Communication is key in any relationship. You are losing support because of inadequate communication, and people want to feel your empathy. So much money is going to the states, yet most governors are doing nothing for the impact to be felt! Because we are accustomed to the Abuja feeding bottle, to the holder of the feeding bottle is the anger targeted. You need to do more. You need to lay it bare to the Nigerian people.
As a politico, I have watched the political development in Nigeria with keen interest. I have been pondering on how to situate the rising hunger, fallouts from subsidy withdrawal, foreign exchange rate harmonisation and attendant inflation. I have listened to people across social strata and the recurring decimal is that the President must make his case and retail it directly to the people. In the last 24 hours, reactions to the President’s speech on the hunger protest has not been favourable. Word on the street is that a presidential speech is not what…