While Atiku Abubakar secures his fourth presidential nomination at 78, Nigeria's political class continues its generational stranglehold on power, mirroring the broader continental challenge where liberation-era leaders refuse to cede ground to emerging voices. This recycling of familiar faces underscores Africa's most urgent democratic deficit: the failure to cultivate and elevate new political talent that reflects the continent's youthful demographics and contemporary realities. Atiku's persistence may be admirable, but Nigeria—and Africa—deserves fresher thinking for 21st-century governance.

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