Tunji-Ojo: Returning to Prestige

The path of prestige is illustrious, one requiring the accumulation of providence’s favours. Nigeria’s Interior Minister, Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, is back on the path. Broadcasting his next moves for his ministry, Tunji-Ojo has already recovered a large fraction of his reputation among Nigerians, indicating how well he knows the people’s hearts.

Social media is gradually stacking compliment leaflets that would be mailed to Tunji-Ojo. Reacting to the Interior Minister’s latest plans to revolutionise passport production in Nigeria, netizens are quickly setting aside allegations of Tunji-Ojo’s excessiveness, cuddling up to him as they sing his praises and echo the words of President Bola Tinubu.

President Tinubu recently elevated Tunji-Ojo as a model civil servant in Nigeria. According to him, the Interior Minister’s dedication to the obligations of his office is evidence that there are still credible public servants around. Initially assumed to be Tinubu’s attempt to mend Tunji-Ojo’s reputation, netizens dug deep into the minister’s plans for Nigerians and found nothing to criticise.

Among these plans, the most audacious and agreeable is the decision to explore the local production of passports. Believed to have contacted necessary institutions to research and validate his assumptions, Tunji-Ojo’s decision, if it goes according to plan, will change everything.

Readers would recall that Tunji-Ojo’s issue with Dr. Betta Edu, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, almost sunk his reputation as a man of integrity. However, Tunji-Ojo’s brilliant strides in office led Nigerians to listen to his explanations instead of simply calling for his head.

With these new plans underway to produce passports locally, Tunji-Ojo is returning to the good books of many. Perhaps, before the end of the first half of 2024, he will once again be the darling of Nigerians at home and abroad. It happened before when he fixed the issues of slow passport issuance and filtered Nigeria’s correctional centres.

It will soon be the glory days for Tunji-Ojo. As he returns to the path of prestige, great things are expected of him.