NIGERIA, Dec. 1 -- Finally, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has done what his predecessor refused to do for eight years while he was in office. The late Muhammadu Buhari and his government spent eight years explaining away what was clearly a monumental failure in addressing the existential threat to our nationhood.

For eight horrendous years, Nigerians were living on the edge, not knowing what would be their fate when they went to bed at night, or on the road while travelling, or while in their farms or places of worship.

They blamed victims while their aggressors and the culprits were exonerated. They accused a helpless and defenceless population of ethnic profiling. They accused victims of attacks of being bad hosts. They blamed the inhab...