An electoral official hold-up a ballot paper during vote counting at a polling station during the Anambra State governorship election at Uga, Aguata district in southeast Nigeria on November 6, 2021. PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP
But I am usually the first to caution myself when the unexpected such as this happens in our country. I am not in a haste to jump out of my bath in my birth robe, waving my hands and shouting, Eureka! There is such a thing as an aberration. We may have travelled far but covered a pitifully short distance. Still, let us rejoice.
In the days ahead, pundits will analyse the turn out and offer us good reasons for what kept the majority of the registered voters away from the polls. They may blame it on voter apathy or the fear of violence promised by IPOB. But we know that voter apathy has become a defining characteristic of our elections.
The Nigeria Police boasts of between 370,000 and 375,000 officers, men and women. For a country of more than 200 million people, we are thus grossly under-policed. It can be reasonably argued that the paltry number should not stop the authorities from deploying whatever number of officers and men are necessary to police the conduct of a governorship election. However, the maths gets difficult if two or more states are conducting their governorship elections on the same day.
If the state can respond to the needs of politics and politicians the way it did in the Anambra and other state elections, why could not it do the same to save the lives of our children? The simple answer is that we have elevated political interest above the interest of the people. If we were to choose between deploying the police and other security agencies to election duties and deploying them to rescue our kidnapped children from bandits and others, we would not hesitate to choose the latter.
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