The National President of the Political Science Association of Nigeria (PSAN), Prof. Hassan Ajisafe Saliu, has advised President Bola Tinubu to, as a matter of urgency, “reconnect Nigerians to his government” to prove his patriotism to the country.

This is as he described President Tinubu as an unfortunate president who inherited offshoots of piled-up misgovernance.

According to him, Tinubu is an unfortunate president because all we are seeing is an accumulation of what had “gathered over time.”

Fielding questions from newsmen in his Ilorin office at the weekend, Ajisafe regretted that the president, rather than apply a holistic review of his cabinet, merely dropped a few of the unproductive members, saying, “The current situation calls for a holistic review of the aides, but what we (Nigerians) got was the sack of just five of them.”

He stated that the president ought to take decisive action that would reconnect the citizenry to his government, noting that “Nigerians have lost confidence and interest in his government; that is why you record apathy in elections.

“Nigerians no longer have interest; they now believe the electoral process and elections are for the elites, no longer for them, unlike in the past when the citizenry contributed money and dedication to build up political parties because of their belief. Now they collect money from parties to attend rallies because of their renewed belief that political parties now belong to the few wealthy elites.”

He said until Nigeria goes back to the basics, the situation may forever remain the same.

According to him, party formations and controls are now completely in the hands of the government and the rich; “they call the shots, they determine what goes on. Imagine the situation where parties are completely in the custody of the governors; it is expected that membership is determined by him, not the party.”

On the recent federal cabinet reshuffle, the professor of political science stated his regret that he and many Nigerians had expected a total reshuffle, “because of the realities on the ground.”

According to the political analyst, Tinubu is too cosmetic in his approach to the issues that affect Nigerians.

“The president is too cosmetic about his government; people expected him to reshuffle the entire cabinet and not just a few because the background on which some of them were appointed is not the kind that can fire Nigeria to the desirable level,” he regretted.

He, however, charged the president to take personal observation of happenings to disprove his aides, who might have been feeding him with wrong information.

“If he finds out that things are different from what he expected, he should just change the narratives that would rejoin the citizenry to his government,” he suggested.