Nigerians risk being seen as a **disgrace** and profoundly foolish on the global stage if they allow President Bola Tinubu to remain in power beyond 2027, given the mounting evidence of serious, progressive health and mental challenges that render effective leadership impossible. This isn’t mere political opposition—it’s a pattern of national self-sabotage that echoes the Buhari era and exposes a collective tolerance for unfit governance that borders on collective folly.
The provided text draws a stark parallel between former President Muhammadu Buhari and current President Tinubu. Buhari’s presidency was marked by prolonged medical absences (including a six-month disappearance in his first term), widely speculated severe illnesses like leukaemia or lymphoma, and a post-tenure survival of less than two years after leaving office. Many argue he used the presidency primarily to access better medical care, prolonging his life at the expense of Nigeria’s stability, all while displaying evident cluelessness and empty-headed decision-making. Nigerians endured this for eight years, emerging poorer, more divided, and internationally diminished.
Today, a strikingly similar scenario unfolds with Tinubu. Public observations during and after his 2023 campaign included visible tremors (shaking hands), photos suggesting a PICC line (a semi-permanent cannula often used for long-term intravenous drug administration), and bizarre, nonsensical utterances like “balablu” and “bulaba” that lacked coherent meaning—especially when unscripted or unsupervised. These were not isolated slips but signs of deeper impairment.
More alarmingly, recent years have shown increasing gait instability and falls. The text emphasizes not just the frequency of these incidents, but their **mechanism**: healthy individuals instinctively protect themselves during a fall—using arms, adjusting posture, or breaking the impact to avoid head injury. Tinubu’s falls, however, reportedly lack this protective coordination, resulting in direct head strikes on the ground in at least two documented cases. This strongly suggests profound loss of motor control and balance reflexes, far beyond normal aging or a simple “stumble.”
From a medical perspective, such symptoms in an elderly man—combined with incoherent speech, tremor, and progressive gait issues—point unmistakably toward a **neurodegenerative disorder**. Possibilities include Parkinson’s disease (tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia), Alzheimer’s (cognitive decline, confusion), Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (gait instability, urinary issues, dementia), or Multisystem Atrophy (MSA), among others. These conditions are **progressive** by nature: symptoms worsen over time, medications may temporarily mitigate but ultimately fail, and no cure exists. The trajectory is one of steady deterioration, not recovery.
Allowing such a leader to continue—or worse, seeking a second term in 2027—means Nigeria would not be governed but would instead become a de facto rehabilitation center in Aso Rock, with decisions made by proxies, cabals, or opportunists behind the scenes. This repeats the Buhari playbook: a nation led by a figurehead whose incapacity invites manipulation, policy paralysis, and further economic ruin.
What makes this particularly disgraceful is the contrast with other nations. When U.S. President Joe Biden showed minor signs of aging (a hand bruise or occasional stumbles), Americans openly debated his fitness, with media scrutiny and public concern forcing accountability. Yet in Nigeria, despite far more visible and severe public symptoms—falls, incoherent speech, evident coordination loss—some defend or ignore it out of ethnic chauvinism, religious bias, or narrow economic gain. Parties decamp, supporters rally, and voters prioritize tribal or partisan loyalty over national interest and basic competence.
This selective blindness brands Nigerians as shameless and extremely stupid in the eyes of the world. How can a country claim global relevance while repeatedly electing or tolerating leaders visibly unfit due to terminal health decline? It signals a people willing to suffer endlessly, excusing incompetence because “it’s our turn” or “better the devil we know.” God may permit such leaders as a mirror to a nation’s character flaws.
If Nigerians fail to demand accountability—insisting on transparency, medical disclosure, or simply refusing to endorse another term—they confirm the harshest judgment: a people too unlucky, too divided, and too foolish to prioritize collective survival over parochial gains. The world will watch, shake its head, and conclude that Nigeria deserves its fate. Breaking this cycle requires rejecting the pattern now, before 2027 cements the disgrace.
