Nigeria: After the Voting Is Over What Next?

12 February 2019
editorial

This time next week Nigerians would have cast their votes in the 2019 Presidential election.

By now it should be far too late to convince anyone to change their mind. It's far more important to begin to consider where the nation will be when it's all over. Two things can be guaranteed. Firstly, that the result will be hotly disputed by the loser, because the nature of the security forces, greed and lack of professionalism of many electoral officers, and the evil machinations of Nigerian politicians means rigging will surely rear its head. Secondly and perhaps more importantly, the winner will not be the best person for the job. The reality on ground is that either the All Progressives Congress (APC) or the People's Democratic Party (PDP) will win the election, because even illiterates know the broom and, the umbrella and no other political party has been able to build structures and penetrate all 774 local governments.

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