Nigeria, March 17 -- Alhaji Buba Galadima, an outspoken politician and self-confessed insider to many conspiracies, recently raised an alarm alleging that the current downward trend of food prices was a conspiracy by the Tinubu administration to impoverish the Northern part of Nigeria. Food prices are going down. Many ordinary Nigerians are happy with the development. But people like Galadima see it as an opportunity to sell another of his many fibs about the north/south dichotomy.

Many of our politicians would be nothing without the weaponisation of ethnicity and religion. No matter their levels of education, the only way many of them can attract any kind of following is when they set brother against brother, tribe against tribe, Imam a...