Like loyalty, betrayal can be classified under two main categories: betrayal of a person, and betrayal of a cause. These are distinct, albeit sometimes overlapping categories. That is because there are times when a person embodies a worthy cause, in which case betraying the person is effectually a betrayal of the cause. I would argue that an individual embodiment of a cause is a like spectrum. An individual can never fully embody a cause, because causes are transcendent. Causes are always something beyond the self, to which a group of people summon their collective aspirations. So when we talk about…

Immediarely preceding this piece are the summaries for the Nigerian Presidential election results for 2007, 2011 and 2015. In the absence of pertinent data, politics in Nigeria is often reduced to tall tales and decorated half-truths. Bola Tinubu's ventilations at Abeokuta fully exemplified this. While Tinubu was arrogantly boasting at Abeokuta, lost on him was the irony that Buhari was not the only one who had suffered defeat in previous Presidential elections. In 2007, Buhari very significantly outperformed the combination of Tinubu and Atiku. In fact, despite the fact that Buhari spent very little money, Buhari garnered over 6 million…