Nigeria: Naira and Six Weeks Waiting Game

opinion

A week, a former British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson is often quoted as saying, 'is a long time in politics". The battle hardened intriguer, from his long experience in politics, certainly knew what he was talking about. The shifting quicksand of politics can throw everything upside down in the twinkle of an eye, not to mention six weeks!

Wilson's aphorism looms large within the context of today's chess game involving the elections in Nigeria. The postponement of the election has thrown all the hitherto careful permutations upside down. The contrived 'postponement' was conjured to do just that in the first place. This is because apart from the party in government at the center, everyone else is cash-strapped. How to fight an unanticipated war of attrition over the next six weeks will certainly tax the ingenuity of those in charge of the exchequer of the main opposition party. It's going to be hard!

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