Anxiety grows in opposition camps

• Options for Atiku, Obi, others narrow over parties’ legal battles
 
From Fred Itua , Abuja
The political space available to Nigeria’s leading opposition figures, including former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, is steadily shrinking as a fresh court ruling against the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) deepens a mood of anxiety, and in some quarters resignation within the opposition bloc ahead of the 2027 general election.
Justice Isah Dashen of the Federal High Court in Lokoja, Kogi State, sitting on Friday, set aside the court’s own judgment of December 10, 2025, which had compelled the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to register the NDC as a pol...