No doubt, the much-awaited 2019 poll has come and gone. But the ripple effect lingers on.
To any keen observer, the election threw up a number of critical issues that deserve in-depth prognosis while waiting for another four years. Or else we may be repeating same mistakes without learning from history.
The spate of electoral violence in some states such as the South-South region and in particular Rivers State where the civil society was over-militarised cannot go unnoticed. In core northern parts of the country, it is unfortunate that the phenomenon of underage voting became the norm.
Tocqueville’s wonder embraces admiration as well as surprise. Though religion is not formally a part of the American political system, Tocqueville goes so far as to describe it as the first of America’s political institutions by virtue of its indirect effects upon political life . Tocqueville on the other hand citing the American experience proposes that democracy can indeed become a friend of religion and may even be crucial to its vitality.
Though Karl Marx postulated that ‘religion is the opium of the society’, advocating that government should avoid it as much as possible and allow the citizenry to engage themselves in whatever faith they may profess individually or collectively, but in contemporary Nigeria, both the state and government are enmeshed in manipulating religion for selfish reasons; making arrant nonsense of the secularity of the country.
At the end of the day, most Christians voted for the Peoples Democratic Party despite the media war of calumny against the PDP which ordinarily was badly discredited before the general elections. But this was not just happenstance as the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria and Catholic Mission cum notable Christian religious leaders mobilised against the ruling y APC. The usual norm of neutrality by our religious leaders was completely jettisoned by clerics.
In my personal interaction with some Christian leaders in the state, they confided in me that they were far from being comfortable with the sense of alienation they had before the elections in terms of choice of candidates which was tilted in favour of Islam.
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