In that piece, I warned that politics can be an illness: the way a man can catch a fever he does not recognise until the heat has rewritten his character. Because here is the inconvenient point: independent fact-checking, including two by me, that applied multiple deepfake detection tools report no evidence the clip is AI-generated, and conclude that the “AI” claim is false. Four years later, when he helped midwife a politics that celebrates ill-preparedness and rewards opacity, I described the resulting governance as puppet theatre, an Edo where the public is asked to applaud incompetence because it wears the right party colour.
Author: Punch Newspapers
Published at: 2026-02-07 23:50:58
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