Nigeria, June 2 -- Nigerians are so divided and their partisan preferences so cast in concrete that, in most circles, there is hardly any room for dissent or alternative viewpoints. The biting economic hardship, which flagellates us all, has rendered some people incapable of buying any hope agenda in this season of Tinubu's "Renewed Hope." They can't be bothered about the niceties of whether the glass of progress is half full or half empty.

Quit the sophistry, they'll charge you. Their pantries are empty, their bellies are groaning - or "Ebi npa wa" ("we are hungry"), as Lagosians once chorussed to the president's hearing. Look into the kitchen of the average Nigerian to see if anything is cooking at all before you inflict your long-wind...