When and how did Northern Nigeria become the Ground Zero of insecurity in Nigeria, playground for insurgents, kidnappers, cattle rustlers, bandits, armed robbers, epicenter of senseless killings, burning of villages and springing up of IDP camps in every available school building and open space? How did things turn around such that today, Southern Nigerian politicians, clerics, activists, columnists and even leaders of militant and secessionist groups are the ones advising the North on how to get its act together and stop destabilising the whole country? Up until the 1980s, Northerners used to think that criminality and violence were Southern Nigerian…

One of the unwritten rules of the presidential system that this country has operated since 1999 is that an incumbent (Executive) is usually given the right of first refusal; if he seeks re-election, then, his party concedes and allows him to fly the party flag again. Note that I said “usually” not only because this is an unwritten rule or law but also because to every rule, there is an exception. In the United States of America whose presidential system we appeared to have dubbed, just like Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila was alleged to have dubbed Singapore’s coronavirus vaccine bill, it…