Nigeria, April 13 -- On Friday last week, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former House of Representatives Speaker and Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal, former Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufa'i, former Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam, former Governor of Imo State, Achike Udenwa, and former Governor of Kaduna State Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, alongside other political heavyweights, paid a visit to former President Muhammadu Buhari at his residence in Kaduna.

It was ostensibly a social visit, and they were seen exchanging banter, having a tete-a-tete, and enjoying lunch-all for the photo ops-before going into a closed-door meeting - where the main issue would be tabled, for as the Igbo adage says, a frog does not run in the da...