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Tinubu and Talon: Traitorous Tailors of Democracy?\u00a0By Ugoji Egbujo, <\/p>\n

Before soldiers seized Cotonou\u2019s state television\u00a0station to declare Patrice Talon deposed, Benin\u2019s democracy had already become a sham.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Talon entered office in 2016 bearing the hopes of the country\u2019s poor. Benin\u2019s democracy, then 25 years old, was stable but stagnant, yielding little prosperity. Talon pledged to a single term\u2014unshackled from re-election pressures and the politics of longevity\u2014to fight corruption and set Benin on a path to prosperity.<\/p>\n

Talon, the king of Cotton, consummate multibillionaire businessman: the people saw him as a breath of fresh air. Weary of decades of fruitless stability, they swallowed his promises whole. He seemed too rich to steal, too shrewd for vanity. They believed he would run the country like his companies, with technocratic efficiency. Indeed, Talon soon turned Benin into his personal political enterprise.<\/p>\n

Once Talon tasted power , he prioritised politics and elections over genuine leadership, every policy carried an ulterior motive. He began with a scissors to prune the political playing field. A small nation burdened with over 200 mostly moribund political parties needed reform. But by the time his party registration changes were complete, the opposition had been effectively liquidated. The new requirements were deliberately onerous and opaque, demanding endorsements only establishment-backed parties could secure. With the Constitutional Court in the custody of his personal lawyer, opponents found no justice. The national political pantaloons Talon fashioned had no space for for political diversity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As parliamentary elections arrived in 2019, tension gripped the country. Only two parties\u2014both loyal to Talon\u2014truly contested. The election had been tailored to fit Talon\u2019s dreams. The result was total capture of all critical institutions.\u00a0 An absolute parliamentary majority allowing him to tear apart and restitch the nation\u2019s foundational frameworks from his bedroom. The Parliament and Judiciary were united in the blooming sycophancy, effectively \u2018standing on\u00a0 his mandate\u2019 like Tinubu\u2019s lackeys.\u00a0 Global democracy watchdogs downgraded Benin. Protests erupted but were swiftly quelled with bullets. Talismanic Talon\u00a0 had been found out: a wolf in sheep\u2019s cotton clothing.<\/p>\n

This systematic closure of democratic space continued\u00a0 through legal engineering . Cold and brutal repression of the press and opposition voices intensified . Critics became dissidents<\/p>\n

Protests were punished like treason. By the 2021 presidential elections,\u00a0 his major opposition rivals were in prison. One on terrorism charges. Another for money laundering and subversion. Talon \u201cwon\u201d nearly 90% of the vote. Inflated figures masked abysmal turnout. International observers called the process \u201cpeaceful\u201d. In Africa elections greeted by hopelessness and apathy are often \u2018peaceful\u2019. Talon had unified parties and homogenised politics through force and bribery. He was no longer king of cotton, he was king of Benin .<\/p>\n

On his part , Tinubu was kingmaker before he became president . Hos supporters said he had a magic wand . But months into his presidency,\u00a0 some Nigerian political watchers were alarmed by\u00a0 \u00a0Bola Tinubu\u2019s style. Besides some economic reforms to maximize revenue gathering ,\u00a0 Tinubu\u2019s\u00a0 greatest achievement has been the destabilization of the\u00a0 opposition parties and capture of the opposition leaders.\u00a0 As governors and senators defect en masse to his ruling party to service his every whim, Tinubu like Talon is fast going from president to king. With\u00a0 the EFCC targeting\u00a0 opposition figures, the 2027 elections risk being similarly peaceful. The election\u00a0 observers will be too polite to name the void. Tinubu and Talon are two of a kind.<\/p>\n

Soon after his\u00a0 re-election, Talon brought a needle to stich his tattered\u00a0 legitimacy. In 2017 ,\u00a0 Freedom House had\u00a0 \u00a0ranked Benin Republic\u2019s democracy a robust 82\/100,\u00a0 praising its competitive elections and civil liberties. By 2023, that score had plummeted to 59. It described Benin as\u00a0 a \u201chybrid regime\u201d teetering on authoritarianism. So Talon\u00a0 decided to make amends. He\u00a0 permitted re-registration of the castrated main opposition. He\u00a0 spoke of openness and accommodation. Critics smelled a rat.\u00a0 He called it necessary magnanimity to unite the country. Having won the war, he could mend the fences he had deliberately smashed. Despite glimmers of hope in the economy \u2013 GDP growth from cotton exports, infrastructure boosts,\u00a0 repartriation from disapora \u2013\u00a0 hopelessness and poverty spread.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Much like Tinubu\u2019s reforms, Talon\u2019s were geared toward political advantage. He extended presidential terms from five to seven years, exempting himself\u2014a seemingly virtuous act.\u00a0 Critics said he had positioned his finance minister as puppet president to succeed him\u00a0 . Then came the creation of a Senate chamber for former presidents and appointees. Controlling everything, Talon appeared to be engineering a lifelong presidency through the backdoor. Possibly as the head of the new senate. .\u00a0<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 coup attempt against Talon\u00a0 has been quelled. Tinubu who has lacked urgency against the\u00a0 insurgencies suffocating Nigeria was swift to help Talon and please\u00a0 Macron. He dispatched jets\u00a0 and boots to\u00a0 Cotonou . But not before the plotters had\u00a0 managed to get\u00a0 their message out. They\u00a0 blamed Talon \u201cs complacency\u00a0 and negligence for the\u00a0 northern insecurity, insisting the situation had become unbearable as many\u00a0 soldiers and citizens\u00a0 died while Talon played political chess of self perpetuation . Rather than conbat the insurgency, Talon bombed multiparty democracy and civil liberties . The coup plotters may have been power thieves, but they captured the tragedy of\u00a0 Talon: a man who promised to unite, protect, and emancipate, but has now\u00a0 prioritised power politics and self.<\/p>\n

Tinubu had to act\u00a0 without initial parliamentary consent. Besides the parliament being his ribber stamp, Talon\u2019s fall would be a bad omen because they shared too much in common. Tinubu\u00a0 said he sent soldiers to save democracy. But it was more about preserving Talon and ultimately himself. Benin\u2019s Democracy has been in coma for a while. West African\u00a0 Democracy in an endangered species here. Transformative leadership\u2014needed for its longevity\u2014seems beyond the capacity of its current breed of regional\u00a0 democrats .<\/p>\n

With charlatans at the helm, democracy has been counterfeited.\u00a0 \u00a0Inept civilian autocracies, one party dominant shams are passed around as democracy.\u00a0 This hollow\u00a0 democracy yields neither freedom nor health, jobs nor education. Perhaps\u00a0 without an informed electorate, democracy is a mirage here. Perhaps we lack the basic pre requisites for true democracy.\u00a0 So these opportunists who run around as politicians have discovered the flaw but wont let us know.\u00a0 They need not bother . The people are too busy struggling to exist .\u00a0 Anything in civilian clothes is\u00a0 democracy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is good the coup failed\u2014military regimes have been curses. Yet Talon must heed the message. Tinubu has only\u00a0 bought him time. Tinubu cannot save him forever. He inherited Africa\u2019s gold-standard democracy and turned it into a miserable counterfeit. He must change his ways.<\/p>\n

Mathieu K\u00e9r\u00e9kou, once a dictator, organised the 1991 Sovereign National Conference and lost power. In 34 years, Benin marched from that conference and a highly rated democracy to one without opposition. The entire region has retrogressed. Nigeria has intervened to save democracy in a few places but its democracy is in a parlous state.\u00a0 In 2015, Tinubu\u2019s APC inherited a fairly\u00a0 thriving multiparty system. After just two-and-a-half years of Tinubu\u2019s presidency, opposition parties are being liquidated, governors bought or bullied into the ruling fold, parliament and judiciary mirroring Talon\u2019s. Northern Nigeria, like Benin\u2019s north, is ravaged by insecurity. Many feel the Benin coup was a message to Tinubu too.\u00a0 Tinubu, like Talon, is preoccupied with nepotism and self-perpetuation.<\/p>\n

Those who shear away every opposing voice, who capture parliaments and bend judiciaries until they snap, are not reformers.<\/p>\n

They are coup plotters in bespoke suits\u2014slow, smiling, civilian.<\/p>\n

Have\u00a0 Talon and Tinubu strengthened\u00a0 democracy in their countries? Men who promised\u00a0 renewal but delivered political sterilisation under the guise of reform.\u00a0 The continent has many kinds of\u00a0 coup plotters \u2013 slow,\u00a0 smiling civillians in bespoke suits and agbada rigging laws , policies and elections for political advantage. Are those\u00a0 who liquidate opposition parties any less culpable than those\u00a0 dismantle democracy itself. Are those who capture parliaments and judiciaries\u00a0 less than coup plotters?<\/p>\n

Talon and Tinubu: the handwriting is on the wall.<\/p>\n

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Before soldiers seized Cotonou\u2019s state television\u00a0station to declare Patrice Talon deposed, Benin\u2019s democracy had already become a sham.\u00a0 Talon entered office in 2016 bearing the hopes of the country\u2019s poor. Benin\u2019s democracy, then 25 years old, was stable but stagnant, yielding little prosperity. Talon pledged to a single term\u2014unshackled from re-election pressures and the politics [\u2026]<\/p>\n

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