Nigeria has seen this political movie before. The costumes have changed, the actors have acquired new titles, and the language of justification has become more sophisticated. But beneath the democratic vocabulary lies a familiar ambition: the concentration of political power in the hands of one man, the weakening of opposition, and the conversion of a multiparty democracy into a political arrangement in which everybody is expected to agree with the president.
The Five Fingers of a Leprosy Hand: From Abacha’s Ambition to Tinubu’s Politics of Political Capture By Lawson Akhigbe
