APC’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu and PDP’s Atiku Abubakar will divvy up the Muslim vote more or less equally.
Peter Obi might also theoretically benefit from the financial constraining of Tinubu, but whether it will be enough to one-up Atiku remains to be seen.
Inflicting mass hurt on a large swath of people gives Buhari immense joy.
How these changing dynamics will impact the outcome of the election is still up in the air.
This was completely preventable political self-harm.
Cultural cringe is the deep-rooted inferiority complex that causes psychologically damaged, formerly colonised people to inferiorise and disdain their own country and its culture.
The dominant chatter in northern Nigerian Muslim discursive spheres now revolves around the suspicion that Tinubu isn’t a Muslim.
A genuinely concerned and angry African American friend once asked me if congenital idiocy is the precondition for ascension to leadership in Nigeria.
Toyin Falola, an endowed professor of history at the University of Texas whom I have called the patriarch of African academics in North America, isn’t an everyday individual.
Money may not be as decisive in determining the outcome of next year’s election as it did in previous years.
