Nigeria, March 1 -- One of the captivating political campaign lines of MKO Abiola has been immortalised in a seminal work by Professor Tunde Ope-Davies (Tunde Opeibi) of the University of Lagos. Titled "Discourse, Politics and the 1993 Presidential Election Campaign in Nigeria," the book documents the drive of the gladiators to secure the mandate of the electorate. Ope-Davies' uncanny nose for hidden details smokes out Abiola's rush for virtually every trick in the advertising books to outwit his main challenger, Bashir Tofa of the National Republican Convention (NRC), leading Abiola to create the famous punchline on the transformer as a metaphor for abiding leadership. MKO, as he was fondly called, was of the Social Democratic Party (SDP...