The BBC has spoken to people close to the president to understand what drove him to trigger an authoritarian takeover.

The rule of law and “fabric” of the nation is at risk of “unravelling” because of the ... and nobody does anything . . . That sense of impunity undermines, I think, people ...

And a sense of dislocation is then transmitted to ... are so out of keeping with the society in which they live, and so unravelling that, and giving it life in words, was a good thing to do." ...