OPINION BY MONDAY PHILIPS EKPE: The progression of electoral rascality | TheCable
so many endless questions: What have you done? What are you going to do? Will silence, apathy, vindictiveness, emotional abuse, verbal abuse, psychological abuse and economic abuse go on? Will you just go with the flow of kleptocracy, corruption, injustice and impunity? When will you ever genuinely decolonise your mind from colonial mentality? Will you live and work upholding truth and honesty as you continue to help strengthen the country’s collective memory of various factual incidents in...
Are you going to be one of those honest voices for the voiceless without breaking the law?Are you going to help hold accountable those thieves, perpetrators, scammers, and corrupt members of society without breaking the law? I have so many nagging questions, but I shall always end it with these: Will you be honest in every deal?
Angelica Hopes could well have written with the Nigerian political space in her fertile mind. But that’s the power of creativity and the communality, often understated, of the human race. Those rhetorical questions ought to prick the seekers and occupiers of government offices but that would be out of character, as things stand.
As expected, the 2023 federal and state elections and their outcomes have reaped both favourable and depreciative reactions. If the unprecedented lukewarm atmosphere that followed the conclusion of the presidential poll, the chunk of the comments of local and international observers and, more recently, the drama surrounding the supplementary election in Adamawa State are to be admitted as credible parameters, this year hasn’t advanced the cause of our democratic journey meaningfully.
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