President Bola Ahmed Tinubu returned over the weekend, swagger intact, despite his tumble in Turkey. ‘American Idolatry: The Worship of a President’ was an opinion article published in the November 9, 2004 edition of the Yale Daily News by Christopher Ashley. We also had a president who, for all his flaws, checked the festering tendency of lawmakers and judges to commodify their offices. As Gilkey warns, “What silence qua silence mediates is the destruction of the self…” Silence hollows out the silent. Robert Locander’s ‘The President, the Press, and the Public: Friends and Enemies of Democracy’ treats issues such as this.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 02, 2026 05:22 UTC