The present INEC team has by its conduct, helped to break away from the negative narrative of violence-tainted victories or elections and results that have limited input and participation of the voters. We can say, and confidently too, that many voters in the State had access to polling units and indeed exercised their rights to vote in peace in this election than in previous ones.
After 20 straight years of practicing constitutional democracy, Nigeria can no longer hide under the lame excuse of referring to its experience as a ‘nascent’ democracy and doing all that is wrong in the name of elections and claiming to be undergoing a learning process. In fact, having organised five successive and unbroken general elections during this period, before 2019, one would have thought that this year’s election would be a walk in the park.
The duty of the election management body in such situation is to ensure that participants in the electoral process do not benefit from their bad behaviours aimed at undermining the rights of the electorate to freely choose their leaders. This is what INEC has done in 2019. If the same opportunity presents itself again, we shall not hesitate to act similarly, with the hope that politicians would learn to adhere to rules governing elections.
It is interesting to note that election umpires often find themselves in the middle of contesting politicians who throw darts, dirt and murk at each other. We therefore risk being hit by stray missiles of the so-called political gladiators and sometimes guided and targeted missiles by the politicians. In the course of this election, some of us had such missiles unfairly hurled at us.
What did we do differently in 2019? I can only sum it up by quoting the words of Robert Frost in his poem, ‘The Road not Taken’ that:And that has made all the difference.This is the text of remarksmade at the presentation of certificates of return to members-elect of the Rivers State House of Assembly on Tuesday April 16, 2019 at INEC State Headquarters, Port Harcourt.
Same Obo Effanga that manipulates rivers state election on favour of wike...........
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