WHY THE O.K. TICKET IS NOT OKAY Ali Abubakar Sadiq  The recent permutations in the polity are not by accident but by design. Let's look back a little. In 2019, under the PDP, Atiku Abubakar picked Peter Obi as his running mate. They challenged the then popular Muhammad Buhari and failed, after a good fight. Fast forward 2023, Buhari at the end of his second term must give room for someone from the South (the unwritten political constitution of zoning). Tinubu, despite Buhari and his collaborators in the APC, bamboozled everyone to clinched the ticket.  The most surprising thing was Obi declaring to run on his own ticket in 2023, and Atiku was naive enough to let him go. That was the single stroke that crumbled the opposition. But whose idea is it in the first place? One can n easily trace it to the pathological hatred of Obasanjo towards an Atiku presidency. With nostalgia, some of us could remember how such pathological hatred among elites led to the civil war in ...