Nigeria, May 3 -- Barely days after the Supreme Court granted the African Democratic Congress (ADC) temporary legal reprieve, Nigeria's fragile opposition coalition may already be showing deeper fractures, with multiple party insiders and public statements indicating that Peter Obi, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, and significant blocs of their supporters are weighing possible defections to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) ahead of critical electoral deadlines.

With the Independent National Electoral Commission's (INEC) 10 May deadline for the submission of party membership registers rapidly approaching, the unfolding uncertainty threatens the ADC's ambition to emerge as a unified opposition platform capable of mounting a credible challenge ...