North, its bid for 2027 presidency

From Ismail Omipidan, Abuja

Democracy, political analysts argue, is a game of numbers. And the North, based on available statistics, have the numerical strength which it has consistently deployed over the years to decide who becomes the country’s president.

But for its deliberate decision to cede the presidency to the South in 1999, it is unlikely for a Southerner to have emerged Nigeria’s…