Tinubu’s semiotics and his pragmatism, By Danladi Bako

Closely related to the subject interpretation and meaning of symbolic messaging is the theory of “deconstruction” as propounded by such great scholars like Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida all related to the reading of the symbols and signs of the message source or that of the messenger and the perception created by the symbols.

For President Bola Ahmed Tinubu it is so easy to stretch our minds back to January 2022 when word went round about his desire to become Nigeria’s next chief helmsman and the vitriol that followed from certain quarters.