The question therefore deserves to be asked plainly: what exactly is President Bola Ahmed Tinubu afraid of? It was a political signal of ‘over‑sabi’ — that familiar Yoruba expression for excessive, misdirected overzealousness — gone disastrously wrong. Tinubu enters the 2027 cycle with structural advantages unmatched in recent democratic history. The damage is not to Governor Ademola Adeleke or the opposition party. The damage is to President Tinubu.