{"id":170871,"date":"2025-08-23T22:15:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T22:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=170871"},"modified":"2025-08-23T22:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T22:15:28","slug":"god-complex-and-sycophancy-by-tola-adeniyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=170871","title":{"rendered":"God-complex and sycophancy, By Tola Adeniyi\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had wanted to title this piece \u2018Primitive Politics and Sycophancy\u2019 given the way and manner Nigerian politicians, nay, African politicians in particular, and the entire universal politicians have stood politics and its practice on its head. Politics is supposed to be a means to seeking and receiving power from constituents and&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hallmarknews.com\/god-complex-and-sycophancy-by-tola-adeniyi\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had wanted to title this piece \u2018Primitive Politics and Sycophancy\u2019 given the way and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170871-god-complex-and-sycophancy-by-tola-adeniyi.jpeg",435,338,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170871-god-complex-and-sycophancy-by-tola-adeniyi-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170871-god-complex-and-sycophancy-by-tola-adeniyi-300x233.jpeg",300,233,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170871-god-complex-and-sycophancy-by-tola-adeniyi.jpeg",435,338,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170871-god-complex-and-sycophancy-by-tola-adeniyi.jpeg",435,338,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170871-god-complex-and-sycophancy-by-tola-adeniyi.jpeg",435,338,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170871-god-complex-and-sycophancy-by-tola-adeniyi.jpeg",435,338,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170871-god-complex-and-sycophancy-by-tola-adeniyi.jpeg",435,338,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170871-god-complex-and-sycophancy-by-tola-adeniyi.jpeg",435,338,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170871-god-complex-and-sycophancy-by-tola-adeniyi.jpeg",435,338,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}