The issue of elections and the numerous fraudulent activities of the actors/participants that trail elections in Nigeria at all levels is not just a concern but an embarrassment to the Nigerian state. Although the same actors (culprits) are the same people meant to deal with the plageu of social rape and worse than military coup, whose product is flagrant abuse of the entire process of governance, lack of accountability & probity should be and is indeed in all of its expression declaed a crime against the state.
When this is done, the stage would have been set for a fraud free electoral process. The implication is that Laws will be enacted and enforced against the parpetrators and their ground soldiers who not only unleash terror on the electorates, but inflict an irreversible injury on the nation called Nigeria, setting in motion a precedence of evil and misrule.
In several forum where issues of electoral fraud has been discoursed, some authorities have suggesteed that those hose election have been overturned as a result of evident malpractices should be banned from holding any political position and what ever have been spent by such illegal governments be refunded by them, others hold a slightly different opinion prying that these people be imprisoned. Yet another block believe these people should be sentenced to either life imprisonment or handed to the hang-man (capital punishment).
Whatever the shade of opinion one may hold, the most important thing is that, something must be done.
But the big question is WHO WILL BAIL THE CAT? We are in an obvious fix requiring urgent attention, but the worst of this predicament is the unfortunate reality that, the same people who are in the three arms and levels of gorvernment are the same people who actively participate in the entire process which makes it seem like the legel parlance which says 'a man shouldn't be a judge of his own cause'.
This is a daire situation. Nigerians must rise up to the occassion, demand urgent ammandments to the electoral act, demand urgent completion of the national identity card project, demand good gorvernance, accountability, set agenda for political/public office holders, and apply very traditional methods to erring publiuc officers.
However little, according to a respected activist (Festus Keyamo) do something about the smallest appearance of curruption and misrule. This is the only true way Nigeria can grow.
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