Nigeria, Feb. 20 -- In Nigeria, power does not sit across the table from wealth. It shares the same chair. Our problem is not that businessmen influence politics. It is that the line between businessman and politician is often imaginary. The same names echo through oil blocks, party primaries, defense contracts, banking boards, and cabinet appointments. By the time you try to separate the private from the public, the ink has already mixed. We like to talk about corruption as if it is a moral accident. As if it is a deviation from an otherwise healthy system. But what if it is not a deviation? What if it is architecture? Look closely. A man builds a fortune through government contracts. He finances campaigns. The candidates win. He is rew...