Digging deep: Professor Jibrin Ibrahim on Nigeria’s 2023 elections, By Toyin Falola

Professor Jibrin Ibrahim believes that the 2023 elections were credible. His belief is rooted in the notion that the claims of irregularities and malpractices are insufficient to invalidate the results.

Better said, if the election was to have been won by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, would the Tinubu supporters and the All Progressives Congress claim today that the election was free, fair, and credible? Would they accept that the election reflects Nigerians’ true democratic wish — especially as it was the most keenly contested in the country’s recent democracy, with the winner emerging by just about 37% of the total votes cast? This percentage, considered extremely low in the context of other...

As the elections did not sway in favour of the rising opposition, there have been doubts about the elections’ credibility, and the doubts that could have been about the 2015 elections pale in comparison to the ones we have had in 2023. Are those doubts valid? Or are they only being voiced because the candidates of the doubters did not emerge as the winners of the elections? This, among other things, served as the foundation of the discourse moderated by Dr Onumah.

The learned professor based his postulation on the claim that all countries experience electoral irregularities, and that since no country is exempted, emphasis should not be on the irregularities. This begs the question of the degree of gravity.

Drawing on what was earlier said about predispositions and election outcomes being the determinants of the conclusions people reach on the credibility of elections in the country, Professor Ibrahim posited that Nigerians approach the matter of elections with an expected outcome in mind and then choose to either positively or negatively react on the basis of the eventual outcome and how it relates to their stance.

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