Nigeria, Feb. 14 -- The recent barrage of attacks and acerbic criticisms directed the way of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu by a section of northern elites is quite befuddling. Having ruled Nigeria and been in charge of her economy and other critical sectors for a majority of the part of her existence, one would have thought that these northern elites had learnt how not to blame others for their woes but look inwards to ask themselves some critical soul-searching questions to know where the rain started beating them so as to know how to retrace their steps and do the right things for both their region and the entire nation.

For a region that just produced the most cryonic, nepotic, clannish and clueless president in Nigeria's history in the...