Even when critics try to box him into the general low-performing brand of politicians, President Bola Tinubu’s legacy eventually separates him, and so in this final week of March when he was to mark his 72nd birthday, the people close to him have found themselves engaged in acts of charity which they think represent him.

One personality stood out in expressing this theme of charity. On the president’s birthday on 29 March, cabinet minister Dr Bosun Tijani posted via LinkedIn to tell any professional who cared to listen or read that his aides had performed the distribution of food packs to the inmates lodging at a correctional centre in Kuje, the Federal Capital Territory and it was all to celebrate his leader’s very special traits of giving, it seemed.

To celebrate President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s birthday yesterday, my aides distributed food packs to inmates of Kuje Prisons and worshippers at the Abuja National Mosque.

It was a gratifying exercise of love and care — some of the distinctive virtues that mirror values held dear by our President.

We wish President Bola Ahmed Tinubu many more years of success as he leads our great nation.

In the first six months of Mr Tinubu’s administration, there was exceptional turmoil in Nigeria. That mainly had to do with what critics viewed as knee-jack policies, which didn’t give much time to distill the likely consequences of his economic recalibration.

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Since May 2023 at the president’s inauguration speech, grocery shopping had become five times as expensive as they were a year before and that cast a bad light on him because he had made so many campaign promises about a renewed hope. The difficulty swept through households with gale force because of the fuel subsidy that had been removed, which then encouraged far higher inflation than ever before.

But all these problems are not because the Commander-in-Chief is not trying. It looks like this following the comment of the president’s Special Adviser on Media & Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale during a broadcast hosted by Channels Television. The way Mr Tinubu gives all his time confronting the country’s problems day and night earned him the moniker President No Sleep, which also references the recent positives towards a recovery.

The past two weeks have seen the Naira appreciate gradually against other currencies after falling to an unprecedented N2000 for one dollar. By Wednesday, 27 March, the Naira was already exchanging for N1,300 and that represents, to analysts, the signs of positive things to come if the eyes stay focused on the ball.

The man is a workaholic which is why some of us in the office joke. We call him President No sleep. [It is] because those of us who work with him, also don’t get to sleep as a result, Ajuri Ngelale tells the Channels Television Global Business show host Juliana Olayinka.

Special Adviser Ngelale had just explained the vision of the president setting up the Renewed Hope Infrastructure Development Fund on Monday. Mr Tinubu, according to the spokesperson, wants to quickly close the deficit which when calculated, amounts to covering up for a period amounting to half a century.

In terms of the president getting fair treatment for his output, the special adviser to the president would leave that in the domain of public opinion.

From his time as the Governor of Lagos, continues Ngelale, this is a man who will wake up at odd hours touring roads touring, various projects, making sure the civil servants are in the office on time. I mean, this is a hands-on micro manager who is antsy when he’s not working, he needs to be working. His hands need to be working. He sleeps late. He wakes up extremely early.