A thinking leader is a planning leader. There is no gainsaying the fact that Nigeria, especially given the multifaceted challenges with which it currently has to contend, needs leaders with strategic foresight: a unique ability to identifying current and future trends and initiate sustainable plans to respond to them.
Angela Miller, a scholar at the Department of Foresight, University of Houston, Stuttgart, Germany, notes that foresight is particularly helpful for planning and navigating risks and opportunities in politics.
And so when President Tinubu subsequently sounded the death knell for subsidy, the Ogun State government took the lead in rolling out palliatives. Said Governor Abiodun at the time: “We have two types of palliatives: cash transfer and technology transfer. If you buy food at controlled prices at designated areas, it saves a lot of money. If your transport cost is lower, your disposable income will be higher, and the standard of living will consequently be better.
Some of the buses would be given to workers and students, while some would ply the Mowe- Ibafo to Berger in Lagos and Redeemed axis to Lagos Island, as the corridor was heavily congested with large cross border migration. And the state government has set up a gas filling station at Obada-Oko, just as it will provide the needed infrastructure to support the refueling of the buses along the roads and terminals.
That was not all: it caused the state’s ministries, departments and agencies to work out modalities for ensuring that 20 percent of their staff strengths were off-duty daily to ease the subsidy situation, and began distributing food palliatives to vulnerable citizens while mandating the Gateway Trading Company to establish food distribution outlets across the state and sell the items at the rates obtainable in the market before the removal of fuel subsidy. Nothing beats planning and foresight.
Gov. Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers has expressed profound gratitude to President Bola Tinubu for his “fatherly intervention” in the political crisis that rocked the state recently.
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