After the results from the Ekiti Governorship Elections were announced and Mr Ayodele Fayose, the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), was declaredthe winner of the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti State 2014, various opinions, both positive and negative, on the re-election of the former governor were expressed
The undermentioned article was indited by Dr. Peregrino Brimah where he expresses his personal view on Ekiti Elections and its aftermath, gubernatorial candidates, voters and democracy in Nigeria. Statements made and opinions expressed in the article represent the views of the author and do not compulsorily reflect the opinion of the Naij.com.
If you are verbalizing about results from a population of 2.3million. With over 1.6 million eligible voters and 700 thousand plus registered voters from which meager figures of 100, 200 and 40 thousand, totaling just about a moiety of registered voters voted, as victories and loses, then you can have a field day celebrating or crying. But if you are genuinely apperceiving the dispiriting authenticity and hopelessness of Nigeria under its current democratic, if we can utilize that term, dispensation; then the results of the Ekiti election are a cause of consolidated grief and reason to ask – when will the people stand up?
I can amass 200,000 people in Ekiti tomorrow, not just to vote for me, but even for a simple jamboree. In this light, both Fayemi and Fayose lost woefully. Our Ekiti election results are a disgrace and sham of democracy. But frankly, people like us never expect much more preponderant from European political democracy as adopted by Africans. It remotely ever fails to engender such nonessential results. 200,000 votes to represent a ‘choice’ of the people? The mere thought is malefactor. A democratic institution that endeavors to present people bellwethers predicated on such 5% fraction of the population having participated in culling should have its offices sealed off permanently with workers inside.
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The result from Ekiti did prove however that the people repudiated governor Fayemi, but additionally abnegated ex-governor and now governor elect Fayose. They did not bother to leave their houses for neither. Sadly the highly astute people of Ekiti did not visually perceive anyone worthy in the list; had adjacent to no fate in the democratic process – not wishing to go cast votes that will be discarded without being counted or to be daunted by the security legions, double the number deployed to terrorized Borno, and would simply not be bothered for any reason to participate.
They stayed home and visually examined the World Cup… or rather, not having ‘light,’ they stayed home and sat outside in the shade, endeavoring to cool off and wondering when Nigeria would arouse; when true revolutionaries will come and capitalize on any system to transform Nigeria. They sat and cerebrated about how two groups of not too astute people were mostly voting, not for, but voting against the other person. Genuinely and genuinely, many who voted for Fayose were voting not for Fayose, but against Fayemi for their grievances with him and his party, and likewise, many who voted for Fayemi were doing the same against Fayose. The rest were exercising their rights to scoops of rice.
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Which rogue is next? Abacha’s victory in Kano? Until and unless APC gets off their high horse and invites revolutionaries and incipient generation youth into and to control their party, their victories at all levels other than the Presidency – where mortifying victory has long been certified – will not be ensured and PDP will simply purchase their way to victory at all local levels, facilitated by military dauntingness campaigns, state to state, local regime to local regime.
Nigerians will never step out of their houses to vote until and unless they visually perceive something worth voting for. This is the true edification of the Ekiti election. Meanwhile, we the people are still preparing for our second independence this October 1st, 2014 – via The Nigerian Masses Revolution – when by God Almighty’s grace, we will have prosperously expelled the Cabal from every nook and cranny where they obnubilate their dirty, insatiable, thieving selves in positions of ascendancy, holding our nation to ransom, keeping us murdered, abducted, displaced and ravished every day and leaving our great nation of great nations as a global sleaze pit and laughing stock.