The burden that now rests on the nation’s top electoral umpire transcends the narrow issue of a social media handle.
The role of Governor Caleb Mutfwang in this theatre of sorrow raises difficult questions of its own.
There is something more troubling about us, about how we have come to accommodate this abnormality as though it were inevitable.
Nigeria reached its post-hegemonic moment, not through a single dramatic event but through a slow, wearing away of legitimacy.
Military formations must traverse enormous distances to reach remote communities, while roads that should serve as arteries of commerce become vulnerable corridors for travellers.
This does not mean that state police are inherently doomed.
What appears easy in the short term compounds disaster in the long term.
An executive order is an instrument through which the president exercises constitutional power. It is not legislation. It cannot amend legislation.
Do Nigerian political leaders increase confidence in the electoral system? Or do they deepen suspicion?
