🇳🇬 Nigeria In power: RIGHT
CURRENT MONTH — OCTOBER 2026
LEFT
19
Progressive / Labour / PDP social wing
Governing side
RIGHT
23
APC conservative / religious-right currents
Governing side
Higher scores indicate more violent speech
Factions scoped to Nigeria political spectrum
Political compass
public mood vs who governs
Authoritarian
Libertarian
Left
Right
Leaning security
Leaning liberty
Leaning left
Leaning right
People
+38 / +31
Politicians
+28 / +40
24-MONTH HISTORY • LEFT VS RIGHT
● LEFT
● RIGHT
│ MAJOR EVENTS
MAJOR EVENTS
August 2024
│
#EndBadGovernance nationwide protest crackdown rhetoric
November 2024
│
Banditry and vigilante-threat rhetoric spike
March 2025
│
Blasphemy-case mob and counter-rhetoric
August 2025
│
Protest anniversary and hunger-protest rhetoric
October 2025
│
EndSARS anniversary police-brutality rhetoric
February 2026
│
Mid-term political realignment threat rhetoric
March 2026
│
Farmer-herder violence blame rhetoric
June 2026
│
Fuel-subsidy and cost-of-living protest rhetoric
August 2026
│
EndBadGovernance anniversary and hunger-protest rhetoric
September 2026
│
Bandits kill five and abduct residents in Kebbe, Sokoto
PUBLIC vs GOVERNMENT
Lines (left axis): public mood (Spectrum) and who held the state that month on the same left–right axis.
Bars (right axis): gap (public − government), autoscaled.
How to read this
Scores (0–100) estimate how often each side’s public discourse calls for violence or issues threats. Left and Right are that country’s own camps, not US parties transplanted abroad. In power is who holds the state that month. Public mood is where people sit left–right and liberty–order; who governs is the office-holders’ ideology (slow-moving). Higher violent-speech scores mean more violent rhetoric. Scores are for entertainment and experimental purposes. Full methodology