On Asiwaju Bola Tinubu's Inauguration.

 Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is a man whose politics I learn from. I see how much effort he has invested into shaping Lagos State into what it is today. Apparently, he hasn't lost any election that had his name on the ballot.

I tipped him to emerge the winner in the 2023 elections; it wasn't all smooth as the electioneering processes indicated, his emergence as his party's flag bearer coincided strongly with a time when disgruntled citizens desired a change from gerontocracy to a government run by younger leaders who are much closer to the existent realities.

Reality is hard to change. There are many factors that have to be perfected, from the origination of an idea to its completion date. Mountains take time to be levelled up, and trusting a leader is often necessary to enjoying his or her tenure.

I appreciate Jagaban's people development drive.

What people development means,

If a man skilled at cutting trees has knowledge on how to cut trees, he will cut many trees successfully. But he can only cut as much as his power affords.

If he knows how to develop people, he will hire people and develop their knowledge on tree cutting by investing himself in them; afterwards, his developed hires can cut even more trees.

If he could only cut a thousand trees in a year, with four hires who have learned and imbibed lessons from him, they can cut in multiples of thousands.

That's the multiplicative power of people development; it's human to want to be the centre of attention always, and people leaders usually have to make sacrifices for their mentees. One of the challenges surrounding people development is the willingness to accept that being outsmarted and outshined by one's protégés, or even, in extreme cases, being betrayed is a possibility.

Since people are the strongest hallmark of any country, the more developed people you have, the better the country becomes.

Jagaban has effective knowledge of public governance, which is still very relevant today in our world.

The more effective leaders we have, the better things get.

One of the most interesting pieces of knowledge that has been proven to be real and true is how much one's attitude toward a problem either helps solve the problem or complicates it.

One doesn't just develop a positive attitude in a day after living decades of his life in negative circumstances; this is exactly the challenge that fires up people leaders: re-engineering the attitudes of people.

What everyone expects from an administration is what determines how one views and evaluates the administration.

This is exactly why some people will score an administration well and others will score the same administration poorly.

If you felt that Buhari's change agenda would catapult you from poverty to a comfortable life and that didn't happen, then Buhari would have failed in your opinion.

If you felt Peter Obi should have won and he didn't, and there are videos and media stories that seem to confirm the discrepancies in the results, the electoral body would have failed in your opinion.

The more people who share these insights with you, the more right you feel about your own opinion, and that rightness strengthens your opinion. Equally, if people disagree with your opinion, the less confident you feel about pursuing your options, Societal conformity then becomes that invisible constraint that keeps one from pursuing the truths or seeing them to their end.

World leaders who congratulated the newly inaugurated president prioritized the greater good - their own interests - and simply pandered to the announced results.

Those who didn't, have other options and don't see diplomatic dealings with the newly elected government as a compulsion.

I think the courts will likely stick with the flow; it's hard to disprove an election when stronger nations indirectly approve the whole process, right?

Winning an election in present-day Nigeria therefore requires not just assurance from one's spiritual source but also loads of popularity and competent acts to show for it. Financial muscle and grounded help from established patrons or godfathers is also a must. Anything short of this does not guarantee victory, and heading to the courts if things go south will always appear as an afterthought that could have been avoided if one did his homework properly.

“You win some and you lose some” is a philosophy.

“You win some and you could win some more” is equally a philosophy.

Strategically, I knew that the incumbent party had better chances of winning; I saw the alignments and realized the incumbent party would retain power.

I was tempted to call the whole process a zero-sum game after I saw the results, but I won't because these things aren't as straight as they appear on paper.

Shocks in election results only happen if the incumbent party allows them by poor performance, disregard for its aggrieved members, and neglect for its own values and tenets.

President Buhari built bridges, constructed roads, and made the security situation better. The Dangote refinery was inaugurated by him. I wish him well.

I congratulate the newly inaugurated president and wish him well.

I will also continue to give my best to the service of my country.

God bless Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.