While Nigeria's political elite circle their wagons around another incumbent seeking re-election, the continent's most populous democracy remains trapped in a cycle where campaign promises evaporate faster than Lagos generator fuel. Tinubu's 2027 bid represents everything stagnant about African politics — the same faces, the same parties, the same hollow pledges to youth who deserve leaders bold enough to imagine Nigeria beyond oil dependency and elite capture.

SUMMARY BY STRATA · ORIGINAL REPORTING BY JEUNE AFRIQUE