ABUJA, Oct. 16 -- Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke danced. Nyesom Wike, the Federal Capital Territory minister whom the State House statement calls the leader of the PDP, told President Bola Tinubu that he had tackled Nigeria's problems "from Day One." The same statement lists both men under other parties, not Tinubu's All Progressives Congress (APC), yet both were in the hall on Wednesday when the president inaugurated the campaign council for his 2027 re-election bid.

Nigeria votes for president on January 16, 2027, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission's website. Tinubu told the council that "no one gets credit for an incomplete assignment until you deliver the next election, until you deliver your electoral wa...