By Joel Popoola
The 2023
election may feel like a long way off, but the battle to succeed President
Muhammadu Buhari is already underway.
But
who will step into his big shoes?
Just
recently, the influential international news agency, Bloomberg, asked the
question “is Nigeria falling apart?”
Unfortunately, it’s hard to argue that it isn’t.
However,
the real question is “how are we going to fix it?”
How
are we going to fix an economy where unemployment is 33% and inflation is
running at 18%?
What
are we going to do to improve the lives of the 80 million Nigerians who live on
the equivalent of less than $2 a day – a figure the World Bank predicts may
rise to 100 million following Covid-19?
How is a nation economically dependent on oil going to face up to a post-oil future?
