Kingsley Moghalu of the Young Progressive Party (YPP) is by far the best presidential candidate in this weekend's general elections. By any rational measure, he towers above the two men touted as frontrunners in the presidential race--incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Moghalu is so superior to the two men that--in a political universe that wasn't absurd--both Buhari and Atiku would not be in the running at all. Instead, they would cast their votes for the YPP's candidate.
Of course, one is not holding one's breath for President Buhari and former Vice President Atiku to endorse Moghalu. Nor am I surprised that many Nigerians, handicapped by poor information, persist in a binary worldview that swings between the APC and PDP. What I can neither fathom nor forgive is the laziness, ineptitude and ignorance manifested by that Nigerian demographic bracket that is supposedly enlightened. Included in that group are graduates of universities, polytechnics and colleges of education. This cohort, whose members reign on social media and hold court at ubiquitous beer and pepper soup joints, chant the maddening creed that Nigerian voters have only two presidential candidates to choose from-- Buhari or Atiku.
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