The 2019 polls have come and gone, but we are still enmeshed with a rancorous outcome that may take several months to resolve. The politicians are now focused on getting the best of legal luminaries to either defend their victory or retrieve the electoral triumph they were denied. Lawyers are now the beautiful brides of both victorious and defeated political candidates, and it is their season to smile to the banks. To those who allege that electoral heist stained the recently concluded polls, never in the history of Nigeria was brazen electoral robbery displayed than the one witnessed in the 2019 polls.
Democracy, being a process and not and end in itself, can be ruined by desperate politicians. For Nigerian politicians, most of whom are incurable optimists, they quickly cry foul in the face of electoral defeat, claiming their loss was made possible by the manipulative forces of the opponent. Hardly would you come across a political candidate who accepts defeat as a fair…
