OPINION BY MONDAY PHILIPS EKPE: A lukewarm post-election atmosphere | TheCable
The last presidential poll had the trappings of an epic battle. The three top contenders namely, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress , Wazirin Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Mr. Peter Obi of the Labour Party , are all political heavyweights, the first twobeing older and with longer records of national politics. The months between the party primaries and the general election generated fireworks that in turn produced a heightened anxiety among the populace.
But then, blessings, even mixed ones, come in various forms. And, somehow, we react to them faster and more favourably if their nature and timing rhyme with what we yearn for. Otherwise, our responses may range from slow appreciation, denial of their material evidence, trivializing their true value, to outright refusal to recognize the very fact of their existence. So, what exactly is there to be happy about now in a country full of contradictions and mangled hopes, you may ask.
To be clear, last week’s declaration of Asiwaju Tinubu as the winner by the National Chairman of INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, was received by a hugely fractured electorate, who also shared in the pains of the grossly disaffected leading opposition parties.Some people have even described that poll as Nigeria’s worst in its electoral history.
I sincerely don’t envy Tinubu at this moment. The climax of what was his lifelong ambition seems to be wrapped, at present, in an anticlimactic veil. No matter the explanations from his very loyal, loving associates and followers, his win hasn’t attracted the kind of jubilation one would expect at such momentous times, even by our own standards.
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