Nigeria, May 20 -- There is a growing, twisted logic in our public discourse that paints anyone who openly aligns with the opposition as morally superior and intellectually sharper than those who sympathize with the government. In this framing, identifying with the opposition becomes a badge of courage, while supporting the government is recast as complicity, compromise, or even cowardice. Those who try to stand as impartial judges, watchdogs, or simply as voices offering alternative perspectives are dismissed as fence-sitters that are accused of moral lapse, dishonesty, and a lack of conviction.

The opposition is made to sound like God's word made political, sacred by definition, while everyone else becomes the devil's advocate by defa...