No president should need an AK-47 to win an election, and no ruling party should need the threat of one to persuade Nigerians to vote for its candidate.
There is something fundamentally wrong with treating the alleged killing of a citizen as though it were principally a disagreement within the public service.
For Africa and its diaspora, Mottley now represents something larger than the politics of Barbados.
The citizens who died in Odigbo were not numbers. Neither were the 37 people who died in Niger.
Somewhere between the chemist and the manufacturer, between the importer and the regulator, life has been converted into a commercial calculation.
The easiest way to avoid answering an uncomfortable question is to change the subject from what someone did to who he supposedly is.
Politicians denounce the monopolisation of power when they are outside the loci of power and defend monopolisation when they become beneficiaries of it.
Nigeria does not need another ceremony in which politicians promise not to behave badly.
The Osun governorship election has now provided an important measure of where Nigeria stands.
Who protects the predators from being preyed upon?
