Nigeria, Nov. 10 -- Sam Omatseye calls me Atiku Abubakar's "song writer." The good news, Sam, is that the song is poised to win a Grammy award. I signed the statement welcoming the Supreme Court's verdict in Zamfara in 2019, and I stand by it. If Sam's charge is that I applauded a judgment when it went against the APC and now question one that goes against the ADC, let us put both decisions on the table. The difference is in what the courts decided and where each case stands.

In Zamfara, the Supreme Court held that the APC had failed to conduct valid primaries for the 2019 elections and therefore had no valid candidates. The court settled that dispute. Nafiu Bala Gombe's suit began as a challenge to the legitimacy of the David Mark-led ...