How to make tough decisions in governance

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (U.K.), Keir Starmer, has demonstrated a classical use of political power in making tough decisions in governance for equity and justice.

Unlike in Nigeria where President Bola Tinubu celebrates he has made tough decisions in governance in the removal of subsidy on petrol, which has precipitated unprecedented hardship and hunger in the country, Prime Minister Starmer, in media interaction on Friday in the U.K. acknowledged that he may be becoming “so unpopular” because “he’s had to take tough decisions.”

President Bola Tinubu celebrates petrol subsidy removal as part of tough decisions in governance

According to the U.K. Prime Minister, “The tough decision would have been to take on the billionaires by introducing a wealth tax. Targeting pensioners, poor kids in poverty and people who use the bus are easy decisions for you.”

Reforms promote the interests of the majority, not the minority exploiters. Starmer has demonstrated this in the U.K., while the reverse is the case in Nigeria, the majority poor suffer for the comfort and luxury of the minority rich.

While Starmer committed class suicide, making tough decisions affecting the political elite, the Nigerian President did the opposite in the removal of subsidy which provided succour for the elite while the citizens suffer seeming punishment from his decisions.