“And as the biggest of all the opposition parties, the PDP’s umbrella is big enough to accommodate all persons desirous of coalition.”
The Constitution anointed the people as the electorate. Yet, winners and losers in Nigerian elections are decided by a judicial selectorate that does not feel beholden to anything.
The minister urged members of the APC to welcome the new members into the party without any discrimination.
In democratic politics, these implicit bargains begin, of course, with the understandings that govern membership of political parties.
In the middle of high political season, we confront a judicial malapropism with slow-burning reverberations of high political salience.
