Political PTSD.

It can happen in this game when you spend an election cycle never fully getting out of the briar patch, and maybe that’s a little how Mohammed Akhtaruzzaman feels right now, as his opponent clings to an eight point advantage with no news yet of a formal Akhtaruzzaman challenge to Tuesday’s unofficial results.

The last time he and rival Shahin Khalique faced each other, they wound up in court, going toe-to-toe in a protracted fight that ultimately – through several plot shifts – resulted in Khalique wrenching the Second Ward seat away from Akhtaruzzaman.

It was the political campaign that turned into a Revolutionary War reinactment, which spilled – over the course of four years – into the next campaign.

As Third Ward Councilman Bill McKoy moves ahead with his own petition filing for a recount (see below), Azhtaruzzaman has given no indication of remounting.

And then, remember, there was that street fight in the Second Ward with bats and sticks.

Could it be fatigue?