I am writing this on Friday, the 17th of March, 2023, a day before the rescheduled gubernatorial and State Houses of Assembly election in Nigeria. But I can attest to the fact that due to the outcome of the presidential election of the 25th of February, 2023, Nigeria and most Nigerians are presently in a state of paralysis or suspended animation. This paralysis or state of suspended animation is not induced by fear; it is the result of the collective shock of a people realizing that after all we have done to avoid this fate, this fate still found us.
More critically, this is the most consequential election for Nigerians since the beginning of the Fourth Republic, so moving forward as a nation after the horror we have just witnessed is near-impossible. Something must give, the nation has reached the end of its tethers. The people are thinking because they know that something must happen to stop the rot. Their thoughts have not yet crystalized around what to do, but they know they have to do something.
Another big mistake, and possibly the biggest mistake the opposition has made, is to fall for the soporific line that they should go to court without first exploring the extent they could push politically. Atiku Abubakar and the PDP led a protest to INEC’s headquarters and the Labour Party is threatening to picket their offices nationwide, but after these, what next? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Why? The reason is simple - the opposition has allowed itself to lose momentum.
Before the emergence of Obi as a viable candidate of a third party, the national mood was one that had already condemned the APC to sure defeat in the expected election. It was even more obvious with the choice of the ailing Bola Tinubu as the presidential flag-bearer of the party. However, Bola Tinubu and his promoters did not relent. They actually sponsored the G-5 within the PDP from the moment Nyesom Wike lost the PDP presidential ticket at the party primary.
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