Nigeria, Aug. 2 -- As the dust begins to gather ahead of 2027, the old war between two titans of Nigeria's democracy has roared back to life. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, men who once held the soul of the nation in a single handshake, now throw words at each other like daggers across time.



It started again with a spark Obasanjo lit. In a recent interview, the former president alleged that Atiku had bribed the late Speaker Ghali Na'Abba with 5 million to engineer his impeachment. It was a grenade tossed into history. Atiku's reply was swift, surgical, and soaked in pain. He asked why Obasanjo waited until the "principal witness" was in the grave before speaking, noting that graveyards do...