The most disgusting thing I’ve seen this election cycle is “educated elites” say “people are about to learn a very important lesson. Every generation learns it the hard way. It’s their turn.”
How can an entire generation be committed to upholding criminality and injustice?
Nigerian society makes a virtue out of downplaying injustice.
Even the educated "elite" will tell young people who are angry about the election that "every generation learns the lesson."
Why SHOULD every generation learn that when they feel cheated, the right thing to do is to let it go?
For the last 20 or so years, Nigerians have used "Gani Fawehinmi came out and nobody voted for him" as proof that Nigerians aren't ready for good governance.
But after seeing how results changed at collation in this election, how sure ARE you that nobody voted for him? 🤔
Smartphones and Twitter helped Nigerians capture and share everything happening at their polling units, from INEC no-shows, to violence, to voting, to rigging, to actual legit results.
Because of this, the average Nigerian has a clearer picture of what happened nationwide.
In 1999/2003/2007/2011 Nigerians didn't have any kind of picture at all.
In 2015/2019, we had a murky picture.
2023 the picture is 4K.
So assuming politicians did in past elections what they did on Saturday, can you say for a fact that "nobody voted for that guy" in the past?
Since a possible presidential run-off keeps coming up, let’s talk about the gbege waiting for us in Section 134 of the Constitution, because let me tell you ehn, 1979 taught us things!
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Most analysis focuses on subsection 2:
-get majority votes
-get 25% each in two thirds of states, plus FCT.
But there's already some ambiguity here. And we MUST take ambiguity seriously.