Corruption index

Nigeria is an intriguingly bizarre place. It is a country where absurdities have obtained legitimacy and are oftentimes dismissed with flimsy excuses. It is a place where leaders detest accountability and often make blank statements that they don’t intend to remember. Little wonder why politicians in Nigeria make weird promises, before, during, and after elections that they do not even intend to remember. 

A few days ago, Nigeria’s ‘President-select’, Bola Ahmed Tinubu gave Nigerians a reason to laugh again after a long season of gloom and pain. His sense of humour was topnotch in Port Harcourt, Rivers State when he …