Politics Above People
The North appears once again to be drifting into another national election cycle rudderless, leaderless, and tragically devoid of coherent vision. A region that once produced some of the country’s Continue Reading
Party Primaries: The Aesthetics of Consensus and the Politics of Imposition
What Nigeria increasingly calls “consensus” in party primaries is, in many cases, neither democratic compromise nor political maturity. It is often a carefully choreographed performance – an aesthetic of unity Continue Reading
When Parties Stand for Nothing
Nigeria’s democracy suffers from a profound crisis that is too often ignored because it has become normalized: the near-total absence of ideological clarity within its political parties. What passes for Continue Reading
When Integrity Becomes Rebellion
Nigeria’s crisis is often explained in the language of economics, insecurity, or institutional weakness. But beneath all these lies a more fundamental collapse: the erosion of moral authority in public Continue Reading
The Politics of Political Overdose
In politics, victory often carries within it the seeds of future defeat. Parties collapse not only from weakness but sometimes from excessive strength. What appears as expansion may in fact Continue Reading
From Democracy to Domination
Democracy, at its core, is not merely the ritual of elections but the architecture of inclusion – an ever-expanding arena where voices, interests, and identities contend in pursuit of collective Continue Reading