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Four days after the curtains closed on the BRICS Summit in Brazil, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, remains missing in action.
Today marks 14 days since he departed Nigerian soil for St. Lucia, and with each passing day, his absence confirms what many have long suspected: Tinubu is tired of Nigeria. He is tired of its unrelenting crises, its economic turmoil, its insecurity, and most of all, its people.
Faced with a nation drowning in hardship, Tinubu has chosen the path of abdication, resolving instead to govern, if at all, from foreign soil.
This is not merely a case of a president taking a well-earned break. This is a deliberate and dangerous pattern, an emerging doctrine of absenteeism reminiscent of Paul Biya of Cameroon, who has ruled for decades from five-star hotel suites in Europe while his country rots.
Nigeria, it seems, is now fated to endure its own “roaming president,” a leader who jets from one destination to another while the state collapses under the weight of neglect.
What makes Tinubu’s dereliction even more damning is the absolute secrecy surrounding it. His cabinet is in the dark. The Nigerian people are in the dark. Even the media, once a key pillar of accountability, has been reduced to playing detective in this absurd game of Where is Tinubu?
This is no longer just bad governance; this is a complete abdication of leadership.
A Nation Without a Pilot
Nigeria, under Tinubu, is a ship sailing blindly through a storm, without a captain, without a map, without hope. Inflation is ravaging homes and businesses. Insecurity has become a daily headline, with kidnappings, insurgencies, and communal violence surging unchecked. The naira is in free fall, and hunger, joblessness, and despair have become the defining features of Nigerian life. Yet at this critical juncture, the man who promised renewed hope is nowhere to be found.
It is no exaggeration to say that this absentee presidency poses an existential danger to Nigeria. Leadership vacuums in fragile democracies have always ended in disaster. When the commander-in-chief is missing, political vultures circle. When there is no visible head of state, criminality flourishes. In the absence of authority, lawlessness is emboldened. Nigeria, already teetering on the edge, is being pushed further into chaos by a president who clearly no longer has the will, or perhaps the capacity, to govern.
The Contempt of Distance
Tinubu’s behavior betrays not just exhaustion but contempt: contempt for the Nigerian people and their endless suffering, contempt for the offices of state, and contempt for the very idea of accountability.
To vanish from public view in the midst of multiple national emergencies is to signal that Nigerians are on their own, that the presidency has become a personal possession to be wielded at whim, not a sacred trust to be honored.
His globetrotting further reveals a dangerous elitism: a belief that Nigeria is too broken, too chaotic, too beneath him to deserve his presence. Like the worst of colonial viceroys, he appears to see the country not as a place to serve but as a burdensome inheritance best managed from a safe, comfortable distance.
The Dangers Ahead
This dangerous absenteeism cannot continue without dire consequences. A nation without active leadership is a nation ripe for destabilization. It invites economic collapse, civil unrest, military adventurism, and international ridicule. It leaves a vacuum that bad actors, both within and outside the corridors of power, are eager to exploit. Nigeria is already home to some of the world’s deadliest insurgencies and is in the throes of unprecedented poverty. To leave the nation leaderless in such times is not just irresponsible, it is reckless to the point of treason.
A Tired Man, A Tired Nation
If Tinubu no longer has the energy, the vision, or the interest to govern, he must step aside. Nigeria cannot afford a part-time president. It cannot afford a leader who treats governance as an occasional hobby between luxury stopovers. The stakes are too high, the dangers too real. History is littered with the ruins of nations that fell not because of external invasion, but because their leaders abandoned the call to serve.
Nigeria deserves better than a tired man presiding over a tired nation from foreign hotel rooms. The time has come to demand either his full presence, or his full resignation.
