"You will never find justice in a world where criminals make the law." — Bob Marley
The reggae prophet's words, uttered decades ago with a Caribbean lilt, have never felt more prophetic on Nigerian soil than they do today. And nowhere is this tension between political convenience and civic responsibility more dangerously exposed than in Lagos State, where the machinery of electoral permutation now threatens to eclipse the urgent business of securing over twenty million lives.
Let us be blunt. The emergence of Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat as the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate for the 2027 election, secured through a landslide primary that many regard as the orchestrated handiwork of the Lagos political establishment — raises a question far weightier than who sits in Alausa: Who is minding the gates while the politicians play musical chairs?
This is not an attack on Dr. Hamzat's credentials. He is a trained engineer and has served capably in his lane. But credentials do not automatically translate into the urgency, courage, and structural seriousness that the present security environment in South-West Nigeria demands. The region is no longer merely watching fires burn in the North-East from a comfortable distance. The flames are licking southward.
