Nigeria, Aug. 11 -- I am responding to Mohammed Bello Doka's piece dated 4th August, 2026, not to defend President Tinubu or to dismiss Doka's indignation, but to widen the lens and offer what I call an Alternative Perspective, a deliberate attempt to retell our national story beyond the shrill, tribal arithmetic that has come to pass for political analysis.



My platform, Alternative Perspectives was conceived precisely for moments like this: when a nation begins to mistake volume for virtue, and to mistake the loudest insult for the deepest conviction. We live in a Nigeria where public debate is increasingly framed as Muslim versus Christian, North versus South, until almost every issue collapses into a crude "us versus them." In tha...