Can INEC organise a credible national election?
The electoral landslide of President Shehu Shagari’s National Party of Nigeria (NPN) 1983 unfolded in instalments over different sites of improbable magic across Nigeria....
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The electoral landslide of President Shehu Shagari’s National Party of Nigeria (NPN) 1983 unfolded in instalments over different sites of improbable magic across Nigeria....
It should be evident to INEC that the staff who enabled this kind of rigging of the register of voters will enable worse in an election.
In twelve months, Nigeria will go to the polls for the ninth time in its history to elect a president. If anything has been established in the country’s history over the eight previous occasions since 1979, it is that the numbers that anchor democracy in Nigeria don’t bear any rational relationship to counting.
In Nigeria, we make a mockery of election results because the number of voters is always located between magic and voodoo.
In twelve months, Nigeria will go to the polls for the ninth time in its history to elect a president. If anything has been established in the country’s history over the eight previous occasions since 1979, it is that the numbers that anchor democracy in Nigeria don’t bear any rational relationship to counting.