Nigeria, Aug. 17 -- Which is the more significant milestone? Three years into the Tinubu administration? Or the prospect, next year, of another general election? In fact, some will reject this tension as a false one. Are both not but different faces of the same checkpoint in Nigeria's development? True, in the sense in which Janus looked both towards the back and ahead at the same time. However, the urge, at this point in the country's history, is to look ahead. Still, it won't hurt to look back. And not just because the phase that the Tinubu administration was allegedly going to put its imprimatur on three years ago, was supposed to have been an important one.

A former governor of Lagos State, whose progressive ways had altered the nati...