2019 poll: Articulating the realities
currently battling with as we prepare for the governorship and state assemblies elections scheduled for March 9. The reason is simple: there has never been an election in this country in which the electoral umpire does not end up being bashed by those who lost the contest. And so, I had notified Prof.
Before Nigerians went to the poll, certain realities were taken as given. It is what those conversant with betting in pool houses in those days would call ‘sure banker!’ For example, most political analysts would have wagered that the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, was ‘sure banker’ to return to the National Assembly even if they weren’t sure he would remain as leader of the National Assembly.
Here is the glaring fact: After the declaration of the results by the body empowered to do so, all that is left for Atiku and any other sore losers is to move the battle to the courts to reclaim what they label a ‘stolen mandate’. It is pointless throwing sour grapes at Mahmood or even INEC.
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