Basil Okoh
No farmer apprehends a thief in his barnyard and allows him to go with the loot. No, the farmer will demand to have his treasures back.
Many in Nigeria are rooting for electoral thieves to keep the offices stolen from the true winners of elections. We want peace, they say. So because we want peace, we will suffer election thieves to rule over us. The charade will continue as we complain of misfits and kleptomaniacs in Government.
Without equivocation, we hold that voters should not allow an election thief to keep the mandate stolen from our collective barnyard. Our ballots must be taken from the thief and given back to the rightful winners of elections.
INEC has served to complicate and confuse election outcomes in Nigeria. Losers are rewarded and winners denied their victory and asked to go to court. And people do not realize the injuries these election injustice inflict on our collective wellbeing. The courts themselves have become charnel houses where dreams are killed and the corpses litter the space in the form of abandoned projects and stolen funds.
With a bedlam of contradictory pronouncements, unjust and confusing orders, the courts have deepened the complications arising from the willful mischief and crass inefficiencies reigning in INEC, umpire of Nigeria’s stolen elections. Judicial pronouncements from even the highest courts no longer make common sense.
As an election rigging culprit said without fear or shame: “Take it, snatch it by any means. INEC will announce us winner and swear us into office. And thereafter we continue to fight them with the government money that will come under our control”.
No stolen mandate must be allowed to stand as no society makes progress rewarding theft and injustice. INEC is rewarding theft and brigandage by willfully bungling elections in Nigeria.
We have wizened up and justly too, not to trust the election results declared by INEC. For our collective mental health and for democracy and the enthronement of justice in our fatherland, we must work to destroy inequity in our electoral system and return the country to the path of electoral rectitude. We must destroy this oppressive regime of dissension and antagonism that INEC propagates for its own profit.
We can no longer live with the chaos INEC plants and waters for the gain of it’s officials every four year election cycle. Our economy is sunk and we have become the laughing stock of the world for perennially putting unfit and unchosen people to elective offices.
At the bottom of our dysfunctional politics are the self-serving INEC officials protected from criminal prosecution by the electoral laws that they themselves help draw up for us. INEC election result declarations in almost every constituency across the nation are not the true expressions of the will and votes of the people but we let them stand because we don’t want to be seen as disruptors and trouble makers and because recourse to the courts will bring no just remedy.
These false election results declared by INEC must not be allowed to stand because letting them stand condemns our political future and emboldens the thieves. Accepting those results without challenge will destroy the foundational stones on which democracy is grounded in Nigeria.
This is why we must hold as holy, the votes of the people and protect it against election marauders in high and low places. The contestants who stake their all to seek and win our votes also need our support and protection to confront a deeply flawed and prejudiced INEC. The peaceful recourse to the courts for justice must not be mocked as the usual antics of a loser. The results usually fabricated and declared by INEC should no longer be the final word for the validation of the outcome of electoral contests.
We must no longer allow thieves to keep the loot stolen from our collective barnyard and thereafter take charge of both the narrative, the justice system and our collective purse, only to leave us doddering in penury.
@Basilokoh

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