OPINION BY CHRIS ADETAYO: A foreign policy guide for President Tinubu | TheCable
As with changes in leadership anywhere in the world, so much will change in the new administration. Key amongst the changes will be personnel and policies. For a country like Nigeria, with its many challenges, the changes that President Tinubu will make will be keenly watched. On the domestic end, he has already commenced on this track, by bringing a decisive end to the fuel subsidy regime that has dominated economic discourse in the country for more than three decades.
What is the current Foreign Policy of Nigeria? Ask theoreticians, practitioners and observers of Nigeria’s foreign engagements and chances are that you will get as many answers as there are respondents. This speaks to a lack of strategy, focus and leadership. Things got so bad that all too often it seemed that policy and execution was being set and driven by the recently-formed Nigerians in Diaspora Commission , headed by Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, rather than by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs .
On the policy side, the President must start from the time-honoured precept that foreign policy is an extension of domestic policy. Accordingly, he must set Nigeria’s foreign policy to drive and complement his avowed domestic agenda. No soothsayer is required to point out that security, the economy, and national unity will continue to dominate the actions of the Federal Government.
One practice of the last decade that President Tinubu should put an end to is the shuttle diplomacy that sees the President of Nigeria joining other African Heads of State to honour invitations from individual Asian, European and American Leaders. In the past decade, African leaders have sat down at the capitals of great and not-so-great powers including the United States, France, Turkey, India and China.
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