Nigeria, April 14 -- "We regret voting for Tinubu in 2023. We won't repeat such a mistake again, say Northern Elders". That was the banner headline carved out by the media from the latest intervention of the Northern Elders' Forum, NEF, in Nigeria's political space.

I chuckled. It's an old trick. Mother Fowl knows what to do when it wants more corn.

The struggle for domination in the business of selling political-spare-parts is older than Nigeria's flag independence. In every corner of the political space, there have always been self-styled Elders, Youths, Professionals, Critical Stakeholders, Vanguards, Progressives, Custodians and all sorts of unelected persons elbowing each other for prime access to the media space.

Northern Elders...