Dr. Umar Ardo, Author at The Politico

Party Primaries Heist: Why INEC’s Silence Is the Smoking Gun

Dr. Umar ArdoJune 8, 2026June 8, 20260

The primaries of 2027 have shown us the rot. They have exposed the contempt with which the political class holds the Nigerian people. They have revealed the fragility of our democratic institutions. But they have also given us clarity. We now know what we are up against. We now see the enemy of democracy, and it is not some foreign invader. It is the corruption within our own house, the willingness of those who should know better to look away while the house burns. INEC, the nation is watching. Nigerians are waiting. Will you be the guardian of our democracy or its gravedigger? Will you enforce the law, or will you bow to the powerful? Will you tell the truth about these primaries, or will you help bury it?

We Are Better Together: A Caution to the Advocates of Separation

Dr. Umar ArdoJune 6, 2026June 6, 20260

Taken together, these realities suggest that the Nigerian state, for all its defects, has been the framework within which deeply fragmented societies have managed to coexist. Its collapse would not usher in a romantic era of ethnic harmony; rather, it would likely revive old rivalries, harden dormant fault lines and create new theatres of conflict. It is therefore misleading to portray Nigeria’s unity as a project sustained primarily for the benefit of the North, or as a lifeline without which the North would collapse. Such assumptions do not withstand historical or empirical scrutiny.

Dr. Umar Ardo

Party Primaries Heist: Why INEC’s Silence Is the Smoking Gun

We Are Better Together: A Caution to the Advocates of Separation

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