Ibadan National Summit: When opposition confronts Nigeria’s fragile democracy

By Adeola Badru

Last Saturday’s convergence of opposition political figures in Ibadan unfolded less as a spectacle and more as a moment of sober introspection within Nigeria’s evolving democratic experience. It did not announce itself with the theatrics that often accompany political assemblies of such magnitude; rather, it carried the quiet weight of necessity.

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Beneath the formalities and the carefully measured cadence of public speech lay a shared, if uneasy, acknowledgement that the country’s political architecture was under strain, and that the opposition, long accustomed to operating in fragments,…