Nigeria's 'Pentecostal' Presidency

In February 2019, during the heat of the campaign for the Nigerian presidential elections, several billboards for the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates popped up at major intersections across the Abuja metropolis. The billboards riffed off Proverbs 14:34, ‘Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people,’ (NKJV). Specifically, it repurposed the central thrust of that maxim to subordinate rhetoric—the dominant, persuasive technique of political campaigns; to the

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