Nigeria, April 28 -- What Nigerians saw in Ibadan on Saturday and the reaction from Abuja were settled by Ifa, very long ago.

An Odu Ifa- Ogbe Iresa, which, through ellipsis, can also take the morphological realisation of Ogbe'Sa.-speaks to it. You won't have here every line of the Odu Ifa (Ifa Corpus), but I will make its essence clear through the Ese Ifa (Ifa Verse), Osa Eleye.

Leaders of opposition political parties gathered in Ibadan last Saturday under the hosting of Governor Seyi Makinde. At the end of the meeting, they took a far-reaching decision: for the 2027 general elections, they would field a single presidential candidate against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

I called an elderly frien...