The 2019 general elections- and the recriminations and counter-recriminations continue vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Presidential and Nationals Assembly elections held on February 23 against the background of fears and speculations that they would again be postponed. They were to have held a week earlier before Mahmood Yakubu, the chair of the Independent National Electoral Commission, announced they had been postponed just a couple hours before the polls were to open.Will PDP or APC rescue the economy?
Even when initial reports indicated a high voter turnout, it’s becoming apparent, as I write this two days after the elections, that turnout had been lower than anticipated. The optimism that informed or greeted the earlier reports of high voter turnout must have been based on the fact that contrary to fears that the postponement would induce voter apathy, many Nigerians had reported early at their voting units to vote on the day of the rescheduled elections.
With nothing to separate them ideologically, all members of the two parties have to share are nothing but gutter snippets, shameless propaganda and, above all, crude insults disguised as political debates. And their supporters wasted no time to follow the lead of their leaders. Thus ethnic, political and religious insults, all to the last one induced by primordial considerations, are hurled across the media with the virulence of age long personal hatred.
What cannot be denied though is that it took the entry of the PDP flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar, for the APC to realise that the election was not going to be about mindless screaming of Sai Baba down the paved roads of Abuja and nothing more. It realised that it was not going to win the election by simply claiming victory in its desultory fight against corruption and merely mounting up sound bites about the president’s life of integrity. But the PDP offered nothing better.
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