Only Buhari’s conversion to Christianity will nudge Northern Nigeria

Quite a few readers requested me to offer a perspective on the protests that seem to be sweeping the North over insecurity, especially in light of the observation I made in last week’s column that “there are only muffled, barely audible voices of outrage from everyday northerners” and that “there are no mass protests in the streets and no consistently violent maledictions against Buhari in mosques—like there would have been if the president were a Christian.”

Well, firstly, the protests are not “mass,” don’t seem to resonate widely and are already…