lives also matter”, an advert by some prominent Rivers indigenes, should pass for the appeal of the moment: given the Armageddon the 2019 elections have turned in that troubled state.
“We are deeply troubled,” the advert lamented, “by the inability of the political leaders in our state to manage their rivalries and differences within acceptable norms of a civilized society as has been done in several other states in Nigeria.” Now, whoever, among the military personnel involved in the crisis, that betrayed his service code, should be punished. If it takes a judicial commission of inquiry to determine and punish all of the guilty parties, as the advert suggested, so be it.
The bitter truth is that mostly in the past elections, qua elections, never took place in Rivers. The introduction of the card reader, in 2015, brought fresh panic. That year, much of that machine was subverted, to make way for the usual phantom returns in the name of “elections”. The only difference between then and now, it would appear, was because a home boy, Goodluck Jonathan, was the outgoing president; and playing down the massacre was quite expedient.
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