Nigeria, May 30 -- In a country where absurdity now wears a tailored suit and justice sits awkwardly at the table of power, it is no longer shocking, just exhausting. Senator Natasha Akpoti Uduaghan, a woman who stood before Nigerians and dared to name names, is now the one standing trial. Not the men she accused of plotting her assassination. Not the power players whose names should have triggered a full-scale investigation. No. She is the accused. They are the witnesses. This is Nigeria, where the whistleblower becomes the hunted.

It sounds like satire, but it isn't. This is not a chapter from a dystopian novel, it's the evening news. A sitting senator cries out that powerful men plotted her death. She names Senate President Godswill A...