2027: Let us end this presidential campaign charade

By SUNNY IKHIOYA
It is not a matter of whether you love President Bola Tinubu or not. It is a question of the way forward for Nigeria. We are taught to believe that politics is a contest of ideas. The side that convinces the people that it has the best way forward wins. This is because there is no unidirectional path to governance. As economists would put it, there is always “the other hand.” That is why a strong opposition is a sine qua non in every political system, no matter the ideology in place. The government of President Goodluck Jonathan exemplified this by giving opposition parties the freedom to express themselves in any manner they chose. They called him all kinds of names an...