so yesterday i was having lunch with my friends when the question i have been dreading for a long time (no, not why i'm not yet married) was asked. as has been the rave of the past few weeks, the most popular topics around the water cooler and at lunch has been the popularity trending of the various candidates running for political office. for those of you who don't know, we have 3 major ones: goodluck jonathan - incumbent president and ruling party candidate, mohammed buhari - former military head of state and 3 time contender for the position under the democratic dispensation, and nuhu ribadu - a young inexperienced fellow who's claim to fame is the publicly celebrated work he did with the anti-graft agency the EFCC many years ago, before he became selective in his choice of prosecutions. historically in nigeria, once a candidate has been announced for the ruling party, all nigerians go to sleep on the clear and often correct assumption that the next president has automat