By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,
Nigeria’s president since May 29, 2023 is a man of many parts, talented in
multiple areas of life. As someone who is able to do many different things
almost effortlessly, Nigerians perceive him as a superman – the “ideal superior
man of the future,” as described by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, the 19th
century German philosopher in Thus Spake Zarathustra, “who could rise above
conventional Christian morality to create and impose his own values.”
Notwithstanding, it has become glaring in the 11 months of his presidency that what is still unknown about him far outstrips what people thought they knew. For instance, Nigerians didn’t reckon with his ability to do a disappearing act on them. Again, how could anyone have imagined that Tinubu had the ability to cast a spell on an otherwise vibrant people and turn them into zombies so much so that even in the face of egregious conducts, the people would rather relapse into portentous silence?
