Tinubu’s Plateau Gambit - Yilwatda, 2027, and the Return of the Machiavellian Strategist By Abdullahi O Haruna Haruspice

Tinubu’s Plateau Gambit - Yilwatda, 2027, and the Return of the Machiavellian Strategist By Abdullahi O Haruna Haruspice

In the fog of Nigeria’s ever-churning political theatre, only a few ever grasp the long game. Most react. Some plot. But a rare few—like Bola Ahmed Tinubu—execute. Not merely for the day’s applause, but for the echoes of future triumph. The recent strategic surfacing of Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda into Nigeria’s national conversation is no coincidence. It is a deliberate move—a Plateau gambit—played by a man whose style of power politics echoes the a…