On the General Elections

Low turnout of voters across the nation----News

  In Yagba West and Ijumu LGs of Kogi state and others,  there were reported violence. Hope the state Government headed by Gov.  Yahaya Bello will do the needful and give the necessary leadership so that those on the losing side would accept defeat and move on. Elections should not be a do or die affair. If Nigeria would be good, it would start from the ruling class. A fish begins to go bad from the head. The political leadership should be up and doing in order to chart a viable and forward looking direction for the country. We simply can not afford to continue doing the same thing over and over and expect a different result. This is tantamount to  classical madness according to  Albert Einstein. At my polling unit today,  one could see bags of money and wads of naira being freely distributed to voters. This is a subversion of the peoples' will through monetary inducement. After this election cycle,  Nigerians would do well to take a collective step back and decide if we want to continue along this sorry lane. How can a nation spend so much in order to  achieve so little? Enough of this violence called election.

Elections IS a waste of time in Nigeria. The election schedule also didn't help matters. The Presidential election should have come last. Maybe we should look into letting incumbents continue next elections. We should just share the election budget per capita. Better in the long run. That way, no ballot snatching, maiming, killing, kidnappings, etc, etc. The charade must stop. And to what end?  Ballot snatching here and there. We either want democracy or not. The violence across the nation is just not worth it.
 In Yagba West and Ijumu LGs of Kogi state and others,  there were reported violence. Hope the state Government headed by Gov.  Yahaya Bello will do the needful and give the necessary leadership so that those on the losing side would accept defeat and move on. Elections should not be a do or die affair. If Nigeria would be good, it would start from the ruling class. A fish begins to go bad from the head. The political leadership should be up and doing in order to chart a viable and forward looking direction for the country. We simply can not afford to continue doing the same thing over and over and expect a different result. This is tantamount to  classical madness according to  Albert Einstein. At my polling unit today,  one could see bags of money and wads of naira being freely distributed to voters. This is a subversion of the peoples' will through monetary inducement. After this election cycle,  Nigerians would do well to take a collective step back and decide if we want to continue along this sorry lane. How can a nation spend so much in order to  achieve so little? Enough of this violence called election.
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