Democracy is not only tested at the ballot box; it is tested in what happens to those who lose. When opposition parties sink into court battles, walkouts, and even fistfights, they do not merely embarrass themselves – they strip citizens of the very instruments that make elections meaningful.
The recent Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) convention in Ibadan was meant to be a moment of renewal for Nigeria’s oldest and main opposition party. Instead, it became a theatre of implosion, the clearest symbol of how fragile and incoherent the oppositio
