What if Buhari had not run for president in 2015?, by Aliyu Ammani Junior Thinking in counterfactuals requires imagining a hypothetical reality that contradicts the observed facts. Like in many absorbing series, counterfactuals involve finding a critical failure or fluke and imagining what the circumstances could have been had it been the moment swung differently. What if there was no military intervention in Nigeria’s politics? What if there was no civil war? And so on. It isn’t history, actually — because history accounts for things that happened. On the contrary, counterfactuals...