This man is so consumed by power and presidential vanity that he’s naming a publicly funded road after himself complete with his full title: “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR.”
The road is barely 10% complete. Yet the giant signpost is already up. One can almost picture him cruising past it, grinning at his own name, whispering, “This is my legacy.”
In my adult life, I’ve never seen anything this brazen in a democracy. This is the kind of behavior you expect from Saddam, Gaddafi, or other dictators desperate to etch their names into permanence.
In actual democracies, roads and monuments are usually named after leaders after they’re gone not while they’re still alive and the project is half-finished.
Only a pathological toponymic narcissist adds “President” and “GCFR” to a road sign.
Bola Tinubu just did exactly that.
The Coastal Highway wears a ‘new’ identity.