In healthier democracies, political disagreement sharpens ideas. In Nigeria, it increasingly sharpens tongues. The recent public spat between Dele Momodu, a veteran journalist, and Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister, and ambassador -designate is less a clash of intellect than a descent into rhetorical amalarism. It is a spectacle—sore, sordid and shameful—that reveals more about the […]