In the long arc of Nigerian political history, a Lagos support group has offered a particular lens through which to understand President Bola Tinubu's rise — not as the ascent of a businessman, but as the patient harvest of decades spent cultivating people and institutions. Their argument, rooted in Tinubu's pro-democracy activism of the 1990s and his post-gubernatorial years of quiet network-building, frames political power as something grown in others rather than accumulated for oneself. It is a philosophy as old as leadership itself: that the most enduring influence belongs not to those who