Nigeria, March 28 -- This week, a former National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Salihu Lukman, announced one of our worst kept secrets, that there are ongoing negotiations by opposition politicians to establish a coalition against President Bola Tinubu and the APC for the 2027 elections. He was reacting to a recent comment by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar that he and some opposition leaders in the country have formed a coalition to unseat Mr Tinubu in 2027. The context was the concern by opposition politicians to President Bola Tinubu's declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State. The concern is that if the president is allowed to get away with a patently partisan declarat...