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Three Neoliberals Battling for the Hearts & Minds of the Nigerian Voting Market

  The Nigerian political space remains an ideological battlefield where three kinds of competing political ideologies (if there are) vie for the hearts and minds of Nigerian audience.    Three ‘Neoliberalists’ with broad and general economic models or ‘paradigm’ have risen to prominence in the recent time: Atiku Abubakar, Bola Ahmed Tinubu & Peter Obi   Obi believes in neoliberalism as ideology of pro-market model or laisse faire. That is the classical liberal ideal of the self-regulating market.    Tinubu an egalitarian liberal, believes in neoliberalism as mode of governance, or governmentalities.    The third, Atiku Abukar embraces policy package version of neoliberalism.   Let's take a look at the strands of these variations and carefully unpack their fundamental dimensions:    (1) an ideology - obism (2) a mode of governance - Jabanism (3) a policy package - Akitulation   If you cast vote in favour of OBIDIENT - the c...