Kunle Somorin wonders why people especially political stakeholders in the country talk more about year 2027 because it’s year of general elections while talking less of what the preceding year 2026 has in stock for the teeming populace.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” Dante Alighieri’s words echo with haunting relevance in today’s Nigeria. For while the calendar reads 2025, the national psyche has already leapt ahead to 2027. The airwaves, the headlines, the corridors of power – all are saturated with the noise of the next election. But in this fevered rush toward the ballot box, one cannot help but ask: does 2026 still exist?
This is not a rhetorical flourish. It is a moral indictment. Because when a nation forgets the years between elections, it forgets its people. It forgets the roads that remain cratered, the hospitals that have become consulting clinics, the schools that now resemble abandoned warehouses.