By Johnbosco Agbakwuru
The 2019 general elections in the country may have come and gone except in some states where the exercise was declared inconclusive. However, the elections were not conducted without casualties and heroes.
While some politicians who had planned to compromise the system may be nursing the injuries sustained during the process, those who were close to the electorate are basking in the euphoria of victory.
For the first time since democracy returned to the country in 1999, political heavyweights and godfathers appear to have lost out in the elections. This is what ordinarily would have not been possible in the past.
In Akwa Ibom State among others, there were upsets that have since become a topical discourse within the political sphere. The elections in the state have also made the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, there, Mike Igini, a hero of democracy. This is due largely to the wide accolades he continues to receive from well-meaning…
