OpEd: Mamman Daura Is Not The Problem By Azu Ishiekwene | Sahara Reporters It will not. And it has nothing to do with Daura but everything to do with the significant changes in electoral math that has occurred in the last two general... READ MORE:
I’ve been amused by the strenuous efforts to explain exactly what Mamman Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew, meant or did not mean when he said last week that rotating the Presidency was no longer useful.
From the register of the Independent National Electoral Commission , there’s roughly six million more registered voters in the North than in the South, but actual voter turnout tends to show a significant disparity of 2:1 or more in favour of the North. Not only do Northerners have the numbers, they also vote more.
Once upon a time, there was the fable of the electoral tripod - a suggestion that you couldn’t form a national government except by having a leg in each of the pre-1966 regional structure of North, West and East. While 6.5million registered to vote in Lagos, the region’s biggest vote bank, only one million or 17.2 per cent actually turned out for the presidential poll, leaving the gap between Buhari and his challenger Atiku Abubakar at 132,000 votes in the state, and 292,000 votes in the entire region of six states.
But Nigeria is a far more divided country today than it ever was, broken by politics, religion and insensitive leadership that have forced many to hide in tribal bunkers. What will make the difference is not Daura’s benevolence, but advocacy that targets changes in electoral behaviour and galvanises civil society and the general public against the misuse of security agencies to perpetrate violence at the polls. It’s also time now to start the electronic transmission of results from collation centres, at least on a pilot basis.
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