Justice, fairness, peace and Nigeria’s 2027 election

By ANTHONY OGBEIFUN
As Nigeria approaches the 2027 general election, the country stands again at a familiar crossroads: the choice between narrow, sectional calculation and the broader national demand for justice, fairness and peace. Elections are not merely contests for power. In a plural society such as Nigeria, they are also referendums on whether citizens believe the state belongs to all of them.
Few Nigerian voices expressed this truth more memorably than the late elder statesman and Dan Masanin Kano, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule. In May 2015, Sule led a delegation of the Northern Leaders Forum to congratulate then President-elect Muhammadu Buhari. His counsel on that occasion remai...