By Onu Onwe
The soapbox is a tempting platform. The politician and other users of it who utilize it to deliver an opinion may be seduced by the spontaneity it offers to say that which may be out of sync with their actual reasoning or intention.
That is why the soapbox is a dangerous place for all speakers. But Bola Tinubu, the president of Nigeria, has utilized it very well to his own advantage because Nigerian society is an “unthinking” one where emotional outbursts such as the one he delivered at Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, recently may escape critique or questioning. This essay attempts to critique or question it.
