The question of who gets to govern Lagos comes down, in part, to something unglamorous but urgent: what happens to the city's mountains of waste. At a recent forum, governorship candidates went head to head on waste management, trading positions on one of the megacity's most visible and persistent challenges.
The candidates also had to answer for their own records. Moderators pressed each of them on their political histories, asking whether the experience they were citing actually qualifies them to run a city of Lagos's scale and complexity.
The exchanges were pointed enough to suggest that voters are asking harder questions this cycle, and that neither a clean policy pitch nor a polished resume is going to be enough on its own. What comes next in the campaign will show whether any of these candidates can hold both together.
Originally published by Premium Times.