Just glad this phase is over

I don’t know about you, but I am just glad that these elections are about over—we are now at the stage where judges and senior lawyers can earn their pay. The expectations had been high. People perhaps unrealistically, thought that INEC, made up of Nigerians, in a Nigerian milieu, would somehow rise above its environment and desperate politicians, to give us smooth, violence free and impartial elections. But like Humpty Dumpty, the expectations suffered a great fall. And the reason was not that difficult to fathom. No stakeholder, deep down really wanted an impartial umpire, or a straightforward election. Everybody wanted the umpire on his side. We only wanted an appearance of credibility in order to avert bloodshed. Otherwise, every stakeholder wanted their person to win by all means, fair or foul. That was why every process was subverted; every INEC decision was questioned. That was why the rigging architecture was designed and perfected long before the actual elections took place. That was why INEC itself was infiltrated.

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