Songs of disenchantment: the sorrow of Nigeria

Incumbency, low turnout and sectarian loyalty let unpopular leaders like Tinubu win, while Europe remains years behind Starlink in space infrastructure.

• Tinubu's confidence: Despite a worsening security crisis, lean harvest, aid cuts and rising energy prices, President Bola Tinubu took a month-long Paris holiday and skipped campaigning in many states ahead of January's election.
• Why he'll likely win anyway: Incumbency, party machinery, religion (Muslim clerics backing him in the North), ethnicity, and voter apathy outweigh unpopularity; 2023 turnout was just 27% nationally, under 20% in Borno.

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