"Should poorly informed citizens be allowed to vote?" and "Should anyone over 60 be allowed to run for office?" are all ugly flowers residing in one digusting bouquet of discrimination.

I smell Eau de Bullshit and Parfum de Buffoonery.
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
#StopTheDivisionOfNigerians
People can only be deemed "poorly informed" when those making the judgment are certain 100% that all modes at communication (language based, socio-cultural & ethnoreligious-based) have been achieved & are sustained.
Even so, WHY should a human's civic right EVER be tied to such?
How dare you deploy your privilege & parakpo to even fathom, much less openly discuss the possibility of discrimination of Nigerians along these metrics?
Whose idea was it?
You fight for your rights by day, but discuss excluding others by night; uhm, is everything okay at home?
Y'all KNOW we already struggle with poor voter education & civic awareness because that field is where many of you EAT.
Your parents, relatives like the most other Nigerians are hampered by language, social, cultural, ethinic & religious barriers from imbibing this information...
...yet, you decide that:
1. This means pple are "poorly" informed
2. Band in silos to examine the possibility that an answer to what you concluded is: voter exclusions.
You do realise how silly this sounds?
Are we to recite state & capital or the Constitution before we can vote?

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They could decide to speak Afrikaans. Or Xhosa. Or Sepedi.
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@BBCCareers kindly furnish names and physical address of those who told @kikimordi, a freelancer that I was "asked to leave" the BBC?
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Note, I have recordings& emails.
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For a day like this, I am thankful I made audio and email archives.
Thankfully, I am a German citizen who was recruited from Germany.
Therefore, @BBCCareers, expect me to use the law to its full extent.
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