Wednesday 15 April 2026 · For Nigerians at home and abroad The ADC convention that was nearly strangled in its crib came alive yesterday with something more powerful than a venue. It produced a political document — an amended constitution — and three of the most pointed speeches delivered at any Nigerian opposition gathering in years. Atiku, standing at the podium of an institution INEC refused to recognise, accused the electoral body directly of being used to undermine democracy. Think of it like a tree that was told it cannot grow in that soil — it grew anyway, and now its roots are deeper. Peter Obi’s debt warning — Nigeria’s debt rising from ₦87 trillion to near ₦200 trillion despite subsidy removal — is the single most important economic statement at the convention, and the one the diaspora should save. It is the number that explains why your remittances still buy less year on year despite government assurances. The Oyo impeachment crisis is the most destabilising domestic development not directly connected to the northeast — the idea that Makinde, the governor who just showed solidarity with ADC at the #OccupyINEC protest, is now himself facing an Assembly revolt, shows how fast Nigeria’s political ground shifts. The ZTE-CCTV scandal — House of Reps suspending ₦460m in CBN disbursements — is exactly the kind of corruption story that drives the Japa decision for educated Nigerians: you watch the country spend hundreds of millions on surveillance infrastructure with no accountability, while lecturers at UNIJOS are unpaid.