By Ikechuckwu Amaechi
IT was obvious the November 16 off-season governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi states were going to be tales of sorrow, tears and blood. But nobody could have imagined that things would be this bad. When it comes to elections, Nigerian politicians always jump the shark on truth. They make elections theatres of the absurd, and make every successive poll worse.
The brigandage is mindboggling. The desperation of politicians and their willingness to deploy violence to brutalise the psyche of the electorate is benumbing. What is more: the ease and equanimity with which politicians rationalise and arrogantly explain away their egregious conduct is surreal, typically Nigerian.
I watched the Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, claim on national television on Monday, November 18, that his reelection was the handiwork of God and I shook my head in utter disbelief. The hubris was insufferable. Not a word of sympathy from him for the dozens wounded in the…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
