Senator Billboard, Opebe and the Death of Issue-Based Politics || By Timilehin Kolade
Politics is fundamentally a marketplace of ideas. It is where competing visions of development, governance and public welfare are subjected to the judgment of the electorate. Whenever politics abandons ideas for insults, or policies for personalities, democracy is diminished. The growing popularity of expressions such as “Senator Billboard” and “Opebe” in Oyo State’s political vocabulary…