Nigeria: The Electoral Process And Its Enemies

16 August 2010
opinion

Known enemies of democracy, experts at election rigging, certified manipulators of the will of the people and promoters and merchants of electoral violence followed the bandwagon and celebrated or pretended to have celebrated the appointment of Professor Attahiru Jega as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

Some of them even claimed that all along they knew that a credible electoral management body is the panacea to all the electoral problems and challenges of the Nigerian people. The logic then is that they decided to transgress of this. With the new order of things, they have turned a new leaf and will sin no more.

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