

6. A presidential campaign is not merely dancing on podiums and distributing party flags.
7. It is one of the few moments when the powerful must travel towards the powerless; when Abuja must come to the village; when the candidate must hear the anger, hunger, questions and aspirations of people whose votes he seeks.
8. A campaign team can organise rallies.
9. Governors can mobilise supporters.
10. Data boys can defend policies.
11. But nobody can completely outsource the moral responsibility of asking another human being for his mandate.
12. Tinubu says governing Nigeria must take priority, and that is a legitimate argument.
13. But Nigerians are equally entitled to ask:

how much personal engagement should reasonably be expected from someone seeking another four years of their trust?

14. Creditors matter.

Investors matter.

Governance matters.

15. But citizens matter too.
16. And this principle should not depend on whether the candidate is Tinubu, Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar or anybody else.
17. This same standard must apply to everyone.
18. Democracy becomes dangerous when citizens begin lowering standards for the politician they already support.
19. The ballot is not an inheritance.
20. Power should have to knock on the door.
21. And anyone asking millions of Nigerians for another mandate should expect Nigerians to ask, in return:

Will you come before us yourself and ask for it?

@TrendfusionNG