The Nigerian who reads issues based on religious and tribal sentiments would have to bear with me.
I do not, and especially when it is politics or policy issues I don’t think like a journalist writing an opinion but like a political scientist. With a PhD in that academic field, I’m trained to base my analysis on what is verifiable. Numbers are verifiable and democracy is about numbers. To simplify what I’m driving at, I will give an illustration.
What that occurrence in the Senate tells us immediately is that while we say we should take religion out of politics, we actually consider religion when we do things. If we don’t, but allow only the numbers to speak, there’s enough religious sentiment as well as other considerations trending in the Senate to get another contestant, Abdulaziz Yari, the seat.
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