Tag: The Tinubu enigma: Power

There comes a stage in the life of every consequential presidency when governance gradually escapes the immediacy of daily politics and begins entering the...

Power is often imagined as the triumph of arrival. In reality, it is the beginning of isolation. The higher leaders rise within the architecture...

There is a profound difference between winning power and governing a distressed state. Politics rewards optimism. Campaigns thrive on promises, symbolism and the careful...

If the earlier parts of this series examined the rise of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the architecture of his political influence, the intelligence behind...

The Engine of Power — How Tinubu Builds, Sustains and Reproduces Influence Political analysis in Nigeria often reduces power to moments—elections won, offices occupied, alliances...

A few figures in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic evoke as much fascination, admiration, suspicion and debate as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. To his supporters, he...