President Bola Tinubu and 28 governors have been in office for barely one week and what a baptism of fire it has been for some of them. As predicted, there has been no honeymoon period for the newly inaugurated political leaders of the world’s largest black nation and Africa’s biggest economy. For the President, he has been slow in appointments but has been busy meeting different stakeholders as part of attempts to resolve the country’s hydra-headed challenges.
Unfortunately, at least 78 Nigerians have been killed and 12 abducted in violent attacks across the country in the first week of the President in office. The incidents happened in Rivers, Zamfara, Kaduna, Ogun, Sokoto, and the Federal Capital Territory. This was contained in data obtained from the Nigeria Security Tracker, a project of the Council on Foreign Relations.
I have tried to summarise what President Tinubu has done in his first week in office. However, there is a need for the media and civil society groups to take up the challenge of a more structured tracking of performance of campaign promises of the new president and the governors.
The Institute is currently tracking President Joe Biden’s performance in office. According to its website, “The Biden Promise Tracker monitors the 100 most important campaign promises of President Joseph R. Biden, elected in November 2020. Biden said his top priorities were fighting the coronavirus, improving the economy, responding to calls for racial justice and combating climate change.
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