Kayode Akinmade: Defending the Renewed Hope Agenda: Reform, memory, and the burden of perspective

Recent criticisms of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda—particularly by Rauf Aregbesola—invite not lone governmental effect but analytical reflection. When a erstwhile nationalist authoritative dismisses an ongoing betterment programme arsenic a “scam,” the credibility of that assertion indispensable beryllium weighed against some empirical developments and the critic’s ain administrative record.

In this instance, the critique is arsenic revealing arsenic it is unconvincing. It exposes little astir the substance of existent reforms and much astir the limits of position shaped by past governance experience.

Reform arsenic Measurable Reality, Not Rhetorical Promise

The Renewed Hope Agenda, acold from being a specified rhetorical construct, has manifested successful tangible organization and sectoral changes. Nowhere is this much evident than successful the translation of the Ministry of Interior nether the enactment of Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo.

Within a abbreviated period, longstanding inefficiencies—particularly successful passport administration—have been decisively addressed. A backlog of implicit 200,000 applications was cleared, automated systems introduced, and opportunities for rent-seeking importantly reduced. Border power systems person been modernized, portion correctional services person undergone structural reforms aimed astatine decongestion and enhanced security.

These are not abstract claims; they are measurable administrative outcomes. To ...