Nigeria, July 16 -- The Yoruba say a lie can hide for eight years, but one day, truth will expose it. The evil that men do lives after them, yet the harm President Tinubu has inflicted on Nigeria's democracy may not wait for his departure to unravel. Tinubu suspended Fubara like he owns the country. But Shettima's calculated revelation has now left Tinubu naked in public. Will he fight or duck for cover?

When Tinubu trampled the constitution to suspend Governor Fubara, the conspiratorial silence of the noble made might seem right. The great Soyinka didn't have an opinion. The National Assembly, in a shameful display of servility, endorsed the travesty. The courts, cowed into silence, looked away. Not even a petition by ten states could e...