Rejoinder: “The Road to 2027” and the politics of complacency, by Engr. Bello Gwarzo Abdullahi, Comrade Sanusi A. S. Maikudi Bamidele Ademola-Olateju’s article titled “The Road to 2027”, published on April 9, 2025, by The Nation Newspaper attempts a political critique draped in intellectual references, but ultimately reveals itself as a thinly veiled defense of the status quo, and an unfair dismissal of efforts to forge a credible alternative to the current leadership. Quoting Orwell and Gramsci cannot conceal the shallow assumptions, selective logic, and partisan bent of the piece. The...