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There is a curious relationship between Donald Trump’s business career and his political life. It is a relationship built around an extraordinary talent for self-promotion, an appetite for spectacle and an apparent belief that the presentation of success can sometimes be more important than the substance of it.
The roadside collector may be the visible face of the system, but the real question is who controls the pyramid, who receives the proceeds and what political interests protect it.
A nation’s mind dies when it can no longer recognise irony even when the irony is wearing agbada, boarding a presidential jet, and lecturing the rest of us about sacrifice. No previous assemblage of Nigerian power-brokers has democratised this particular form of intellectual blindness quite as thoroughly as the APC under first Buhari and now Tinubu.
Nigeria has not been short of constitutional provisions. It has been short of the political will to make those provisions effective.
When a leader becomes more interested in the symbol of his authority than the substance of his government, politics begins to resemble a cult. The insignia becomes the message, the slogan becomes the policy, and the citizen is expected to admire the packaging while living with the consequences.
