Nigeria, Jan. 4 -- Here's a hard truth Nigerians must face:

Politics is NOT a moral exercise. It is not a church sermon. It is not a mosque lecture.

Politics is power, interests, calculation, and survival.

The Western idea of democracy we imported was sold as a unifier. In reality, democracy is messy by design. It doesn't dissolve divisions. It weaponizes them. Democracy doesn't erase identity. It resurrects ethnicity, religion, region, gender, and old grievances, then drags them into elections and turns them into political tools. This isn't a Nigerian problem. It's structural. From the US to India to Brazil, democracy thrives on conflict because elections are competitions, not prayer meetings. Every vote must be mobilized. And the fas...