He promised to hit the ground running and made good the resolve with an immediate impact. “The fuel subsidy is gone”, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu retorted on the platform of his inauguration as the 16th president and commander in chief of the federal republic of Nigeria, with a resounding reverberating effect across the length and breadth of the country.

The ground shook with a resultant prompt manifestation of the very dark side of the social-economic life of Nigerians on full swing into action.

The word of the newly installed president set forth and came to life in form of resurgent fuel queues in urban centers of Nigeria. Trust our character, readily cashed in on the wrongly perceived implications of the pronouncement assumed to be too sudden and bound for failure by an unsettled government. Pretty wrong.

The thinking was that it was business as usual when government pronouncements carry no weight and meant nothing.

Of course, people with discerning minds and those who knew the new Sherif too well already got it. The man Asiwaju meant every letter of the word he expressed to Nigerians. It is going to be a serious business of governance and no dilly dallying.

The doubting Thomases, which included the pessimists, political cassocks and hateful garbs had written him off and threw all kinds of obstacles on his path to victory, mostly uncanny, unkind and whatever ill wind you might think of. Some even went to the extent of playing God.

How about his own party with evil intrigues that fell one after the other strewn along his way to emerging the candidate of his party, the APC. On the eve of the party primary were different shades of shenanigans, such as consensus candidate and the sudden spring up of an acolyte that got to the position of the Vice president of Nigeria by both the providence and largess of the Asiwaju.

Oil became the backbone, livewire and mainstay of the Nigerian socio-economic life since its discovery in the sixties. An erstwhile commodity of natural resource that promises blessing and wellbeing of the nationals of any beholding country except in the case of Nigeria.

Before President Tinubu entered the scene. The government was filling every gas tank in Nigeria by way of supposed subsidy, paying for fuel of womanizers, lay abouts and lazy bones who have no economic value from the caraccas they drive around town otherwise refers to as motor vehicles. The average Nigerian wants a car he could showcase to his girlfriends and concubines to establish an empty unsupported social status. Therefore, the government was paying huge amount of money and in forex to make petroleum products available for mostly non-economic values.

When the announcement for the removal of fuel subsidy touched ground. The pump price of PMS and other alloyed products went up fueling the speculations for panic buying thereby absurd long queues at the filling stations.

The Queues have suddenly disappeared in the same reckless fashion it came, in a jiffy. People with no business with cars have packed them and abandoned them for good, leaving the people with serious economic need for oil with a field day for good and for the good economy of the country. For the betterment of all and sundry. Sanity has emerged and here to stay.

Never in the history of Nigeria has a pronouncement made such an impact from its debut.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu certainly has the clout, mean, mental and political sagacity for this job against all odds.

The background to his emergence was mostly brutal, unfriendly, unkind and unwholesome with no historical comparison in the annal of any political engineering in the political space called Nigeria.

There had not been any dull moment since Asiwaju resumed and assumed office of the president of Nigeria. It has been daily activity from one venture to another.

So much for the man they called shaky-shaky, and you would not want to recall that, from the people who were supposed to know better. The educated, so called.

It is a new dawn in Nigeria where and when the words of the president would carry the desired weight and set forth for the desired result.

Better day just made a landing in the land, with promises of a glorious new dawn. For the good of all.

Michael Shokunbi.