Nigeria, Nov. 10 -- The Bola Tinubu Presidency is in the eye of the storm at moment. Until a few weeks ago, when rumours of a coup plot filtered into the governance space, the government was, more or less, on an amusement ride. It has, most arrogantly, been constructing its own system and cared little or nothing about what the people thought or felt.

It was in that state of disdain for the people and pollution of time-honoured political culture that President Tinubu found ample time to railroad the country into a one-party contraption. From state to state, some state governors whom the electorate laboured to elect into office, made themselves available to be recruited, just like that. They neither probed nor asked the right questions. Th...