You know the presidential election season is officially underway in the United States when mobs begin filling the streets of every major city, chanting genocidal slogans and attacking police officers. This is the norm during an election year in places like Lagos, and now we’ve imported the tradition here. You don’t need to check your calendar or wait for the national political conventions. When you see the mobs, the campaign has begun in earnest.
Three years ago, the catalyst for these m …