No matter whoever wins the 2023 presidential election, it should be known that Saturday’s presidential election was never credible nor was it free and fair; it was marred with a lot of electoral malpractices and electoral crimes. People were beaten, harassed and intimidated at their polling stations, thugs snatched and carted away the ballot boxes, a woman got her head broken with a bottle by thugs in Lagos, phones of participants were snatched away; election results were not appropriately uploaded at the central systems as the law demanded, there was open vote buying and other despicable electoral malpractices which have rendered that election null and void.
I do not want to join the laymen in screaming that the election has been rigged because I do not have the facts or evidence to make such wild accusations yet as a lawyer but from every indication, “if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it is definitely a duck”.
I do not know the surprise INEC have in store for Nigerians; they have admitted that the election of yesterday encountered a lot of hitches but it will be honourable for them to own up to the fact that what has been going on since yesterday from the failure of the BVAS to failure to accreditate some of the voters to failure to failure upload results online etc is more than just a hitch, it is a disastrous failure on the part of INEC which grounds the opinion that the presidential election of yesterday was not credible and should be discountenanced.
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For those aggrieved party members who are planning on staging a protest, let them all shield their swords, protest will lead to chaos which will further lead to the destruction of lives and properties. Many people have lost their lives already and many properties have been lost since the beginning of this year, Nigeria cannot take any further push.
Let us all hope that INEC will do the right thing but if they fail to do the right thing, the judiciary which we all believe to be the last hope of the common man will always be there right the wrongs because everyone witnessed that yesterday’s presidential election was never credible and can be awarded as the worst election that has been conducted in the history of Nigeria politics and that election should therefore be declared null and void.