Nigeria, June 4 -- What played out at the APC national policy summit a fortnight ago can safely be described as a theatre of the absurd and a public display of the arrogance of power. A government is elected (or is it selected?) to serve a four-year term, and less than one year into their tenure, what seemed like subtle calls by jobless hangers-on coalesced into full-scale campaigns and endorsements everywhere until the "victor" was crowned at that summit. Welcome to the APC government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who "won an election for a second term" even before the whistle for the electioneering campaign began and more than two years before the handover. This novel coronation ala Tinubu style, code-named policy summit, is unprecede...